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    I am a moron!

    Today is the first time ever that I felt my heart drop for my car. While doing a good deed for a fellow Porsche friend I some how managed to back out of his hell hole of a parking spot and hit the one flower pot I did not see!#$@! In turn this put deep gouges into the drivers side front bumper near the wheel well of my car. The three people standing off to the side watching me back up didn't manage to say anything as they watched me near this object Of course they were able to say something after it was too late...

    I can't blame anyone except myself for such a stupid thing so life goes on. Now my only question/concern is how will this be repaired? Since it's only the bumper (plastic) section and damage is limited to an area about 10" long by 9" wide and deep enough that it can't be just sanded out, what should I expect to hear from my dealer when I finally am able to bring it down there? What kind of costs would I now be looking at? Paint work for sure but new bumper or just surface repair? I don't know I guess I just ask these questions because I'm pretty down right now even though it's a minor thing to me it's a BIG thing to my baby

    Thanks for listening guys.

    Re: I am a moron!

    I feel so sorry for you, Harry - your baby looked so great with the Atlas paint shining under the Ring-sun last Sunday
    I've no clue regarding the appropriate fix and related Euro Euro ,
    but as it sounds like cosmetic damage only, the car will be like new in no time
    Are you covered by your insurance ?
    Flower pots and other invisible obstacles should be forbidden by law These things happen to most of us now and then - at least I've experienced it myself already, though thank God not in the P-car Those PDC sensors don't add to the beauty of the car, but sometimes they help to keep relaxed when doing weird parking manoeuvers in the city.

    I just recall what you said last Sunday: the most dangerous part of the Ring is the chaotic parking place in front of NS-entrance. There might be some truth to it

    Get yourself some cold Bitburger and cheer up, mate

    Re: I am a moron!

    Sorry to hear about your misfortune..

    Repair may require replacing the bumper skin...

    I had to have mine replaced on my first boxter after some one backed into it.

    Re: I am a moron!

    Someone backed into mine too. I guess Porsches are invisible objects too sometimes! Too low down?

    I scuffed the very corner of my front bumper not long after I got it, due to a misjudgement. Very easy to do! Don't beat yourself up about it. We are all stupid sometimes!

    At least it won't rust.

    It is a wound that probably something that 3m paint film application like Dreamcar has had would have prevented?

     
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