Hail protection with no garage

[johnlacson]

Has anyone ever used this?

The Patented Hail Protector Hail Automobile Protection System

Any other suggestions?

[cn90]

We talked about this in the E39 forum, see linky:


Mother nature question: how to protect cars from hail? - Bimmerfest - BMW Forums

[johnlacson]

Thank you so much!

[X53Jay4.8is]

Originally Posted by johnlacson

Has anyone ever used this?

The Patented Hail Protector Hail Automobile Protection System

Any other suggestions?

Cheesy marketing. A good hail blanket is your best bet.

[johnlacson]

What would be a good brand?

[hailprotector]

Originally Posted by X53Jay4.8is

Cheesy marketing. A good hail blanket is your best bet.

Would love to hear which part of our marketing is cheesy. Everything we claim about the system is true. It stops any size hail, it's remote controlled, it's mobile app forecasts hail for the day and warns ahead of hail storms, etc...But if our messaging is not coming through effectively, we'd love to hear why so we can look into it. We've been fortunate to be covered by a lot of television and press outlets https://youtu.be/MEq-TK26ml4

The problem with a blanket is that it won't stay put in wind and won't stop any size hail from damaging the vehicle.

Someone also mentioned that "you can't use it at work". We don't understand what that means. We have lots of customers that use the Hail Protector System at work. In the two years since our launch to market, we have customers in 35 states, 8 countries and on 4 continents.

[Joshdub]

Originally Posted by hailprotector

Would love to hear which part of our marketing is cheesy. Everything we claim about the system is true. It stops any size hail, it's remote controlled, it's mobile app forecasts hail for the day and warns ahead of hail storms, etc...But if our messaging is not coming through effectively, we'd love to hear why so we can look into it. We've been fortunate to be covered by a lot of television and press outlets https://youtu.be/MEq-TK26ml4

The problem with a blanket is that it won't stay put in wind and won't stop any size hail from damaging the vehicle.

Someone also mentioned that "you can't use it at work". We don't understand what that means. We have lots of customers that use the Hail Protector System at work. In the two years since our launch to market, we have customers in 35 states, 8 countries and on 4 continents.

These guys have their Google Alerts game on point.

[srmmmm]

Looks impressive and I think the principle is sound, but a baseball size piece of ice falling from 50-70,000 feet is traveling more than 80 mph, and I've seen softball sized hail in Oklahoma City go right through a composition roof with 1/2" plywood decking. I think the air space needed for an SUV under that fabric would wind up being an airbag the size of a semi.

[TiAgX5]

I think a more "real world" test for this product would be a controlled rate release (1 or 2 strikes per square ft/per second, for a minimum of one minute) of several cubic yards of baseball hail size/weight objects (over the entire top surface of the bag), from a height where terminal velocity is achieved.

I would think this rate contact would partially deflate the bag, with vehicle damage being the end resulting.

[hailprotector]

Originally Posted by srmmmm

Looks impressive and I think the principle is sound, but a baseball size piece of ice falling from 50-70,000 feet is traveling more than 80 mph, and I've seen softball sized hail in Oklahoma City go right through a composition roof with 1/2" plywood decking. I think the air space needed for an SUV under that fabric would wind up being an airbag the size of a semi.

Assuming we can agree that the larger the object the higher the terminal velocity, the terminal velocity of a softball sized hail stone is approximately 70 mph and it achieves this speed within 1850 feet. Meaning, falling from a higher height makes no difference. A baseball sized hail stone has a terminal velocity of approximately 61 mph and it achieves this speed within 1450 feet.

The density of a hail stone is tested to be approx .60 grams per cubic centimeter. The drag coefficient is tested to be approx. .65.

We've been at this for 6 years. Math has been a huge part of the design and testing since the beginning. In fact, the testing is the only reason we went to market. It did things and continues to do things we never thought it would. https://youtu.be/PY1IFcU9rZk