The other driver's insurance company adjuster called and told me the other driver's insurance company has assumed liability for the collision and the adjuster asked that the repair shop send her an estimate. I called the insurance company adjuster back asking where/how this estimate should be sent and the claims adjuster said she had sent (faxed I guess) the info on how to submit the estimate to the body shop I gave her.
I am exploring leaving the car at the dealer and having the car repaired by removing the rear bumper cover and either having it repainted or replaced with a factory new cover that also would require painting. Some time ago I spotted (and in fact snapped pics) of a Turbo similar to mine in the service bay that had been rear-ended and when I talked to the tech he told me the owner insisted the car be left at the dealer and the repairs other than the actual painting/finishing of the replacement body panels (just the rear bumper cover) be done at the dealer so I know this is not something unheard of.
Next, it doesn't give me the warm fuzzies that I hear second hand the body shop believes it has to paint/touch up the adjacent panels to "match" the color.
My info is -- based on the repairs done in Feb. 2009 (new factory front and rear bumper covers) -- that lapis blue is an easy color to match. The body shop owner -- who did the repairs from the incident in Feb of 2009 -- told me that after years there might be a slight difference between the bumper covers and the rest of the body -- partially due to the difference in cover and body materials (plastic vs. metal) but it would not really be noticeable.
So far it has not been noticeable at all for I have not had one person spot the bumper covers are not original so even if I do not trust my eyes that no one else has made that observation tells me the body panels/bumper covers match color/tint just fine.
OTOH, I have had a couple of sharp eyed persons -- with no prompting on my part -- spot the Turbo has had body/paint work from the fact the replacement panels (front bumper cover, front trunk lid, and passenger side fender) were painted by the body shop and adjacent panels were partially resprayed to make the arctic silver paint match. The tell tale is the repainted panels do not have the factory orange peel finish...
Also, I do not relish the thought of the car being shuttled -- read driven -- back and forth from the body shop in Pleasanton and the dealership in Livermore. After having my GTO mistreated several times while in the hands of the GM or Pontiac dealer while I trust the Porsche dealer to not mistreat the car I'm concerned about the body shop letting just anyone drive the car. Generally this shuttling of cars is a task delegated to the least senior and probably the least responsible person in the shop as the other persons in the shop, there time, is too valuable to have them sitting in a car for some time shuttling it the car back and forth.
My concern is if the clutch should be abused and begins to slip or the engine is abused (money shifted?) and blows up it will assumed the failure occurred due to age and miles and not because of any mistreatment. I could end up with a car fixed but undrivable due to a slipping clutch or worse.
I guess I could deliver the car to the body shop and then when it was finished bring it back to the dealer for final inspection. We'll see...
God I hate dealing with accidents! A pox, make that two poxes, on the dumb-assed drivers that cause them!