Category: GDL Auto Blog

GDL Auto Blog
Dannie Lyman

Why Secondhand Car Warranty is a Waste of Your Money

Keeping clients can be difficult. Many factors contribute to keeping clients returning over and over again and we strive to do the right thing by our clients which brings them back to us. To do this we are combating the misconception that all mechanics are thieves, we’re also combating a level of ignorance in some

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GDL Auto Blog
Dannie Lyman

What You Need to Know About Rego Inspections

A day busting at the seams with work and normal pressures. Someone has reversed into one of our clients cars in the car park, parts for a Honda CRV have arrived and turn out to be parts for a washing machine and someone has called in sick. It’s all normal pressures that a mechanic deals

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GDL Auto Blog
Dannie Lyman

The Best Cars for Sydney Mums

It’s no secret that our target market is Mothers, our free pick up service was developed directly to cater to clients who are short on time. We’ve found over the years that our most ideal client is what most would stereotype as a “Soccer Mum”, these women hate being labelled as soccer mums so we avoid calling them

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GDL Auto Blog
Dannie Lyman

ANCAP Safety Ratings Explained

For years now we have zoned out whilst vehicle manufacturers spend millions of dollars on very average television commercials. Watching a successful business man in a suit appear to have his entire life complete upon the purchase of a Nissan Maxima is somehow supposed to convince us all that we too, need to buy an

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GDL Auto Blog
Dannie Lyman

Would Your Car Pass a Blue Slip Inspection?

Blue slip station Northern Beaches. GDL Automotive services is a licensed blue slip station located in Warriewood. Book you blue slip inspection now. 99795933 or by clicking here. After driving out to Granville TAFE three days in a row, at a time before the sparrows fart, completing three days of training and testing, two of

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GDL Auto Blog
Dannie Lyman

Vehicle Review Nissan Pathfinder

We’ve become rather slack with the vehicle review films of late. This is actually for a few reasons; the workshop has been pretty busy so we have been putting it off (foolish I know), the other is every time we are prompted to make one, the vehicles that are in our workshop are ones we have

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GDL Auto Blog
Dannie Lyman

Project B16. A Tribute to Tim: Part 5

We made it! The completion of the Civic was a milestone for us, it was an emotional day when we finished it but it was a day much needed. We (and by we, I mean me) had decided that when the time came to put the wrap on the main body of the car and

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GDL Auto Blog
Dannie Lyman

New Cars Are Cheaper Now Than 25 Years Ago

Will you ever be able to afford a Range Rover Sport? Stereotypically associated with wealthy housewives, the Range Rover Sport has somehow set itself apart from all the competition as the must have soccer mum vehicle that many a middle class mother has dreamed of owning. If you’re currently kicking up a stink at that sentence you

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Dannie Lyman

The Colour of Your Car Relates to the Odds of You Crashing It

Being taught as a child the rule “if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all”, means I’m reluctant to talk about the NRMA. There are many ethical issues to be had with the insurance company. However they do invest quite a large chunk of that which they stole from Australian

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