Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Accident (Charles Perry)

[George (ygpz4re]

First - to John A - just saw your correction - sorry I didn't read further first.....

Second - Charles is spot on.  When I still owned the ex-Joe Martz/ex-Steve Cook 308, I got rear-ended by a pizza hut delivery kid.  I was later told that his insurance company was some fly-by-night "high risk" insurance company, not well known at all.  The car went to FoW and the adjuster saw it there.  FoW, to their great credit, had my car, along with several other similar cars, all on lifts in the shop when the adjuster showed up (and he had never even seen ONE Ferrari "in the flesh", never mind a whole shop full of them).  They pointed out exactly what Charles is stating - how the cars were essentially hand-built, and pointed out the differences between all the seemingly "same" cars.  In the end, that company ponied up exactly what FoW quoted as the cost to repair, and the repairs were completed with no out-of-pocket expense to me at all.

Again, FWIW, YMMV, yadda yadda.....

gp

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From: Charles Perry <charles [at] carolinasound.com>
To: Clarence Romero Jr. <clyderomerof4 [at] gmail.com>

When I had my TR issue, the best advice I got (which turned out to be important) was to get the car to a Ferrari certified or experienced shop, and then let the claims adjustor (whether it?s your company?s or State Farm?s) do their estimate in the presence of the repair center guys. That way they can go over anything that?s Ferrari-specific with them and they know parts and labor on an ACTUAL basis rather than a book-rate basis. For example, my TR quarter panel was the last one in the US at the time I needed it, but since series 1 TRs were still hand-built to some extent, the factory body parts were a ?guesstimate? at best. The repair center?s estimate had 100 hours in labor just to get that aluminum panel correctly fitted to my specific car. The book rate was 4 hours. The 575 won?t be nearly that bad, but you see my point.

Based on List recommendations, I used Karosserie in Pennsylvania and they were amazing. Their repairs were 100% first-rate (no one has ever been able to tell me which side of the car they worked on ? the repairs were that good), and their owner was invaluable as an expert witness when I had to sue MY OWN insurance company to get them to repair the car properly.   https://karosserie.com/

Good luck!

-- charles