OT: Parking Lot Accident, 911 Hit by Errant RC Truck Options

[Spoke]

Nice day, I take the 911 to work. I get a call about noon to report to my car in the parking lot.

One of our techs was tuning his RC truck at lunch in the parking lot and on a full throttle run, he hit a curb and cartwheeled about 50 feet into the drivers door of my 911. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif)

Put a pretty good dent in the door. The scratch and dent are about 3 inches long about 6 inches from the bottom of the door just below the mirror. Sorry no pics.

Question: do I ask this dude to pay for full damages? An estimate of the damage for minor dent and full door panel paint was about $400-$500. He mentioned that he doesn't have much free money since he just bought a house. I hate to saddle this guy with the bill but he did cause the damage. Any thoughts on what I should do?

Oh, why couldn't I have taken the A4 to work today? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif)

[wayne1234]

Yes try a quality Paintless dent guy, Our New SLK350 somehow got a ding even though we park in no where land, it was near the edge of the door behind the reinforcement beam, While at the Benz dealer I asked because they had a sign about the service, the guy sweared it would be perfect when he was done. I told him I was anal, he said no problem. He said if it wasn't Absolutely Perfect no charge!! Much to my surprise it is Perfect, they even did a paint touch up due to a slight Paint Mar, from the ding, and it is also Perfect. They even removed the inner door panel to touch up paint inside the door from "rubbing out the dent" so there wasn't any metal scratches that could rust later. I was very impressed. He Also touched up several rock chips on the front bumper, Which I didn't even ask him to do, They too are Flawless. He said our car was so near showroom condition it bugged him to see it with a few stray chips,The cost was $175 ... I'm sure your Porsche dealer uses somebody ask them . Or try another high end dealer near by. Talk to them before you hand over the keys, When the ding first happened I talked to a phone book dent guy, took it to his shop he slid a tool down the door, and he was the one that informed me that it was behind a bar and would never come out right, and advised me to either live with it or go to a body shop, So in this case a second opinion was well worth it (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)