Reply: How Do You Protect Your Cars?

"Metal-maro" (metal-maro)
11/15/2017 at 21:22 • Filed to: Chevrolet Impala

I replied to this on Jalopnik, but I’ve learned something in my short time posting. If you don’t post soon after an article appears, you get pushed to the bottom of the list and most people don’t see it. So...

This is what I do with my DD when they predict hail in Kansas.

DISCUSSION (22)

Mr. FiSTer of Team FiST Fetish > Metal-maro
11/15/2017 at 21:24

How many times have you done this?

sm70- why not Duesenberg? > Metal-maro
11/15/2017 at 21:26

I’m dead

McMike > Metal-maro
11/15/2017 at 21:27

You need a smaller car

Kinja'd!!!

XJDano > Metal-maro
11/15/2017 at 21:33

I work construction so I sometimes don’t get to read through jalopnik until late afternoon. I don’t even bother commenting usually.

My project cars are garaged, daily drivers sit in driveway. I got a rock chip on highway today.

functionoverfashion > Metal-maro
11/15/2017 at 21:34

I’ll park my cars in the middle of our cul-de-sac because it’s a dead end and there is zero traffic. I’m more concerned about wind / trees falling than hail, though. Luckily most of our serious wind is from the west, and our cars are east of the house. So... if the house falls on the cars, well, we got other problems.

Chariotoflove > Metal-maro
11/15/2017 at 21:35

This is nuts, and I love it.

Maxima Speed > sm70- why not Duesenberg?
11/15/2017 at 21:39

Duesenbergs’ morals here. Can confirm the above statement.

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > Metal-maro
11/15/2017 at 21:43

1. remove tractor.

2. park car

Kinja'd!!!

it is rare to get hail where I live.

shop-teacher > Metal-maro
11/15/2017 at 21:50

I cross my fingers.

Kat Callahan > Metal-maro
11/15/2017 at 21:57

I’ve been mulling this over ever since a big hail storm in Tokyo a few months back added even more dings to my already dinged up Logo. Especially as I have no idea how to get them removed or fixed. There’s probably a good ten of them now on the roof, the hatch, the doors. Even a small one on my brand new hood I got early this year. Argh.

Jonathan Harper > Metal-maro
11/15/2017 at 21:58

I park in a garage and the shit ass ceiling is disintegrating leaving this shitty white dust on my trunk most nights. Maybe I need a mattress.

RacinBob > Metal-maro
11/15/2017 at 22:21

Parking ramp.

smobgirl > Metal-maro
11/16/2017 at 00:34

I’ve thrown heavy quilts on it when I’ve been home, but our office got caught by a late morning hail storm in May this year and it totaled probably half the cars in the parking lot. Now I drive a golf ball.

Metal-maro > McMike
11/16/2017 at 12:34

Does it baby? It’s gotta hold mom and dad, and then two car seats in back. One rear facing. ;)

Metal-maro > Mr. FiSTer of Team FiST Fetish
11/16/2017 at 12:37

2-3 times a each spring season. Not counting the other times we’ve had neighbors down the street who let me park in their garage when available.

I put the mattress on the cab of my ‘00 Silverado once, before I got the Impala. The next door neighbor asked why I wasn’t trying to protect the hood. I was surprised that having a broken window vs. dented hood didn’t occur to him. I can drive to work the next day with dents, but not without a windshield.

Metal-maro > smobgirl
11/16/2017 at 12:50

We get a couple good hail storms each spring. You can always tell what side of town people live on afterwards (the hail-core is pretty isolated each time). I’m surprised how only a few people keep driving their “golf ball” after it gets dented up.

Metal-maro > Metal-maro
11/16/2017 at 13:00

This is one more reason why I can’t bring myself to step up to a G8 GT, CTS-V or SS. I wouldn’t want to have to deal with this.

CaptDale - is secretly British > Metal-maro
11/16/2017 at 13:34

I’d do anything I had to

McMike > Metal-maro
11/16/2017 at 13:45

Minis have back seats, so yeah.

bubblestheturtle > Metal-maro
11/16/2017 at 19:58

Don’t pack my garage full of crap, which lets my car hide in there.

benjrblant > Metal-maro
11/20/2017 at 14:11

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Yes. If there’s already a “Load More Comments” button, you’re too late.

atfsgeoff > Metal-maro
12/07/2017 at 21:28

I look forward to heavy hailstorms because then craigslist becomes the River of Affordable Dreams.