A ding!!!!!! Aaaaaaaarghhhhh!!!

Been taking out the car even though it's cold. I just couldn't let the car sit out until spring, what with the new suspension. Noticed a ding right at the top of the rear wheel well, at the lip. Some brainless A#@*#le just could not control their door. Aaaaaaaaargh!!!!! Multiple DE's, and not a mark. Some idiot in a parking lot. Maybe I'm the idiot for parking where it can get dinged. It's just a car. It's just a car. Deep breath. It's just a car. Aaaaaaaarghhhhh!!!

If only that worked.....the day after buying my car in Virginia, I hit "Tail of the Dragon" on the way home to Texas. I get to the top & go inside the shop & when I walk back to my car I see a rock ding almost the size of a dime in my drivers door where the paint got knocked off....

Palting - If the paint is undamaged, maybe the Dent DOctor or someone like that can get it out without harming the paint. Remember: It's just a car. It's just a car. Deep breath. Yessssss, it's just a car!

We have had very good results with a local paintless dent removal company. They do all of the local Porsche dealer's work as well. Usually around 35 bucks a panel to go over and remove the dent/dents. It is pretty cool the dents that they can get out which you wouldn't think they could.

Same exact thing just happened to me, scrape and a small dent right where the rear bumper meets the quarter panel. What a pain in the ***.

No it ain't JUST a car-its a work of art!

Thanks, guys. Just had to rant. The local Porsche dealership has no connection with the paintless dent removal peple, but the local Dodge dealer does. Isn't that weird? Pobably has to do with trucks that do double duty as work and fancy vehicles.

Sorry to hear that, dents from inconsiderate folks drive me nuts too. $35 for a panel ?! That's a great price! The paintless dent removal company at my local dealer quoted me $100 per dent. I've been resisting the urge to get jacked, but the 3 dents on mine are eating away at me -- one on the roof (dunno how it got there); one on the front driver side light arch (dunno either); and a ripple on the driver door.

price is usually for panel up to a certain amounts of dents in a panel. As most of the work is accessing the metal.

If you schedule the appointment through a Dealer, they will add at least a $40 surcharge. You can schedule these appointments directly with the repair guy, and they will meet you at a mutually agreed upon location.

I agree

I once wrote a tongue in cheek article for our local PCA chapter. Now qouting from "Free Therapy for All 911 Drivers": Rule #6: NO MATTER WHERE OR HOW YOU PARK, YOU WILL EVENTUALLY GET A DOOR DING! It�s only a matter of time. You may feel better to ding it yourself the first time and get it over with. It probably took me 30 years of driving to learn this. Life became more enjoyable when I learned to take these little things in stride and move on. The Dent Doctor (aka Wizard) is worth every dollar. For more cost effective use of his service, you may wait until you have a few dings to remove. Cheers,

Sorry to hear about your ding. I had the wierdest ding on my car. When it was two years old, I noticed a very slight ding on TOP of the left rear wheel arch. No way it got dinged by someone's door. Either the car was delivered to me with the ding and I just never noticed, or a pine cone landed on it from the pine tree just outside my garage during one of the rare moments when I had the car parked there. I had it removed by the Porsche dealer's ding guy for $150. The paintless ding remove process is just wonderful.

Dropped my car off this morning to get the dent fixed. $650 to repair and repaint the quarter panel. I'm also having them refinish one of my rear rims that has some curb rash. Without my baby for about a week.... arrrg!

OUCH! on the cost and... OUCH! OUCH! on not having your "beloved" around for a week.

Where the hell did you take it? The best hot rod shops would only charge $350 to repair that. Did you go to the dealer or something?

I had two estimates, both were just about the same. I not sure how you can make that statement without having seen the damage. There's actually some minor paint damage to the bumper as well, but I'm not having them repaint the bumper, just put some touch up paint on it.

If that estimate includes repairing the curb rash then maybe it's not so bad (actually then its pretty good), but even if someone took a hammer to your quarter panel, it wouldn't be more than $400 or so to repair it (unless they broke through the metal). Maybe they see Porsche and they see dollar signs. Where on the bumper is the scratch. I'm assuimg it's near the dent, no? I would think they'd be blending onto that anyways, and wouldn't need to go the touchup paint route (though even if they do, no big, what a competent shop can do with touchup paint is amazing). EDIT: oh wait, you're in NY. Not sure where Monroe is, but if it's near one of the major cities then it's probably a decent price. Labor intensive work is a lot more money up north.

