Hail Protector CAR2 Size Portable Cover System for Coupes, Sedans and Wagons

This will be my second order of the Hail Protector aka "carmadillo." It's perfect for the fierce LARGE hail that pounds North Texas in the spring, is easy to assemble and inflate, and has saved us a deductible many times over. It has gone down in price from my first purchase (from near $500 to $250 in two years) and was a great bonus in deciding to get another.That said, it is not indestructible. Think of this as a large sail. It can take some serious punishment, but when you've got straight-line 70+mph winds, something will eventually give. It was still attached to the vehicle, so the straps holding it to the car are robust, as is the stitching and overall construction. The eventual tear was in the actual fabric and not a seam, and it could potentially be caused by a sharp flying object, or the stresses from sustained near-hurricane force winds - there were lots of downed tree limbs and debris strewn about if it's any indication of conditions.Regardless, I have been very impressed with the overall quality and ease of use. Would get again and again.

Thank you for coming up with idea.. Great product! Yes, it is an investment in your investment you have sitting in your driveway.. VERY easy set up. I have already recommended this product to others.. Please do yourself a favor and order this. I just wish I had found this hail cover back in 2016 when we here in South Texas had hail the size of your hand and with spikes on it.. We had lots of damage to our cars. Lesson learned. I CAN NOT express how thankful I am for someone thinking and designing this product..

I give this thing 5 stars in anticipation of the first hail storm. Not tested yet ( except for installation) but it certainly looks like it will work. Watch all the videos first! Also helps to have two people and little/no wind at least for the first time.

First time out of the box is a hassle, but it gets easier to install. Haven't needed to use it yet, but it's peace of mind knowing that we can do something if hail is on the way.

It protects my GT

Good product, hard to dry after rain event, your supposed to get access for a year on a weather app, that never happened. I have used it five times, it does the job

Best purchase this year. Super easy to install. Held up to our 70 mile and hour wind, rain, and hail.. Recommended to everyone I see

When I was a kid, burned into my memory was the most truly horrific hailstorm. So bad at the time it resulted in the single greatest dollar loss from a hail event anywhere. Worst of all a newborn was killed while her mother was running for cover. No dollar amount lost can ever compare to that loss of life and I only mention it to underscore how we sit in ‘hail alley.’That particular storm dropped hail up to the size of grapefruit. Virtually every car in the county was destroyed. My mother’s first new car then only a week old was totaled. A good thing as the wait times for new windshields let alone body work was many months to get their vehicles back. Since we've always parked in the garage for protections sake. That worked out well until last year when we added a vehicle and can’t fit all into our garage now.I had purchased a so called hail cover from an Australian company a few years ago, it was basically a car cover with slightly thicker padding. It didn’t do much of anything except fall apart from the rain?! So I searched and searched until I came across this cover. I read a number of articles, went through a bunch of YouTube vids and from all that thought it would be worth it to give it a try.The cover comes with everything you need other than 8 AA batteries, a backup power source for the protector if no AC power. FYI for that I purchased several high capacity rechargeable batteries here on amazon. The cover is made from quality materials. Undo the Velcro strip at the end of the cover with the hole cutouts, slide the blowers inside then seal it back up again. It inflates very quickly. Do be sure to tighten down the attached black straps very well. Necessary so once inflated the wind doesn’t take it away. No worries though in this last storm the winds howled and the cover stayed put.I tested it in advance, tossed some small rounded stones about the weight of a baseball size hail. They bounced off like a five year old in bouncy house. During the first storm this went through it rained a lot. Some rain got inside between the layers. At first I was concerned but discovered they had thought of that. In the design there are drain holes along the edges for emptying out any that might accumulate. Customer service is the best. I had one minor question at the outset. It was a Sunday nobody was there and I didn’t leave a message. No matter the next day I got a surprise call back from them. They just wanted to make sure everything was okay, nice!Knock on wood we won’t be strafed by terrible hail this year but if we are I am confident this cover will protect our vehicle. Lord knows I hope I don’t get to test it out on frozen baseballs but sooner or later it’ll happen. So that said I couldn’t be happier with this protector and highly recommend it. One last thing they have gone to the trouble of putting up a bunch of how-to vids on YouTube besides all those posted by customers. So pretty much any question you might have can be answered there or just give the folks behind this a call.**Troubleshooting Tip – always test the cover in advance. Example I had used the cover a few times then today went to put up as we are forecast to get hit with potentially terrible hail, tornadoes, etc. I put it on then tested to be sure all was good, ready to go. But it didn’t power on? I switched between AC and battery power supplies and still nothing? Undid the Velcro strap looked at the end where the blowers are inserted. There at the end of the blower assembly bar you'll see the positive and negative wires are connected with ‘slider wire cover clips’ so to speak. One of those had pulled loose/out so not connected. In moving it on and off the vehicle I managed to pull the one connection apart. But EASY to fix just slide it back on and good to go. If that happens to you e.g. no power? Take a look at the blowers as it is plain as day obvious and could not be easier to remedy. For those never having touched a wire think of this like a lamp you have plugged inside your home that you bumped while vacuuming and just needs to be pushed back in the socket to work. So all said after doing that the blowers for the protector powered up just as expected.