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Originally Posted by techweenie
That is a staggering repair bill. We've done extensive rust & collision repair on vintage 911s for roughly $65K. I would want to see photos of the accident damage and in-progress repair. Impact on retail price could be around -$35 to 40K
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Agree..
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Originally Posted by Matt Monson
The aluminum chassis cars get really messed up with what we might consider small hits
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Originally Posted by G450X
Aluminum chassis repair costs seem to be a somewhat hidden factor in high tech purchases.
It’s not a direct comparison, but an aluminum chassis tale of sort. I’ll bet the pre repair damage photos of that car don’t “appear” bad at all…
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Originally Posted by Dan J
Hard to believe but that's probably a small ish repair
I have been running 991 and now 992 cups since they came out in 14 and can state with no exaggeration that 64K doesn't buy a whole lot
The good news is that if the car was repaired at a Porsche certified repair center the repair should be done to a very high standard Porsche is very picky about the work in these shops and the cars can be repaired correctly
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On a more serious note.. you are correct in that it doesn't cost much to run-up the repair cost on an aluminum tub car. Both targas and cabs can incur even additional cost for what appears to be a simple rear end hit beyond the bumper.. meaning if there is any damge to the quarters, it requires add'l hours for R/R of the entire top mechanism including recalibration and recoding upon reassembly. Sometimes these hours may be incurred just for inspection of inner quarters and panels.
The certified Porsche repair facility ties right back to the CPO program. If a car is damaged and then repaired by them, Porsche can then confidently offer the car for resale again as a CPO.. provide it passes all if the checks. Keep in mind, many of these $2 -$300k Porsche are leased, so the dealer/manufacturer is expecting to see them again upon trade-in.. thus to be sold again. We've seen some CPOs sold 3 times by the manufacturer which makes sense.
Another factor to this is that not all Porsche dealers are certified. There are some dealerships that have body shops that cannot repair their own cars because they are not certified. Parts are tracked and if the shop, or dealer is not certified Porsche will not sell or ship them the repair parts. We've had a number of these cars come into the shop from several dealers and independents, and God knows how many Cup-cars we've done.