Hail Damage Repair in Export, PA

Western Pennsylvania hail is not a Plains-state event, and that shapes how a claim goes. Storms here tend to be narrow and fast, so one township gets hit hard while the next one over stays dry, and carriers do not always have a catastrophe team standing by. Which means the documentation your auto body shop provides carries more weight than it would in a mass event.

Counting the damage properly

Hail claims are settled by panel and by dent count, so a walk-around in a bright parking lot is not enough. We put the vehicle under controlled light and mark every impact, roof and hood included, because those two panels take the most and are the easiest to underestimate from the ground. Aluminum hoods and roof skins get noted separately, since they behave differently and cost differently to fix.

Two repair paths

Where the paint is unbroken, paintless dent repair returns the panel without touching your factory finish. Where the ice cracked the clear, landed on a body line, or stretched the metal past what can be worked, the panel is repaired conventionally or replaced and refinished. Most hail vehicles need some of both, and the mix is what drives the number.

Do not wait for the tent

Traveling operations show up after a storm, work fast in a parking lot, cash the check, and leave the county. If something is wrong in two years you will not find them. We have been on Route 66 since 1995.

Claims also have deadlines, and unrepaired dents on cracked paint invite corrosion through a Pennsylvania winter. Call (724) 468-6729 and let us look at it for free while your claim is still open.