Here's my delima:

My Sterling Mist 99 had pretty nice paint and near perfect body when I got bashed with a bad hail storm on Tuesday night. The hood and top of the car took a beating with hundreds and hundreds of very small dings. I suspect the repairs can be done with paintless dent repair, but will probably cost at least several thousand. My insurance will cover it and my deductible is only $50. Here's the question:

Would you live with the dents and put the money into the following mods, or have the dents repaired and have the body restored to original condition and have to cough up the dough for the mods?

Here's what I was thinking of for mods:
Spec Stage II clutch (which I need now)
Cat back exhaust (which I also need now)
Full set of ES urethane mounts (don't really need now, but was planning on doing)
A set of front rims and drag radials (which I don't need, but would love to have)

 

Post some pics of the hood and top of the car.

 

I'll see if the camera will catch the dents. From a few feet away from the car, you can't see them. It's not until you look down the hood and across the top that you can see them. I'll post some tomorrow.

 

I don't know how your insurance works, on mine, I need to show proof the dents were repaired, if not, and I get nailed w/ hail again, State Farm, will not pay again. So if you pocket the money, and get more hail damage say way larger dents the 2nd time around (knock on wood that you don't), you'll be sol.

 

You're not looking at your car when you're driving it... And when you're not driving it, you're doing something else. Mod it.

 

i would reapir the body damage... chicks hate ugly looking cars...

also, it would bother me every time i would get into my car and see those ugly dents....

heres your choice, have people say:

Damn that car is ugly.

or

Damn that car looks nice.

 

So what happens when your going to sell it if you were to get the mods and not fix the dents? You will be losing a lot of money .

 

fix your ride...... get it done for cheap but good and use the rest of teh dough on mods.....most prolly the clutch

 

compromise: do the hood, buy a mod.

 

Get a CF hood... problem solved. You get a mod and repaired car.

 

That's what I did when my OEM hood got messed up.

 

wtf, that's a no brainer man. I got hail damage on mine too, but with no question fix your car. How can you drive your car when it's damaged? Or more importantly why would you want to mod a damaged car?
Fix your dents, work hard, caugh up the money for the mods later in due time (believe me don't rush for mods), then you will have a nice modded car. Enjoy your max looking in it's new original condition, trust me the dents will really get to you. Ultimately your decision, but that's my 2 cents.

 

I would say fix it exspecailly if your plannin on seeling it any time soon

 

I plan to keep the car for a while, as it only has 71k miles. I should have been more specific in my description, you have to really look hard to see the dents. At first, I could not tell they were there until I washed it, dried it, and looked down the hood and top under the right lighting. I will have all the dents repaired and have the paint rubbed out to look like new. Hopefully, I'll have a few bucks left over to go toward the mods. Thanks for all the replies.