Protect Your Car from Hail Damage

It might seem that there is nothing you can do to prevent hail damage to your car, but Alabama Car Dealers know this is not the case, so we offer you these tips that can protect you from hail regardless of what Mother Nature has in store.

1. Never take your car out of the garage. This is 100% effective, 100% of the time, except if a tornado rips the roof off your garage, then unleashes some softball sized hail. Of course softball sized hail might go right through your garage roof, so we’ll lower our claim regarding the effectiveness of this method to 80%.
   Kidding aside, if you have a garage, use it to store your car when you are home. Unless the space in the garage is taken up by your bass boat, that is. The proper perspective regarding priorities must always remain in sight.
    
2. If you are out on the road, and the potential for hail seems imminent, find an overpass, pull underneath, and stay there until the skies are clear. This could take several hours, particularly if there is a nearby bar with a big screen TV and it just happens to be a Fall Saturday when 'Bama is playing.
    
3. Find a gas station or convenience store that has a roof over the pumps. Slowly, very slowly, get out of the car, pretend to be having trouble finding your credit card, then act as though you have never used a gas pump before. Then, act frustrated over not being able to find you car’s gas cap. These tactics should buy you at least five minutes. If you need more time, pump a gallon of gas, stop, have a receipt printed, then start the whole process over.

In the unlikely event that the clerk inside should get wise and come out to encourage you to move along, pull out your smart phone, show the clerk your app for verifying the accuracy of gas pumps, then advise him of his Miranda rights.

By now, the threat of hail or the actual hail should have passed over, so you can return home in you non-hail damaged car or truck, and start planning an addition to your garage so that the boat and the vehicle are both in the 80% safety zone.

2-14-2012