First off; My apologies, and sincere gratitude to everyone who I was privileged enough to work for over the last 3 years.

Unfortunately given the scope of the treatment and recovery, the financial obligations, and current timeline of my ability to return. I am left with no other choice. Rest assured anyone with any pending business will be taken care of to the best of my ability.

I am now up and about enough to start the process of closing things down, and will be finished by the end of this month.

I am immensely proud of what myself, and all the skilled employees I have had, have accomplished with SE Auto. Everyone I have worked with, and all of my loyal customers will be very sorely missed. Regrettably in this life there are inevitable circumstances that force choices, the hardest being the ones you have little to no control over. The upheaval that something so small as a Golf ball can cause makes it all the more hard to swallow.

I want to thank specifically:

All my VW friends in lowlifeaz.com for all the support, much needed humor and all the selfless donations they made to help me get through this and keep my head above water financially, my parents for everything they have done and continue to do too numerous to list, and my girlfriend Alex for all her understanding and support.

J.D. for sacrificing to get it off the ground, and working for what I could afford despite being much less than he was worth. And all the regulars that spent too much time at the shop, but always chipped in and held a light, handed me a wrench, or even ran to grab a late parts run.

Thank you to everyone again, and I will see you all around very soon I hope. My prognosis is very good, it just requires vigilant monitoring and slow rehabilitation for the time being as well as an unwelcome career change.

Again if you need anything vehicle related I would strongly suggest

Exklusiv Motorsports on the west side – Sales@exklusivmotorsports.com

Doug’s Buggs and Bunnies on the east side – 480-962-1101

I am very sorry to inform all of you that we will be temporarily closing our doors. As most of you know it takes quite a bit for me to close shop but a serious situation has arisen that has forced my hand. While getting my right knee examined for chronic pain over the last year or so, the doctors found an abnormality. The X ray showed a growth on the lower section of my Femur. This led of course to immediate action, including but not limited to MRI, CT PET Scan etc. I have been absent the last few weeks tending to these tests. I have been told now that the increasing pain currently preventing me from being able to walk unassisted; is due to the bone thinning/deteriorating as a result of the tumor. It is suspected to be Chondro Sarcoma, although I have been told over and over that at this point that’s only a very well educated guess, and surgery is the only way to determine 100%.

I do not yet know my treatment timeline, but hope its a speedy and successful one. Obviously I will not be at the shop, nor able to receive phone calls or check voicemail. THE ONLY WAY to contact me aside from my cell, is by emailing Sales@SEAutoEngineering.com I apologize to ALL of my customers, especially those who have already been put out with pending work in the shop now. I have every intention of doing EVERYTHING possible to keep our doors open for when i return, whenever that may be. Thank you to all of you that were already privy, for your condolences, and to the rest of you that I may miss. I have many wonderful friends, and this has always been an amazing community both offering so much support.

To anyone who needs any work done on their car I would VERY strongly recommend the following options for the east and west sides of the valley:

West – Exklusiv Motorsports (email is best) Sales@exklusivmotorsports.com

East – Doug’s Buggs and Bunnies – 480-962-1101

Both have my personal cell and can contact me for any background info related to repairs

Thank you all again

John Streeter

SE Auto Engineering

The apropos words so keenly spoken as this piston was removed from #3 position, fully explaining the utter lack of compression.

This is from the unfortunate 07 DSG K04 powered GTI belonging to Ken Eguchi. Still verifying the cause of the catastrophic failure, but needless to say it can be added to the list of engines already built, and the ones still on the docket for the month. Keep your head up Ken, We can rebuild it, we have the technology.

Well we are obviously a bit late in announcing it, but summer is here. We have been overwhelmed with work due to the unforgiving Arizona heat wave. Alternators, AC compressors, radiators and water pumps in the dozens! With the swell of work in the shop the blog has been put on the shelf, but not to fret we are back. Thanks in part to our new employee, Sonny, turning wrenches. He’s a very welcome addition to the team and has already made a HUGE difference in productivity. Even with both lifts churning out work all day we are struggling to keep up with demand these days, but it’s a very welcome problem to have. Here’s some shots of some of the work we have had in the shop over the last month or so:

Red R32 convention… 1 with a new United Motorsport ECU Flash, New 2011 Audi RS4 Cool air intake system, 1.8T Engine builds, MK3 brakes and flushes, Jetta transmission rebuilds and broken 2.0T FSI Downpipes… Just to name a few