Porsche Service in Century City, CA

Porsche Service Serving All of Century City, CA

Century City is towers standing on garages. The office buildings along Avenue of the Stars and Century Park East, the condominium towers and the shopping center all park their cars below ground, several levels down, and much of that parking is valet or attendant-assisted, with cars stacked one behind another. So your Porsche is driven by people other than you, several times a day, a few hundred feet at a time. It is started to be parked, started again to let another car out, and started again to be brought up to you.

Each of those starts costs the battery a large burst of current, and the alternator needs a proper drive to put it back. A move that lasts seconds returns almost none of it. Keys make it worse. A modern Porsche shuts its control units down a while after it is locked, and it can stay partly awake if it is left unlocked with the key inside, which is how attendants often leave a car they expect to move again. The first sign is a slow crank or a warning message. The engine dislikes it too. For the first moments after a cold start it runs rich and fast to heat the catalytic converters. Shut it off in the middle of that and the extra fuel stays on the cylinder walls and the spark plugs, and an older car can foul its plugs or flood and refuse to restart. A battery that has gone flat once this way usually recovers with a full charge, so a single no-start is not by itself a reason to buy a new one.

Why Century City Drivers Trust The Werkstatt

Century City is a few blocks from our door, which makes it easy to bring a car in before a valet-drained battery becomes a no-start. Ours is an independent shop that has worked only on Porsches for more than 30 years, every model line from the 911 and Boxster to the Cayenne and Panamera, at 10527 Santa Monica Blvd. Bring the car in and we'll evaluate it and give you a quote, or request one online and we'll get back to you as soon as possible.

• We're a few blocks west of Century City on Santa Monica Boulevard
• Repeated valet starts with only seconds of running take more from a battery than they put back
• Short cold starts can leave spark plugs fouled with fuel, which is one reason a spark plug and ignition service matters on a car that rarely gets a real drive
• We work on Porsche only, manual and PDK, every model line from the 911 and Boxster to the Cayenne and Panamera
• If the valet routine is draining the battery, a new battery will go flat the same way; a weekly proper drive does more

Porsche Services for Century City Owners

From oil changes and scheduled maintenance to engine, brake and PDK repair:

About Century City, CA

Century City was built from the 1960s on land that had been the 20th Century Fox backlot, and the Fox studio lot still sits on its south side along Pico Boulevard. It is a district of the City of Los Angeles, bordered by Beverly Hills on the east and Santa Monica Boulevard on the north. Avenue of the Stars runs through the middle, past the twin triangular Century Plaza Towers, and Westfield Century City is at the north end. Nearly all parking is underground, in garages below the towers and the shopping center, and much of it is valet. Our shop is a few blocks west along Santa Monica Boulevard.

Neighborhoods we cover in and around Century City

• Century City
• Comstock Hills
• Little Holmby
• Holmby Hills
• Rancho Park
• Cheviot Hills
• Castle Heights
• Beverlywood
• Pico-Robertson
• Sawtelle