Thank you for finding us and posting... Hopefully it's original occupants are too fully recovered and perhaps in another Porsche. Win/win/win!

 

Well done! Love hearing stories like this.

 

Very cool story, thought about doing the same but certainly not with a 991, something a little less intricate.

 

I am from Germany and in the German market we have been receiving lots of US salvage cars (mostly BMW, Audi etc.) repaired in Lithuania. There are a handfull of used car dealers here that specialise in these repaired re-imports but fail to disclose the extent of damage to the consumers and the newly issued German titles are clean and show 1 previous owner only. In some cases the cars were repaired sub standard and that is putting it lightly. Just imagine you have an accident on the autobahn at 200+ kmh and your car disintegrates on impact. I know of several guys on the E90 BMW forum that got stung.

Anyway, I just wanted to shed some light on one aspect of the global salvage car market.

It looks like the OP's car was done right though.

Regards,

CF

 

Sorry for a late response.

FYI, I dont recommend replacing the speedo dial stickers. Now that I have been driving the car, the speedo started making rattling noice because it was taken a part. I regret touching the speedo now.

But to answer yout question, my km/h stickers are aftermarket. The repairshop who did an installation of EU lights offered the stickers to me.

I am pretty sure that you can order them from Porsche too. I have ordered all the parts from Porsche, including the protective film on fenders. Thus, I assume they have all parts available.

 

Yes, Ive heard that in some cases they manage to ger clean titles in Germany for those rebuilt cars. And I feel for the new owners. You pay a market price and you expect to get a clean car.

However regarding the repair quality, I think most of those cars are repaired well because if the quality is bad you wont get a TUV certification nor in Baltics, neither in Germany.