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I'm curious if anyone has ever bought a new car with hail damage if anyone has experience with what kinds of deals are offered, etc. We had severe thunderstorms roll through last night with golf ball sized hail at our apartment. Fortunately our FFH was parked underground and safe. There are a lot of car dealers right along the interstate near our apartment and just a few blocks from our home there is a lot with about 500 new cars stored from a variety of dealers that don't fit at the dealerships. I walked by the lot on my way to work this morning and every single new car in the lot has major hail damage. What do dealers do when this happens? How can new buyers make sure they don't get a damaged car? What impact does buying a hail damaged car have on your insurance rates? Resale value? Purchase price? Financing? Thanks!

I finally found one that I wanted. It took a little bit longer than I had anticipated. Here were the specs to my absolute perfect car: Sterling gray exterior Moonroof My Ford Touch Remote Start This is what I settled on: Ice Storm Moonroof My Ford Touch Ice storm was second on my color choices and first on my wife's. And now that it is finally (even after 2 in of snow last night) warming up, i think I can live without remote start until maybe when the sun start baking my car while I am out playing rounds of golf. I have faith that getting remote start installed by the dealer shouldn't be an issue. Biggest hurdle was options, remote start isn't a popular option (only on a handful of cars I searched), and I really didn't want Navigation and Rear Sensing system. My iphone is easier to navigate with, and why do i need a rear sensing system when i have a back up camera. In any case, I wasn't thrilled about spending an extra $1000 on options I didn't want. And I didn't want to order a car, seeing as from reading the forum it is taking longer and longer to get cars out recently. Unfortunately for me that meant there was only 1 car within 300 miles of me that had the options (minus remote start) that I wanted, and it only loses a few points for being a different color. I pick it up on Thursday. Pretty excited.