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As per title. Large paint scuff to wing / bumper in front of front wheel, about 6 inches by 10 inches, a couple of mil in depth. Looks properly gouged. Very tight multi-storey car park in the south of France, not paying quite as much attention as I should, scraped high kerb. 718 Cayman S, only 6 weeks old, gutted. So any recommendations on Porsche paint repair places in SW London or Surrey area? Would I indeed be best off taking it back to OPC to sort? Am guessing it'd be hideously expensive.

I think you will be horrified at the cost to repair that particularly as the car is so new, suggest you look at the Porsche approved bodyshop list which is rather short. Maybe best as an insurance claim.

I feel for you Timbo. Reversed my 718 into a post last week (first time I've hit anything in 25yrs years of driving). Only very minor crease in the bumper but too much for a SMART repair. Porsche quoted £490+VAT for a new bumper +painting+fitting. Wanted over £1000 all in. Then had hassle of getting car to their body shop (60miles away), plus no courtesy car included in the price. My insurance is sorting. Collecting later this week. Hope you get sorted out soon.

http://www.claremontcoachworks.co.uk/ These guys are doing a cracking job on a full, glass-out respray on my project car. Most of their work tends to be accident repair stuff. I am going to take another car with some bumper/ paint issues to them as I am very impressed with their work. Ask for Will and say Dom with the XSi sent you and I am sure he'll take a look and give you a fair quote.

Porsche Brooklands use Premier Panel Skills in Farnham as their approved repairer. They've been a little slow getting me a quote though.

Cabsi said: Porsche Brooklands use Premier Panel Skills in Farnham as their approved repairer. They've been a little slow getting me a quote though. I thought they did this work themselves on the site.

Canada Coachworks in Byfleet used to claim to do a lot of work for the Porsche Centre there. They worked on my wife's Golf twice and were very good. Worth checking out.

Some pics of the scuff [url=https://flic.kr/p/UPzbsA] Going through OPC, Porsche's approved bodyshop repairer M&A Coachworks have quoted £1,580 for the repair. Guess I could get considerably cheaper elsewhere, or is this the price I pay for driving a Porsche?

If you want to go Porsche approved, I guess that's what you pay - but yes, you could definitely get cheaper elsewhere. Last year, I span off the track and cracked my rear bumper on a landing light (F 360). By the time I took it to the bodyshop it was a spiderweb of cracks on the RH rear corner. I assumed I needed a new bumper, but the bodyshop told me it could be repaired as new (Ferrari bumpers are fibreglass) - and said that a new bumper would require some work anyway. So, I had the rear bumper repaired, repainted - and while it was there I wanted to get rid of stone chips. So they also painted the front bumper, bonnet and wings (I reckon then blended to about half way along the doors) - all of that cost me £100 (inc vat) more than you've been quoted. Riviera, Grazely Green near Reading. Was the best paintwork I've had.

M&A clearly don't want the work at that price, I would keep looking

SL Restoration in Crawley are excellent

Auto Audio in Park Royal do Porsche West Londons work. They have a good reputation for paint. The best is not local- Greg Howell in Warwickshire.

Sandhurst bodyworks. And I'm fussy.

Call my friend Paul at Autocurators of Hampshire. https://autocurators.com/ He can get the car tip top using one of 2 great bodyshops, and then give the car a tickle over when done. He has a loan car. He looks after multimillion pound car collections and is the only person I trust to sort my cars (wheel refurbs, paint, detailing, seat re-connolisation) Tell him Ed sent you. He is in Hook nr. Tylney Hall. I would wager for the the price Porsche have quoted you he could sort the bumper and go over the whole car and ceramic coat it.

Cabsi said: Porsche Brooklands use Premier Panel Skills in Farnham as their approved repairer. They've been a little slow getting me a quote though. Muppets, screwed up a simple job on my 991 GTS and then lied to me. Avoid.

Received these from Claremont Coachworks this morning: A full, glass out, respray is only costing me twice your quote and their prep etc was excellent!

I went with www.autobodytechnic.com a couple of weeks ago for this: https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&... Cost £700 + VAT and side light. ~£860 all in. Excellent job was done and I cannot tell any hint of repair. They are the body shop 911 Virgin use.

Try GT One down in Chertsey, they did a great job for me when I needed a new bumper, wing, door and radiator (all caused by a minor bump). Trigger your insurance though as the costs soon mount up - I went from at looking at some fairly minor car park dings to speaking to my insurers about a bill for over 6K pretty quickly. Porsche paint is where the costs are and I didn't appreciate how much work was involved in blending the new paint in with the old. fortunately it was all covered by my insurance. Hope your car gets sorted soon.

hyphen said: I used County Coachworks in Kingston as per previous recommendations on this website. Owner can be a grumpy sod but it's not personal- just his personality But for 6 weeks old and owned rather than leased, I would consider going oem incase resale value was questioned later by buyers. These guys have done 2 very good bits of work for me this year.

