Ron Tanner

Ron Tanner8804 SE StarkPortland , OR.97216.503-255-2517503-255-6003

The Body Shop of Portland

Ron Tanner, Owner
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Ron Tanner, Owner Ron is a native Oregonian and has worked as a U S forest service engineer, Deputy sheriff, school teacher, and has retired from the Oregon Army National Guards as a Major after 28 years of service.

Ron started working in the automotive repair and tire industry in 1978 when he Co-owned and operated four tire and automotive repair shops in Hood River, The Dalles, Madras, and Redmond, Oregon. In 1985, Ron co-owned the B F Goodrich Tire Center in downtown Portland. In 1994, Ron opened Tanner's Automotive and Tire in the Stark St location and in 2001 opened Tanner's A-1 Automotive and Tire on 82nd Ave.

Ron has grown his businesses with the philosophy of treating all customers the way he would like to be treated if he were the customer. Ron strives to provide superior quality work and be a full service repair shop for domestic and import cars and light trucks. He wants to be your "one-stop shop". In his spare time, you can find Ron in one of his racecars racing somewhere in the northwest.

Ron Tanner, Owner Ron Tanner started in the retail and commercial automotive repair and tire sales business over 27 years ago. Twelve years ago, Ron started Tanner's Automotive and his goal was to provide a superior quality, full service repair facility for domestic and imported cars and light trucks.

Ron Tanner, owner of Tanner,s Automotive, said the two men he believes were behind the fraud have been arrested, though the shop is not likely to receive any restitution.

,But if I can keep one other person, one other colleague, from getting burned, then that,s my objective,, Tanner said.

The incident began when a customer had a vehicle towed to one of Tanner,s two automotive repair shops.The service writer and manager of the shop accepted a $700 money order for the work on the vehicle.

,My employee was under the impression, as I was, that all money orders have to be good because you have to pay cash for them,, Tanner said.

Three or four days later, the same customer brought in another vehicle, a pick-up, for repair, this time paying with a $1,271 money order.Several days after both vehicles had been returned to the customer, Tanner,s bank returned the money orders as invalid.By calling the phone number for the business where the money orders were supposedly issued, Tanner learned they were counterfeit.

Tanner said the fraud could have been avoided if the shop had done a better job of verifying the identification of the customer and matching it to the money order and vehicle registration.Between the fake names, addresses, signatures and phone numbers given by the customer and on the money order, something should have raised a red flag, he said.

,I definitely have new policies now,, he said.

He said his managers now know that any type of check or money order needs to be validated before a vehicle is released.If something doesn,t seem right, he said, shops should ask the customer for cash, driving the customer to the bank, if necessary.