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Dannie Lyman

Faltering Trust in the Auto Industry

An interesting test carried out with Sydney working class home owners, reveals some interesting and puzzling facts. The average consumer willingly calls a plumber or household electrician and within a few minutes of meeting said tradesman is willing to have them roam free within their house, carrying out whatever repairs the tradesmen is qualified to

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GDL Auto Blog
Dannie Lyman

Why Cheap Wheel Alignments Cost You Big in the Long Run.

Sydneys Northern Beaches is a vast and diverse section of Sydney and no automotive blogger is required to inform you of this. With the large and beautiful section of the city we possess comes a plethora of businesses and with that a large chunk of healthy competition. Any industry is kept competitive by the offer

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GDL Auto Blog
Dannie Lyman

Why does your mechanic contradict the 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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GDL Auto Blog
Dannie Lyman

Lane Merging: Chances are You’re Doing it Wrong

While the RMS wastes tens of thousands of dollars educating drivers how to pass a grown man, clad in lycra riding a bicycle at fifteen kilometres an hour down the Wakehust Parkway, they have failed to educate most drivers in a basic driving skill, that majority of Northern Beaches drivers seem to lack. The inability

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Ford
Dannie Lyman

Ford Territory SX Vehicle Review

The Ford Territory single handedly proved that Australian 4WD consumers are more interested in owning and driving a pumped up four wheel drive “looking” car rather than having a car actually capable of doing 4WD work. The Ford Territory when introduced to the market was available in both Rear Wheel Drive and Four Wheel Drive.

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GDL Auto Blog
Dannie Lyman

Managing Stress in a Small Business

In March 2016 Dannie was asked back to The Experience, a two day conference focused on small business and entrepreneurs. For the third year in a row the founders of Basic Bananas and the event organisers asked Dannie to speak. They gave him the freedom to speak on what ever he wished. He spoke about

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BMW
Dannie Lyman

Project 1JZTT BMW Stage 4

It was at this stage in the journey that we discovered the TT in the project tittle is now invalid. The next stage of this car build saw it go from a twin turbo to a single turbo. Having removed a pair of twin turbos off the beloved JZ engines in our past (Danes single

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GDL Auto Blog
Dannie Lyman

My Oil is Black After My 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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GDL Auto Blog
Dannie Lyman

Things to Look for When Buying a Secondhand Mazda 3

Quite possibly the most amazing car ever made in the history of the whole wide world, the Mazda 3 is something else and represents the start of a revolution in Mazda. This revolution went from making boring, bland, shopping trolley kind of excitement type of cars, to the sexy, sleek, highly sort after image they

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