For that sort of repair, (low down, not too prominent, different angle to surrounding paintwork) I bet you could get a decent smart repair done my a Chips Away (or similar). Should be under £200. You should be able to get a completely new bumper bought and painted for that price quoted above. I backed into a gate post in my previous car splitting the bumper. A local body shop repaired the bumper and completely resprayed for £400. Edited by Green1man on Wednesday 17th May 17:30

edo said: Muppets, screwed up a simple job on my 991 GTS and then lied to me. Avoid. Tend to agree. Finally got the quote and they decided it needed a new rear bumper. About £1700 in total. Clearly better for them to supply and paint a whole new bumper.... I wouldn't use Premier Panel Skills.

Cabsi said: edo said: Muppets, screwed up a simple job on my 991 GTS and then lied to me. Avoid. Tend to agree. Finally got the quote and they decided it needed a new rear bumper. About £1700 in total. Clearly better for them to supply and paint a whole new bumper.... I wouldn't use Premier Panel Skills. Sadly Porsche UK use them. After the equally incompetent Porsche Guildford scratched the wing of my Sapphire 991 GTS they were supposed to just paint the virtical part of the arch nearest the wheel and clear the wing. They did the whole wing and oversprayed onto the plastic inner boot liner (which clips out in 2 seconds). The owner came out and said "we didnt paint the whole wing, just when we cleared it there was some paint left in the gun". FFS.

Tim bo said: Going through OPC, Porsche's approved bodyshop repairer M&A Coachworks have quoted £1,580 for the repair. Guess I could get considerably cheaper elsewhere, or is this the price I pay for driving a Porsche? hopefully not too late - avoid them like the plague, utterly awful on my 997 turbo some idiot scraped my front bumper almost off their customer service was hopeless attempt 1 - paint peeled off the front lip after 1 week as they hadn't primed it attempt 2 - car come back with a small bump right on the nose, small but bloody obvious attempt 3 - ok took a month, multiple hours off work to sort out/stay in rip off prices (on insurance), VW Polo courtesy car AVOID

Cabsi said: edo said: Muppets, screwed up a simple job on my 991 GTS and then lied to me. Avoid. Tend to agree. Finally got the quote and they decided it needed a new rear bumper. About £1700 in total. Clearly better for them to supply and paint a whole new bumper.... I wouldn't use Premier Panel Skills. Jeez - are all Porsche approved places useless? Perhaps they are used to unfussy insurance jobs by lazy Porsche owners who can't be bothered to research Solus near Slough (west london opc) were useless too, they seem to have relocated, probably run out of town Edited by Adam B on Wednesday 17th May 22:20

Green1man said: For that sort of repair, (low down, not too prominent, different angle to surrounding paintwork) I bet you could get a decent smart repair done my a Chips Away (or similar). Should be under £200. You should be able to get a completely new bumper bought and painted for that price quoted above. Indeed, the scuff is not at all prominent - you wouldn't really notice it with a cursory glance if you didn't know it was there. Adam B said: hopefully not too late - avoid them like the plague, utterly awful on my 997 turbo some idiot scraped my front bumper almost off their customer service was hopeless attempt 1 - paint peeled off the front lip after 1 week as they hadn't primed it attempt 2 - car come back with a small bump right on the nose, small but bloody obvious attempt 3 - ok took a month, multiple hours off work to sort out/stay in rip off prices (on insurance), VW Polo courtesy car AVOID That's pretty piss-poor. Thanks for the heads up. Not too late, have been too busy at work to pursue this any further this week. Appreciate all the comments and recommendations chaps. Some good ones suggested there that I'll call up tomorrow when I get a chance

edo said: Call my friend Paul at Autocurators of Hampshire. https://autocurators.com/ Tell him Ed sent you. I am off to meet Paul on Saturday and get some quotes on general TLC for my 997 turbo - I can see budget creep might occur!

For the discerning owner- I'll just leave this here. http://greghowell.co.uk/

Adam B said: edo said: Call my friend Paul at Autocurators of Hampshire. https://autocurators.com/ Tell him Ed sent you. I am off to meet Paul on Saturday and get some quotes on general TLC for my 997 turbo - I can see budget creep might occur! Nice. He'll look after you. Wouldn't trust anyone else with my cars. Ed

Tim bo said: As per title. Large paint scuff to wing / bumper in front of front wheel, about 6 inches by 10 inches, a couple of mil in depth. Looks properly gouged. Very tight multi-storey car park in the south of France, not paying quite as much attention as I should, scraped high kerb. 718 Cayman S, only 6 weeks old, gutted. So any recommendations on Porsche paint repair places in SW London or Surrey area? Would I indeed be best off taking it back to OPC to sort? Am guessing it'd be hideously expensive. Hi Check out this link https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

dom9 said: http://www.claremontcoachworks.co.uk/ These guys are doing a cracking job on a full, glass-out respray on my project car. Most of their work tends to be accident repair stuff. I am going to take another car with some bumper/ paint issues to them as I am very impressed with their work. Ask for Will and say Dom with the XSi sent you and I am sure he'll take a look and give you a fair quote. Sandown Coachworks - same franchise as Claremont Coachworks I believe, have quoted me £650 plus VAT. That's more like it. Only 15 mins down the road. Edited by Tim bo on Friday 19th May 10:59

There you go - Great guys at Claremont so I am sure you'll get the same service

dom9 said: There you go - Great guys at Claremont so I am sure you'll get the same service Cheers Dom. Yep they seem to offer a top service - top end cars repaired and detailed. Booked in monday morning.

