Reviewed : 11/01/2025
Comment : October 6th, 2025 — I crashed my first Porsche.
It was a 2021 Macan GTS. To me, it made the perfect one-car garage. I cherished it like my own child — but things happen, and the unexpected hit me hard.
It didn’t take me long to decide to bring my car to Kilkeary’s.. After all, it’s the only Porsche-certified collision center in the area. And they truly deserve that certification — not only for their technical excellence, but also for their unparalleled service. In short, they made me feel so well taken care of that I almost feel glad I crashed my car.
When the tow yard stalled on sending my car to their shop, Kilkeary’s offered their own towing service to pick it up and keep the insurance claim moving. While my insurance gave me a bunch of aftermarket parts on their estimate, Kilkeary’s used only OEM parts and wouldn’t take “no” for an answer. In the meantime, I just stayed home and minded my own business — hassle free, literally.
But that wasn’t the best part.?The true cherry on top — a giant, sweet, juicy cherry — dropped when I realized, on Halloween Friday night, that I’d left an important prototype I needed to demo over the weekend inside my car.
8:00 pm, I rushed into a Zipcar and drove from downtown Pittsburgh to Kilkeary’s.
8:35 pm, I arrived at the shop, only to find the garage gate locked and surrounded by security cameras.
8:40 pm, with nothing to lose but hope, I called Kilkeary’s number, and they answered so fast I thought it was an auto reply.
8:50 pm, I received a callback from Mr. Tim Kilkeary himself, who said he’d be there in 15 min.
9:05 pm, he arrived.
I don’t have a religion, but at that moment, I believed that Jesus drives a pickup truck.
Yes, Mr. Tim Kilkeary arrived in a stylish pickup with a line of yellow lights on top that gave him a halo. He wore a pair of glasses, cultured like the first page of a piece by Virginia Woolf; his handshake firm, like the stone that holds King Arthur’s sword; his smile reassuring, like a PDK gearbox at the face of a launch control.
As a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon, I wish Mr. Kilkeary were the professor of all my courses. As a 24-year-old novice grown-up, I wish to be adopted.
And I wish I could rate more than five stars.
Thank you, Kilkeary and Kilkeary’s!