sbbarnett

Can anyone recommend a shop in the South San Jose / South East Bay areas for a PPI ion a 2005 911 S Cab. None of the dealerships do them anymore... TIA

wjk_glynn

There's several 'PPI in the Bay Area' threads over on the West US Region board: https://rennlist.com/forums/west-us-rennlist-region-97/

Karl.

Blugsr600

Hella-Buggin'

Talk to Gunter at Fletcher Jones Porsche of Fremont. He runs a tight ship and is a stand up guy.

ADias

Ditto!

Hella-Buggin'

If Gunter won't PPI it, you could cal Rob @ BR Racing in Los Gatos.

inspectX

@sbbarnett: We have factory-certified Porsche Gold Meister tech who could travel out to the car for a full PPI. He also has access to PIWIS for a DME and overrev scan. Let us know if we can help. Thanks!

loungin

Hella-Buggin'

I bought my car used via private party. It was still under warranty and I have a dealership 5 minutes away. I was treated like I didn't matter because I didn't buy the car from them I assumed.
Gunter always goes above and beyond and gave me top tier friendly service. Now that my car is way out of warranty and I found a great Indy close to my house, I don't go to Gunter as often as I used to, but he still emails me back right away and will also recommend other services from third party facilities. I've taken my car to Gunter for various issues over the years. When I started getting into AX, he and his mechanic sat me down and discussed tuning the suspension for better handling. When I started getting into DE, they again sat me down and gave me some ideas on things to do to the car. They didn't try and sell me anything, but was just looking out.

Here's the main difference between Gunter and many other places. His desire to make it right. If something doesn't go off as planned, he jumps into action to remedy the situation whether it was their mistake or not. . Mistakes happen but so many people in the service industry just shrug their shoulders and cash the check.

Blugsr600

I've heard nothing but great things about Gunther. This coming from a person who has been in the Porsche distribution of parts for 25 plus years. I trust his jusgement and value his opinion. My 2 cents

loungin

Hella-Buggin'

I'm in a service sector as well and sometimes it's just personality fit.

sbbarnett

Update to the original question: I got my PPI from Marvin who owns The Renn Shop Inc. in Mountain View CA.

I got sticker shock at the price ($600), but in the end I feel I got great value for money. Marvin spent at least half a day going over the car, and another hour and a half reviewing the results with me and showing me his findings on the car. He had endless patience with my questions, and went above my expectations for detail in his answers. The documentation he provided was extensive and well organized.

At one point in my professional life, I supervised Aircraft mechanics. Marvin struck me as a similar personality type to the best of them. Intelligent, thorough, holds himself to high standards of workmanship, good communicator.

groovzilla

I highly recommend Rector Porsche now Porsche Burlingame - Hector the service manager has been with them for 19 years and does excellent thorough inspection.
They PPI'd my 993 8 years ago and just last week an 07 997C4S which I passed on.

Cost is $350 but well worth it

sleepy_911

+1 for Martin. Though I didn't use him because I ended up getting a car in SoCal and PPI'd down there, I did call him a few times to pick his brain about 997s and he spent at least a half hour on the phone once with me to talk through things I should look out for since he wouldn't be able to do a PPI on my behalf.