Spotted this parking restriction sign in Elsternwick. My question is this: How is it possible to over-stay the four hour limit between 8am and 12 noon on a Saturday? Why did they even bother restricting the parking on Saturdays? So I thought that was pretty silly. Until I saw this one around the corner from ... [More]
My bloody car is still playing up, despite a service the other week that included an astronomically expensive ultrasound on the fuel injection! Given that that was prompted by reporting the same fault it’s still suffering, what are my statutory rights here? Anyway it’s been at the service place since last night (so they can ... [More]
Well, I said this month would be car maintenance month. Four nice shiny new tyres plus fitting plus whatever other surcharges they tack on: $544. 200,000 Km service, including ultrasound analysis of the fuel injection (!) and numerous other tinkering: $842. (But it does purr like a kitten now.) A tank of petrol: $62. But ... [More]
It seems the state government has decided to reveal all the possible locations of mobile speed cameras for the first time. I know other juristictions have done this kind of thing before, but I don’t quite see how this is a good thing. Doesn’t it just give lead-foot motorists (and there’s plenty of them out ... [More]
So I moseyed down to the tyre place yesterday afternoon. The bloke looked over my tyres, and just as I’d suspected, told me in no uncertain terms that they were beyond the bounds of roadworthy. He also puzzled over why there were non-standard (wider than usual) tyres on the car. “Someone in the past must ... [More]
April is car maintenance month for me. First thing will be new tyres. I don’t do a lot of driving (in the region of 10,000km per year, which is apparently about half the average), but the tyres date back to last century. The front-left deflates rather too fast, and they are failing the matchstick head ... [More]
Okay okay, it hasn’t really been that bad. But I had to laugh when seeing about five of these signs in a row going up St Kilda Road the other week. One really did say “Avoid inner suburbs.” See also: Blame the Games A day at the athletics (Note March 2016: originally this was a ... [More]
Not as bad as the last one, but still… This is the end of a 40 (school) zone, and is at the bottom of a hill at a T-junction. Assuming you’ve been travelling along this road at the 40 limit, why on earth would you speed up to 50 just before you have to stop ... [More]
This is one of the silliest things I’ve seen in quite some time… At my very rough estimate, the signs are about 20 metres apart. By my (admittedly sometimes dodgey) maths, driving at 40kmh you’d cover that ground in 1.8 seconds. (10 points to whoever guesses where it is.)
I’ve been pretty lax in checking the oil level in the car recently, despite the humungous amount of money such slackness cost me a couple of years ago when it directly led to the whole engine needing replacing, which cost $3000. But as I had noticed one of the tyres needed inflating, I decided to ... [More]
I’m not sure, but I think the car was a blue Ford Falcon. I’m not sure, but OZC 821 may have been the licence plate number. I’m not sure, but the lady driving it may have been eating an apple. I’m not sure, but she may have got her driver licence in a corn flakes ... [More]
This note on my windscreen this morning: Dear whoever you are, Tell you what, I’ll do you a couple of favours. Firstly I won’t park in front of your house anymore. It’s not that appealing anyway. I don’t know what the hell you’ve done to your nature strip, which resembles an overgrown miniature botanic gardens, ... [More]