Anyone else ever hit a mailbox?

Ouch... Sorry to see that, how is your rim/tire?

 

That suck, at least your ok and no one else got hurt.

 

Sorry dude

That must of hurt, hope she is an easy fix

 

You should keep the mailbox as a trophy!!! ;o) Scott

 

Ouch!!!

 

I had a door grill with syder cracks, etc, and the body shop Ferrari of Washington had do the work just glossed over it, could not belive a shop like FOW did that, so I had to send it off to Valence USA, the carbon fiber folks, and it appears to still be good, even with race set up, and street driven.

 

The tires must have been inferior! (Could not possibly have been driver error)

 

What is the grill and rocker made up of? Can't it be fixed?

 

Jazeeeus! I don't know much about fiberglass repair, but that is indeed a hard hit -- and in a complex section of the strake design. These things are ungodly heavy (maybe 40# per strake?). If you're not interested in originality, you could perhaps fit F355 scoops. I'd call some of the recyclers -- especially the ones in England before attempting to buy a new strake. You think the strake is expensive? Painting it ain't no easy 'ting.

 

Sorry to see this mate. Hope you are ok and didnt get hurt.

That, although looks very nasty can be repaired by a good fibreglass repair shop if you ask me.

I have some friends here that work with fibreglass and its amazing some of the repairs I have seen them do on front bumpers off all the Jap cars we have here. I have also seen them fabricate some cool **** in fibreglass too.

I would ask around or look for the best fibreglassing shop in town and take it to them for a look. I am sure they will have a go at it. You have nothing to lose anyways. Its ****ed, if they **** it trying to repair it, then you will just have to get another one.

But I am sure they should have a win with it.

 

I don't know the circumstances of what happened but this is why I think that everyone should invest in racing school/high speed driving lessons.

I'm glad to hear that you are okay though.

 

Wow, I hate to think what my 348 would look like if I ran into MY mailbox, which would involve driving through the wall of the Post Office.

 

RebelBanker - terribly sorry to read of your woes and wish your 348 as speedy a recovery as possible.

In answer to your query; "Anyone else ever hit a mailbox?"

Why, yes... yes, I have...

In this time of mourning, you could use a chuckle - Post #10
http://ferrarichat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3850

 

LOL!

I also hope the OP is ok and no one was hurt. Is the owner of the car aware of what has happened? Only asking because I remember this being a shared car? I could be confused though.......

I also agree, that fibreglass should be able to be repaired by a good shop, try a boat builder, my brother in law is a boat builder and would love to play around with a job like this after hours, if I supplied the rum, he would supply the skills, more of one = less of the other

 

Any reputable fiberglass repair shop can fix the damage

 

Hey...I did not sign a release for you to use the story of my life like that. You WILL be hearing from my attourney. You know ...the judges nephew. He's my attourney now.

 

Dudes, I already told you, Valence....see the email below. They can properly fix anything although that is far more severe than mine. Heck, as heavy as these are, you would think maybe someone would make these from carbon fiber.

Valence USA to me
show details 7/13/07 Reply


In the course of the repair process, I found that the door appeared to have been repaired at least twice. There was evidence of a rather deep repair that was made with carbon fiber and I presume polyester resin at the bottom rear edge of the door. That repair had partially separated from the rest of the door. That repair seemed old. The most recent repair appeared to have been made with body filler and primer, which I do not consider to be a structural repair. When we sanded off the paint, we exposed cracks which were either filled, but not ground out and glued, or in the case of the lower rear edge, not even entirely filled.

In the area around the rear of the strakes, there were cracks through the paint that did not appear to have been repaired at all. I can’t say whether or not they were they were there prior to the most recent paint job. We ground the rather deep cracks out entirely and filled the resulting valleys with epoxy adhesive.

The larger cracks and de-laminations of the old repairs on the front of the part were ground away, and we repaired these areas with 4-6 layers of fiberglass and carbon fiber with epoxy resin. These were then faired smooth.

The repairs we made were structural, and I assume there will be light fairing and priming work needed as part of the re-painting process.

I can’t say for sure what the body shop did or did not do, but if the job was to fix cracks in the rear of the panel, I’d say that the cracks were not fixed, but rather simply filled and painted over, which would likely result in re-cracking through the paint. Fillers make poor adhesives, and flexing and/or temperature changes can make the separate from the substrate.

Chris Coffing
Valence USA
434-977-7951
www.valenceusa.com

The above email has all the contact info you need if you want to consider them, and the picture below is the way I got it from the turds, even after going over this time and time again, and that did not count the cracking on the fins not in the picture. Imagein, a new paint job and not repairing this. Unfortunately, I found this to be typical of the entire process and FOW. Finally Valence repaired it, and the shop painted it.
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So sorry to see that but glad you're ok. Yes, it is repairable. A good body shop that does a lot of glass work should see that as no problem. You're quite lucky it was only a mail box and not some kid on a bike. I'm sure you've thought of all the would of could ofs by now, so I 'll I'll leave it there. Keep us posted and be careful.

 

YES ! ALL the parts can be fix by a shop that deals with fiber glass. I had both of my rockers fixed by a buddy who has been working with fiberglass for over 15 years. The glass work should cost you a few hundred dollars. I had to have the entire bottom part of the front bumper (the part that slides under the trunk area) completely refabricated on my car, and the rockers where beat up pretty good. Left it with my buddy for a week and it better than new. I even had the egg shell bottom on the front bumper reinforced. Now it's SOLID. So don't worry too much, just take it to a good fiberglass shop and have them fixed.

Word of advice. Don't tell them that it's for a ferrari when getting quotes. Find out what they charge to fix a Vette bumper, or quarter panel first. Then take the parts over and have them look at them. That way you don't get nailed with the "Ferrari tax", until after you have the REAL price of what they would charge to fix a Vette bumper. Capiche?

 

WOW. sorry to see that happen.

I am surprised no said, "eh, that'll buff right out."