A HAILSTONE POTENTIAL DAMAGE QUESTION

[TyPope]

HA,

I do not think the Cybertruck would do at all well in a proper hail storm, the top glass would be damaged, and likely the massive windshield.

I live in CA and we do...when God is mad...sends us hail - so remote you cannot get hail coverage. And most CA would just stare at the hail storm and ensuing damage.

The pool noodles are better that 'hope' as a strategy.

I agree about irrational people, of late in the era of social media, people pull out their phones and record someone burning to death than help.

Having lived all over the place, I can tell you first-hand that the pool noodles is a HORRIBLE idea. Hail without wind? Not going to see it. This is worse than just parking next to a formidable wall. Which, I've done in an F-150. I parked literally an inch from a wall while all the other cars got pummeled, power lines came down, a transformer blew. Shreveport, LA for that storm. I was lucky in Nebraska to park in the garage when storms took out the trees in the yard. Scary crap. Luckily, it fell just short of the front door. Not far from it, but it didn't hit.

Not worried about Fluffy though. I believe it would take a REALLY big piece of hail to damage anything other than the tonneau cover and if I knew it was coming, I'd just open the tonneau and let the hail hit the composite bed instead.

But to live in fear about hail-storms damaging my car all the time? Hard pass. But, that's my 2 cents. Or, I suppose, my one nickel.

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[HaulingAss]

The pool noodles are better that 'hope' as a strategy.

The pool noodles are a ridiculous strategy for protecting against deadly hail. Unless the hail happened to be perfectly centered on a noodle, it would pretend like it wasn't even there. Remember, hail is a ball of ice covered in melting water, they have very little friction. They would instantly displace those pool noodles faster than you could say, "I'm not thinking properly".

Hoping that the hailstones only hit the exact center of each pool noodle is not a strategy at all.

 

[REM]

You could try something like this. Could be rolled/bundled into a fairly small package.

Looks so stupid but it's cheap, effective, and expedient and I'm mad I didn't think of it first lmao.

 

[HaulingAss]

Looks so stupid but it's cheap, effective, and expedient and I'm mad I didn't think of it first lmao.

I'm curious why you think that would be effective. Destructive hail would push those pool noodles aside like they were not even there.

 

[JackCypher]

So this video of Mellon size hails Trumps pool noodles...

 

[WormtownKris]

So this video of Mellon size hails Trumps pool noodles...

Why are those last two hail balls launched horizontally as if from some kind of cannon? Horizontal hail is a thing in CA?

 

[Limes2]

Why are those last two hail balls launched horizontally as if from some kind of cannon? Horizontal hail is a thing in CA?

Because it's an AI generated slop video. Stuff like this is going to kill internet videos.

 

[MisterChilidog]

Considering what mine has been hit by, it's hard for me to imagine anything short of a tornado causing any damage. Some shitbag on a motorcycle even threw a rock at my windshield and still no damage. The only damage-prone part of the truck I've identified is the plastic air deflectors in front of the wheels. I've managed to damage both of my rear deflectors by forgetting to adjust my ride height when going over big rocks off-road.

I don't think you need to worry about hailstones.

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