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The insurers collect enough information to get a pretty good idea. Suburb / street, number of drivers and their age brackets, car model and…

Dunno about most dealers, but when I was buying a Hyundai Kona last month, they were offering a couple of grand off a MY24 car. I asked the…

> Rubber only perishes if it gets UV on it or is exposed to ozone. Not true. Those two are factors, but they are not the ONLY factors. You…

When I was in Melbourne, one Uber driver was driving a manual Renault. She seemed to have fun changing gears in Melbourne peak hour…

There is a difference. Rubber ages and deteriorates from the day it's manufactured. If the OP doesn't wear down the tyres rapidly, then he…

F-type - that's a bit fancy. PAL connectors and composite signal from the C=64 for the win.

Well, if we are going to be reminiscing of cars of yesteryear, I reckon the good old Nissan Skyline I used to drive was a great car.

Except for the bit that if the wife was a listed driver (almost certainly was), then **you** includes the wife. No get out of jail card.…

Maybe 10 years ago, but as of 2024, buying a new Honda seems a lot like boarding a sinking ship.

I have bought one ex-demo before without any major dramas, but it only had about 100km on the odometer and I put 40 of those on there on my…

I went out on the weekend and kicked tyres at a number of dealers and did a bit of test driving and homework. When I returned to the…

Yeah, but no. An 8GB Mac system will not be pleasant to use. It certainly won't cut it for any of the Neural Engine tools in the Studio…

If you are talking about real video editing software, I would not recommend an iGPU on Windows or Linux. Go for a real GPU (preferably…

Well, to round this off... I went around to a Subaru dealer and checked out the Crosstrek 2.0R. It took two staff members nearly an hour of…

Standard procedures for Samsung. Their customer service mission is to inconvenience the customer as much as possible, until the customer…

So, Belong are now sending out messages like these, after they coerced people to buy new phones... > Hi Peter. The 3G network is now…

Sorry (and not surprised) to hear it. Glad that you ended up with a working system. I suppose CPL will never get another dollar from you.

My current MY17 Impreza has enough boot space for most things and I assume that the new one will be about the same. However, when the…

Thanks for the insights. Since nothing happened on the Forester end this September, it looks like there won't be any new ones in the next…

Got it, thanks. I tried to make some forecasts based on the Wikipedia info, but that doesn't even cover Australian releases. There has been…

For me performance is good traction on a steep wet driveway, not leaving another car behind me at the traffic lights. So, kWh or Nm numbers…

The engine power or a +/- 1~2 L per 100 km fuel consumption variance doesn't factor into my personal decision making nearly as much as full…

By what metric?

I'm contemplating buying a **new** car and at the moment the short list has Subaru Impreza, Crosstrek and Forester. I'm trying to…

I don't know if the Libra is different to Specialita, but I prefer the adjustment on the Specialita over Breville Smart Grinder Pro or…

The good old Specialita might be "only" time based, but it's so consistent and reliable that the "by weight" feature in Libra is unlikely…

Cannatrek Ruby oil for the win. No need to inhale, in fact, no preparation of any kind. Lasts longer and, IMHO, it tastes great too.

[Beurer scales from Bunnings](https://www.bunnings.com.au/beurer-gs400w-digital-bathroom-scale_p0335435) are good and reasonably priced.…

Have you got a TKL version of this?

Don't know what the coffee machine is like, but the grinder is only a small step up from smashing coffee beans with a herb chopper. If you…