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Well, this is a perfect example of Murphy's Law. Yesterday, my debit card number was stolen and they managed to charge $5000 worth of purchases before I caught it and locked it. And today, I'm on a nice drive up the coast and some guy drives straight into me as I'm driving through town. I made him admit fault on video just so there is no confusion, so at least there's that. So after less than 1 month of ownership, my 991.2 is already going to be sitting in a bodyshop. The only silver lining is I will get 1 fresh headlight without pitting, and if they replace my bumper cover I won't have license plate holes.
Oh, and got a decent picture of the car with the iPhone before wreck
Photo of the damage. It is worse than it looks. Coolant leaking, making a clicking noise, hood misaligned, door and/or fender misaligned, sensors, warning lights, etc no airbag deployment though and nobody hurt (very low speed). I will be taking it to a Porsche authorized collision center
within a couple of months of owning my first 991.1S a distracted father of 2 drove right into my parked car..was totaled
yours is fixable and like you pointed out it will be better than before, albeit now it will have a Carfax record. Take the weekend to process, get your plan in order. You dont just want them to make your car new, but also pay for future depreciation, Many threads on this and you can google/search for companies that do exactly that.
Good Luck and keep your chin up
Pic of my car accident, hope it makes you feel better
Yes I plan on asking my insurance company about being compensated for diminished value, or may have to contact an attorney
You best bet is finding one of the agencies that specialize in this kind of work. You can go the attorney route once the Insurance company says no (which they most probably will) but attorney fees may be higher.
A proper Carfax hit can cost thousands of dollars in resale especially if you have a car with low miles.
Ugh, never good to hear. Will be back on the road looking even better though, that is the bright side. Definitely get a diminished value attorney or try and get a reasonable number without one if able.
You will pit the new headlight as well... jk.. not really.
Sorry to hear about your wreck .
DO NOT clear bra your headlights just a reminder..
Sad to see the damage to your car. It will soon look as good as new though!
There doesn’t seem to be a clear answer for PPF on the headlights. There are peopl in this thread that installed PPF, seemingly with no problems. I’ll ask for updates, hopefully we can get some good feedback. Unless the GT3 headlights are different, lol.
Oh man! I really feel bad for you. Must be a gut punch. Try to look past this and forward to when the car is as good as new and this all is a bad memory.
It'll all work out in the end. I had a wild back to back incident with my basically brand new C63S Coupe years ago (only 3-4k miles on the clock) where a vehicle rear ended me at very low speed merging into traffic (it happened to be an ex-Mercedes mechanic that wasn't paying attention in his Nissan Altima). Over a month in the bodyshop, I got the car back and no less than 2 weeks later I had a lady in her Camaro throw her car in reverse as we were both waiting to exit a restaurant parking lot - I guess she left something inside - and didn't even look behind her to see the line of cars waiting to exit the lot. I had to watch in slow motion as the reverse lights flipped on and see her slowly crept back in reverse towards me - I had my hand planted on the horn - but she continued to give the front end of the car a love bump (a quite expensive one as headlights were involved). Add another month in the body shop and a second Carfax accident on a brand new AMG.
Sounds horrible right? Well, it was - at the time. I pursued diminished value claims for both accidents with each insurance company and received a VERY healthy payouts from each insurer - enough to cover any diminished value at the time of sale when purchasing my 911, and it basically covered my depreciation throughout the ownership of the car. So it actually worked out favorably which is quite funny when you look back at the horror when it happens.
Best advice as many have mentioned is to retain a diminished value expert, you will have to get a visual inspection (to look for previous damage), and negotiate with the insurance company when they send a low ball offer. Good luck, it'll all work out.
It'll all work out in the end. I had a wild back to back incident with my basically brand new C63S Coupe years ago (only 3-4k miles on the clock) where a vehicle rear ended me at very low speed merging into traffic (it happened to be an ex-Mercedes mechanic that wasn't paying attention in his Nissan Altima). Over a month in the bodyshop, I got the car back and no less than 2 weeks later I had a lady in her Camaro throw her car in reverse as we were both waiting to exit a restaurant parking lot - I guess she left something inside - and didn't even look behind her to see the line of cars waiting to exit the lot. I had to watch in slow motion as the reverse lights flipped on and see her slowly crept back in reverse towards me - I had my hand planted on the horn - but she continued to give the front end of the car a love bump (a quite expensive one as headlights were involved). Add another month in the body shop and a second Carfax accident on a brand new AMG.
Sounds horrible right? Well, it was - at the time. I pursued diminished value claims for both accidents with each insurance company and received a VERY healthy payouts from each insurer - enough to cover any diminished value at the time of sale when purchasing my 911, and it basically covered my depreciation throughout the ownership of the car. So it actually worked out favorably which is quite funny when you look back at the horror when it happens.
Best advice as many have mentioned is to retain a diminished value expert, you will have to get a visual inspection (to look for previous damage), and negotiate with the insurance company when they send a low ball offer. Good luck, it'll all work out.
How much did you pay for the diminished value expert, or did insurance cover the cost? How exactly did the process go? I'm assuming simply telling my insurance company they need to get me a diminished value payout from the other guy's company won't work very well
How much did you pay for the diminished value expert, or did insurance cover the cost? How exactly did the process go? I'm assuming simply telling my insurance company they need to get me a diminished value payout from the other guy's company won't work very well
I have been hit twice by red light runners in the past 14 years and hired a diminished value appraiser both times. Search Dempsey appraisal service Atlanta and you might find answers to some of your questions. Paid around $350 I believe. They looked at the car, took plenty of pics and wrote up about a 3-4 page evaluation as to the diminished value of the car due to the accident. The first time it went to a 3rd party umpire and he agreed with my guy. Second time the insurance company just paid his estimate. In both cases I was offered about 1k but received about 6k for diminished value. Both cars were damaged badly and the insurance company would have done better totaling them vs. repairs+ diminished value pay out.
How much did you pay for the diminished value expert, or did insurance cover the cost? How exactly did the process go? I'm assuming simply telling my insurance company they need to get me a diminished value payout from the other guy's company won't work very well
As mentioned, you want to find a local (or within state) diminished value expert that can do an appraisal of how much your car was worth before/after the accident and repairs. They do this by comparing other similarly equipped vehicles and there are calculations performed based on severity of accident, cost of repair, etc.
It only cost $500 (maybe a bit less?) for a professional to give me a full report/assessment and included the language to email the insurance company in addition to follow ups on how to respond during negotiation (they know the insurers tactics well).
I absolutely would do it all over again - I did, with that second accident - and both insurers paid out more than fairly in my case.
12-11-2021, 02:00 AM
Not even 1 month with the car, already wrecked
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