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Porsche 944 Sills

Porsche for the full sills. If it's just a repair then cheaper to get it fabricated if the bodyshop is any good.

 
Cheers both. Porsche are looking £300 for one outer sill. They offered a discounted price of £879 for both inner and outer sills and the rear quarter panels, but with quotes from fabricators around the 2k mark it's an expensive outlay. Considered the classic car parts panels but turnaround time is 3-4 weeks. Otherwise the sills are like hens teeth!

 
Personally I think there are two ways to do this: fit all new factory panels (£879 seems a bargain by the way if it includes both rear quarter panels and inner and outer sills), or have a skilled panel beater make up repair sections as required. Either way if the rot is extensive it will be very expensive to do properly because of the amount of labour involved. What state is your car in? It's hard to assess the damage before starting, for my car it would have been a complete waste to get inner sills because the originals were in a good state and only needed a small repair.

 
I am interested to know what the current state is and where do people draw the line between cutting a small section or buying new sills etc?

Also after said job is completed who people recommend underseal? Is there preferred products - spray vs a paint? (for the underside obviously!)

 
Briansporsche944 said:
Cheers both. Porsche are looking £300 for one outer sill. They offered a discounted price of £879 for both inner and outer sills and the rear quarter panels, but with quotes from fabricators around the 2k mark it's an expensive outlay. Considered the classic car parts panels but turnaround time is 3-4 weeks. Otherwise the sills are like hens teeth!
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Is this definitely correct? The Porsche sill is the full box section and was well under £200 per side before Club discount a couple of years ago. There is also an inner section sold separately, it's all shown on PET. Sounds incredibly cheap for the rear quarters though. [:)]

 
Briansporsche944 said:
Yep , definately correct on the outer sill. Doubled checked with Porsche and coming in at 292 + vat
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Looking at PET, there are two sections: the sill, and the side member. Plus the inner (called side member centre). Rose Passion sell the side member for 255 euro, and the sill section for 415 euro. Design 911 are over £300 for the sill section as well. Promax sell the sill sections for c. £190 each inc. vat. 1/2 the price of Rose Passion and the correct part number, so I'm confused! I'd speak to Glenn at PC Leicester. He knows the cars better than most dealers and should be able to clarify. Worth a call to Promax as well as they do know their stuff.

 
Visited the Promax site and they were out of stock. Ordered up the sill form classic car parts and panels. Inner backing plate is not too bad and rear quarter is still good. Quoted £700 for outer sill refit and inner sill restoration by a local fabricator. That includes work to the floor pan around that jack mount.

 
I've read that if you're patching an outer sill that not too bad the Ford Ka sill does a great job at around £25..

 
scam75 said:
No the cab sills are different.
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Are the outer panels not the same? The inner sill is different, but I'd imagine a simple outer skin would fit both as they look the same from the outside. [8|]

 
pauljmcnulty said:
scam75 said:
No the cab sills are different.
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Are the outer panels not the same? The inner sill is different, but I'd imagine a simple outer skin would fit both as they look the same from the outside. [8|]
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They look like they are to me too. I've mailed the company to make sure.

 
Just had a mail back from Laura from the company, and the sills (outer repair panels listed above) fit the early (s1) late (s2) and cabriolet.

 
thanks all , the aftermarket sills at

https://www.classiccarpartsandpanels.co.uk/shop/porsche-944-sill/

fitted like a dream. Just got the car back today and delighted with the repair.

Got the sill fitted with a bit of extra rot on the floorpan around the jackmount and front wing fixed, sealed and stonechipped for 600 pounds by http://www.cosmeticcarrepair.ie/ in Belfast N.Ireland. For an extra 100 pounds they fitted 2 rear shocks and a window actuator I'd had on the shelf for a while

 
So much for Porsche being out there and championing the "Porsche Classic" thing to sell more cars yet the owners who run the classics keep getting screwed with the price they are charging for parts, I have owned a 944 of some flavour for 20 years now and purchased many parts near enough al the parts prices have doubled or trebled over the years from OPC, about time Porsche started helping out the classic owners with spares prices methinks.

 
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