Porsche aluminium bonnet damage - saveable?

[sshenton1975]

Hi all

Porsche 997.1 - aluminium bonnet. Ive been an idiot - had car on trickle charge amd didnt re secure bonnet. Flew up on me at 20mph

Fortunately wings and roof are ok but corners of bonnet are damaged

Spoke to a bodyshop ive used before - they havent seen it yet but suggested that ally is very difficult to manipulate back to shape....

Views on this please?




Dont really want to go new bonnet - would like.to keep all original as whole car is mint

Repairable?

[Master Of Puppets]

Could have been much worse, be thankful it's only that, easily repairable but if you want it mint then it's going to need painted
by a good bodyshop.

[M138]

You might find a s/h one on something like eBay in the right colour especially if they’re the same as a Boxster of similar era.

[Dog Biscuit]

Easy enough to repair and repaint.

It will need repainting as any form of manipulation of the metail will likely cause the fractured paint to worsen/flake off

[DaveF-SkinnysAutos]

That’s an easy repair for a body shop. Aluminium is tougher to repair than steel, it doesn’t have the same ‘memory’ as steel, so doesn’t want to pop back into shape and tends to need careful heat to get it to move, but that’s an easy repair.
Your problem is that although the repair is easy, to get it back to a factory finish the entire bonnet would need to be resprayed, unless you could live with the fact that on close inspection the paintwork is cracked in that corner?