sandwedge

The tall, jacked up variety. Sat at a red light and this yahoo tagged me. The bottom of his bumper crushed the deck lid and a tow hook took care of the rest. Could have been a fairly painless affair if he had aimed a few inches further left. Instead, the quarter panel has damage too. He did have good insurance though.

I'm not worried about the deck lid panels but I welcome opinions on how best to take care of the QP. Obviously I want the car restored as closely as possible to its original condition but I also want a minimum of paint work.

ajayabb

That's terrible. I feel your pain. Good luck with everything

Whosurdaddy

Oh man I'm sorry. Grey is a tough to match well so the body shop will want to paint broad margins. Not much you can do but use the shop recommended by your dealer. They wouldnt be too interested in jeopardizing their referral source, so maybe they'll pay attention.

X51

If they have to spray your quarter panel (had this done on my seal grey 996), they will typically spray the whole thing, all the way around to the A pillar up front. You can have them just try to blend it, but as mentioned above, it's difficult to match the metallic without showing.

I recommend you have them do 3 or 4 spray outs and then go in and look at each spray out mix against your car and pick the one you think is the closest, in terms of color cast and metallic level. That's what I did with mine and came away pleased. Any quality shop will do this for you and let you come in and work with them so that they are assured you are satisfied.

sandwedge

Good advice. Thanks. Did you get into any diminished value discussions with your 996 damage? If my service manager knows what he's talking about my car can never be CPO'd by a Porsche dealer since they're not allowed to CPO cars with collision repairs to any side panels. Hood, decklid, rear and front bumper.......no problem but a QP definitely would be if he's right.

Marlon Targa 86

I was checking out your avatar yesterday and was thinking the rear of your looked so awesome with the red reflector going across. Old school meets new.

Sometimes I feel people pull up closer to me at red lights, just to make a point. Whatever that "point" might be...

X51

Sandwedge, my qp paint job was due to my rear wiper arm snapping down the side of my car after I washed it, so it was 'operator error'. So, I didn't have any diminished value discussions, but you should, as I understand the CPO process as you stated it.

Btw, if anyone has a rear wiper arm, I HIGHLY suggest you secure the wiper blade assembly to the arm with a plastic zip tie and cut off the excess length so that my mistake doesn't happen to you.

deijmaster

Wrong, I have more than one instance where CPO cars had accidents front, back and sides and they passed....

Zeus993

Oh man - I feel your pain. FFS. Good luck with the repair. Make sure to post pics when it's done.

sandwedge

X51 said he understood the CPO rules the same way I was told. Maybe Canadian dealerships have different guidelines or are you referring to US cars?

ADias

I hope you sort it out satisfactorily. In traffic and at stops I worry about traffic behind me constantly. People are distracted, or worse...

sandwedge

All sorts of different distractions these days. Riding my road bike or driving my car I worry about people diddling with their phone.....texting or dialing. The guy who hit me brought a new excuse though. He said he couldn't see my car because it sits so low and he's almost 6' above the ground with a long hood in front of him. I don't believe that's the case but even if it was, he was approaching from behind with plenty of visibility.

ADias

Stupid excuse. Of course he saw you and if he didn't he has no excuse. And when up close he didn't care to keep a reasonable distance. I cringe when I see cars behind me at stops inching forward - I know that a crash is just inches away if they slip their foot from the brake pedal on their crawling auto trannies. Those are not accidents... they are avoidable reckless drivers' errors.

ClaylG

I've been posting on Porsche boards for years and I can't remember the last time when it was a Porsche driver who caused an accident. Our cars seem to attract careless drivers.

triode

Idiot truck drivers seem to make a habit of this...misplaced macho energy.