New 928 owner in Milwaukee, WI

Greetings -- I have just become an owner of an '85 928. I've had Volkswagen's before, currently have a 2006 Mercedes E320 diesel, and this is my first foray into Porsche ownership.

Does anyone have suggestions for a good mechanic in the Milwaukee area?

Thanks!

Ed

Welcome Ed, great to have you on the forum.
The main reason for the forum you can see at the top right of the header

Our sole purpose is to support owners' in their use and
maintenance of the Porsche 928s throughout the world

That being said,
you can find your closest member that can help you,
through our Road Side Assistance page (see link below)
forums.928oc.org/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=15

In our tecnical section you can find a lot of great help for maintaining your own car and
saveing you money so that you can buy more things for your car

Everyone finds it easiest to help when we can see what car you have,
if it is in your signature, like mine just above my name.

Have a great 928 Day

Congrats and welcome! So glad to have you joining us!

It is a fun group, but I don't think we have many folks in WI...Carl Faucett of 928 Motorsports is in Horicon, WI... NO IDEA if that is close to you, but you are not in TX so how far away could it be?! LOL! I also see Tom Ehmke is in WI, Mark Janke is in DePere, Andrew Krueger in Middleton, John Pellmann and your 928OC Regional Rep is Jean-Louie Picouet. You can find Jean-Louie on the 928OC home page www.928oc.org and click on "info" tab at top right and then choose "Regional Contacts" or "Regions" I can't remember what it is from the drop down and that will show you a list of states/regions and who Jean-Louie can be found there...click on his name and shoot him an email! There are three more folks I came across in WI as well, but I won't bore you with those names. So, you have a fair number of 928OC members around and about in WI.

Jean-Louie can hook you up! Contact him for sure!

Yes Welcome - definitely pics and details. Porsche ownership, especially 928 ownership I think it pretty unique and the club of owners is pretty strong and knowledgeable so just about anything you need to do, you can find the answer (or more than one HA) on how to do it. You will end up doing some work on it yourself unless you have nothing else to do with your money.. HA.

For the big or more technical jobs though, you can find help online to guide a less experienced individual or if you are lucky, an experience Porsche mech with his own garage who works on the side that can maybe be your go-to person. Really, we all just look around and ask questions and check people and places out if you don't have something to go by. Really experience with a 928 is probably one of the biggest factors. Otherwise another person will waste a lot of time trying to find some of the ghosts in the machine these things can show sometimes.

But I can easily say....it is worth it, they are really cool cars......

Welcome, these folks have helped me with "BLUE" and also the latest 1984 I am working on. Ask before you spend and when you do need something the folks who advertise or are recommended by these guys will take good care of you.

George P

Thanks -- I'll post pics as soon as I can. I pick up the car tomorrow.

We're towing it from storage to my house -- with a 20 year old timing belt, it makes me nervous starting it! I've got all the parts for a timing belt job with the exception of the flywheel lock and tensioner tool.

The flywheel lock should be here Tuesday -- so I should be able to pull everything apart.

My goal is to be up and running by the 17th -- PCA shows there's a Porsche car night at a restaurant a mile from my house. Hopefully I run into some other 928's there.