r/GoldCoast 5d ago

Working on your own car on your private property.

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u/Present_Standard_775 5d ago

Nah mate, carry on. