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Old 05-24-2021, 06:33 AM   #1
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Had an accident and looking for advice on what's broken

My 20yr old baby (986S) that was in near perfect condition has a mishap and looking for advice.
Nothing happened to the paint/body, but it jumped sideways up the curb with only one wheel that didn't do up the curb.

Had it carefully towed home and called the insurance company. I know the repairs are very expensive and trying to figure out what to do. The left rear is where pretty much all the damage is. The hub carrier, track arm, suspension sub frame cross member, axle and other items broke. The manual transmission leaked a bunch of fluid. I can see where it leaked from the inner axle or whatever it's called ripped out of the transmission so the transmission will have to come out too and opened up and repaired or a used one put in.

From the few places I talked to no one really wants to mess with it. The Porsche dealer said they don't really repair anything and only put in new parts and the transmission alone is 15k. Another shop said from the photos it looks pretty extensive and I should just take the insurance money and let them salvage out the car.
Another one said the only way to repair it under the cars value is to do it myself and they suggested buying a whole subframe from a Porsche dismantling company in LA.

Just looking for advice on what I should do. The insurance company is sending an adjuster over and I'm guessing with aftermarket and used parts they're going to say it's probably 10-15k in repairs which is what the car is worth so probably wouldn't qualify to get repaired.

The car was in perfect condition and looked and ran like a show car and needed nothing, It had a brand new top, all new wheel bearings, track arms, sway bar links, rotors/pads, new clutch, IMS, and a bunch of other stuff done. The car was maintained at the dealer almost it's whole life and the prior owner spent over 20k from the dealer. It's my baby and would hate to see it get salvaged.
Just looking for advice.

Also don't know why the photos are so large, I've resized them and they are still huge. And trying to upload more and keeps saying failed.
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