smart people carry a fast easy solution, like a couple towels, a car cover, or small blankets to prevent hail damage. (towels are also good for preventing swim suits from getting seats wet) Be smart, use your trunk for carrying stuff! It's useless empty

https://www.tumblr.com/periperico59/726936626429902848?source=share

 

people who are this dedicated to protecting their vehicle from big hail, would be the people I'd guess are smart enough to pack a big inflateable mattress or roll of foam... but this guy sacrificed himself instead

video clip at  https://www.tumblr.com/armengoldira/723159498227957760?source=share

self sacrificing himself to protect his Supra's hood from hail... wow

 https://www.tiktok.com/@jakemcgloin/video/7018838908498709761?is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1

results of a really bad hail storm on a highway full of fast traffic

 

it would not be hard to imagine a machine gun had shot all their windshields - instead of hailstones. 

https://mghazal67.tumblr.com/post/660508118800809984

I think this happened in Italy

dealing with hail, in new, inexpensive, and effective ways. It seems to me, that a FAST way to get the car covered, and protected, with something small enough to store in the car, would be an inflatable king size mattress, with a quick connect that would be presto! Inlfated with a CO2 fire extinguisher, predesigned and tested for max effectiveness, and less than 60 seconds operation

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1243692992678179&id=100011124693688&__cft__[0]=AZVOAzE5LwGNOP9RlFtbo1Th0Q5thaN0RhjwvwZG0o-mc2Qaa8ymGXK6ie7HF-jBswOiIA-LK__-TaUR8GWxDI9Mmshg7w0yMHw4ufe6D8kYsglasPM-w3wuMqW-Duq9dyrp2OZJXXGlwvdJMb7-fi37jGoXyCGr_zSpwuh4bbB4rQ&__tn__=%2CO*F

Inventive ways to prevent hail damage in Texas, found by a local tv channel who just walked around the neighborhoods prior to a forecast for a terrible hailstorm

Filled garbage bags with leaves and rolled them up in the windows to keep them in place.

even a golf cart

but I think that the best and least expensive coverage is the pool noodle

so... one person had this pro system.. have any of you tried this? Does it work perfect? Or a little bit but still some damage, or what?

https://www.nbcdfw.com/weather/stories/North-Texans-Pull-Out-All-the-Stops-to-Protect-Cars-From-Hail-508722461.html

interesting, I just found the local NBC tv station website picked exactly the same photo examples I did, and put them in their own post https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/weird/Texans-Find-Creative-Ways-to-Protect-Cars-From-Hail-508744911.html
https://www.facebook.com/NBCSanDiego/posts/10157137364259609

Baseball sized hail beat up Colorado yesterday, destroying cars, house roofs, fields of crops, and killed 2 vultures and a duck at the zoo

https://weather.com/news/news/2018-08-06-hail-colorado-springs-zoo
https://twitter.com/Dan_Fitts/status/1026636502149869568/photo/1
https://twitter.com/CSFDPIO
https://rennlist.com/forums/996-forum/703630-how-much-does-it-worth-1999-60k-miles-hail-damage.html

also... you might grab a car for cheap, and use it at the race track, and not give a damn about body damage. You're never going to race track a car very hard of you're more worried about sliding into the grass or gravel. BUT, if it's already hail damaged? Flog it like your mother in law's mule.


remember... hail damage to your car can be avoided by inflating an air bed, putting it on top of your car, and then strapping it down. It will take a couple minutes, but, it might save all your windows.
Cheap airbeds can be bought at Target for around 25 dollars WITH the plug in air pump. Camping type airbeds often come with car accessory jack plugs. At worst, a hand pump, 30 seconds, and a pool floating air mattress will help a lot.

http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2016/04/preventing-hail-damage.html

 http://www.prowleronline.com/ubb/Forum18/HTML/000494.html

 http://www.fox4news.com/news/north-texans-prepare-for-hail-with-matresses-pillows-and-bubblewrap

Remember, the windshield is often less than a insurance deductable, but body damage is a guarantee insurance payout / repair. Save that windshield!

If you are going to plan ahead, and do something to make airbeds inflate fast... maybe a fire extinguisher connection to airbeds would be simple to adapt... even if it does require some epoxy glue, old vacuum nozzles, and testing. Consider how impossible it will be to replace your 1968 Hemi whatever, or 1966 Shelby GT 350. OR, a medium sized CO2 fire extinguiser applied to a rolled up airbed kept in the trunk.

Hey, you'd have a CO2 extinguisher with your car at all times, and that is a hell of a good thing.
Then, if you ever needed a hail protection air bed, it would be less than a minute to grab, inflate, and strap over the car. Save a 100,000 dollar rare collectible muscle or sports car for less than 100 dollars in supplies? Seems like a good idea to me.