Category: GDL Auto Blog

GDL Auto Blog
Dannie Lyman

Hyundai ILoad Common Faults

There was a time in modern history when the Hyundai car brand was comparable to Joffery Baratheons charisma levels. The Hyundai was known for cheap low budget cars owned by university students and car park attendants. In more recent years Hyundai has improved this perception by actually making the cars half decent.With all the sweeping

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GDL Auto Blog
Dannie Lyman

Holden Astra Squeak at Idle

The Holden Astra had many issues most of which are common knowledge, however there is one that comes with the rarer 2.2 litre engine that gets many people stumped. A squeak noise that sounds like a drive belt squeal can be heard at idle. Whenever the squeak occurs a slight dip in RPM occurs and

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GDL Auto Blog
Dannie Lyman

Should I Buy a Lexus?

Unfortunately the luxury car market is dominated by the European car manufactures. Its no secret that mechanics are not huge fans of these vehicles. If you wish to delve deeper into the flaws with vehicles manufactured in the Land of the Kraut, then have a look at some of our previous articles. Whilst putting this

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Ford
Dannie Lyman

Ford Diff Mounting Bushes

The Ford Territory and the last of the Falcons were a very ordinary batch of cars. The keyboard warriors attack our blogs with accusations of not supporting the Australian economy by encouraging people to avoid buying locally produced vehicles, and to an extent they are right. We make no apologies about informing our clients to

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GDL Auto Blog
Dannie Lyman

What is a Timing Belt?

So your mechanic has rung you and told you your car is due for a timing belt, you blindly approve the work and then he tells you the price and you are nearly blown off the seat. How can a belt cost so much? Let us explain to you. There are two components to this,

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GDL Auto Blog
Dannie Lyman

If you do this at the petrol station, you’re damaging your car…

It’s a real short article this week and it seems like its a really basic one. We often see this happening at petrol stations. In our super busy consumer driven lives, we can’t wait five minutes for the petrol bowser on the correct side of the car to be free. We have some important meeting

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GDL Auto Blog
Dannie Lyman

How to Get Dents Out of Your Car

This is a trick we frequently use in our shop to amaze clients when they have had some minor touch parking incidents. Often the client has not mentioned the ding but is thrilled to have their car returned with a few of those parking incidents removed from evidence. This video, by some American bloke, demonstrates

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GDL Auto Blog
Dannie Lyman

Honda HRV Review.

The latest vehicle to hit the market from Honda is the all new HRV. With some great marketing, this car is becoming very popular as a low budget SUV and we are seeing lots of them on the streets. There are two common faults with them to keep in mind if your considering buying one.

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GDL Auto Blog
Dannie Lyman

Motion Sickness in Holden Commodores

In recent months my mother-in-law got herself a flash new VF Commodore a V6 manual sedan with leather and electric hand brake. The whole family considers themselves to be Holden fans and thus got themselves one of the last of the Commodores long line of family vehicles. Recently I hitched a ride in the back

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