Category Archives: Feature Articles

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

Posted on April 21, 2022 by tomdwyer

This is a REAL fish We found a perfect Oregon story at the bottom of a deep rabbit hole You know how it is. You’re surfing the InterTubes, minding your own business, and you see a post that grabs your … Continue reading →

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Rebadged Vehicles- Are they for you?

Posted on April 21, 2022 by tomdwyer

Rebadged Vehicles In today’s expensive car market, they can save you thousands of dollars! (by Ian Park, special to “Your Car Matters”. Originally posted Nov 2010, updated Apr 2022) Did you know that the Toyota Matrix is almost exactly … Continue reading →

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Enter the Tom Dwyer Tattoo Contest!

Posted on March 16, 2022 by tomdwyer

Show your support for YOUR favorite mechanic! In Portland, tattoo capitol of the known universe, Spring means showing off a lot of new tattoos everyone got during lockdown. Don’t show up with the same stale tats as all the posers… … Continue reading →

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Why did the chicken cross the road?

Posted on March 16, 2022 by tomdwyer

Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to our Funny Page, of course! FOLLOW THE CHICKEN! Did you know we’re the only automotive shop in the world with an in-house political cartoonist? Or that a hand-cut paper artist creates … Continue reading →

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

Posted on March 16, 2022 by tomdwyer

Every industry has its own ‘inside humor’, things only the people who deal with that subject every day will find funny. Every electrician has ‘light bulb’ jokes you’ve never heard and every doctor has at least three jokes about … Continue reading →

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

Posted on February 18, 2022 by tomdwyer

Posted on July 11, 2013, updated Feb 2022 Some people call them “idiot lights” but they’re more properly called “dashboard warning lights”… they’re the Christmas Tree display of lights that come on every time you start your car. If everything’s running … Continue reading →

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The Devil In All Of Us- The Stanford Prison Experiment

Posted on February 18, 2022 by tomdwyer

The Devil In All Of Us- The Stanford Prison Experiment (originally posted June 2015) The deluge of videos showing cops gone wild continues unabated. Many factors contribute to this horrific situation. Racism is an undeniable part, but so are the … Continue reading →

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Your Car Mattered in 2021

Posted on January 23, 2022 by tomdwyer

One last horrified look back at 2021 Everything we covered in 2021’s Tom Dwyer Newsletter…. Tom’s one directive for “Your Car Matters”, the Tom Dwyer Newsletter, is not to waste your time. He says to stay out of your spam … Continue reading →

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Our 2021 Referral Reward Yearly Winner!

Posted on January 23, 2022 by tomdwyer

You voted, and our 2021 Referral Reward Yearly Winner is…. Nothing means more to us than one of our clients who thinks enough of our service to recommend us to their friends and family, and we try our best to … Continue reading →

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MEME EXPLOSION!

Posted on December 16, 2021 by tomdwyer

348 of our Favorites in Eighteen categories! Traveling through the darkest corners of the InterTubes, our staff often encounters rare and exotic memes, but they end up in a vault of interesting things no one will ever see. (You probably … Continue reading →

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