Anyone tried to protect their trucks from hail? I'm looking into a quilt like cover that is water resistant and has protection like padding. Hail on soft sheet metal is a real bad combination. I'm a scared! No hail for me! I'm looking for cover under underpasses and gas station canopies’ etc. Time to find another way. Any sugestions?

 

We don't get a whole lot of hail in Portland, and if we do, more times than not they're small pebble size.

 

how about moving to a different state? if you are looking for storage at home just get a 10x 20 canopy that they sell at and camping supply store this will be enough protection and you can anqore them to the ground

 

I heard outside Lubbock, Tx the other morning they had baseball size hail. We are used to that in West Texas, but I haven't seen it that big in a long time! Nothing you can do with that size anyway. A buddy of mine a while back got a hold of a rescue raft, the kind that you pull the cord and it auto inflates. He carries it in his tool box. It's exactly one footlonger than the distance from his front bumper to the backwindow of his cab. Fully inflates in 30 seconds! He's got three super strong bungy cords he says will hold it down. Maybe he's on to something!

 

I think I would want it to inflate faster than 30 seconds. Seems like a good idea though.

 

Hey I'll Take 30 seconds anytime... much better than 30 minutes, a red face, and tired lungs... lol

 

I've put on a helmet and old motorcycle leathers just to go out and get hailstones for my neice.Hail bouncing off the helmet ECCCCHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOSSSS


Normal hail, just through heavy cardboard over the windshield. Really if the hails big enough, nothing other than a garage/overpass/structure is gonna stop it from denting. I can live with dents, shattered windshields are anotehr story.

 

K the inflation things sound like an idea but like most of us our trucks sit out in the work parking lot and where either inside and un aware of what’s happening outside or like me I may be off to somewhere else while the truck sits waiting for one of those Florida afternoon thunder storms to come with goofball size hail. It’s like I don't want to look tell me when it’s over. I might have a bubble wrap like material cover made held on buy bungee like cords. It was mentioned that some small planes use such a form of protection. I researching.

 

I like the idea, all my family cars get beat with hail, these storms have been bad the past few days.