Yes I've seen much worse as well. There was a Honda dealer around my area that was hit with hail and a few Civics looked like a machine gun shot at them with hard rubber bullets. They had the same type of ad on their website: Hail damage sale".
If this is fixable, wonder why the dealership isn't doing so? Just reading around it can be hit or miss buying a hail damaged car. Usually if they're selling it with damage, it was too expensive to fix. Apparently in the midwest it's big business to go around and fix dealer damaged cars. I guess if done properly, you'd never know. That kind of sucks that they can sell fixed cars and not have to claim it was damaged.
There's also insurance to consider. I guess you're supposed to claim the damage when registering with the insurance company and they'll take a look. Will definitely lower your claim amounts later on if you get in an accident.
In the end if the price is right it's worth it if you don't mind owning a car that will be worth very little down the road. Unfortunately, $16.5k isn't even close. If it was local I'd be more interested. This would be a fly in drive home purchase. I guess I'll just fish around to see how low they'll go.
