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8211 SE 6th Ave
Portland, OR 97202

8am - 6pm Monday - Friday
Office Only: 8am - 11am Saturday

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From vehicle maintenance to community issues, Tom covers what matters to drivers in Portland.

Do YOU think Oaks Bottom needs a 7-story building looming over it?

Do YOU think Oaks Bottom needs a 7-story building looming over it? Our local neighborhood jewel may be about to

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A Close Look at Our Close Looks- How we know what’s wrong with your vehicle

A Close Look at Our Close Looks How we know what’s wrong with your vehicle Should you trust another shops’

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This is a REAL fish, and there’s MUCH more to the story

This is a REAL fish We found a perfect Oregon story at the bottom of a deep rabbit hole You

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Rebadged Vehicles- Are they for you?

In today’s expensive car market, they can save you thousands of dollars! (by Ian Park, special to “Your Car Matters”. 

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Enter the Tom Dwyer Tattoo Contest!

Show your support for YOUR favorite mechanic! In Portland, tattoo capitol of the known universe, Spring means showing off a

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Why did the chicken cross the road?

Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to our Funny Page, of course! FOLLOW THE CHICKEN! Did you

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Mechanical Mirth and Technical Titters-  Things your mechanics laugh about when the customers aren’t around

  Every industry has its own ‘inside humor’, things only the people who deal with that subject every day will

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”Idiot lights”? Only if you don’t understand them!

Posted on July 11, 2013, updated Feb 2022 Some people call them “idiot lights” but they’re more properly called “dashboard warning

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The Devil In All Of Us- The Stanford Prison Experiment

The Devil In All Of Us- The Stanford Prison Experiment (originally posted June 2015)  The deluge of videos showing cops

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Your Car Mattered in 2021

One last horrified look back at 2021 Everything we covered in 2021’s Tom Dwyer Newsletter…. Tom’s one directive for “Your

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Our 2021 Referral Reward Yearly Winner!

You voted, and our 2021 Referral Reward Yearly Winner is…. Nothing means more to us than one of our clients

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MEME EXPLOSION!

348 of our Favorites in Eighteen categories! Traveling through the darkest corners of the InterTubes, our staff often encounters rare

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