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Locally owned / Minneapolis

Find the fault.
Fix the whole car.

Repairs, maintenance, specialty work, and fabrication for European, Japanese, and American vehicles in south Minneapolis.

What comes through the door

Front to back.
Top to bottom.

Tisdels handles mechanical repairs, maintenance, specialty work, and the problems other shops could not find or did not want to spend time tracking down.

Maintenance + mechanical

  • Brakes
  • Exhaust
  • Shocks and struts
  • Tires
  • Tuneups
  • Timing belts
  • Scheduled maintenance

Electrical + climate

  • Fuel injection
  • Computers
  • Air conditioning
  • HID light conversions

Wheels + glass

  • Wheels
  • Tires
  • Glass

Custom work

  • Upgrades
  • Light body work
  • Welding
  • Machining
  • Custom fabrication
Inside the shop

When the repair needs a machine shop.

In-house welding and machining support specialty repairs and fabrication projects, with a CNC mill and manual tool-room lathe.

Weldingin house
Machiningin house
CNC millmachine shop
Manual lathetool room
Fabricationcustom repair work
The people at Tisdels

Family-owned since 1936.

The business has more than 30 years of automotive repair experience and 7 years of research, development, and fabrication experience.

TonyPresident
KimSecretary
A.J.Lead tech
IanTechnician
50 years image from the Tisdels Garage photo archive
30+

years of automotive repair experience.

7

years of research, development, and fabrication experience.

Always family-owned
Photo archive

Machine memory.

Images from the Tisdels Garage photo page. Captions stay with what the source page says.

Porsche 928 cutaway from the Tisdels Garage home page
Porsche 928 cutaway
928 Porsche engine from the Tisdels Garage photo archive
928 engine
Exploded engine image from the Tisdels Garage photo archive
Exploded engine
RUF CTR4 image from the Tisdels Garage photo archive
If your car looks like this now, we can make it whole
RUF Turbo image from the Tisdels Garage photo archive
RUF Turbo
Cylinders image from the Tisdels Garage photo archive
Cylinders
Start a repair conversation

Bring the problem.

Call or email with a brief description of the vehicle's problem or needs.

Address

5014 Penn Ave South
Minneapolis, MN 55419

Hours

Monday through Friday
7:30 to 5:00

Night drop-off is available with a key drop in the large garage door. Keys must be dropped off with the vehicle. The garage is next to Broders restaurant at the southwest corner of 50th Street and Penn Ave South.

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