Something similar... - The Porsche 928 Forum

Mid last year, I was cruising up a city street at around 55kmh and saw a car getting ready to pull onto the road from my side, out of a residential driveway.

Just as I approached the driveway, the fool let out his clutch and started rolling forwards, and accelerating.

I swerved to the right (RHD car!) to avoid him, watched an oncoming car in the other lane fail to see what I was doing, so swerved left again to avoid the head-on.

As I reached the driveway, his front bumper collided with the left rear panel behind the door, across the rear wheel, and the rear bumper. The bang was a loud one, and the rear of the car stepped over maybe 6 inches. I pulled over straight away, expecting to see the left rear portion of my car essentially gone.

However, the only damage to my car was a 4-inch crease ahead of and behind the rear left wheel, and a really nasty deep gouge taken out of the dish of the mag wheel. (I had just had the CVs and wheel bearings replaced, so this got a bit mad!)

His car was a different story. It was a Ford "Telstar" a crappy 4-door sedan with a 2-litre engine. Here's what happened to his car: destroyed left front headlight unit, ripped off the bumper bar completely. Crumpled his left front panel. More importantly, it had shifted the whole front of the car about 15mm to the left. From the front of the car, looking down the side, you could see that the chassis had been twisted by the impact.

So, I wrote off his car, and drove away with cosmetic damage only to my car. The following day I had them remove the wheel, check all the suspension mounts and parts, and had them run it over to the only wheel alignment place that's qualified to do the 928... His report was that the car was perfect.

So, a small paint job and the rear wheel spent 3 days at a mag-wheel restoration shop, and the thing is as good as new.

Moral of the story: Don't underestimate how tough a 928 is - I think you'll get it repaired easily!

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