Hi,

I had a potential purchase 997 Gen 2 inspected by a Porsche specialist and they found that it has a very poor repair to a front-end incident. It looks like someone has replaced a large part of the front boot pan ("spare wheel well") by cutting the damaged piece out and replacing it with something very similar, but not exactly the same and used about 30 bolts to hold the new section in. It looks very bad.

I have priced a full replacement part (98750197900) at £1500.

My question is how big a job is it to completely replace this piece on the car? Is it feasible, or way too much effort to be economical? Rough handwaving price?

 

Who knows what’s under. I would stray away

 

Where in the U.K. do you live?

 

Yeah I get that. This is going to be hard to sell for the current owner, to anyone who gets a Pre-Purchase Inspection. It's a "Cat D" car in the UK which means some repairable damage was written off for insurance at some point. Its another reason the car won't hold resale value now or forever into the future.

However, my ask on this forum post is just about the cost/effort of repair for this particular item on the car.

 

London.

 

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