City

Tuning Workshop

A whole grubby little garage world in one box, and I mean that as the highest praise.

Brick Rated Score

4.1/5

Set 60258 · 2020

Pieces897

Minifigs7

Year2020

Set number60258

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The verdict

This is the kind of City set I quietly root for, because it hands you a full scene instead of one showpiece.

You get a proper workshop with a working engine hoist, five vehicles, a dodgy little car dealership, and seven characters pulled straight from LEGO City Adventures. It is a playset first and a display piece second, so if you want tidy realism this is not it. But for open-ended garage chaos and a genuinely rare dark-orange motorbike, it earns its keep.

Best for: families who want a busy, play-heavy City scene with loads of vehicles and characters

The full review

What it is

The thing that got me about the Tuning Workshop is how much little world it fits into one box. This is not a set built around a single hero model. It is a whole garage neighborhood: Tread's Tuning shop with a sliding door and a workbench, a tow truck, a hot rod, a tiny blue car, a rocket-styled motorbike, a camping trailer, and a scruffy little car dealership selling questionable bargains. The workshop building is a 14x22 stud footprint, walled on two sides and open on the other two, and inside there is a working engine hoist that swings side to side and lifts up and down. That hoist is the detail I kept fiddling with. It is the sort of honest little function that makes a City set feel alive instead of static.

The catch

I will be straight with you about the trade-offs. Because this set spreads 897 pieces across five vehicles and a building, the workshop itself is on the small side once everything is unpacked, and it is deliberately left open on two sides and the top so kids can reach in and play. If you were hoping for a fully enclosed, display-ready structure, that openness will bug you. There is also no single grand build moment here. You are assembling a series of quick mini-models rather than one long, absorbing sit-down session, so an adult builder chasing engineering depth may find it goes by fast. At its original 99 dollar price that spread felt fair rather than generous, and the appeal really rests on play value more than shelf presence.

Who it's for

So who actually wants this one? Families and younger builders, without hesitation. The seven characters, the rescue-and-repair loops, the dealership, the sheer number of things that roll all add up to a set that gets played with hard rather than admired from a distance. Fans of the LEGO City Adventures show will light up at Harl Hubbs and Tread Octane. If you are a display-focused adult who wants a tidy, sealed garage for the shelf, I would steer you toward a dedicated Creator or Speed Champions garage instead. But as a busy, generous, everyday City playset, this holds up beautifully, and now that it is retired the good news is it has held its value rather than tanked.

The parts story

What the build is actually like, and the pieces worth knowing about.

Building this is a relaxed, breezy affair rather than a marathon. You work through it as a stack of small models, starting with the tiny blue car and that lovely motorbike, then moving through the tow truck, the hot rod, the trailer, and finally the shop itself. Nothing here is technically demanding, which is exactly the point for the age range, but the engine hoist mechanism is a small treat to put together and see swing into action. It is the kind of build you can do across an afternoon with a kid without either of you losing the thread.

The standout piece is that dark-orange motorbike, a version of the classic LEGO bike mold in a color so rare that parts hunters take notice. Tread Octane's dark-green jacket torso is exclusive to this set, so completionists have a real reason to seek it out. Beyond those, you get the usual useful City haul: printed instrument and detail tiles, tools, a jack, welding gear, plenty of windows and slopes for the shop exterior, and a good spread of vehicle plates in workaday colors. It is not a set stuffed with brand-new molds, but the recolors and the printed shop signage give it more parts-bin personality than a plain City garage.

Fun facts

01The set is tied to the LEGO City Adventures TV series, featuring handyman Harl Hubbs and gearhead Tread Octane straight from the show.
02Tread Octane's dark-green jacket minifigure torso never appeared in any other set, making it a genuine one-set exclusive.
03Released on January 2, 2020, at an RRP of 99.99 dollars, it retired in December 2021 after roughly two years on shelves.
04The dark-orange motorbike uses the classic bike mold in a color variation that is exceptionally hard to find elsewhere.