ben in lj

apparently porsche shut down the assembly line for 6 hours to fix it. total repair cost was appx $125k, and it looks like porsche knocked it out in no time - much to my surprise.

Jack Ennuste

Assembly line in Leipzig????

ben in lj

yep, it was shipped back for repair.

Viken

Yeah, where they make the Cayenne. LOL!

Seriously, I doubt that they even needed to stop any assembly line for a repair. They have plenty room to do such things without interrupting daily production. Besides, what's an assembly line going to do to help with such a repair? Anyway, I hate rumors like this.

ben in lj

So you've been to the factory in Leipzig since CGT production began? All the tools and parts necessary to put these things together are in a single area - the production line. It would seem to me after seeing it, this is by far the fastest, most productive, and quality conscious way to have done the repair.

Sean

It doesn't seem too far fetched, given that it's a carbon fiber Carrera GT we're talking about, and they only make a couple a day, anyway.

I've heard that the reason small accidents will be so expensive with the CGT is the carbon fiber. Perhaps it's the sort of thing that can only be fixed properly at the factory? (I don't think I'd take my CGT to Earl Scheib. )

Island Boy

I would be so nervous driving that thing the second time around.

Jessa

If I could afford to buy a new one in first place, the fear of repair costs wouldn't be an issue.

RogerJ

It is a little far fetched that they would put it on the assembly line to do repairs. Yes, there are parts there but they are earmarked for other cars. The parts on a modern assembly line are all indexed to meet the right chassis at the right point. This way your Lapis blue body gets Lapis blue doors and the Meridain blue interior you ordered. A line is designed to install parts not remove and repair them.

jcnesq

Have you seen pictures of the "assembly line"? I have, and it looks less like an assembly line than an assembly area. Having allocated whatever parts they needed in advance, it makes complete sense to me that they would do this repair on the "assembly line". They did, after all (if the rumour is true) charge $125,000 for this.

Sean

Yeah, the "assembly line" cranks out a whopping two cars per day (or something like that). Not like it's a high volume operation.

AeroGT3RedWing

the reason it has to go abck to an assembly line, is ebcuase its a carbon fibre car. carbon fibre is a cloth that is epoxied under high temperatures and pressures in a vacuum. ihave a bit of manufacturing experience with carbon fibre and i know that once its broken, the entire piece is done. you dont fix it or epoxy the halvesbacktogether becuase you can't reweave the threads since they have already been solodified. if the monocoque or chassis were AT ALL dadmaged, they need to be TOTALLY replaced. that means the car has to be stripped down to bare chassis. you don't do something like that at a porsche dealer or rudolph's body shop. a new monocoque or chassis can only be made and installed in liepzig. the. end.

Meeyatch1

I would like to know more about this car....are there other threads with more details of the accident, or some pictures?

long_beach_968

Just so you know. if there was any damage to the carbon fiber, the work would have to be done in italy. The entire carbon fiber pan is made in italy, at the same place the enzo pan was made

AeroGT3RedWing

made in italy, shipped to germany, assembled in leipzig