I'm just outside of NYC, I actually commute there daily, and yes the price of everything is much higher. Manhattan Motor Cars gets $165/hr labor rate.

Riad, I feel your pain. But after a while, it's not really pain, it's just a pain in the ****. Since I park on the streets in NYC when I go out at night, I always have a little love hug on the bumpers when people park and tap. I don't mind that so much since the bumpers are plastic and I usually repaint them every couple of years and it generally looks flawless (Pepe Porsche directed me to some shop in Ossining that does phenomenal work). So anyway, I'm dropping my car off at the garage in my building last night, open the trunk to grab some parcels, close it, and under the fluorescent (all revealing) light, I noticed a minor scratch about 4 inches long right on the hood. I nearly passed a kidney stone. But following the sage advice here, I breathed deep, counted to three, and inspected it more closely. It's mostly in the clearcoat and I think/hope that some rubbing compound and a good going over with Zaino will fix it. My goodness, we P-car drivers are a crazy bunch, eh? Reminds me of when I would get brand new white sneakers as a kid and walk around as gingerly as I could so as to avoid a stain. Nuts. Plain nuts.

Edward, Ossining is where I took my car!

This is why I'm glad mine came with plenty of rock chips. Its used, the paint is no longer perfect...so I'm always in DILYSI mode and park wherever is convenient.

No way I could imagine buying one of these cars new & ever driving it. Mine was bought with rock chips & such....otherwise it would never leave the garage!

Normal rock chip marks don't bother me, mine's got em. It's a 2004 with 36,000+ miles on it, it's going to have chips, but this was an ugly dent down to the metal.

I understand Riad......I was just kinda thinking out loud (on the Forum, lol).

I've get the perfect parking spot for you. Right by COSTCO, just beside that 1970's two door road yacht, whose door is bigger than the 911, driven by a drunk. . C'mon, gravedgr. I can believe not feeling bad about rock chips. MY driving put them there. I don't have a "bra" and never will. But, unless you've got a 911 with rusting side panels, you've got to feel a little stab in the gut if you see an obvious dimple in the middle of a panel.

This should be a felony....... -Eli

I am sooooo glad my P is a facelifted 99 996...because if it were any newer and got dings, it would bother me much more! I was thinking about this the other day when I saw the first ding ...the car who did it left already oherwise i would have kicked a huge dent in his door!

No matter how old or new the car it's still annoying. Someone who was careless damaged your property! However, I try to put it all in perspective. I live in one of the most densely populated parts of the country, and I drive her everyday into one of the largest cities in the world - one little ding in 2 years is the price of admission. Rob

Now when you put it like that , I would call that pretty darn lucky......

Having a P car gets me in shape because I always end up walking the full length of the parking lot from the places where nobody else park. My typical "spot" is tight to the right side of the far right space on a line. That way: 1) I only risk one side of the car 2) As I don't have to park in the middle of the space, I give the idiots more space to open their doors 3) As I'm on the passenger side of the idiots car there may not be an idiot opening their door on my side. Still.. Every time I come back to the car and find that someones parked beside me I check it.. the question is, what do you do when you get back and find the ding, and have a pretty good idea of who it is? Leave a note and tell them they are an idiot? Keith

I had a paintless dent guy come by yesterday and he fixed a small dimple in my fender I made while backing the M3 out of the garage and tipping the mountain bike over..... Since there were 4 of us there my price was $50 bucks total..... -Eli

Picked up the car today and it looks perfect. Only problem is that they repainted my bumper and they weren't supposed to. But they were supposed to refinish the rim and didn't do that... I have no clue what they were thinking, but I'm not paying for the bumper so it is what it is.

Lemme gues riad, they never actually gave you an estimate for the wheels and with the bumper you asked them to touch it up and not repaint it though they didn't write that part down either? It seems even the best body shops, if you don't watch him write it down on the slip it'll either not happen at all or too much will happen.

You can have wheel curb rash refinished?

Yes, the turbo twist rims are painted. Then can bondo them just like any other body part, then repaint them. They look brand new for about $150.

I have the work order in writing. Clearly states to just do the quarter panel, and the right rear rim.... who knows what they were thinking.