[bmwhitman]

Can someone recommend some good mechanics to go to for my E90? I might have to repair engine gaskets. My oil guy tells me I have broken head gasket but I need a second opinion and some work done. Within GTA, downtown or mid town preferably.

[AP2]

Advanced Knowledge Automotive
RMP Motors

[bmwhitman]

Do you guys recommending taking it to a general Liscened master mechanic with limited BMW experience but good overall with other brands (mainly Japanese cars)?

[KCX_335xi]

Originally Posted by bmwhitman

Do you guys recommending taking it to a general Liscened master mechanic with limited BMW experience but good overall with other brands (mainly Japanese cars)?

no

RMP Motors is where you should go

[kkrriiss]

I have a guy that has tonnes of experience on German cars he has owned both Mercedes and numerous Porsches.............Only catch he's in pickering Brock road and Bayly street and he wont charge you for a second opinion.......

[Blackout335i]

have used these guys a bunch of times...

well priced..http://www.bimmex.ca/

[Hedges]

Speedstar is where its at!

[nitehawk]

Ivo @ Columbus Automotive in Mississauga

[farbmw]

Originally Posted by nitehawk

Ivo @ Columbus Automotive in Mississauga

+1

[bulldog_yyc]

Originally Posted by AP2

Advanced Knowledge Automotive
RMP Motors

both of these are very reliable choices

[Tzu]

Originally Posted by kkrriiss

I have a guy that has tonnes of experience on German cars he has owned both Mercedes and numerous Porsches.............Only catch he's in pickering Brock road and Bayly street and he wont charge you for a second opinion.......

Where?

edit: I guess I should ask "Who?" lol

[dzenno]

Originally Posted by nitehawk

Ivo @ Columbus Automotive in Mississauga

+100

[Kevin_russian]

A friend of mine has been a mechanic at buds BMW for 5-6 years now he runs a shop in Mississauga still works mainly on BMW and mercedess . Got all the originl bmw diagnostics tools and computers. Does all the work on my 2 BMW's and all of my friends.
Don't want to over advertise the guy too much , but he used to be the one that had dealt with most cars that nobody could fix in gta dealerships .
Give it a try
416-993-5592 Ivan
Located at Dixie rd and Courtney park dr. E

[MarkD]

Originally Posted by AP2

Advanced Knowledge Automotive
RMP Motors

Both are good. Trevor Hayes owns Advanced Knowledge Automotive and works on all 4 of my BMW's. In the past he was the shop foreman at a few BMW dealerships such as Open Road. Some other people i have sent to him have been very happy with the results. He has more recent dealer training that most other independant mechanics.

[4doorgsr]

Bimmersport
Stance Factory

[Darin911]

Originally Posted by AP2

Advanced Knowledge Automotive
RMP Motors

+1 for Advanced Knowledge Automotive. I take my car there all the time!!

[MarkD]

Originally Posted by 4doorgsr

Bimmersport
Stance Factory

Bimmersport <<--- I think you need to read a bit more...

[AP2]

Originally Posted by MarkD

Bimmersport <<--- I think you need to read a bit more...

I forecast a major shitstorm

[4doorgsr]

Originally Posted by MarkD

Bimmersport <<--- I think you need to read a bit more...

Ummmmm and why would i need to to that? I have been going to them for some time and I have never had any issues with them. I have always been treated like family, anything I needed it got done, great prices, great service, good people. Also I have read alot of what people have posted with regards to things that have happened to them over on max and I hate to say it but it seems like its always the same people that are bashing the shop. Lets say for example you went to them to get something done, you were unhappy with the work, or the price, or whatever the case may be, why would you go back for another visit? At the end of the day I will continue to go where i get great service, great prices, and get to deal with good people regardless of what you or any other person on Max or this site has to say.
I have never been treated poorly, I have always been made to feel like family when I bring my car there, regardless of what its for.

So maybe you and the other nut huggers just need to relax and get off Charlie's nutts for once.

[4doorgsr]

Also here is part of the convo from Max just incase you E90 poeple are not on that site.

