Author: Dannie Lyman

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Dannie Lyman

My Oil Is Black After MY Car Service

The day after your car was serviced you have demonstrated your lack of trust in a mechanic and decided to check your engine oil, just in case you have parted with some cash just for the change of a small sticker on your windscreen. Given that you have already entertained this idea in your head,

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Jeep
Dannie Lyman

Current Advice to Prevent 3.0 Diesel Engine Failure

Currently we are researching into the cause of this fault. We have a number of research options currently in progress including a strip down of a failed engine to try and determine the cause. Part of this research we require data collected from owners of Jeeps who have experienced this fault. If you have had

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Dannie Lyman

Don’t Ever Buy a Cheap Car Service

Marketing works, we have seen and experienced this first hand after getting some training in the area. Most of us know this to be true even if people complain and whinge that it is a waste of money and does not work. The reason for this “it does not work” mindset is the lack of

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Dannie Lyman

Why Does My Mechanic Contradict The Car experts?

How is it that Andrew Maclean and his team rate the Holden Captiva higher than a Toyota Tarago on the list of best to worst cars? After all anyone with any mechanical knowledge will tell you that buying a Holden Captiva is about as intelligent as appointing King Julian to drive your teenage daughter to

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Jeep
Dannie Lyman

Jeep Diesel Engine Failure

It has become apparent that the 3.0 Diesel engine fitted to the Jeep Grand Cherokee is common for complete bearing failure at kilometres between 80,000kms and 110,000kms.At this stage we are still researching as to the exact cause of this with many factors to take into account. The current situation is, we know this is a

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Dannie Lyman

Why Long Service Intervals Are Garbage

The latest selling gimmick of the producers of fine automobiles is the concept that your brand new $80,000 car which is comprised mostly of plastic only needs to be serviced four times in its life. Car salesmen strutting their KMart suits with sagging crotchs sprout all sorts of rubbish to land a sale and the

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Jeep
Dannie Lyman

Jeep Gladiator Common issues

To be Fair to the Gladiator we have not yet actually come across these faults in this exact vehicle yet. However given that the Australian market has only been blessed with the petrol V6 engine by penstar, the very same motor that features in the wrangler and the Grand Cherokee one can safely assume that

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Jeep
Dannie Lyman

Jeep Cherokee V6 Common Problems.

There are Only a few common faults with the Cherokee. The first of these is a semi common issue with the automatic transmissions giving trouble. Before condemning any automatic transmission, be sure to check and if in doubt replace the vehicles battery. Many of the Jeeps electronic systems including the control module for the transmission

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Jeep
Dannie Lyman

Jeep 3.6 Ticking Noise Troubleshooting

CAMS, LIFTERS AND CHAINS Sounds like a rock band. Unfortunately it’s not. It’s a list of three common faults with the Jeep 3.6 petrol engine which is fitted to the Wranglers and the WK2 Grand Cherokees. All of these issues are common, however they do not always fault at the same time and they don’t

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