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9 repair bays with 7 vehicle lifts allow us to efficiently service your vehicle.
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We provide a comfortable customer lounge with with free wireless Internet
service and children's toys for your family’s convenience.
Common Grounds Coffee House
is located next door, and there are a library, restaurants and shops within a few blocks.
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Our computer-based management system can archive and
access our customer’s vehicle files dating to 1989.
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We use online labor guides and parts catalogs for up-to-date price information,
and web-based parts ordering.
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Each technician has a computer networked to your vehicle's service records as well as
full-time access to internet-based information and repair databases
including up-to-date vehicle manufacture’s technical service bulletins for
each of the vehicles we service.
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Our technicians have access to the same information as new car dealer technicians.
We subscribe to a diagnostic hotline for online and telephone consultation, and suscribe
to many OEM manufacturer's technical websites for service bulletins and other resources.
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Our technicians utilize up-to-date diagnostic and repair equipment. We
have dedicated “On Board Diagnostic” scan tool analyzers for
Subaru, Toyota/Lexus, Honda/Acura, Isuzu, General Motors, Ford,
Mazda, Chrysler/Dodge/Jeep, Volvo, VW, and Audi vehicles.
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We strive to incorporate
sustainability principles throughout our operation. We are equipped
to recycle motor oil, antifreeze, batteries, tires, air conditioning
refrigerant, and scrap metal, including catalytic converters, in
addition to the cardboard, paper, glass bottles, and packaging
(including plastics) generated by daily operations. Engine oil
filters are removed to a recycling facility where they are crushed
and recycled for their oil and metal content along with
transmission, fuel and other filters. We purchase many of our
lubricants and fluids in bulk to avoid disposing of plastic bottles.
We use re-refined automotive antifreeze, when indicated, and and use
ECO Power and Eco Ultra re-refined/synthetic blend motor oils. When
the quality is acceptable, we offer remanufactured
automotive components as a substitute for installing new parts. We
use non-chlorinated aerosols and an aqueous-based hot water washer
in parts cleaning. We enlist
petroleum-eating microbes for minor spills. We use refilled
printer toner cartridges and, where possible, duplex (two-sided)
printing on 100% post-consumer recycled paper in our office
operations. (Our bath tissue is 20% recycled, facial tissue 10%
recycled.)
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Hawthorne Auto Clinic, Inc is powered by our own 16 kWh PV solar panels (@ 37% of our usage) plus
PGE and
Green Mountain Energy’s “Green Source" and "Habitat Support”
renewable electric power, and NW Natural's
Smart Energy. We support
Free Geek by donating our outdated computer equipment to their
program. We have converted our lighting to low-energy, high-output
fluorescents. We participated with the
Pollution Prevention Outreach Team to help create the
“Eco-Logical Business” program and write “
Keep Your Shop In Tune: A Best Management Practices Guide for Automotive
Industries". We are a Certified Eco-logical Business.
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We have partnered with
Bonneville
Environmental Foundation and have calculated our electrical,
natural gas, and transportation fuel usage emissions (our carbon
footprint) and purchased the requisite green house gas emission
offsets. Additionally, we have initiated a program to offer
Trimet passes to our
employees. We will offer our customers an opportunity to offset
their global warming emissions by purchasing carbon offsets for
their vehicle’s green house gas emissions.
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We subscribe to all of the new vehicle manufacturers' service information
web sites (for the vehicles we
service). We have access to all of the same information available to
the new car dealer service departments.
