Both sides of the state line

Door edges from tight parking rows, cart strikes near the retail centers along Metcalf, and hail on anything left out through a spring storm.

Recent-model sheet metal tends to take shallow, wide dents — the kind a body shop would happily fill and repaint, and the kind that comes out cleanly without either.

Low-speed knocks, door edges and hail, on vehicles where the original finish is a meaningful share of what the car is worth.

Storm damage here is as often a fallen branch on a roof or hood as it is hail.

Road-thrown debris, shallow impact dents from something kicked up at speed, and tight parking at both ends of the trip.

Narrower older streets produce a higher share of door strikes and mirror-height creases than the parking-lot cart damage typical further out.

Stone chips, debris strikes and the shallow dents that come from something kicked up at speed.

Storms that soak the Northland do not always touch Johnson County, so hail damage up here can arrive on a completely separate schedule from the rest of the metro — and often on cars whose owners had no idea a storm had passed until they looked at the hood.