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
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
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
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. Read More