Following a current transfer to a metropolis condominium with out a storage, I discover myself in the same predicament to many different car-owning apartment-dwelling Individuals; The place the fuck do I work on my automobile? I nonetheless have all of my instruments and jacks, and I’ve undoubtedly performed upkeep (as much as and together with engine swaps) jobs out within the open earlier than, however I’m outdated and it’s sizzling. So I booked some rental time at an area DIY auto restore store referred to as Wingman Storage. This place guidelines, and I’ll undoubtedly use them once more sooner or later.
Our Porsche Cayenne Diesel was overdue for an oil change, and the dealership prices over $500 for that job alone. It additionally had some squeaky entrance brakes that I wished to interchange and figured I’d purchase the rears anyway. We’ve had this automobile since December, and I wished to present it a look-over myself, so I wanted a option to get it up on a elevate. Fortunately a pal really helpful Wingman, and I acquired myself booked in for a much-needed wrench session.
Armed with an oil change package and a contemporary Powerstop pad-and-rotor set from ECS Tuning, I headed all the way down to Wingman on a Wednesday morning to get underneath the truck and get it again in tip-top form. I rolled in because the store opened and marveled in any respect the house I’d be borrowing. There are three lifts within the store up for grabs, every outfitted with its personal toolbox, workbench, air provide, vacuum, and mini fabrication station. With further units of just about each automotive device you may consider, Wingman is best outfitted than any residence storage I’ve ever labored in.
The one factor you may’t do by yourself is function the lifts, presumably for insurance coverage functions, however that’s a brief activity that Wingman does for you. As soon as the automobile was up within the air I used to be given free rein, roughly, of the house. The oil change went like a breeze, and even higher than regular as a result of I didn’t must discover a place to get rid of the outdated oil afterward.
I used to be somewhat stunned to see the brake calipers have been held on with a beefy triple sq. bolt. I hadn’t regarded into what instruments can be wanted for this job earlier than digging in, but when I’d performed this job at residence, I’d have been caught operating to the ironmongery shop for a device I’d use as soon as and doubtless lose earlier than I acquired round to changing these pads once more. Fortunately Wingman had a full set of huge triple sq. sockets, and it didn’t gradual me down for even a minute.
The entrance brakes hadn’t worn all the way down to the factory-equipped brake pad put on sensors but, however the rotors have been fairly severely grooved (as you may see), and the pads have been fairly low, so I swapped all the brand new stuff on. Whereas the automobile was within the air, I inspected the rear brakes and so they nonetheless had loads of materials and confirmed little indicators of damage at practically 90,000 miles, so I left them alone. I’ll shelve the rear brakes for a future job, saving me some money and time in the long term.
I accomplished all the things I wanted to do, and checked out after two and a half hours. The store house rents by the hour, so my partial hour nonetheless counted as an entire hour, however they gave me a first-timers low cost due to the pal’s referral, and it labored out to only $99 for a three-hour slot.
Was it price it? Properly, contemplating I spent about $600 for the oil change package and brakes, and $99 for the house, my invoice on the Porsche vendor for a similar work would have been considerably larger. Shopping for the elements aftermarket as a substitute of by means of the vendor saved me numerous money, however doing the work myself undoubtedly made a financial impression. Was it nonetheless costly as hell? Yeah, it’s a Porsche. It was completely price it for me to do the work myself.
In case you’re within the Cleveland/Akron/Canton space, and also you want a elevate for just a few hours, name up Wingman. What an amazing house!
