New vehicles with hail damage repaired by dealership

why would there be a big discount if the damage is fixed?

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If a dealership repairs hail damage on their new vehicle inventory and sells it should there be a big discount?

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To many variable to really know.

If the hail damage was widespread to a lot of areas which probably means a lot of replaced panels....are the replacements OEM? There are factors in this case that could lead the answer to your question to go either way.

Or if the hail damage was relatively minor and the repairs can be done via PDR where there is no structural or paint integrity loss...then the value loss would be minimal.

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but it should be disclosed at least

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This is absolutely true regardless of the extent of the damage.

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Dealerships make out like bandits from insurance after hail storms if they play it right.

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Are you saying the commit insurance fraud?

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why would there be a big discount if the damage is fixed?

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Same reason that a fully repaired car with an accident history usually has a significant markdown. Repaired or not, it has damage history.

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They are fraudulent to anyone who does business with them, rain or sunshine

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Meh....getting roped into shady sales deals and even shadier finance deals isn't really fraud....it's just the effect of the fact that most people buying cars are plum dumb when it comes to actually doing that task.

Hail damage, rock chips, etc do not have to be disclosed if repaired.

Why would you think something like paintless dent removal have to be disclosed? I've seen hoods repainted due to rock chips without disclosure as it's not necessary.


On the flip side, I saw a new Camaro SS come in with a smashed quarter panel due to some hotdog spinning donuts at the loadout. That went back to GM. Those will often go to a tech school for repair training and then are crushed.

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Dealerships make out like bandits from insurance after hail storms if they play it right.

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It is astonishing what dealerships pay for insurance to cover "Acts of Nature"...

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I get what you are saying but repaired hail damage isn't the same to me as an actual moving accident with repairs. It should be disclosed but I don't see why a buyer should expect a big discount for a vehicle with repaired hail damage.

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I guess it just depends. Many dealers have "Hail Sales", so you might want to ask them why they go out of their way to imply that they are discounting cars with hail damage. Seems like a risky precedent to set if you want to take the angle that those vehicles have no diminished value.

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If a window on a lot vehicle is broken and replaced, would you expect a discount?

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No, but a window isn't really the same. Body panels that have been in bad hail storms can never be perfectly made new again. There will always be evidence of the damage somewhere on a less pliable area of the frame.

I'd wager a bet to say that more hoods are replaced due to hail damage than probably any other type claim....I don't know that for sure but I know that hail does a number on a hood and most hoods these days have lines in them that just aren't gonna take PDR.

ETA Years back I worked a storm out in Mineral Wells, TX .......we replaced the hood on probably 90% of the cars that came through that drive through.....hell we replaced half the dashes (it was softball size hail over a period of hours)

I'm talking the more typical hail damage from golfball or smaller size hail.

Softball size you're likely totaling a number of cars.

I was in Knoxville back around 2011 just after a helluva hail storm came through and they in fact did total a lot of cars. Windows smashed, deep dents, trim/headlights/taillights broken. Worst hail damage I have ever seen.

eta-Now that the factories are competing with the repop market one can actually get things like hoods fairly reasonable. Had to get a hood for a truck a while back and was surprised it was under $300 for genuine GM.