Almost twelve months ago i sat in an office with the air conditioning off. Humidity was at an a unexpected high and the rain pelted against the the windows. A piece of old butchers paper was pinned to the wall above my desk, the corners disheveled, small rips were starting around the edges. Scribbled in…
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Lets cut straight to the chase. The days of replacing the brake pads on their own or getting your brakes “relined” went out with bell bottom pants and Go-go boots. The average customer does not understand this and is often upset at the cost of a brake replacement repair. The cause for this is a…
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As an authorised Blue slip inspection station we deal with our fair share of trailers. There is no one size fits all, everything from campers, boat trailers, caravans and even DIY fabricated rickety metal frames welded together by some retired presbyterian minister. Whilst a lot of what we see is about as road legal as…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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