Author: Dannie Lyman

BMW Mechanic Northern Beaches
BMW
Dannie Lyman

Australian Taxpayers To Fund $15 Billion In BMWs For MPs

With the closure of the last of Australian vehicle manufacturers in recent years companies are now forced to look else where for their fleets. Not excluded from this issue is the federal government. Currently the fleet of vehicles used to ship MP’s judges and other important, mildly overweight governing officials and dignities around is the

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How to save money on your car
GDL Auto Blog
Dannie Lyman

How To Save $1000 A Year On Vehicle Expenses.

Anyone who has inhabited this world long enough to remember Belinda on Play School will by now have come to terms with the fact that owning and running a motor vehicle of any type is expensive. There are certain makes and models that amplify this “cost of living” but that is a conversation for another

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Kia Specialist Northern Beaches
Kia
Dannie Lyman

Kia and the Seven Year Warranty

Any sensible consumer would do the research before purchasing a new car. Various reviews, consumer complaints, recalls and safety features all taken into consideration. After deciding on a few makes and models that are suitable the average Joe asks their local family mechanic for his or her opinion on the vehicle in question. After announcing

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Suzuki SX4 Expert Northern Beaches
Suzuki
Dannie Lyman

Suzuki SX4 Review

The SX4 is the love child of both Suzuki and Fiat. This compact small four wheel drive is a very unique vehicle that for the most part is considered somewhat unnecessary. There is nothing overtly wrong with the vehicles with only a few common known faults that are not expensive to have rectified when compared

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Subaru Recall
GDL Auto Blog
Dannie Lyman

Massive Subaru Engine Recall

Hats off to Subaru. When a recurring problem presented itself Subaru decided to do the right thing by its consumers and develop a repair for the fault and then issued a global recall on the issue. Unlike Ford with the dreaded power shift transmission issues. almost 400,000 Subarus globally and some Toyotas that share the

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Holden Barina Review
Holden
Dannie Lyman

Holden TM Barina Review

The TM Barina runs in the same engine family as the Astra, the Cruze and the Trax and frankly they are not much chop. This vehicle is manufactured on a budget, the result is you can buy a car and drive away in it brand new for around $15K. The only way the manufactures are

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Ford Focus expert Northern Beaches
Ford
Dannie Lyman

Ford Focus Review (Third Generation) DO NOT BUY

The third generation of the Focus covers vehicles released between 2011-2018 and comes with a warning. Do not buy these cars. There is currently all sorts of legal carry on happening with the Focus powershift transmissions after the ACCc got involved and slapped Ford with a Fine. Currently the world is waiting and watching what

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Ford Focus Review
Ford
Dannie Lyman

Ford Focus Review (Second Generation)

There are four generations of the Focus. The first is atrocious, the third comes complete with a rubbish transmission from factory and the fourth is so new we are holding our breath to see how average it truly can be. Time will tell. The second generation is the model we are reviewing here. The year

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GDL Auto Blog
Dannie Lyman

The Best Cars For Students

Here is a list of our mechanical opinion of the best vehicles for students. University or high school students are known for having a wardrobe on the back seat, several sets of shoes in the boot and almost no money. For this reason we have listed the best vehicles for these people solely based on

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