Month: February 2014

Fabspeed Porsche 996 turbo exhauast ready for install Factory Porsche 996 turbo exhuast New Fabspeed Porsche exhaust installed Original exhaust on the car DART auto is an authorized Fabspeed exhaust dealer.  Fabspeed makes quality exhuast and ECU enhancement products for Porsche, Audi and BMW.  We have used their products on several projects, they do nice…

Showing the new and damaged spring pads Worn out X5 spring pads This shows the spring rubbing on the control arm You can see the displaced old spring pad New spring pad installed in BMW X5 The spring pads on the BMW X5 vehicles eventually wear out.  These rubber pieces locate the spring and isolate…

Bent 1.8l valves Timing Gear Head back from the machine shop Almost ready to drive again This 03 Audi TT with 1.8l engine had a timing belt failure with 76k miles on the odometer.  We have seen this several times.  Although Audi recommends the timing belts be changed on these 1.8l engines anywhere between 80k…

Installed strut old leaking strut strut being removed New strut being replaced The new strut ready for install Our factory trained technicians using a spring compressor to take the spring from the old strut and put it on the new one This Porsche Boxster had leaking front struts at just over 100,000 miles.  We removed…

DART auto has its roots in Porsche racing.  Owner Dave Banazek left his work in commercial real estate to pursue his passion for cars and racing Porsches in particular.  While the business has evolved and we do a lot more work on cars that are used for day day commuter use, we still like to…

Resealed BMW X3 transmission pan Shuft Shaft Seal BMW X3 valve cover replacment replacing BMW x3 output shaft seal Filling transmission fluid with special tool This BMW X3 customer came in with several fluid leaks.  Our factory trained BMW technician gave her vehicle our free preventive maintenance and safety check.  We found and repaired several…

We normally stick to German cars, but sometimes we get sidetracked.  Most of our techs have other automotive experience and interests outside of German cars and we can get talked into working on other cars too.  In this case my neighbor had a 77 corvette with a bad engine.  He had picked up a rebuilt…

Parts laid out ready to assemble. Another happy customer 996 vs 997 intermediate shaft bearing. Not larger new bearing. We have now done several rebuilds on the 996 and 986 engines.  All of the engines we have rebuilt have had failed intermediate shaft bearings.  Some years ago we saw an early engine with the D…