Hi Guys, new here. Please help with new Porsche GT Silver Metallic repair options...

Dont sell it, just my opinion, but the damage is so minor; save your pictures for when you sell, and a buyer won't care.
I've spent the last six months looking for a new or year-old 911 t convert. It's hard to find, as you know, and a year-old one will just about cost what a new one does or even more.
Just my 2 cents worth.
 
got that right! if you can find a new one or one barely used a year old they can cost more because you dont have to wait the year + to spec a new one and have it built. at the time i ended up biting the bullet and paying that tax otherwise porsche was out at least a year and a half on the turbo s. the dealer couldn't even tell me how long to get an allocation. in the end i worked the place down to about 15k over sticker. sux but not terrible
 
Forest88 said:
Hi guys, verified. No VIN, no license plate, no insurance claim, nothing.
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Unfortunately, e-mails on unsecured server networks are more or a problem with who performs an analysis of what ever message content is sent and then sells your information. and you give them the right to do this for signing up for "free" e-mail. They don't need your VIN, license plate, insurance number or anything--just the text traffic about what you are doing and how much is being spent--it goes back to your internet service provider and your connection with them--they figure the rest out from there by who is the subscriber. Someone who doesn't need to know things gets sold this or supplied it--it is highly likely your insurance company will find out where a high value insured car has been if the software in the vehicle has a GPS tracker secretly embedded in it. Many garbage trucks have license plate readers now on them--since they go into most every street or commercial parking lot--that is one tracker that can sell information. Today--it is telephone only for me--no texts emails or website visits for anything I want keep private.
 
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D.A.T. said:
Unfortunately, e-mails on unsecured server networks are more or a problem with who performs an analysis of what ever message content is sent and then sells your information. and you give them the right to do this for signing up for "free" e-mail. They don't need your VIN, license plate, insurance number or anything--just the text traffic about what you are doing and how much is being spent--it goes back to your internet service provider and your connection with them--they figure the rest out from there by who is the subscriber. Someone who doesn't need to know things gets sold this or supplied it--it is highly likely your insurance company will find out where a high value insured car has been if the software in the vehicle has a GPS tracker secretly embedded in it. Many garbage trucks have license plate readers now on them--since they go into most every street or commercial parking lot--that is one tracker that can sell information. Today--it is telephone only for me--no texts emails or website visits for anything I want keep private.
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Agree with what you are saying but without a VIN or license plate number, it's going to be hard to pin it on his car. Carfax might have their suspicions but how could they identify his car? And if they tried that and were in error with someone it would open them up to a lawsuit.
 
A while back I was redoing a Plymouth prowler for a customer. The back latch was messed up so I thought I'd look on line for one. Accidently clicked on one for a voyager van. Couple days later that exact same ad for the voyager van latch showed up on wife's FB page. Told me all I needed to know about how our stuff gets sold. Ended up having to fix the original due to none available anywhere in the USA.

And I don't even have FB app on my phone.
 
Chris_Hamilton said:
Agree with what you are saying but without a VIN or license plate number, it's going to be hard to pin it on his car. Carfax might have their suspicions but how could they identify his car? And if they tried that and were in error with someone it would open them up to a lawsuit.
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in 2017, Congress gave internet service providers (ISP's) the right to monetize, sell, trade, or use (analyze content for commercial purposes) information sent over their networks for their financial benefit to them or a "third party" and in real time. And, that they are not liable for identification mistakes. All that's in the very, very fine print of any service agreement.

The Federal Trade Commission's Oct 2021 circular bulletin or whatever they call it warns about this. How would they identify his expensive car without a VIN or plate number--couldn't be easier--through DMV databases associated with the name of the payer of the internet service account or the address listed on the "auto-bill" credit card payment with that hook-up or people who live at that street address. Mention in a communication that you need any kind of service performed and it can get sold off and often does--depending on if some A.I. algorithm senses money can be spent somehow or it is of a certain value. My coworker last month got 9 text messages to his cell phone, 7 e-mails to his PC and 2 voice telephone calls all in about a 3 hour span from plumbing companies, emergency drain cleaners, etc....after he mentioned to his wife in a text that their shower drain was slow and he was going to call "Roto Rooter" and see how much a call -out would be to do that one and the other shower drain at their home.
 
D.A.T. said:
in 2017, Congress gave internet service providers (ISP's) the right to monetize, sell, trade, or use (analyze content for commercial purposes) information sent over their networks for their financial benefit to them or a "third party" and in real time. And, that they are not liable for identification mistakes. All that's in the very, very fine print of any service agreement.

The Federal Trade Commission's Oct 2021 circular bulletin or whatever they call it warns about this. How would they identify his expensive car without a VIN or plate number--couldn't be easier--through DMV databases associated with the name of the payer of the internet service account or the address listed on the "auto-bill" credit card payment with that hook-up or people who live at that street address. Mention in a communication that you need any kind of service performed and it can get sold off and often does--depending on if some A.I. algorithm senses money can be spent somehow or it is of a certain value. My coworker last month got 9 text messages to his cell phone, 7 e-mails to his PC and 2 voice telephone calls all in about a 3 hour span from plumbing companies, emergency drain cleaners, etc....after he mentioned to his wife in a text that their shower drain was slow and he was going to call "Roto Rooter" and see how much a call -out would be to do that one and the other shower drain at their home.
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Understand that but without solid proof, i.e. a VIN or at the absolute very least a plate number, it's just supposition and guesswork. CarFax would most certainly be liable for a mistake of that sort. And if they did it with many cars it could open them up to a devastating class action lawsuit that could put them out of business. Per what you said above, CarFax is not indemnified, only the ISP's. The third party's that purchase the info do not have indemnification.

There is just no way they can with any degree of certainty tag a car without a VIN or plate number. And in our litigious society today, they are not going to tag large amounts of cars on suspicion alone. It's just too risky. Lawyers would be chomping at the bit to organize a large scale class action on your supposition. What you stated would not be proof. Only suspicion. Legally they would have zero legs to stand on should info like that be added to a car's history and it turned out to be in error costing the owner thousands. Now imagine if that was widescale. If an owner did a google search "where to get my car serviced" and CarFax then flagged their car? So according to your theory any car that a person owns could get flagged as serviced or repaired because of a simple google search. No way. There is no upside for CarFax to do that. It's all downside. Like I said, if they did that it would make their reports so inaccurate as to make them irrelevant, and they would not stay in business long as a class action lawsuit if successful (and it would be) would likely put them out of business.
 
One should take carfax with a grain of salt as well. Of course you have to run one…and whatever it says affects the value of said vehicle. But it’s sometimes is very far from a truthful report. I’ve personally had salvage vehicles that for some reason never showed on carfax. Of course I still disclose everything when I sell but just very odd to me that something that large slips by. It’s not often but it’s happened a few times. On the other hand, a friend of mine had a dodge ram that the ball joint broke hitting a pothole and the wheel damaged the fender. No biggy…he had it repaired and back on the road in no time. Well later that year when he went to trade it in the dealer ran a carfax and it showed on that date that the vehicle was involved in a rollover collision lol. Try and tell someone that never happened all you did was hit a pothole lol.
 
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