I really don't get on with underground parking garages..

Hi everyone, So I took some advice from the forum and my mechanic and decided to keep the 996t covered at least during the winter. Only problem is when I was reversing the other day a wall jumped out at me and hit my rear bumper. It's mainly paint from the white wall and a bit of cracking to the bumper. 2 questions I was hoping for some help with. Firstly I'm hoping not to hurt the resale value too much and I know if I get it resprayed someone might think I've had a rear end collision rather than scraped a wall. Are there any steps people have taken to document this? Secondly - I know there are a lot of names on the forum already but I was wondering if anyone can recommend a good body shop in London(south ideally). I'm hoping this won't set me back much more than £500 is this reasonable for a quality repair and respray? Thanks as always!

I'd take a load of 'before' photos of the rear end of the car (ideally date stamped) to show the extent of the damage that was repaired. If a subsequent buyer then spotted anything about the freshness of the paint and was suspicious I'd show them to him. In London/South East I think your c£500 anticipation is about right. If you get the painter to clearly put the extent/reason for the work on the receipt it would further validate your photo evidence.

Thanks again T8. I'll try and figure out how to date stamp the pictures.

A photo taken next to todays newspaper might be an alternative. :dont know:

Don't need a respray for that. Smart repairer will have it sorted for a hundred quid or so.

To be fair if someone would be expecting to buy a 20yr old car that hadnt had some paint then they are kidding themselves especially bumpers repainted. I wouldnt worry about it too much.

This, I had a similar scrape smart repaired on my daily in a day last year for £130 with 2 year warranty (place near my office, just left it with them and they phoned me up a few hours later to say it was done.......proper job I could not tell)

...date stamped pictures :floor: it's a 996 not a Ferrari 250 GTO...

I agree with Coullstar. Don't over think it. :grin:

Most of these cars will have had paint of the bumpers at some point in their lifetimes anyway. If you need a bodyshop, Autobody Technic in Slough is good and does plenty of work on Porsches.

:agree: Autobody Technic did a great repair and respray on my 997 bumper. Don't get too hung-up on evidencing the repair. But FYI, if you take digital images, all the details are recorded in the file, including the date and even the GPS location! - see below :thumbs:

I used Revamp in Orpington to respray the front bumper of my arctic silver 996 turbo shortly after I bought it (just a few stone-chips but as the bodywork was otherwise immaculate I thought I would...) and was very pleased with the work and colour match.....

Thanks everyone for the replies. I'm sure I sound paranoid but I've read on this forum and others of people thinking twice about a car because the paint depth wasn't right.. I know it's 20 years old but it's us Porsche owners we're talking about a picky bunch I'd say. A smart repair looks like an interesting idea though I've heard arctic silver is particularly difficult to match. I'm happy to save money where I can but don't want to cut any corners, have any of you had the silver matched without a full respray? As a side note I honestly can't believe how much I love this car when it hits 0.8 bar it still scares me a bit even though I live in London with 20 zones and speed bumps so a lot of trips feel like I'm committing cruelty to Porsches. So a thanks to all who helped me out(especially T8 and Cheshire)!

I used Ross at Elite Crash Repairs, Leaves Green, Keston recently. He did a stunning job on the rear bumper of my daily - he's a 911 owner too