LA Porsche and BMW Repair

Corner Balancing: The Last Step in your Suspension Upgrade You fell in love with driving your Porsche when you purchased it, but over the years and miles the handling began to lose its crisp response as the wear and tear took its toll. Wanting to get that great handling and even more back, you made the decision and upgraded the suspension to competition or sport type coil-over struts/shocks that have adjustable spring height perches like those of the Bilstein PSS9 and PSS10 systems. To make your Porsche’s high performance/competition suspension truly effective in its braking and cornering, there is also another very important step in the process of optimizing your car’s handling; the distribution of the car’s weight on its four tires. This is because the tire that is supporting less weight, when compared to the other three, is likely to be the first tire to lose traction when encountering the constantly changing dynamic forces created through movement and speed ... read more

Porsche has always built cars with incredible performance, handling and braking. From the early days of the 356 to the modern Turbo S and everything in between, all provide balance and handling that makes every automobile manufacturer envious. Drive your Porsche into a corner fast and a completely different personality emerges – a magical personality that the engineers at Weissach make sure is within every Porsche, whether destined for your garage or a checkered flag at Le Mans. Of course, over time, and a lot of corners, suspension components wear and can even break. If you happen to notice an abrupt change in your Porsche’s handling characteristics, be sure to have the problem diagnosed immediately. Whenever a handling issue is experienced, the first thing to check is the tire air pressures. If a tire is deflating, it can cause the car’s handling to become very unresponsive, unstable and potentially create a dangerous situation. A tire with very low air pressur ... read more

Shocks are designed not just to dampen out the road bumps and irregularities. Most think the weight of the car is keeping the wheels (tires) on the ground when the automobile is in motion but in all actuality it is the shocks and suspension. Often you might be driving down the freeway and notice that the car next to you has one of the wheels bouncing excessively, this is usually caused by a faulty or worn out shock absorber(s). Every split second the tire isn’t firmly planted on the ground, the vehicle is not is complete contact with the road. There are accidents every day that are caused by worn out or faulty shock absorbers. After an accident, the reason for the loss of control is never determined or most don’t worry about this, they just take the blame onto themselves for their lack of car handling skills when all along the suspension was far from adequate. There are a few ways to determine the condition of the shocks. First you can drive the car paying s ... read more