Recent content by defect

You know... I was going to have a lazy day in, but maybe you changed my mind by asking at the right time 😄 DirtFish is only like 20 minutes away from me.

Thanks! I'll keep Stone's in mind. I joined Avants just this past week, someone at work recommended it too. The discount has already paid the membership back.

Oh man, yeah he is. He's blessed me with so much shop talk.

For posterity: ended up going to Achtuning to ask questions and ended up giving them business same-day, the guys over there are great. Kelly especially has been working closely with me.

Oh, maybe that's the confusion. Achtuning is the shop, they're an APR (among other things) dealer. Got a call back from them this morning actually, seems APR is having server problems, but they don't support downpipes anymore anyway so I may end up going Unitronic instead for future stage 2...

Based on the research I have done, I have a decent idea of what mods I want to start with (ECU/TCU, intake, springs, so on). In any case I need to find reputable shops to start forming working relationships with. Can you help me understand why I wouldn't want to use Achtuning? Can you recommend...

Then I'd very much appreciate pointers :)

Hey folks. I'm thinking about dipping my toes into modding for the first time, on my mk7.5. I live eastside, so I'm looking for shop/tech recommendations in sort of the Bellevue-ish area (or even around Issaquah/Sammamish); ideally one that has friendly folks for my newb self. I only know of...