How To Choose The Best Porsche Repair Shop Near You

No matter what you drive, Porsche or not, you should always look for The ASE Certified badge. For A repair shop to earn an ASE Certified badge, they must comply with ASE-standards that have been set in place to protect consumers. The most important of these is that all technicians be registered with the ASE, which guarantees that they have completed the correct training and experience to complete the repair on your vehicle.

While you should always do your own research and choose a shop you’re confident will, a trick to help you build a shortlist of the shops you should be interested in is to get in touch with your local Porsche owners club, such as the Gold Coast Region of the Porsche Club of America and take note of who the members recommend.

Porsche owners, especially the vintage air-cooled 911 guys, are truly enthusiastic about their cars and would rather wrench on their cars themselves or ship the car across the country than take it to a shoddy repair shop, so when these guys recommend a place, you know it’s the real deal.

While a repair shop won’t have every single part for every single model on hand, a good measure to judge a repair shop on is by what parts they keep in stock, and how readily they can get out-of-stock parts. Not having stock or having long wait periods after ordering stock often leads to situations where your Porsche is waiting, partially dismantled, which is not only inconvenient to you, but can lead to parts going missing or being misplaced.

A Porsche repair shop that exclusively stocks off-brand replacement parts, or is often out of stock commonly replaced parts, like oil filters, is one you’d want to stay clear of. Rather look for a shop that stocks either Genuine Porsche parts, or parts from OEMs like Bosch, Brembo, and Mahle.

Some auto repair shops want people to see the investment they have put into their location and will have a window that allows customers to see what’s going on the shop floor from the safety of the reception area. You want to trust your Porsche in the hands of a shop that takes great pride in their workspaces. A shop that has invested in modern equipment, all the right tools, and manages to keep the workspaces as clean and tidy as can reasonably be expected, says a lot about the pride they take in their work and shows they’re serious about you, and your Porsche.

Modern Porsches are technological marvels but require specialized tools and hardware to properly diagnose and repair. OBD scanners, diagnostic computers, multimeters and test benches are all the types of equipment you should expect to see at a trustworthy Porsche repair center.

This recommendation always sounds counter-intuitive when we first mention it to people, but hear us out. We’re using the shop’s current customer base to determine if they are worth taking your Porsche to. We naturally want to work with people we trust. The more someone trusts a shop, the more likely they are to reuse them time and time again. A relationship that started with a customer needing a Porsche specialist, that has grown into a relationship where the customer trusts that shop with other vehicles speaks a lot about the character of the people running it.

If all else fails, turn to the time-trusted Better Business Bureau. The BBB is a non-profit organization that helps consumers weed out the good, trustworthy companies from those they’d rather avoid. A business with a clean BBB report is an extra measure to ensure you are trusting your Porsche with someone who is going to look after you and your car.