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YOUR RESEARCHNice to return to your car to find this damage and no note
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Repair after an accident can always choose
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Owners who are faced with getting their car repaired after an accident can always choose to ignore my (actually Porsche's) advice and have the car fixed any old way they want.
Nice to return to your car to find this damage and no note
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Check some of the closest hard point locations
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In the case of sheet metal being bent that I believe is a good indication sufficient force was involved to at least check some of the closest hard point locations to the area of impact/damage on a Celette Bench to ensure the car is "straight".
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I had my rear bumper cover replaced on my C4S because of the same thing.
Nice to return to your car to find this damage and no note
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In the case of sheet metal being bent that I believe is a good indication sufficient force was involved to at least check some of the closest hard point locations to the area of impact/damage on a Celette Bench to ensure the car is "straight".
Nice to return to your car to find this damage and no note
Repair car, a porsche
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You might consider it an acceptable trade off to in some attempt to keep one's insurance costs down to have a damaged Porsche given a sub-par repair, but try living with a badly repaired car, a Porsche for a while, and tell me you prefer that over some possible savings on your insurance.
Nice to return to your car to find this damage and no note
Repair of my porsche
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If the other driver is at fault then I have no qualms about unleashing whatever is within my legal power to unleash in order to get a proper and correct repair of my Porsche.
Nice to return to your car to find this damage and no note
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Check some of the closest hard point locations
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In the case of sheet metal being bent that I believe is a good indication sufficient force was involved to at least check some of the closest hard point locations to the area of impact/damage on a Celette Bench to ensure the car is "straight".
Nice to return to your car to find this damage and no note
Repair after an accident can always choose
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Owners who are faced with getting their car repaired after an accident can always choose to ignore my (actually Porsche's) advice and have the car fixed any old way they want.
Nice to return to your car to find this damage and no note
Repair car, a porsche
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You might consider it an acceptable trade off to in some attempt to keep one's insurance costs down to have a damaged Porsche given a sub-par repair, but try living with a badly repaired car, a Porsche for a while, and tell me you prefer that over some possible savings on your insurance.
Nice to return to your car to find this damage and no note
Repair of my porsche
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If the other driver is at fault then I have no qualms about unleashing whatever is within my legal power to unleash in order to get a proper and correct repair of my Porsche.
Nice to return to your car to find this damage and no note
Repair porsche level insurance premiums
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No one wants to or likes to or enjoys filing a claim, but if it is necessary then every effort should be made to ensure one gets a proper Porsche level of repair for his Porsche level insurance premiums.
Nice to return to your car to find this damage and no note
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Sorry that happened to you.
If you were in a business parking lot, I would check to see if they have cameras recording. A vehicle description or license plate would be great. This would also be confirmation for the hit-and-run to be covered under uninsured motorist which (at least with my insurance) has no deductible.
People really do suck. Sorry to see the damage. I'm sure it will look great when it gets fixed.
I had my rear bumper cover replaced on my C4S because of the same thing. Somebody hit it at the airport and didn't leave a note.
Thanks car will be finished at the weekend so will post up a picture then. Hard to believe that people would do such a thing, sorry to hear it happened to you in the past also. I love the colour of your Turbo :-)
Man, that's rough. It sucks how mostly decent people get shady when money is involved.
Cue Macster's recommendation to use a Celette bench.
Just kidding, Macster.
When a guy in a truck backed into my 911, one of my employees kept him there while another ran to get me - otherwise, I suspect I would have been in the same boat.
Thanks car will be finished at the weekend so will post up a picture then. Hard to believe that people would do such a thing, sorry to hear it happened to you in the past also. I love the colour of your Turbo :-)
Glad you managed to catch them. I think people think the cars are going to cost a fortune to repair so they run away from it. Karma comes back around(I hope)
Kidding or not, just so it is clear, my often stated advice to get the car to a Celette Bench was not hatched from my fertile imagination.
The recommendation to use a Celette Bench is from Porsche. This is covered in Porsche guidelines for the proper repair of these cars.
