If you’re visiting New South Wales for under three months you can use your overseas driver’s licence for an equivalent licence in Australia. However, there are restrictions: Equivalent New South Wales licences for overseas drivers Learner licence If your licence…
Losing a speeding ticket or penalty notice is not uncommon, and it’s not an excuse for paying a fine late (or not paying at all). If you delay or don’t pay the fine, extra enforcement costs will be applied. There…
Put a horse in a horse float and you’ve got a couple of tonnes of unstable weight behind your vehicle. It is not like towing a trailer with furniture in the back, because horses move around and you will feel…
Air pollution by vehicles is caused by exhaust emissions that are a result of incomplete combustion of fuel in an engine. In a perfect world, fuel would be burnt completely and only water, carbon dioxide and nitrogen would be released, but…
Spare tyres used to be full sized but now many car manufacturers supply a narrow space saver wheel in the boot. There are good reasons for this: it gives you more cargo space they weigh less therefore give better fuel economy…
Unlike in the UK, it is not illegal to splash a pedestrian with clean water from a puddle by driving through it. However, it is illegal in New South Wales to splash mud on bus passengers. You could receive a $177…
The air in your tyres is affected by temperature. When it’s warm, the pressure is higher and when it’s cooler the pressure is lower. The tyres aren’t what supports the weight of your car, it’s the air in the tyres,…
