If you've spent a summer in Regina, you've watched a sky turn green and heard the first tick of hail on a roof. Here's the honest guide to protecting your vehicle — including what a detailer can and can't do for you.
Before the storm: the only real protection is cover
We'll say it plainly because plenty of marketing won't: no wax, sealant or ceramic coating stops a hail dent. Coatings protect against chemical and environmental damage — UV, bugs, road film, water spotting — not impacts. The things that actually prevent hail damage are a garage, a carport, a padded hail cover, or watching the forecast and parking under cover when a storm cell is coming. If you're caught in the open with warning, even a mall parkade beats the driveway.
After the storm: assess before you assume
Once it's passed, give the vehicle a proper wash before judging damage — dust and water spots hide small dents and make others look worse than they are. Check panels in low-angle light, and photograph anything you find while it's clean. Clear photos of a clean vehicle make any insurance conversation easier.
Where detailing fits
Dent repair is its own trade — paintless dent repair is a body-shop service, and that's not us. What we do is everything around it: a deep exterior clean so damage can be properly seen and documented, and paint correction for the finish damage storms leave behind — water etching, debris scuffs, and marring from branches or wind-blown grit. And if the storm season passed you by, a ceramic coating keeps the rest of a prairie summer — sun, bugs and gravel dust — from slowly doing what the hail didn't.
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