If a shop skips this step unless the damage is so very slight -- confined to just plastic bumper cover damage -- it is an indication the repair may not be a thorough as it should be, and the results may not be as good as they would have been otherwise.
In the case of sheet metal being bent that I believe is a good indication sufficient force was involved to at least check some of the closest hard point locations to the area of impact/damage on a Celette Bench to ensure the car is "straight".
While the old eyeball may be good enough for Ford Festiva repairs it is not good enough, or should not be good enough, for Porsche repairs. Remember, we are not paying Festiva insurance premiums, but Porsche insurance premiums. No one wants to or likes to or enjoys filing a claim, but if it is necessary then every effort should be made to ensure one gets a proper Porsche level of repair for his Porsche level insurance premiums.
If the other driver is at fault then I have no qualms about unleashing whatever is within my legal power to unleash in order to get a proper and correct repair of my Porsche. If you don't want the wrath of God coming down on your *ss don't run into my cars.
Interesting point I am from the UK and took the car to a Porsche approved body shop. I wouldn't think the car was hit that hard but I am sure they will do all the correct checks. Thanks for your input 👌
Ah Roo, that stinks and sorry to see this. Even though it will be brought back to where it was before the incident it is still crappy to see the results of someone's carelessness. I try and avoid "common areas" in parking lots as much as possible but sometimes it can't be avoided. Hope it is repaired to your satisfaction.
You drive a Porsche so you are rich and can afford it.
At least that is the attitude I've run into
Sorry for your bad day man. It will be back soon and as good as new.
Mac, this is a 996! NOT a 60-70k Porsche! I would just take it to a TRUSTED Body Man & NOT go to some Porsche Specialist & let them RIP you Another BIG One! Also, the First thing you need to do is see what your Deductible is cause IF you file a claim EXPECT that Ins. to Go UP even more! I Don't know about your driving record, but i'm NOT Paying out MY butt just because it's a Porsche! it's a 996 for heavens sake!
It is a porsche approved Garage but my friend works there and is undertaking the work for me. So I haven't paid any where near what it would have cost normally :-) which is about the only good thing to have come from this
Thanks I do try my best to avoid public car parks and when I do i try and park away from the bulk of the cars but someone all ways comes and parks next to me lol
You are right. We are talking about a 996, but it still a Porsche and if repairable I believe worth repairing properly.
You might consider it an acceptable trade off to in some attempt to keep one's insurance costs down to have a damaged Porsche given a sub-par repair, but try living with a badly repaired car, a Porsche for a while, and tell me you prefer that over some possible savings on your insurance.
(BTW, I had my 03 Turbo - which struck a mule deer -- fixed at a Porsche Approved Collision Center and even though it cost my insurance company over $25K my insurance didn't go up. Just weeks prior I had paid $57.7K for the car, so the repair cost represented a good percentage of the car's value based on what I paid for it.)
Often the trusted body shop which does BMW's, Audi's, and M-Bs, and even more exotic cars also does Porsches so you are getting the benefit of using a Porsche specialist.
But if you want to use the local hammer and bondo shop that does Chevy Lumina repairs that's your call.
Not me. I want to use a shop that knows these cars and knows how to fix them properly.
Owners who are faced with getting their car repaired after an accident can always choose to ignore my (actually Porsche's) advice and have the car fixed any old way they want.
As for me, I want my Porsche fixed right and put back to its pre-collision condition.
Sorry to hear that. I can feel your pain as I recently came out of a store to find my passenger door damaged. The more I look at it, the more I think that someone kicked it in. People suck.
yeah, Roo yours looks like it might have been an accident & they just backed up a lil' to far but there is Definitely people out there that are Jealous JUST because your driving a Porsche (or Any really Nice Sports Vehicle for that matter) Hell, there's even a Website out there for some people that HATE H2's & go out of their way just to Do things to them, just because their Gas-Guzzlers, Eat-Up the Ozone, whatever else you want to Blame them for! There is some Very Vendictive People out there!
