update on rear ended CGT in san diego
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update on rear ended CGT in san diego
apparently porsche shut down the assembly line for 6 hours to fix it. total repair cost was appx $125k, and it looks like porsche knocked it out in no time - much to my surprise.
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Originally Posted by Jack Ennuste
Assembly line in Leipzig????
Seriously, I doubt that they even needed to stop any assembly line for a repair. They have plenty room to do such things without interrupting daily production. Besides, what's an assembly line going to do to help with such a repair? Anyway, I hate rumors like this.
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So you've been to the factory in Leipzig since CGT production began? All the tools and parts necessary to put these things together are in a single area - the production line. It would seem to me after seeing it, this is by far the fastest, most productive, and quality conscious way to have done the repair.
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It doesn't seem too far fetched, given that it's a carbon fiber Carrera GT we're talking about, and they only make a couple a day, anyway.
I've heard that the reason small accidents will be so expensive with the CGT is the carbon fiber. Perhaps it's the sort of thing that can only be fixed properly at the factory? (I don't think I'd take my CGT to Earl Scheib. )
I've heard that the reason small accidents will be so expensive with the CGT is the carbon fiber. Perhaps it's the sort of thing that can only be fixed properly at the factory? (I don't think I'd take my CGT to Earl Scheib. )
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It is a little far fetched that they would put it on the assembly line to do repairs. Yes, there are parts there but they are earmarked for other cars. The parts on a modern assembly line are all indexed to meet the right chassis at the right point. This way your Lapis blue body gets Lapis blue doors and the Meridain blue interior you ordered. A line is designed to install parts not remove and repair them.
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Have you seen pictures of the "assembly line"? I have, and it looks less like an assembly line than an assembly area. Having allocated whatever parts they needed in advance, it makes complete sense to me that they would do this repair on the "assembly line". They did, after all (if the rumour is true) charge $125,000 for this.
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the reason it has to go abck to an assembly line, is ebcuase its a carbon fibre car. carbon fibre is a cloth that is epoxied under high temperatures and pressures in a vacuum. ihave a bit of manufacturing experience with carbon fibre and i know that once its broken, the entire piece is done. you dont fix it or epoxy the halvesbacktogether becuase you can't reweave the threads since they have already been solodified. if the monocoque or chassis were AT ALL dadmaged, they need to be TOTALLY replaced. that means the car has to be stripped down to bare chassis. you don't do something like that at a porsche dealer or rudolph's body shop. a new monocoque or chassis can only be made and installed in liepzig. the. end.
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Just so you know. if there was any damage to the carbon fiber, the work would have to be done in italy. The entire carbon fiber pan is made in italy, at the same place the enzo pan was made