Dustin Schuler

Ten years ago Dustin joined Bud Clary Auto Group, a family-owned group now in its third generation, with 14 franchise stores spread over five Washington cities. Today he is its Marketing Director, with work that spans Ford, Chevrolet, Subaru, Toyota, Honda, Hyundai, Volkswagen, Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep and Ram.

Cars caught him early, as a little boy, and the first manual transmission he learned on belonged to a Mercedes-Benz 240D. By the time he graduated from high school he held a certificate of work readiness plus AYES and NATEF certifications, and he had earned college credits on the way toward an ASE certification.

The wrenching never stopped. His garage holds a Chevy Silverado 1500 riding on a mid-travel suspension setup, a Nissan 370Z set up for drifting, and the favorite of the three, an all-wheel-drive Audi A6 TDI fed by a large single turbo. Every job on that TDI has been his own, three turbo upgrades and replacements included, and the odometer is approaching 200,000 miles. Outside help has touched his cars exactly once, to program a key fob.

He writes each guide the way he would explain it to a friend across the tailgate.

Bud Clary Moses Lake Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram is at 12174 N Frontage Rd, just off I-90, and its customers drive in from across the Columbia Basin: Ephrata, Othello, Quincy, Soap Lake, Warden, Royal City and the Wenatchee Valley. The store sells and services the full Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep and Ram lineup, including Ram 2500 and 3500 pickups with the 6.7L Cummins, chassis cabs and ProMaster vans, and his first guides here start with the trucks.

Owning a turbodiesel that is nearing 200,000 miles, and doing all of its work himself, makes him a diesel owner first, so the Cummins guide reads like an owner's checklist. It lays out what Ram's 2026 manual says about oil, fuel filters, DEF and the exhaust filter, then what changes when a truck spends harvest on dusty field roads, idles through a cold Basin morning or burns a biodiesel blend. The warranty guide works out what Ram's 10-year/100,000-mile powertrain coverage means for a diesel, where the mileage ceiling stays put and the years double.

The financing guide begins with how people around Moses Lake get paid. Harvest crews, orchard workers, dairy hands, food-processing shifts and farm owners rarely see the same income every month, so the page shows how to document a full year and plan a purchase around the season, and it promises nothing a lender hasn't decided.