Scanwest Autosport

We had a beautiful 1991 VW Westfalia Syncro with a conversion to a 1.8 turbo Audi engine, come in for some air conditioning work The conversion looked perfect, like it had always been there but 'chipped' producing 240hp. We usually don't work on the Vanagons (too tall for our lower ceilings) but he wanted the air condition to work his trip to Southern California. Great stories from the customer about keeping up with sports cars from a stop light and the shocked faces of the drivers from the sports cars, in disbelief that a Vanagon is keeping up and sometimes passing them!

I still find it incredible (which might show my age) that since the early 2000's the BMW, Mini, Audi, VW, SAAB brands we work on have had the capability to have repairs done via the internet. Occasionally, using the factory ISTA/P, ODIS, and TIS, a software update can repair an issue for a car rather than replacing a part. Pretty amazing and it is common place now for any car brand. Updating the software on a 2008 BMW X3.