Hail damage

[hewilson]

There are obviously a lot very well educated and informed people on this site so I thought I might ask another question.

I want a Skymaster some day but need to build hours for the insurance guys so am shopping for a C182. I've been looking at planes with <3000 hrs TTAF and either 1) reasonably new engines eg <500 hrs (high end of my price range) or 2) fairly well tapped out engines (low end). Found one of the latter with "slight hail damage."

My question is, can this effect the function/performance of the control surfaces? My broker doesn't seem to think so and he is an honest guy working for me not the seller. But as in medicine, a second (or more) opinion certainly can't hurt.

Any and all thoughts or comments are welcome.

Thanks in advance. This is a great web site.

Hugh