In most cases when claiming auto hail damage on your vehicle, you have a 24-month window from the time of damage or the date of loss to initiate the claim.

What that means is if you, for instance, were the victim of auto hail damage on May 9^th, 2019 you have 24 months to claim the damage and have it repaired before your insurance can deny your claim. Some policies are less, it is very rare that policies give you a longer window than this, but in most cases, you have 24 months to claim your auto hail damage repair and have it repaired.

In Houston, Texas, we had a large hail event May 9th of 2019. Today is January 18th of 2020 so we have roughly four months left in that window to claim your May 9th, 2019 hail damage for your automobile. In order to do that all you need to do is call your auto insurance company and let them know your date of your hail damage loss. They will assign an adjuster to your claim. They will come out and look at your car to assess the damage. Then you will pick a repair shop, like American Dent Specialists, which is a five-star rated paintless dent repair shop specializing in auto hail damage repair here in the Houston area.

Once your vehicle is brought to American Dent Specialists, we will put it under our professional hail lights. We will circle and identify every bit of hail damage that was caused by the hailstorm. We will then compare it to the estimate that was written by your insurance company. If there is additional hail damage that was not written by your insurance company, we will create a supplement and send that to your insurance company. At which time they might come out and re-inspect the vehicle or approve the additional repairs over the phone. In either case, your insurance company will make you whole and pay to have your vehicle repaired in its entirety, as long as you are within your 24-month window from the date of the hail damage. It is very important to read your policy, to make sure what the window is for your specific policy, but in most cases, you have 24 months to claim your auto hail damage.

If you are in a large hail area or an area that gets multiple hailstorms every year, you definitely want to claim your hail damage as soon as possible to get it established, so that if your vehicle gets hail damage on it again in the same timeframe, both events will be covered.

Again, you have 24 months to claim your auto hail damage repair, in most cases. At which time you can bring it to a five-star rated PDR company like American Dent Specialists. We will remove all the dings and dents and return your vehicle back to its original pre-damaged condition, in a fraction of the time of a body shop using professional our paintless dent repair methods. One of the benefits of choosing American Dent Specialists is if you do have a hail event that is worse than just paintless dent removal, we are also a full-service body shop and can paint and repair your vehicle conventionally, if that is needed, making us a one stop shop to care for our vehicle completely while making the experience as pleasant and quick as possible. Knowing that you only have to deal with our professional team to handle your auto hail damage repair provides a lot of peace of mind in an otherwise troubling time.