Mark D
I want to know why I have e90 owners telling me that Jon says never to take your car to MarkD for tuning as he does not know what he is doing. And someone else made a post in that closed thread (and then removed it a minute later) saying why I am talking, he can say many horror stories about me. Well I haven't heard them yet, I wonder where those come from? And why would he remove that post after one minute?
By the way, "the tech who left" was not working there when Herb Wong's e30 550b32 swap was done. Maye Herb or craz azn will chime in on that one. On Tuesday May 24, we were at a track day at Mosport and it was still suffering from some troubles directly related to the install. It also only lasted only 1 day at Targa Newfoundland, I wonder why. And now it is running the same software that another s50b32 E30 swap owner
was told was the cause of his problems. (not the big hole just after his MAF)
I have refrained from posting here so this will probably be the only thing I have to say. Bimmersport can run their operation any way they like, just don't talk BS about others

Johnny@ Bimmersport
You want to know why? I don't have a problem with your tuning for the LAST time Mark. My experience with you was:
Out of 10 days of making appointments with you for OUR shop E36 M3 Turbo, you come to me 10days out of 10. In those 10days you came, 8 of them you FORGOT YOUR EQUIPMENT. On the day you tuned it the M3 ended up with a hole in the piston. Therefore, I said that to my customer's the same way you are PM'ing everyone on max about me...is that I did not feel comfortable selling your products due to your WORK ETHIC. If you cannot be punctual with me on our own shop cars, there is no way I am dealing with someone like that for my clients.
Now does that put an end to this childish game you are trying to start with me. I do not have the time for this. You have a dealer Oceanside in LA, that also sells for Active. What do you think they do? The same thing I am doing, letting our mutual customers choose the products they want - unfortunately, the customer we both had in that group buy chose your competitor over you. The difference between them and me, is I offer a local Mon-Fri 9-6 place where they can be reverted to stock ANYTIME. Not someone they have to setup an appointment to work around 2 schedules. Customers in LA have no choice either way. To be honest, I think I have a more convenient solution for the majority of customers and I do not need to inform the customers of the obvious.
Now I'd like to know why, since you are not even a sponsor here with a business how you think going and PM'ing everybody about OTHER PEOPLE'S (when the Targa car owners you keep mentioning don't share you anger towards us) experience because you are sour on lost sales makes you any more professional than I am Mark. For someone of your age, you really need to relax before even more people call you immature (what a coincidence, we're referencing the same mutual clients). I don't see you going out of your way to talk about those people who say the same things, so stop instigating problems between us.

Mark D
Jon,
I am not home (at a client's office) but will respond either tonight or sometime Saturday. It's quite clear to me how that motor died and both you and Charlie should have realised it was not due to any negligence on my part.
Mark

Johnny@ BImmersport
See, here is your problem with the E90 guys. I never said you blew the motor, I just don't like your work ethic on how unreliable you were. Thank you for proving my point on the whole missing link in communication, as well as the problem you have with me in regards to the E90 customers. If they ask me who I'd prefer, I will say it now what I say verbally...I would rather have an Active tune on my car due to the extensive knowledge they have (and you may too). However, understand your part time business is not as supportive as a FULL TIME business on both the software engineer's side, and the local person who loads it. We can argue all day and night, however that's part of the criteria they decide upon.
If you remember, after this happened with Charlie's car I wanted to use you to tune my E36 turbo...however, I did not even get around to it and even if I did, this whole issue of you remembering to bring your laptop was a big issue for me.
You can post later Mark if you want or better yet we can be grown men and discuss this in person if there is some issue you'd like to discuss - just let me know when and where and I will be happy to have a discussion with you on this matter, maybe the midnight meet if you would rather have it public


Now personally I have never met you or delt with you for any tuning, however if I was a customer, and I saw how you were handling youself in this thread, and I was trying to make an appointment with you but you wouldnt hold one, I would go somewhere else as well.

[Dr. G]

MarkD is always "actin a fool" aha, surprised he's not a 17 yr old and is actually an elder person.

[bulldog_yyc]

I wonder if they used zip ties to secure hot oil lines on the turbo car that blew a piston?
Or how about not putting nozzles on meth lines? How about the idea of a meth line like a garden hose feeding your charge pipe?