Deer Hit - Repair or Replace?
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Take it from someone who is qualified to write automotive collision damage, the hood needs to be replaced. This type of dent will require a big repair area with substantial filler, a good shop will make sure all the correct decals on the underside are replaced.
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The thin metal in body panels stretches when it is deformed. An aluminum "artist" with decades of experience and the right tools might be able fix it. But, a) a new hood would be cheaper and b) your local body shop is highly-unlikely to have an "artist" employed. The local shop will beat it with a hammer, sand it, and 'bondo' it. And, I'm skeptical that it would look perfect when done.
My $0.0991: if you were going to keep the car and want to keep it now, then get it done right (no bondo, Porsche-cert'd shop.)
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Let insurance fix it at Porsche approved shop and turn it in...there is nothing collectable about the car and your resale will suck because no one wants a wrecked 911. I would think a Porsche shop would be able to detect the work and they would get you with a back end lease charge. For sure if someone bondo's up that hood and leaves a bunch of overspray on a cut rate job it will cost you at some point. A dealer worth their salt will use a paint meter in the panels before they take it back.
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Should've hit the deer.
Taken it home, and made dinner.
Taken it home, and made dinner.