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Hey,

Ok so I dont have the help I used to with my car. I really need to find a GOOD/reliable mechanic around the northern suberbs of melbourne. I know theres a few in the SE but its a bit far for me...

I took my car to Jap warehouse in Tullamarine and I got my car back with the boost gauge no longer working and my car runs like absolute SHIT.... Need to replace AFM and fuel pump ... my car is struggling 10x worse then what it was before I took it in for a major service...

Iv been told to take it to Initial D in Epping. App danny is good.

Im just after a reliable mechanic that knows his shit and wont f**k me around being a girl....

Any takers???

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Sounds like they disconnected your boost gauge vacuum hose to use the vacumm while they tuned it and then forgot to reconnect it. Have a look at around the front of the rocker cover or somewhere on the drivers side in the engine bay and see if you can see a couple of small 6mm hoses that need to be connected up again.

Iv had 2 mates have a look at the car and they say everything is connected.... so they are both a bit baffled on whats happened...

I still need to find a good mechanic to do my fuel pump and future services....

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Hey,

Ok so I dont have the help I used to with my car. I really need to find a GOOD/reliable mechanic around the northern suberbs of melbourne. I know theres a few in the SE but its a bit far for me...

I took my car to Jap warehouse in Tullamarine and I got my car back with the boost gauge no longer working and my car runs like absolute SHIT.... Need to replace AFM and fuel pump ... my car is struggling 10x worse then what it was before I took it in for a major service...

Iv been told to take it to Initial D in Epping. App danny is good.

Im just after a reliable mechanic that knows his shit and wont f**k me around being a girl....

Any takers???

Hi there,

I too live around epping and I used to take my car to a couple of the places around that side of town.

However I have been taking my car to RACEPACE Motorsport for the past few years now and even through they are on the other side of town and takes me almost an hours drive it is still worth it.

The guys there only work on skylines and know these cars inside out.

Well worth the time, money to send my car down there.

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