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Dannie Lyman

Ford BA & BF Falcon Common Problems

Australian culture dictates that you need to be either a Ford or a Holden fan. It also dictates that you need to be an overweight slob, living in the suburbs and routinely beat your wife. We have built a culture that we are proud of and no one knows why. Drinking beer out of cans,

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GDL Auto Blog
Dannie Lyman

Mazda CX7 Common Problems

To date we have raved about the quality of the Mazda and the vehicles they produced post 2004. Unfortunately The Mazda 7 seems to be the achilles heal of Mazda production. The first of the CX7s to be released shared the same mechanical reliability as the Proton Jumbuck. The bulk of the problems seem to

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Ford
Dannie Lyman

Ford Escape Review and Common Problems

Please note this is basically the same article as the Mazda Tribute. Its basically the same car. If your options were owning a Ford Escape or participating in Hanabals attempts to invade Italy buy climbing the alps with elephants, I’d advise you to start pushing your elephant up a seriously steep hill. The Ford Escape

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GDL Auto Blog
Dannie Lyman

Mazda Tribute Review and Common Faults

If your options were owning a Mazda Tribute or participating in Hanabals attempts to invade Italy buy climbing the alps with elephants, I’d advise you to start pushing your elephant up a seriously steep hill. The Mazda Tribute is not much chop and we advise people to steer clear of them. The Tribute was a

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GDL Auto Blog
Dannie Lyman

Nissan T30 XTrial Common Faults

The Nissan XTrail has been available to the Australian market since the year 2000. The first generation of the XTrail was the T30 XTrial and that is the model we will be looking at in this article. At the time of release in Japan, four engine variations were available, ranging from a four cylinder turbo

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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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