Unit 14, Estrada do Ferro
Oversteer started as one bay, one ramp and a borrowed torque wrench in 2007. It is now three bays, a four-wheel dyno and eleven people, and it has never once been anything other than a garage.
On the floor
Bays and one dyno cell
Cars sold, ever
The bench
There is no service adviser at Oversteer. The person who quotes your car is the person who works on it and the person who signs the printout, which is the only arrangement under which a quote means anything.
A faster car that breaks is a slower car. Everything we sell is measured twice, written down once, and handed to you on paper — because a number you cannot check is a number we made up.
The logbook
One bay, one ramp
Rented half a unit behind a tyre fitter and took whatever came through the door. The first year was mostly clutches and the occasional brave remap on a laptop borrowed from a friend.
The dyno arrives
A used two-wheel rolling road, paid for over three years, that immediately changed the business: for the first time a claim could be printed instead of argued. Nothing has left untested since.
Suspension bay
Corner-weight scales and an alignment rig, because half the cars we had made faster were now visibly worse to drive. Power was never the hard part of the job.
Track programme
Started running a prep-and-support service at four circuits a season. Turns out the fastest way to learn what a build survives is to stand next to it when it does not.
Second unit
Took the neighbouring unit for the four-wheel dyno cell and moved fabrication next door. Same three bays for customer cars — deliberately, because a fourth would cost us the lead times.
Who holds the spanner
Every printout is signed. If a figure on your sheet needs explaining a year from now, the person who measured it is still standing in the same bay.
Founder · Calibration
Diagnostics · Driveline
Fabrication · Track support
Suspension · Geometry
No appointment needed to walk in and see a car being worked on. Bring the one you own.