2006 Audi S6 – Engine Undressed, Oil Mess Fixed
In the community of European car lovers, who doesn’t love an S6? It’s tastefully understated from outside, tastefully luxurious on the inside, and tastefully overpowered on the road.
2002 Porsche 911 – Messy Stuff Found
This car was recently acquired by our customer. Minor oil and coolant leaks were found. As we got deeper into it, there were surprises. Not sweet surprises, like realizing you’re in love with your childhood best friend.
2004 Mercedes Benz E55 AMG – Valve Stem Seals Blown Out, Spectacular Smoke Show Guaranteed
This car is a beautiful, luxurious beast. Its owner loves to drive it fast. The valve stem seals were a good 1 to 2 mm off the stems, producing an incredible quantity of smoke out of the tail pipes.
2015 Porsche Macan S – Eek! A Mouse!
An enterprising creature made a home on this otherwise pristine Macan. Easy enough to clean, disinfect and repair, fortunately. The squatter has since fled the premises and did not get to out-of-the-way wires during their construction
Porsche 914 / 6 – Resurrection
This old girl has not been run for years. Adam put the engine in a few months back, but has not had a chance to deal with the ignition until this week. We’re expecting some problems.
1973 Porsche 911 2.4 Engine Adjustments
Interesting stuff if you’re into this kind of thing. It’s not that uncommon to find that someone has tinkered with an air-cooled engine without being aware of some unusual and subtle requirements. That being the case, you never know what you’re going to find when you go in for a simple valve adjustment, as in this instance.
2013 Audi A8L – 3.5 Quarts of Fuel in the Engine Oil – Sacre Bleu!
A few months after getting an oil change, this customer started seeing a “oil level too high” message.
2012 Mercedes Benz C250 – Engine Top-End Rebuild
The engine in this car was originally designed for the C-Coupe from the early 2000s. That was a port-injected, naturally aspirated affair. Now they’ve bolted on a vacuum pump to one cam, a high pressure fuel pump to the other cam, beefed up the timing chain to more than twice its original strength, and put a turbo on it.
1989 Porsche 911 C4 964 – Valve Adjustment after Engine Rebuild
Adam (pictured above) rebuilt this engine 500 miles ago, and now it’s back for a valve adjustment.
Sprinter Repair – Behold! $5,000 in special tools!
What do you do when you’re removing a glow plug in your Sprinter and the darn thing breaks off because it’s seized in the cylinder head? This happens as often as it doesn’t.
