993RS

I brought my car over to my Porsche dealer to fix a leak in one of my BBS wheels,and should have picked it up today, but they told me that an "accident happened". A mechanic, backing up a Cayenne, hit the front of my car!

Now they have sent my car to a bodyshop to be repaired.

Trying to look at the bright side of things, my font bumper had a number of dents recently from braille drivers parking, so I get a new front bumper for free.

jeff522

Its good that you will get some "free" touch-up work on your car. Not so good that your car had real body damage done to it. Did you get to see the damage or at least photos.

CorrdoBrit

Having the dealership 'take care' of this damage isn't the best move. I had a similar experience when my VW Corrado was damaged whilst in for service. Worst mistake I made was letting them take the car to the shop of their choice. After 3 resprays because the first two were substandard the bodyshop ended up breaking the side window actuator mechanism and the door pull, but wouldn't cover the repair costs. It was a nightmare that lasted several months.
My recommendation for you is to find the best bodyshop in your area, have them do the work and bill the dealership directly. Good luck.

Scott 1996 993c2

Bummer Phil. BOL with this.

Scott

goofballdeluxe

+1.

The dealership is only concerned with getting the cheapest fix done. Your choice of body shop would get the best job done. The dealership must pay, either way. Why not go for the best? The dealership already showed they didn't care enough about your car by allowing someone to hit it. And now you want to give them a second chance to screw things up? That doesn't make too much sense to me.

If I were you, I'd get my car out of the dealers hands ASAP and take it to the best body shop in the area.

Unless, of course, you don't really mind if they do a ****ty job on your car.

P-daddy

Damn....sorry to hear that.

f8vr993

Take lots of photos...

H.H.Chinn

Hopefully in Switzerland shops do a better job with repairs than here in the U.S. Good Luck!

vjd3

Assuming it was truly cosmetic only, make sure it doesn't wind up on the Carfax, either ... dealerships and bodyshops can get reported if they enter the VIN# on the car.

Oh, wait ... Switzerland ...

GeorgeK

Where in Switzerland was that?

CorrdoBrit

Hadn't noticed the OP was based in Switzerland. The same still applies IMO.

Cactus

Agreed. You would think that the euros would be much better than the zoo animals we deal with over here.

993MAN

This isn't great news, but the car wasn't rolled and crashed or anything. Surely the dealer can do a decent paint job on a bumper?

NP993

Spent much time in Europe?

Cactus

No but I thought we were the only stupid ones.