Somebody reversed his car against the front bumper of my 996 and hit it with a towing hook yesterday on a parking lot. The bumper needs to be removed and painted. I just got back from an auto body shop and the painter asked if I had an "explosion picture" of the front of the car to help him remove the bumper. I dont, but maybe someone here has one?

 

There's an excellent description of front bumper removal, with link to a video, on Renntech's superb website: http://www.renntech.org/forums/index...-front-bumper/

If this helps, please join and contribute...it is a treasure trove of information.

 

the body shop should know how to remove the bumper. if not, you may want to go else where. i have seen many poor repairs that result in flaking paint and mismatch color.

 

It's a very simple process with a screwdriver and following the link above it'll be a piece of cake. Why not remove the bumber yourself and take it to be resprayed your body color. I would agree that a 'body shop' that has to ask for removal directions may be questionable and would consider shopping around.

 

Here's the blowup. But the bumper comes off with just a few screws. It's pretty simple.



Here's the how to.


http://www.skylersrants.com/Porsche/.../Radiator.html

 

Thank you very much for help.

Things are different up here in a sparselly populated country with an extremely high tax on automotives. I live in a town of 60.000 people and there is only one 996 porsche that I know in addition to mine in the town. Very few porsches for car painters here too. The body shop I chose is a joint venture of a group of dealerships in town (Mercedes, BMW, Toyota). I know they do good work.

Anyways, I will print the instructions and hand them to the body shop when I take my car in. Being able to locate the screws and mounts easily will probably bring down the labor cost.

By the way, a 1999 model 996 porsche with 55 tmiles cost about 45.000 euros (62.000 USD, 39.000 GBP) at the moment here. A new standard 997 carrera with no options streamlines the buyers wallet for 140.000 euros.

 

Here's a nice step by step illustrated version for dummies like me.

http://p-car.com/996/diy/aerokit/