Hail damage here is done by PDR (paint-less dent removal). PDR businesses can be run in mobile vans, so they can move from place to place to repair cars whenever and wherever the hailstorm happened. When they are done, you really can not tell the car was ever damaged, and there is no painting done to ruin resale value.
There is one fundamental requirement needed for that which a lot of vehicles here didn't meet.
The bodywork needs to have actually survived in tact. This was a common sight. Along with what looked like the vehicle had been shot with a machine gun from above.
I'm guessing this was a fibreglass wing, not metal.
This was a more common sight (and that's only minor damage for the 200-300,000 plus vehicles damaged)
I don't know enough about the technology to know if it is possible to repair hail damage that close to another or multiple other hail damage.
The stuff that hit was like this.
Obviously only glass broken, but interiors of vehicles were shredded as well. Damage to all seats due to moonroofs (Aussie name for a totally useless feature when it's 45°C outside, lol) being shredded, along with dashboards, and rear windows so all areas inside being damaged as well.
These were the fields of vehicles, repairs hampered by Covid just hitting.
Insurance companies literally just rented paddocks close to major highways, but with so much broken glass, and nothing covered only one option was going to happen when it rained and car interiors do not like even more rain, or scorching hot sun on now unshielded interiors. All vehicles here are required to have UV protection on all glass (including windscreen, rear window and sunroof/moonroof) for passengers and drivers alike. Unlike the UK, you don't get a drivers suntan here.
