Euro Union
10515 East Sprague Avenue,
Spokane Valley, WA
(509) 892-2023
eurounion509.com
Finally, a shop in Eastern Washington that I trust to work on TDI's.
Talk to Jimmy the owner. He's been fixing VW's for several decades, did some time as a trained dealer tech, disgusted with dealer shops, worked at several other VW specialty shops. I talked to him and his tech about TB procedures, and they are totally by the book, only use reputable parts, always replace everything in the belt path, use new stretch bolts, understand the proper tensioning methods. Talking to them, they have invented better techniques for removing the oil cooler, for instance, that gives me the sense they are intelligent, creative and careful in how they approach repairing VW's.
Additionally, they stock all the common VW broken parts: hood latches, all the various plastic bits and switches that break (oil cooler seals, dipstick parts, relays...). Jimmy's even got a guy in town who rebuilds door modules for $75 retail, half the dealer price. Several kinds are in stock.
They charge $80 an hour at the moment, which seems more than fair to me, given their experience.
They may not have done every repair to a diesel that can be done, but the kicker for me was they were willing to listen to me and learn how to do a fuel pump re-seal based on the procedures from the club. I printed out the threads, and spent 10 minutes going over them with the tech who'll do the work. They are not at all arrogant, and you can tell they truly love VW's and are committed to keeping them on the road.
And they have a cool show room littered with all kinds of air-cooled and water-cooled parts and cars. They have a pristine early Type 34 Karmann Ghia that's worth the trip just to look at it, as well as another Karmann Ghia and a bug eye sprite.
If there was a way, I'd nominate them for guru status, not just the Trusted Mechanic list.
The book says the service was done with the stamp in it from Tims, but I was also noticing that at 105K the gasser cars belts are due and that was not stamped so I get Tims is not a good source for diesels
