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.
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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.
2003 Dodge Sprinter – Shattered Flex Plate
Here’s something you really don’t see every day. A fragment of steel from the flex plate flew off while the engine was running, and tore into the crankshaft position sensor.
2013 Porsche Boxster S Anthracite Brown Beauty
Just in for scheduled maintenance, there’s nothing wrong with this car, in any way, shape or form. New Pirellis will be installed before she leaves our shop.
I love this Anthracite Brown. Not to be a hater, but Porsche’s Cognac Brown is a bit much, like blackstrap molasses when you could have used Vermont maple syrup.
Audi CAEB 2.0T Cylinder Head Rebuild
A tired-ish engine with over 100,000 miles can be rejuvenated to rise again for another 100k run.
There was nothing physically wrong with this head, but a few valves would not seal adequately due to the carbon buildup that is inevitable with direct-injection gas engines.
1999 Mercedes Benz ML430 “Leaping Engine”
If you’re getting the occasional engine misfire and no one can figure it out, maybe it’s your engine mounts.
2011 Porsche Panamera Catastrophic Engine Damage
This Panamera with a 3.6 Liter V6 engine has an oil pressure warning. The first step in wading into these waters is looking at the quantity and quality of engine oil, and to cut open the oil filter to see what may be found.
