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. Read More
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. Read More
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. Read More
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 Read More
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. Read More
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. Read More
A few months after getting an oil change, this customer started seeing a "oil level too high" message. Read More
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. Read More
Adam (pictured above) rebuilt this engine 500 miles ago, and now it's back for a valve adjustment. Read More
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. Read More