Power Stroke diesel service
Ford's 6.7L schedule, exhaust filter messages, DEF and winter fuel.
Marketing Director | Bud Clary Auto Group
Dustin Schuler
Dustin Schuler runs marketing for Bud Clary Auto Group. He's worked on his own cars since high school, where he earned college credits and worked toward an ASE certification, and he still does his own wrenching.
- 10 yearsWith Bud Clary
- AYES and NATEFCertified in high school
- 3 timesHe has upgraded and replaced the turbo on his A6 TDI
- Nearly 200,000Miles on that diesel, all his own work
About Dustin
Bud Clary Auto Group has had Dustin on its team for 10 years, and he now serves as its Marketing Director. The family that owns the group is on its third generation, its 14 franchise stores sit in five Washington cities, and over that decade he has worked across all eleven makes it sells: Ford here in Longview, plus Chevrolet, Subaru, Toyota, Honda, Hyundai, Volkswagen, Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep and Ram.
A boyhood love of cars came first, and a Mercedes-Benz 240D is the car that taught him to handle a clutch. His high school graduation brought a certificate of work readiness and AYES and NATEF certifications, with college credits earned as he worked toward an ASE certification.
He still does the work on his own vehicles, whatever the motor. They include a Chevy Silverado 1500 with mid-travel suspension, a Nissan 370Z he drifts, and his favorite, an all-wheel-drive Audi A6 TDI built around a large single turbo. He has upgraded and replaced that turbo three times, the car is closing in on 200,000 miles, and every job on it has been his own. Programming a key fob is the one task another mechanic has done for him.
Every guide he writes for this Longview store gets one check before it goes up: is it what he would tell a friend?
Dustin and Bud Clary Ford in Longview
Bud Clary Ford sits at 700 7th Ave in Longview, and its lineup runs from F-150s and Super Duty pickups and chassis cabs to the cutaways and F-650 and F-750 trucks on the store's commercial vehicles page. Its areas served pages reach from Kelso and Woodland down to Ridgefield and Battle Ground, and across the Columbia to St. Helens, Oregon.
His favorite car is a turbodiesel he keeps running in his own garage, so the Power Stroke guide is written the way he'd want one written for his own engine. It takes Ford's numbers straight from the 2026 Super Duty owner's manual, explains what the exhaust filter and DEF messages actually ask a driver to do, and makes the case that a truck towing up SR 504, idling on job sites and making short runs across Longview belongs on Ford's severe service schedule.
The financing guide is for a different reader: someone who needs a used truck or SUV to get to the job, has a budget near $15,000 and a few marks on their credit. It sticks to what the CFPB, the FTC and federal Regulation B actually say about income and credit checks, and it lists the paperwork that shows a lender what hourly, seasonal or self-employed work really pays.
Pages Dustin wrote for Bud Clary Ford
Both carry his byline, and every fact in them links back to Ford, the CFPB or the law it came from.
Bad credit truck and SUV loans
How lenders weigh work income, and what to bring to the finance office.