December 10, 2025 • Car Care

Free online car repair manuals

Operation CHARM is a website that has free car repair manuals for many makes and models that you can view online or download and use offline.
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November 30, 2025 • Car Racing

One of the greatest coincidences in motor sport

Up to 1999 I had been watching various forms of motorsport for a decade or more and I had never seen a pit lane incident where a crew member had their head run over before.
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November 23, 2025 • 2011 Ford Focus Sport

New seats installed

After cleaning my new seats with a carpet/upholstery cleaner and spraying them with upholstery deodoriser I fitted them to the car today.
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November 22, 2025 • 2011 Ford Focus Sport

Vinyl-wrapping trim and repairing the centre vents on my Ford Focus LW

New seats, vinyl wrapping interior parts and fixing broken centre vent controls.
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November 16, 2025 • 2011 Ford Focus Sport

Removing window tint from my Ford Focus

The window tint on the rear window of my Ford Focus had bubbled and peeled and looked bad and was hard to see through so I removed it using the garbage bag method.
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November 15, 2025 • 2011 Ford Focus Sport

Aliexpress parts fitted to the Ford Focus

I received a few of my Aliexpress orders so was able to install a new gear knob and wrap my roof trims.
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November 8, 2025 • 2011 Ford Focus Sport

Updates to the "Aliexpress" Ford Focus

As my new Focus was cheap and has done somewhere around 260,000km, it's not worth spending too much money on, so I'm calling it the AliExpress car because I will be choosing cheap parts wherever possible, often from AliExpress.
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November 2, 2025 • 2011 Ford Focus Sport

Polishing the new Focus' headlight's and removing the paint from the wheels

Hard work is slowly paying off on the new Ford Focus.
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November 1, 2025 • 2011 Ford Focus Sport

First work on my 2011 Ford Focus Sport

Time to reverse some of the modifications done to my car by previous owners.
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October 30, 2025 • 2011 Ford Focus Sport

Bought a Ford Focus LW

I somehow ended up with an Ford Focus LW series one in black with high mileage.
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September 30, 2025 • Used Cars

Registering an unregistered vehicle in NSW

Here's what you need to know if registering an unregistered vehicle in NSW, whether the car was previously registered in NSW or another state.
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August 20, 2025 • YV1VW2422YF558319, Volvo S40 & V40

2000 Volvo V40 T4 Manual for sale on Carsales

Spotted for sale on Carsales in Victoria is a MY00 Volvo V40 T4 in manual.
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July 12, 2025 • Nissan, Reviews

Nissan Dualis (J10) 2007-2014 Review

Many owners report that the Dualis is a not a high quality car. Nissan CVT transmissions are well known for not lasting long...
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Volvo S40 T4 Super Tourer limited edition up for sale in NSW

2000 S4 T4 Super Tourer, 5-speed manual, previously setup for hillclimb and has a firm suspension.
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July 7, 2025 • Mazda, Reviews

Mazda3 (BL) 2009-2013 Review

Petrol models are generally reliable. Diesel models can be expensive to maintain and repair and are best avoided...
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April 27, 2025 • Beta Eikon, Beta (Motorcycles)

My Beta Eikon 150 scooter

Around 2006 we bought this Beta Eikon 150cc scooter for my wife to learn to ride on.
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April 27, 2025 • 1989 Toyota Celica GT-R, Toyota

My 1989 Toyota Celica GT-R

After selling my BMW E30 I looked at Celicas and found this 1989 Japanese-import GT-R model for sale in the same suburb that I lived in.
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Supercharged Mercedes S202

I saw this C200T Kompressor for sale in Sydney for $3,500. C200 wagons are pretty rare and the Kompressor model even more so. I've only seen a few locally....
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March 26, 2025 • YV1VW1822WF139565, Volvo S40 & V40

Manual Volvo V40 T4 listed on Facebook

This one was sold about 6 months ago and now up for sale again. White phase 1 manual V40 T4 now with 206,000km in South Australia for $3,000. Now marked as...
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