SharkSkin

Bill, I'm sure they won't give the melted rubber in your wheelwell a second glance... nothing to worry about...

darkside

Okay where do I get these flares and how much do they cost. my project 82 needs these.
Thanks

Tony C. a.k.a. Darkside

John Veninger

PM Louie928

ablose58

WOW, Louie, Those flares are really well thought out and expertly fabricated!! I love em guess I'll need to by another so I can play too! AL

T_MaX

Quick Question!

Are the factory GTS rear quarter pannels no longer avaliable?

DR

The last price check I did showed they were around $1250 each.

heinrich

I think the work is so extensive that unless you spend the $$ it would cost to buy another 928 you're going to have rust and rain leak issues if you instal GTS quarters. The Ott flares are basically bolt-ons and they don't come near the windows or seams which is great.

Jim bailey - 928 International

Plus swapping out the 1/4 panel has a book labor time of about 25 hours EACH ! and you need the special GTS curved gas door at about $200 from Porsche.

heinrich

JimB, it's a good thing the GTS shares so many components with its predecessors or it truly would be exclusively a rich man's car, because its parts would all be astronomical. At least only some are .... I'm glad i didn't buy a GTS when I had the opportunity, because it would have precluded me from so very much I have been able to do with other 928's. If I had more money that would not even come up as a question

DR

>I think the work is so extensive that unless you spend the $$ it would cost to buy another 928 you're going to have rust and rain leak issues if you instal GTS quarters.

???? A quarter panel change is very common and child's play for a body shop. There is no more chance of leaks or rust than with a stock original panel.

>Plus swapping out the 1/4 panel has a book labor time of about 25 hours EACH ! and you need the special GTS curved gas door at about $200 from Porsche.

Strange, the last set of factory quarter panels I sold were installed and painted by the body shop for under $900. I think that book labor rate could have been swapping in used quarter panels. The labor needed to just prep (not installation) used quarter panels cost just as much as installation of new ones that don't need prep according to the body shops I have worked with..

heinrich

DR, maybe body work (like women) is a lot better in North Carolina. I assure you here, it sucks. Unless you pay. I once took my 944S to a body shop with an excellent reputation (we're talking 8 years ago) and the quote to simply repaint the removable sunroof panel, was $760.

Jim bailey - 928 International

The Mitchell book rate was new panels but was installing the full panel breaking all the spot welds around the 1/4 window ,going to the roof , all around the rear bumper cover. Some body shops might opt to cut and splice which would greatly reduce the labor. Here in California you would be lucky to get two 1/4 panels painted for $900

DR

>DR, maybe body work (like women) is a lot better in North Carolina.

FYI, that was done in Atlanta by Automaster Precision, one of the best in the business, not a "redneck NC body shop in the basement" type place :-).

heinrich

Sadly we don't have rednecks here. Sometimes i wish we did.

DR

>The Mitchell book rate was new panels but was installing the full panel breaking all the spot welds around the 1/4 window ,going to the roof , all around the rear bumper cover.

Weird, with the proper spot weld drill bit , you could remove a panel in an hour or so ???

>Some body shops might opt to cut and splice which would greatly reduce the labor

I would think that cut/splicing would take longer than drilling the spots welds and then using a spot welder to corectly put the quarter panel back on.

>Here in California you would be lucky to get two 1/4 panels painted for $900

You guys are getting gouged big time!!! :-)