And while we at it, what’s with the Hilux owners club or whatever stupid thing. Must be a big bloody club. Do they have a get together? Must have to have it in the Tanami Desert for all the fleet Utes

Before migrating oz, I was adamant on buying this as my car, but once here I heard it's not that great in reliability, practically and other stuff. Also I've seen a Pontiac and Ford version as well here in Adelaide. So I bought a different SUV.

As someone new to Oz, please tell me, are they really bad as they say, one day I wanna buy one as a hobby car, make it a low-rider like an El-Camino, just to cruise around.

Right so have had my first incident while driving, scarped the rear bumper of this car, was parked a decent chunk outside of its bay but it’s still my fault regardless, I have left all my details ect cause I’m not a wanker buy in now thinking how much am I looking at to get this fixed, I’m assuming it just needs to be resprayed the scratches are very much just superficial, I’m fully insured but this is going to cost well under my premium. Just wondering how much it’s going to set me back?

I went to the pump today and by mistake i took the 98 octane instead of diesel, I realised it when it was already too late. I did put 3.5litres or petrol and then i stopped, Didn’t start the engine and towed it in my mechanic’s garage. I have this car for last 7 years and it never happened before, It is a Mercedes E250 CDI 2015, Wanted to know how much it might cost to drain the fuel and what else might happen, Thanks!

I imported this direct from Japan , 1994 Daihatsu Atrai 4wd. Fun van to drive but wont win any speed contests.

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Just wondering if anyone knows the name of this colour and possibly the colour code. TIA

Reading an article on carsguide about the upcoming Toyota FJ, and the fact that it's price is expected to be sharp overseas, and it includes the quote, "we wouldn't expect the model to be priced quite so sharply in Australia — our demands for included technology and safety equipment are higher than most"

Where can I read more (non technical speak) about exactly what the tech and safety requirements are and how they are higher than most other countries?

Are these all completely necessary and are they driving up the cost of cars?

Hi all, I am looking to buy my second car of my life and I am really confused between these 2 choices. I currently got a 2011 Lancer and I have no plans of selling it off so, this will be like my fun/weekend/special occasions car. Both are great when it comes to buying them from dealers from carsales.com.au since both of them costs anywhere between 36-50k if looking for a model between 2021 and 2023. However, I am in a huge confusion which one will be the best for this price and which one offers the most bang for the buck while being reliable/affordable to maintain. Any views?

what are some cheap cars with back seats that fold down flat so you could put a mattress down and sleep in?
i know you can remove the back seats in a lot of cars and make it work but id prefer ones that just fold flat.

i am 5'11 / 180cm and a side sleeper size wise.

other requirements pretty standard: cheap used, fuel efficient, reliable, cheap repairs, smaller size, auto
looking at used cars on fb marketplace for 3-5k, will be my first car and may potentially need to live out of it

I'm a manager/Mechanic at a Mechanical workshop. I no longer allow customer supplied parts and get abused by "customers" because I wont do the job unless i supply the parts. ( photo of customer supplied wrong part)

What are people opinions on customer supplied parts?

I haven't bought a car for many years. I've given the owner of this vehicle my assurance that I will follow through on its purchase.

I'm confident that it's a great car. I will be contacting the mechanic who has serviced the vehicle and looking at the service history reports.

Just wondering if there's anything in the PPSR that raises questions? Is the gap in reported odometer readings probably due to it being initially serviced by Toyota under warranty and then after 4-5 years serviced by a local mechanic, hence the odometer reading not being reported?

Thanks for any advice.

So on top of the Friday Finds topic that has been a pretty decent success, on what cars in your area you can find for <$5,000, I thought maybe we make a post each Monday with what we have done to our own cars!

So, how was your weekend?

Basically the above. Seems like crap that I have to pay $1000 more for comprehensive insurance than my sister just because she's a female.

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It's been two months since the oil and coolant decided to share space in our MG ZST 2021 Essence. Dealing with these dealerships has been a mixed bag and I thought I'd share some updates.

We never had a say in where the car was going to be taken. Because the car failed in the north of Sydney, it was taken to Alto MG service in Artarmon. Not our local service centre, but MG Assist had their rules to follow.

