Service done to the number
A Point Loma shop for German and British cars — scheduled maintenance, suspension, and diagnostics, with the torque figures and fluid specs to match.
At a glance
- Name
- Cliffside Motorworks
- Type
- Auto repair shop
- Location
- San Diego, CA
Call the shop
Address
2740 Cañon Street · San Diego, CA 92106
Cars come in from Point Loma, Ocean Beach, Sunset Cliffs and the streets around them.
Services
What we work on
- 01
Scheduled maintenance
Factory intervals with the fluids and filters the manufacturer specified, torqued to the published figures and written up so your service history stays clean.
- 02
Brakes & rotors
Pads, discs, sensors, and fluid. We measure pad depth and rotor thickness, show you both numbers, and only replace what is actually out of spec.
- 03
Suspension & alignment
Bushings, control arms, dampers, and springs, followed by a four-wheel alignment set to the numbers rather than to whatever the rack defaults to.
- 04
Diagnostics & electrical
Module faults, intermittent warning lights, and wiring problems traced with a scope and a wiring diagram instead of a parts cannon.
- 05
Clutch & drivetrain
Clutch kits, flywheels, mounts, and gearbox and differential fluid changes for manual and dual-clutch cars, road-tested through the full range before pickup.
- 06
Pre-purchase inspections
Before you hand over money on a used car, we put it on the lift, scan for stored faults, check the undercarriage, and send you photographs of what is really there.
Our standards
- Estimate in writing, approved before we start
- Photographs of the fault sent to your phone
- Every car road-tested before you collect it
- Fluids and torque to the factory figures
One lift, one technician, one car at a time
Cliffside Motorworks sits a few blocks up from the harbor on Cañon Street. Reza runs it as a two-lift shop on purpose: fewer cars in the building means the person who diagnosed your car is the one who finishes it, and nothing gets handed off half-understood at five o'clock. We keep the specialty tools for the marques we work on, we photograph what we find, and we road-test every car before it goes back on the street. If a job is outside what we do well, we will say so and tell you who does it.
Reza, owner
Say what the car's doing
A call or a text. The sound, the light, when it happens — plain words are enough.
Get eyes on it before a number
A real estimate comes after the car's been looked at. You approve it before any wrench moves.
The work gets done
What was agreed, at the price that was agreed. Anything new that turns up mid-job gets approved the same way first.
Pick it up and look it over
Ask what was replaced, and ask for the old parts back — that's a normal thing to ask.
Before any shop touches your car
Four flags worth knowing — whatever shop you choose
Ask these of anyone quoting your car — us included. A good answer costs nothing; a bad one saves you the whole repair.
A diagnosis over the phone
Nobody can hear a wheel bearing through a phone. A real answer starts with the car in the shop.
An estimate that can't be itemized
Parts, labor, and what each one fixes. A single lump number hides what you're paying for.
Work started without a yes
Nothing gets replaced before you approve it. “We went ahead and…” is the sentence to walk away from.
Hesitation about the old parts
Asking to see what came off your car is normal. The reaction to that question tells you plenty.
Point Loma and the peninsula
The shop is in San Diego, CA.
- Point Loma
- Ocean Beach
- Sunset Cliffs
- Liberty Station
- Midway District
- Mission Hills
- Coronado
- Downtown San Diego
