A self-described perfectionist who paid out of his own pocket to have his Porsche fully repainted after an accident — because he wasn't happy with the ICBC-approved repairs — has lost his civil claim to recover the costs of his self-funded fixes.

ICBC had already determined that Porsche driver Bruce Jackson was fully at fault after his Porsche was hit by a semi-trailer while merging onto Highway 1 in Coquitlam in 2013, according to a recent B.C. Provincial Court judgment.

In his civil claim, Jackson alleged it was the truck driver, Edward Davies, who was actually responsible for the accident — and wanted to be awarded damages that would cover the cost of his repairs.

Perfectionist repaints Porsche

According to the judgment, Jackson said that he was "unsatisfied" with the body and structural repairs that were approved by ICBC, including the respraying of the rear-end parts of his 1983 Porsche 911 SC.

Jackson chose to spend his own money to have the Porsche completely resprayed in its entirety — "noting that the paint's appearance was not exactly the same in all areas" — and was seeking to recover that additional expense as damages in his claim.

However in his Dec. 5 decision, Judge Thomas Woods wrote that Jackson could not recover those costs, because the Porsche owner had already signed a document to say that his car had been 'repaired satisfactorily."

He also added that because there were paint chips and scratches on Jackson's luxury car before the accident, awarding damages to cover the cost of the respray "would over-compensate" him for the damage caused by the accident.

Judge Woods said that Jackson "candidly described himself as a perfectionist.

"Indeed, he went so far as to admit that he had the Porsche wholly resprayed because he is a perfectionist," he wrote.

"Respraying the entire Porsche would have had the effect of providing to Mr. Jackson a vehicle, post-accident, that would have been free of those many pre-existing cosmetic problems and, thus, a good deal closer to perfect than it was before the accident."

Gesturing to merge?

Jackson's claim was also dismissed because of differing testimony on what happened in the seconds before Davies' semi-trailer struck the rear of Jackson's Porsche on Aug. 25, 2013.

According to the decision, the accident occurred when the driver of the Porsche tried to merge onto Highway 1 ahead of a semi-trailer. (Getty Images/iStockphoto)

Jackson, who was merging from the Brunette Avenue on-ramp, claimed that he made eye-contact with and waved at Davies, who was travelling in the far-right lane and who gestured for him to enter the lane ahead of his truck.

According to the B.C. Provincial Court judgment, Davies denied seeing the Porsche at any time before the accident and denied waving or gesturing with Jackson.

Judge Woods wrote that, unlike Jackson, the truck driver's evidence was consistent throughout his testimony.

"Why would someone in Mr. Davies' position, having just signaled to Mr. Jackson that he could enter the lane in front of him, roll forward and collide with his Porsche?" Woods wrote.

"Mr. Davies' actions do make sense however if, as he testified, he made room for another vehicle that sought to enter the traffic, saw it do so and then began moving forward himself again without seeing Mr. Jackson's second, low-slung vehicle begin to enter his lane behind the first one."

By doing this, Judge Woods wrote, Jackson was "violating a well-known custom of merging in an alternating fashion."