Car advice for people whose age and IQ are both over 50.
ONE OF THE MOST COMMON areas of dispute for many motorists concerns servicing and, specifically, whether the work has been done satisfactorily and at a fair price. Most drivers aren’t mechanics – if they were,
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WE’VE HAD A NUMBER OF PEOPLE contact us after receiving a parking infringement notice for parking too close to an intersection. Most of them have no recourse – the Australian Road Rules make it clear
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FOR MANY DRIVERS, the need to change a wheel and tyre has simply never arisen, but a flat tyre can happen to anyone, and usually in the most inconvenient places and at the most inconvenient
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NOTHING IS MORE ANNOYING, according to some correspondence we have received, than being pinged for speeding soon after passing a change of speed limit sing. Well, the bad news is that you are expected to
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AT THIS TIME OF THE YEAR, car parks are places of motorised chaos, and not much better for the rest of the year either! They are also high risk zones, with distracted pedestrians, frustrated drivers,
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WHILE DRIVING PAST a boat trailer parking lot this morning, I noticed a large Highway Patrol officer affixing a notice to the windscreen of a Mitsubishi Triton. Intrigued, I returned a short time later, when
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WHEN A NEW ROAD RULE setting a speed limit of 25km/h when passing any emergency vehicle with flashing red and blue lights was introduced in South Australia, we predicted it would cause more injuries than
Continue readingDESPITE ANY AMOUNT OF EVIDENCE that speeding fines do not discourage speeding, the Victorian government, already one of the most Draconian, has decided to increase the penalties for speeding, and in particular excessive (or“high range”)
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IN AN AMAZING about face, SA Police have temporarily ceased using handheld speed detection laser guns and will withdraw 125 prosecutions against drivers. This follows a number of successful challenges by drivers against speeding fines,
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IT’S A MORE COMMON PROBLEM than you might imagine, but having to transport three children under seven in a car is not always simple. Children up to the age of seven years are required to
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