Martin's Auto Service
Over 36 years experience on BMW's
8100 H Beechcraft Avenue, Gaithersburg, MD 20879
Hours:
Monday - Friday 7:30am - 5pm
I started my career maintaining BMW’s as soon as I turned 18 years of age, which was the minimum age to work in a shop at the time. It was a small BMW/Datsun shop in Seabrook, Maryland called Skoda USA. For those of you who don’t know what a Skoda is, it’s a little two stroke job imported from Czechoslovakia. I never worked on one, but they had a few in the back lot for conversation pieces. After a year, I left there and went to work for a BMW dealer.
I was very lucky to be taken under the wing of a very talented BMW tech. His name was Sigfried Krause. Yes he was German, just over from Germany for only a couple of years. I stayed at the dealer for 12 years where I was factory trained and held Master Technician status through BMWNA from 1985 to the year I left in 1992, leaving the dealer to open a shop of my own here in Gaithersburg. I’ve been here since the fall of 1992 and have a faithful following. They really enjoy the fact that they can take their BMW to an honest mechanic that knows the car inside and out.
I love BMW’s myself. I’ve owned several through the years. I now own four BMW's. A restored 1975 2002; my track car, a 1995 M3; my daily driver, a 1987 325is and my motorcycle, a 2001 RC 1200. I'm an instructor for BMW National Capital Chapter, The Jersey Chapter, Tarheel Chapter, The Mazda Group, NASA Racing, and Car Guys.
Dan Martin, Owner