Victorian, Learner Drivers, Stages and getting 120 hours.
DaleI was on a course recently learning about how to supervise Learner Drivers. Victorian Learner Drivers need 120 hours of supervised driving before they can graduate onto a Provisional Driver…
Cheap Daewoo Nubira Wagon – Paintwork could use some work.
(as seen in a Melbourne CBD carpark - Thursday)
No skid pans though.
Spent part of today having a car driving instructor telling me how was my driving was. It feel like I was doing a driving test all over again. The car…
Testing the CrashCard, or … I had a car accident Friday night.
So I got to try out the CrashCard in a real situation. No good deed goes unpunished and all that. Things I learnt from the accident: The CrashCard does not include a…
SuperCheap Auto were selling these the other day,
and these CrashCards seem like a really clever idea: Ever been in a car crash or know of someone that was in one and found yourself scratching around for a…
Running on empty
They say Harry Firth, that great Australian race team manager would calibrate fuel gauges in the race cars he managed. I know he did this with the A9X race car. …
Fitting a larger oil filter to a Toyota 4A engine
There is a theory that the more oil capacity you have, the cooler the oil should run*. So I’d thought I’d give it a try in my Toyota Corolla. It…
Changing the remote key battery on a Hyundai Getz 2006-2009 model
You’ll need: a Panasonic CR1220 battery, or equivalent. a Pozidriv PZ00, or similarly sized, phillips screw driver. a bowl Taking the key apart is self-explanatory, just undo the screws. This…
The rules of lending a car, and why rental/company cars are more fun.
A friend has let me borrow her car. You can tell she’s clueless in the “let someone borrow your car” caper. It’s got half a tank of fuel in it!…
Dear Europcar, if you want my feedback, you should make it easy.
I'm giving you information to improve your business. If I don't want to provide my phone number to you, you should not force me to by producing the error: Please…