For me ‘Do you want to go on a car cruise?’ is a statement right up there with ‘Steak okay for dinner?’ and ‘I’ve filled the fridge with your favourite beer, enjoy!’ It’s not...
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8 Minutes
8 Minutes
Blood, sweat and oil filters
This was supposed to be a quick and simple post on how easy it is to give a 2009 Mitsubishi CJ Lancer an oil and filter change. Well it was supposed to be. However...
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3 Minutes
Faster, Pussycat! Drive! Drive!
My knowledge of Burning Man festival is pretty slim. My knowledge of Geo Metros, even slimmer. But when they come together, uniting in a glorious Facebook post, well how could I go past it?...
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9 Minutes
A green volcano from the radiator..
I’ve been pretty lucky with my cars right up until this one. But now that the new radiator and hoses have gone into the Subaru Impreza, instead of fixing the problems I’ve been having...
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3 Minutes
When coolant goes out but air comes in..
After another occasion where the heat gauge jumped around like it was at a House of Pain party, I finally booked the Slowbaru for a full cooling system check. The good news is: It’s...
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3 Minutes
Gallardo on a Pontiac budget
Uh…did I miss a memo again? Did those annoying notifications that tell me everything I don’t want to hear about (like Kim K, anything to do with Kim K) forget to inform me that...
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3 Minutes
Ferrari love but with Fiero money
Can’t afford a real Ferrari GTS 308? No sweat, here’s the next best thing – a Fiero with a Ferrari fur coat!...
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4 Minutes
BE-1 still my tiny one litre heart
It’s truly been a while since we came across a very uncommon import on these pages, talking the occasional strangeness that is a Le-Seyde or the March class that is the Viewt. Today we...
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4 Minutes
Why you need a test light in your tool kit
Funnily enough I had a test kit in my tool kit way back when but I threw it out because I had no idea what to do with it. Thankfully a very wise father in law...
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10 Minutes
Installing a new car stereo into your Subaru Impreza
The first time I bought a car stereo/CD player to replace a factory tape deck, I paid the shop to do it. The second time I paid a good mate with a box of...
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3 Minutes
Far from extinct – it’s a 90’s drift dinosaur!
I’ve heard of and seen for sale many a drift pig in my time. This is the first drift dinosaur I’ve ever come across though. Well I’m guessing it’s a dinosaur they were aiming...
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4 Minutes
Economy level: Master
So the Bond car we go into last week just not economical enough? Want to spend an ice age between fuel stops when pottering around town? Well do I have the car experiment for...
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3 Minutes
Going back for the next Bond car
If Idris Elba does indeed become the next James Bond, can we here at Driveanotherday.com suggest a bond car for him? No not the latest offerings from Aston Martin, BMW or even a Ford,...
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11 Minutes
Let’s get historic – Part 2 The Pits
It’s not very often you can venture around the pits at a racing event but at Winton it was almost encouraged. Watch the preparations, chat to the drivers, drool over the machinery or like...
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15 Minutes
Let’s get historic – Part 1 The Displays
It’s been a while between race tracks. Initially I thought my last stop was Phillip Island (9 years back) but then I realised I was also working at the Gold Coast 600 a couple...
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18 Minutes
The heat is on – replacing your Subaru Thermostat
Another heat related issue popped up recently on Bax the 05 Subaru Impreza and since we burped him last time, I figured maybe we needed to go a little deeper to sort out this...
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6 Minutes
How to change your Subaru Impreza knock sensor
The tyres been fixed (turned out it was a little screw causing all the headaches – thanks to Jax Albury for sorting it out in lightning time) and while I was on the way...
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7 Minutes
Knocks and burps – sorting out the Subaru one week in
Sigh. I was going to do a big write up about my latest acquisition, a 2005 Subaru Impreza aka Bax the Boxer here. And eventually I’ll get to writing up how I’m enjoying it,...
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13 Minutes
Plane engines and pancakes – the Jindera Swap meet 2022
Busy week for site content this week – picked up my latest car (more about that coming soon) and thanks to a work opportunity, I came face to metal with an angry snarling Monster...
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13 Minutes
The need for wheels
It’s amazing how a change of conditions makes you suddenly realise how much you want something isn’t it? Case in point me now starting work in the wee hours of the morning instead of...
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