Hi I am new to the board and just bought an out of state 96 Impreza L and needed a lot of attention. Figure if I needed help so will most of the Subaru owners here in the bay area. I just want to start a thread on all reputable Subaru Specialist Shops around the bay area to be introduce so all of us will get benifit. Please let us know:

1. Store name

2. Owner's name

3. Specialized in (eg. Suspension, alignment, engine swap, transmission, AC..)

4. Address

5. Phone number

6. Year in business

7. Post some pictures of the shop

8. Post some pictures of work performed

9. If it is posting by customer, please indicate why you like it or why not.

Soon we will have a good working list of shop we can take our cars in.

Thanks.!!

Hi I am new to the board and just bought an out of state 96 Impreza L and needed a lot of attention. Figure if I needed help so will most of the Subaru owners here in the bay area. I just want to start a thread on all reputable Subaru Specialist Shops around the bay area to be introduce so all of us will get benifit. Please let us know:

1. Store name

The "shop" is my own service, I call it StarFleet Engineering

2. Owner's name

Sanjay

3. Specialized in (eg. Suspension, alignment, engine swap, transmission, AC..)

Mobile repair (I come to you), New Generation Subarus prefered, general repair (I do a bit of everything). I do not do alignment, A/C, or tires as i do not have the specialised tools for that.

4. Address

This is a mobile shop. I will go anywhere within 75 miles of SF, or Sac.

5. Phone number

Unle3ss one of the Moderators PM's me to say it is OK to put it here, I ask that you send me a Private Message to get my number, or to schedule a reapir.

6. Year in business

About a year specialising in Subarus, after finding out how great they are. About 10 years speciaising in Asian auto makes.

7. Post some pictures of the shop

Ummm. . .that would be my car. A description can be found below. . .

8. Post some pictures of work performed

I do not have any handy. I also respect the privacy of my customers by not naming them, or posting pictures of thier cars.

9. If it is posting by customer, please indicate why you like it or why not.

Soon we will have a good working list of shop we can take our cars in.

Thanks.!!

 

I'm putting my responses in red so you can tell who is talking when. My two biggest advantages over a regular shop is that I come to you, so you do not have to bring your car in, and as I have minimal investment, I can charge a lot less than a shop has to. One other advqantage is that I actually like Subarus, and find them to be very well engineered cars. I have been doing shop work for a group that transplants engines out of totaled 1st Gen Legacies into Volkswagon Vanagons. In the service of that shop I performed repairs that It would have taken me years to encounter in a normal environment.

Rusty, I seem to be the only one that has responded to this thread, either as a shop or as a customer. If you need more work done on your Impreza, give me a PM (look at the top right of the page for a link, or you can click on my name in this thread as well). I will admit that I was a bit wary of responding to this in this forum, as this seems to be the kind of thing you want to post in the Marketplace (look at "Forum Jump", in the lower right)

Rusty, I seem to be the only one that has responded to this thread, either as a shop or as a customer. If you need more work done on your Impreza, give me a PM (look at the top right of the page for a link, or you can click on my name in this thread as well). I will admit that I was a bit wary of responding to this in this forum, as this seems to be the kind of thing you want to post in the Marketplace (look at "Forum Jump", in the lower right)

 

In case anyone is actually interested, I have listed my services in The Subaru Marketplace, where I feel more comfortable advertising my services (it is more on-topic there)

http://www.ultimatesubaru.org/forum/showthread.php?p=327168#post327168

 

Yes, I'm open for business, feel free to call the number in the ad, or send me a PM under my name on here.