Performance garage for Fuengirola

Let's be straight about the distance. If you live in Fuengirola and just need an oil change or a set of brake pads, there are garages a few streets from the seafront or out in Los Boliches that will do it, and driving 105 km for that makes little sense. The cars that make the trip to us come for something more specialist: work you want done properly once, by people who do it all the time.

From this stretch of the coast, three jobs come up again and again. ECU remaps, mostly on turbocharged petrol and diesel engines, where the difference is obvious every time you pull out onto the A-7. Custom exhausts, TIG-welded in stainless, often with valves so the car can stay quiet when you leave an apartment block at seven in the morning and open up on a proper road. And VAG cars generally: Golf GTI and R, Audi S3 and RS3, Cupra Leon and Formentor. They're the cars we see most and the engines we know best.

Fuengirola has a large, long-settled community from northern Europe, British and Scandinavian in particular, and a lot of those drivers know exactly what they want from their car. What they tend to want from a garage is a clear explanation before anything gets touched. That's how we try to work: we look at the car, tell you what's realistic and give you a price before we start.

One thing worth knowing up front. A louder exhaust or a pops and bangs map can cause problems at the ITV, Spain's MOT, and with noise rules. We build to your spec, but keeping the car road-legal is the owner's responsibility, and we'll tell you plainly if something is likely to cause trouble at inspection.