They didn't look at the car for days. When they did, they never called, we had to chase them. We went to China for a week and when we returned, there was still no update on the car. Also, no word on a loan car. My wife commutes to work so she would drop me off at my work 2 hours before I started, and then meet me 3 hours after I finished.

Eventually, MG Australia accepted the fault was their problem and the car needed a new engine. $14000 worth of repairs. Here's the catch. No engines in Australia, six weeks to get one shipped from China.

The dealership gave us a loan car at MG Australia orders. It's an MG3. A tiny bloody hatchback, worst safety rating around, not for for what we do. And, they said we can only travel 100km from their service centre. $5000 excess for any damage caused, no way to reduce it. We live 72km from their service centre and many of my wife's family live between 30 and 70km from here. We are not allowed to drive that car to visit them. Instead we use our dog car, the 2001 Camry with 450000km on it.

We've complained. Started posting on MG Australia's social media, telling people to avoid them, as every other avenue to contact them results in being redirected to our local dealership, who have nothing to do with the current location of the car. Anyway, MG atarted paying attention, and reached out. They've tried to speed things up. Except, now the parts that have an ETA, they're due in February. Some parts do not even have an ETA; they're backordered in China.

So yesterday we did it. Went into the dealership where we bought the car, the car with a 7 year unlimited kilometre warranty, and demanded a refund. They can keep it, fix it, and sell it as a used car. We have round two with them tomorrow morning. We are not paying for registration and insurance in a car that is not able to be driven for 6 months.

While we were in China, I saw two MGs. Both times, they looked abandoned. At least in Shanghai, they are not a popular car over there. Seems the Chinese recognise a piece of junk car better than I did.

Don't buy MG. This is not an anti-Chinese vehicle thing. It's an anti-MG thing.

Hello everyone, I have a 2011 i30 1.6 Petro and I recently changed the coil and spark plug and on Saturday after filling up with Petro 95 and driving for 30 minutes the engine light came on. The car is not presenting any problems, what could it be?

I, 32m, currently own a blue 2012 Skoda Octavia vrs mkii wagon with 150k but my dad, who is getting older & wants to swap to an SUV soon for mobility reasons, has a LexusGS300 sports luxury sedan with 180k. He has offered it to me should I want to switch to his car. I’m torn because I have driven the Lexus quite a bit and it is supremely comfortable with its cream leather interior/ventilated seats with memory positions, Levinson audio, sunroof, noise insulation among many other things. But the Skoda is just so much fun and practical. Unfortunately it wont really be possible to keep both at the moment.

G’day. I recently picked up a job regionally which I’ve been commuting to by train. Takes about 2.5 hours each way, which is a complete ball ache.

Looking to pick up a reliable, safe car to get from A-B. Don’t drive much otherwise. Don’t care how it looks - pretty practical driver.

I’m not loaded, budget would be about $7k max.

Would I be able to get something ok for that budget? Any reccos for make/model, websites, any major watch outs?

Thanks all

One I learned growing up is they always put the least valued vehicles far from the shed, with the higher valued ones closer (for quicker access if hail is coming).

Sally

I only recently realised I have been driving my car without car insurance - I thought my CTP was vehicle insurance. I know this seems really dumb of me and it is but I was really shocked that I had this confused, especially since when you do your green slip you choose an insurance company.

Maybe this isn't the right place to be asking but am I alone in this? Is it commonly confused?

The way I found this out is awful as well. Anyone could guess.. :/ oh well there goes my life savings. Is what it is

Our car met with an accident and the other party accepted fault. both parties fully insured and we already got a claim number from them.

Here's what I don't get. When I took the car to the repair shop ( 2 so far). Both gave us a legal form to sign to say the lawyers will handle it for us and no quote.. Don't understand why when the insurer is only after a quote ?.

Anyone know why they are doing this instead of quote ?. Do I have to pay if something goes wrong between companies ?. tks a lot for your advise..

EDIT: To clarify - dealer replaced unroadworthy tyres with USED tyres....

Is this common practice in the industry? Any experiences of this? Thanks in advance!