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LF good Porsche shop in the GTA
My brother bought a 2012 911 S cabrio and he's not much of a car guy. Since I am somewhat of one, I wanted to see if I could get some good recommendations for shops for maintenance. The car has 42K km so it won't need much but thought avoiding the dealership might be a wise decision. So, any Porsche shops close to north Toronto that anyone has positive experience with I would appreciate your advice.
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08-23-2021, 06:22 PM | #2 |
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Mantis Racing has been operating in Oakville for many many decades.
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08-24-2021, 08:28 AM | #3 |
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Even searching for online Canadian Porsche owners forums, there doesn't seem to be much. Compare that to the community here and how quick is is to search any resource related to these cars right here with ease. Cheers to the people that have been on this amazing ride from the very start. So inviting for new owners. How could anyone elligible say no to the 2022!? Such an easy decision, whether it's your daily or the 4th garage spot weekend rocket.
Anyway, just appreciating what we have all built here for future owners. A ZN6 Wiki. Still looking for Toronto Porsche service recommendations if anybody knows anybody. I had a friend who went to some dude Klaus years ago but haven't kept in touch with the friend so who knows where Klaus is.
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7634 Woodbine Ave. Unit 7 Markham 905-four one five-1oo6 Not a Porsche shop per se, but very knowledgeable old school pro. Great prices too. Can't recommend him enough, been going there for years, anything from DD SUVs to my race car builds, never an issue nor any BS. I believe Klaus retired, and most of the indy P-car shops are $$$. |
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https://www.porsche.com/canada/en/ab...l-de&lang=none I don't think he'll be servicing the cars though! There's lots of various european mechanics out there. Most are going to be a little more specialized towards VW/audi or BMW and Mercedes but either might also be reasonably familiar with Porsche procedures. I used to take my BMW to one near the airport, just tried to look it up to give you the name but it looks like they're not there anymore. |
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My brother lives in North Toronto and he is a professional, and works in Yorkville so I am trying to help him avoid getting exploited by Downtown Porsche, which I am sure they will eventually. Saw the car last night, dark blue with a black interior. Looks great. I'm pretty sure he's never launched it. Probably get 4 years out of a set of tires. Lol
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If they can't do something, they will tell you about it and options to sub-con. I've got nothing but good things to say about their attention to detail. Frank is one of the best guys to follow up on customers.
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Years ago now I went to Pfaff racing with my E46 to get the rear subframe mounts reinforced. Met with them beforehand and scheduled which day ("oh ya, we've done lots of them before. no problem"). Dropped it off on the day of and went about my day (actually had to get a rental and go to work on my day off because an important presentation got booked on my day off). Come back at the end of the day; "The race shop is busy so we took it to a body shop we use sometimes and they said they couldn't do it. Here's your car and parts back." Wasted a precious vacation day, paid for a rental car for the day, used the 407 to get to the shop to make sure I wasn't late, all for nothing: not even an apology (let alone compensation for any of it). MF'er you're unloading a La Ferrari and Mclaren P1 in front of me; you can afford to pay back my 1 day Enterprise rental! |
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That sucks.
I purchased my first new car from Pfaff at their original store in Newmarket back in '85. They sure got big.
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I should mention that on the opposite side their BMW dealership on Dixie always treated me very well. It was just the exotic dealer/race shop that jerked me around.
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Here's the fun part... Speedstar does overflow work from Pfaff.
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Haven't been on the forums in quite a while and probably was able to take the 911 to a shop, the link below are to technical centres that Porsche owners can use to get their car teched for their track events. All of them are well known within the Porsche community here in Ontario.
https://pcaucr.org/driving/driver-ed...forms-centres/
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