I know this has been discussed many times but I just want to reiterate how good Pedro is. I have a 991.1 bought last year and it had the door panel coming loose. We vacationed around Tampa,FL this year so I just took the panels down and dropped them at his house. Super great guy and his son works there too. He showed me what he does and how he came up with how to fix them. We looked at my panels and “someone has been here before”. The older fix was bad and in fact the section where the air bag “blows” had a zip tie holding it. This means the air bag on the drivers door would not work!! Also what ever glue they had used failed after time and did make it harder to fix correctly. After talking with Pedro I would NOT recommend anyone doing this their selves. Major safety issue if you do this wrong. Cost me $775 because of the extra work but worth every penny. BTW. He is very fast at turning them around and seemed to be very busy.

 

Glad to hear another positive review of Pedro's service. Getting my door panels sent down to him has been on my to-do list for a while now, just loathing the thought of having to source the correct size box to ship them in.

I'm one of the lucky ones who's door panels aren't super terribly delaminating. It's the kinda thing on my car where any of us would notice it, but the average person wouldn't.

 

Boxes for shipping panels can be found at a bike shop.

 

Yes, seems like a decent option. I tried fixing mine my self but the warped plastic itself was difficult to correct, it's not just the material separating that is the issue with these door cards. I looked into Pedro but I found an awesome pair of door cards on Ebay, practically brand new, from a 991.2 for $900 shipped to my door. If you include down time of not having the doors and the expense of shipping if you're not in Tampa, then it may not be the most cost effective option. But I'm glad Pedro is there to solve the very badly designed issue that Porsche won't help with - mine warped 1 year after warranty and they would not even consider goodwill. Disappointing!

 

If it is fixed under warranty, is a fix by Porsche adequate or is just the same thing but new? I have a year of CPO warranty left, and the doors aren't too bad yet but I'll want to address it while I can.

 

I don't know if CPO warranty covers the door de-lamination issue but if they do, and it was covered under the original warranty, they just give you brand new door cards so yes, very much worth it to go through Porsche if they cover it. Keep it out of direct sun and high heat they last much longer. The design is poor, but the fix by Pedro can't change the material issue with the plastic warping without the kind of reinforcements that would block the Airbag. I'm sure Pedro can fix the warp and re-laminate the outer skin but the plastic will still warp again, new or old. Perhaps I'm wrong and Pedro does have a permanent fix for that but I don't see how without structural reinforcement. Coincidentally, when shopping for new doors on Ebay and Rennlist, I found some doors in later 991s don't have a door airbag and the door card is very structurally reinforced in the problem area so this would not happen, but those won't fit over the airbag so you'd have to remove them which is not a good idea. Anyway, I'd rather have brand new genuine door cards and better protect them from sun damage than a fixed one. Out of pocket Porsche quoted me more than $4,000 to replace the door cards, and when Goodwill was rejected by PNA they were kind enough to offer me a 10% discount which I declined to do.

 

Had my panels (981BB) repaired by Pedro this past week. Great result, turn around, and communication. Actually, I have yet to hear one negative review regarding this repair by Pedro. He is the Go-To.

 

I had them replaced under the CPO warranty. It may be my imagination, but the material feels softer, and they look great.

 

Does the 991.2 have better glue/panels? because that would be a perfect fix if the price is right.

 

Honestly don't know, in all ways the materials look and feel the same. I don't know if they're using better glue but I'd hope they got the memo and did. However, as I mentioned above, the delamination isn't the only issue with these door cards, the plastic itself is an issue. It's possible the outer material is glued on better now and won't delaminate but the plastic it's stuck to will likely still warp. The 991.2 doors I got off Ebay had a pretty robust rigid frame/trusses reinforcing the problem area but as it wouldn't fit over the airbag unit I had to painstakingly remove it, basically making it like the original doors. I try to keep it out of long heat/sun exposure as much as possible.

 

For anyone in the S. FL. area, Shamrock auto trim does this as well. We had them fix delaminating door panels on the wifes cayenne and they did a great job.

 

I used Pedro's a couple of years ago for my 2014 991.1 and have had zero issues with them since. Turn around was quick. I recommend Pedro's.

 

Nothing against Pedro, he sounds like a first class guy running a first class shop. But I was just wondering if any of the really good quality Porsche independent shops do a good job of this too.

My car is in the shop right now and I'm picking it up in a couple of days and I'm going to ask them if they do this repair.

 

Pedro has the experience…if your local doesn’t do it…

 

I don’t have an issue now but how do you get a hold of Pedro?