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I'll bet most of us have walked out to our garage and checked our own cars. If some of the cars have it, it must be something used to position the panels in the manufacturing process, that occasionally wanders away. I have no idea of how to get it out without major surgery to the car.
I'll bet most of us have walked out to our garage and checked our own cars. If some of the cars have it, it must be something used to position the panels in the manufacturing process, that occasionally wanders away. I have no idea of how to get it out without major surgery to the car.
all the best.....
I wonder if maybe crap in there normally falls down to a harmless place but with some aggressive driving (track) it gives a chance for the object to jump up into the "V" on a hot fender when the V is wider. Then if the object is in place in the wide, hot "V" it can get lodged when the fender cools and contracts.
Happens exactly the same on my 997.1 GT3.
It happens after removing the plastic black arch and rear window for paint.
In my opinon should be a part of the rivet that fell off when the paint shop remove it.
Interesting. I thought that perhaps this had something to do with body repair that I was unaware of. What black arch are you talking about? Is this in the interior?
I decided to take the car to the local bodyshop that does the high end cars and they are Porsche Certified whatever that means. They had one of the managers and two of the Porsche Certified techs look at it and they all had no explanation for what might have gotten in there. I asked specifically if they thought the car had body work and while they did not meter the paint they looked closely at the paint, seams, spot welds, trim, mouldings, etc. and they said that there was no evidence of a hit and if the car had been painted it was done at a level not normally seen even from a high end shop.
Now in my case I know it was caused from getting complete resprays, no panel damage as such but the car was given a proper respray due to severe gravel rash (aka patina) from spirited road trips without proper paintwork protection
They are rivets and in the process all rivets should be counted but in my case one less was removed from each side and caused exactly what you have shown the picture of above
I am becoming practiced at working with the camera and implements so I can try a second career as a surgeon. I was able to hook it and drag to the back.
I had to drop the bumper and the black x-grid brace to pull another body plug which was easier to work toward. Taped a magnet to the camera and got it.
Much smaller than I was expecting! Watch for scale:
The bad news....there is at least one more on each side.
Wow. Hard to believe something that small could cause sheet metal to warp. I am not sure, did you say some parts of your rear window were removed to re-paint your car? Something for the rest of us to be aware of should we note such a bulge or have work done on our cars. And how useful the video system you used can be. I don't have one.
glad you were relentless and resourceful enough to get it out.
Great work but also freaky that the car is filled with rivets
well, obviously the car has had some kind of work that I am not aware of.
My next question is what rivets have to be drilled out in this area for what tasks? I would like to know why part of the car was disassembled. There is no evidence of a collision or paintwork.
Last edited by LooseMarble; Jul 29, 2018 at 11:09 PM.
