Has anyone had this happen? - 986 Forum - The Community for Porsche Boxster & Cayman Owners

PSL-Boxster · 07-16-2008, 08:32 PM

picture this. your baby is sitting inside your garage all nice and clean. then, a few hours later, while the garage is being fixed, the whole mechanism falls on the car and puts ( got quoted for this) $1100 of damage on the trunk and left rear fender..

fragdude · 07-16-2008, 08:39 PM

Wow...that sucks...
and Yep, happened with my previous '77 911 in the garage. Luckily didn't do too much to my car.

Who was working on the garage? see if you get them to pay for the damages or at least chip in especially if they didn't tell you to take your cars out.
Once again, sorry to hear that happened

PSL-Boxster · 07-16-2008, 08:49 PM

it was a friend of mine.. he offered to do the garage for free but not pay for the damage. After i thought about it, i let is slide because the garage came down so hard he could have really been hurt.. and then whose at fault? But eventually i had it fixed and was only charged 100$ for dents and chips =D.. but it really needs paint to look like before

fragdude · 07-16-2008, 09:03 PM

Thats horrible selfless of you!
I would def. feel awkward if it was a friend of mine, and would most likely have let it slide too. 100 bucks for the dents aint too bad.

How much would it cost for the paint?

70Sixter · 07-17-2008, 10:01 AM

You cannot put a value on real friendship, and I am glad for your sake you didn't.

Sorry about the car tho. I worry the garage door opener or exhaust ducting will get mine. The ducting crashed into an empty spot once. Wife then ran over it with her Jeep entering garage.

PSL-Boxster · 07-20-2008, 05:35 PM

Sixter, you had a lucky break man lol..

- if i repaint the fender and trunk it wont mesh with the rest of the paint on the car so for a "good" total repaint of the car ( which i need anyway) it will cost anywhere from 5k to 7k..=[.. but it has to get done sometime or another =\ ..