Hail damage.

[azfiredog300]

Hey, I just watched a video regarding how to remove hail damage cheap and easy. I have not tried this yet but I will. If anyone has done this, lets hear about it.

YouTube - Dent Repair with Dry Ice

[Wabbiteer]

I have tried dry-ice on larger panel warps - it can relax steeply pressed section 'merges' but only slightly; and that was using an electric heat gun with bare dry-ice for 15 or 20 heat & cool cycles.

Direct contact with dry ice will destroy clear coat (scratches and micro-fractures?) and also is abrasive & reactive with aluminum after an extended session of bare dry-ice rubbing metal - produces a lot of black aluminum oxide and leaves the aluminum surface 'flat finished' with zero shine.

Over-all using it on small hail dings might be justified to hurry up the natural sun heat/cool cycles 'healing' the 2024 skin alloy will experience anyway over a time period of years...

[gklott]

I recommend offering no more that 10% above what his insurance company would consider as insurance salvage value. Our 2004 blue book value was about $40k, and the insurance salvage value was about $8, or no more than 20%.