MR FIXIT

DAVE MORLEY GIVES YOU THE CAR ADVICE YOU NEED – AND MAYBE A BIT ABOUT LIFE AS WELL

Shrugging off my veil of uselessness for a moment (people tend to bother you less if there’s nothing they can gain from you) I’d like to share a little hack I discovered by accident that I reckon might be of some considerable use to a relatively large number of people. Yeah, I know, not like me at all, right?

Anyway, this wee trick might just save a few people from tearing their hair out, setting fire to their car, or both. Which people? Anybody who owns a middle-aged Commodore from the look of things. Now, the MBC parts chaser these days is a 2003 Commodore SS ute. I like it because it can carry big, heavy things (like me) but mainly because there’s 5.7 litres of aluminium V8 up front that, whichever way you cut the deck, is truly, marvellously excessive.

I also like the fact that, as a r-e-aso-n-a-b-l-y late-model car (by my standards, anyway) the ute has cruise-control, air-conditioning that works, ABS brakes and a little function that turns off