Hail Damage Repair in Warminster and Bucks County, Pennsylvania

If you file a claim and the hail damage insurance has totaled your car, then you will be contacted by your major insurance company by phone and by mail. The auto claim representative will discuss the claim and make an offer of payment to settle the loss. You will accept, refuse or negotiate their offer. This will be your best chance to negotiate.

Afterwards an insurance adjuster will send you the check for the agreed amount and you will be expected to surrender your car to the insurance company, unless you have worked out an agreement that will allow you to maintain ownership of your car. The car title will always show a salvage title moving forward.

Some of our customers already went to a body shop for an estimate and later discovered the collision center already filed the total loss even though no one agreed to do any work yet. We can prevent a total loss, but we cannot reverse it. After you have met with an appraiser from your insurance company you must then get your first shop estimate with us. Unless the adjuster themselves total the car out on site.

When factoring the cost of hail damage repair cost, we can consider things like the number of dents, the car dent sizes and locations. Next, we think about the year, model and make of the vehicle. Is the metal made from steel or aluminum.

If we consider an autobody shop, then how much to fix hail damage on that car will be a very high repair cost. This can lead to a high rate of cars being processed as a total loss by the insurance company. On the other hand, if we consider a pdr technician performing paintless dent removal as the repair method, then the hail repair average cost is much lower almost every time.

This depends on a lot of factors like how many dents, their sizes and locations. Next, we think about the year, model and make of the vehicle. It the metal made from steel or aluminum.

If we consider traditional body shops and auto painting, then we see an auto hail damage car repair take 3-6 weeks. If paintwork is needed, then you can visit our autobody service page for more information. On the other hand, if we consider paintless dent repair on the hail damage then the entire process averages about 1 week. Some of the best hail damage repairs can fix small dents in as little as a single day.

It is normal for the first insurance estimate to be missing things and be too small to repair your car. That is because it is only a preliminary estimate, and this means it will change to fit the job better once it is in a shop and a more accurate estimate can be compiled.

The thing you need to understand is that you are not limited to the amount of money offered up in the first insurance estimate. Whichever shop you choose will file a supplement to the claim and adjustments will be made to cover your loss fully. You will only be responsible for the deductible assigned by your policy.