Here is my car today at Claremont: To clarify, after a chat with Tim; Claremont and Sandown are not connected and not a franchise. So, my recommendation for Claremont remains but I can't speak for Sandown. I am sure Tim will update this when he gets his car back Edited by dom9 on Friday 19th May 14:12

I've used Bodycraft, who have now moved to West Horley in Surrey (http://www.bodycraft.uk.com). Eric is extremely experienced and very very good. Edited by rbh on Friday 19th May 14:38

Canada Coachworks were used by many car dealers in the area. Very good at what they do, as mentioned on page one.

rbh said: I've used Bodycraft, who have now moved to West Horley in Surrey (http://www.bodycraft.uk.com). Eric is extremely experienced and very very good. Edited by rbh on Friday 19th May 14:38 Fantastic! In the next village to me! I need windscreen pillar rust looked at on my 993 (as well as a couple of dinks), does Eric know Porsches well? Where is he price wise? Thanks!

Can't recoment Louis Wan in Guildford highly enough, has done all my cars for year, spot on and very good value http://cprguildford.co.uk/

jakesmith said: Can't recoment Louis Wan in Guildford highly enough, has done all my cars for year, spot on and very good value http://cprguildford.co.uk/ This guy looks interesting...I would love to get all the little scratches done and I'm not sure I can push to a respray - or whether it is really necessary. Would you even recommend him for a classic 993? I have been told that Chips Away types are to avoided like the plague, unfairly possibly, butI want to get it right.

chrisgaia said: jakesmith said: Can't recoment Louis Wan in Guildford highly enough, has done all my cars for year, spot on and very good value http://cprguildford.co.uk/ This guy looks interesting...I would love to get all the little scratches done and I'm not sure I can push to a respray - or whether it is really necessary. Would you even recommend him for a classic 993? I have been told that Chips Away types are to avoided like the plague, unfairly possibly, butI want to get it right. I recognise him ; I think he used to be Chips Away if not mistaken? I used him and he was good.

edo said: I recognise him ; I think he used to be Chips Away if not mistaken? I used him and he was good. He was chips away but gained a reputation for excellent work, so left chips away, waited a year (they have a do not compete clause) and set up again a year later. Chips Away are a mixed bag but he is well above that level. He's an interesting guy, was training to be a lawyer, and dropped our when he discovered his passion for paint repairs. I found him from a recommendation on here and have used him for 10 years for my 2 Boxsters, 997 and Maserati. He often has Bentleys, Ferarris, Range Rovers in there, I honestly can't recommend him highly enough, he is a perfectionist, festideous. Spent 12 hours doing a small respray on my bumper where he realised after priming it that it had been filled before & was concerned it wouldn't look perfect so stripped it back and redid it, you would never know now it looks like new He also uses an excellent dent guy who has been in the game for 20 years and is superb, the guy took half a day to get 3 tiny dings out of my door, again you would never know I know this looks like a big plug but I have used him for 10 years and wouldn't go anywhere else, he will be completely honest with you about what he can do, how perfect he can get it, and very reasonable prices too.

rbh said: SL Restoration in Crawley are excellent Thanks for this - I live in Crawley, and was wondering where to have some work done!

Great! Sounds ideal for the dings. But he obviously would not do my windscreen pillar rust?

Call Steve Berry at Southern Classics beside Twickenham Stadium. They restore AMs, Jags, and do paint and bodywork for Nick Mees and Trinity.

They want £552 just to paint the front bumper on my E90 which has no damage! dom9 said: Received these from Claremont Coachworks this morning: A full, glass out, respray is only costing me twice your quote and their prep etc was excellent!

Haven't used them in ~3yrs now (although that car has lived under a tree and could do with a tidy up although the paint job is still excellent on the body - need bumpers re-sorting) so can't comment on current prices/management/people - I guess a lot could have changed in that time? Sorry!

To be fair their work does look good from the photos but I’d expect to pay half what they’ve quoted for a good bumper respray!

Someone up the thread mentioned Louis Wan in Guildford. He's still there and he's excellent, takes a lot of trouble and takes pride in his work, reasonably priced too. CPR in Guildford.

I came across this thread when looking for a bodyshop to freshen up the front end of my 911 - bonnet, spoiler and wings - removing stone chips and scratches (- caused by cement landing on my car, when passing a cement lorry). I got a few quotes in SW London/Surrey and also in Yorkshire (near parents). In the end I went to Claremont Coachworks in Hersham - they offered a competitive price and William Austin at CC was very helpful and excellent to deal with. I've now picked up the car and I'm pleased to say that they have done a very good job.

Thanks for the recommendation. Paintwork on my Macan needs sone attention so will give them a call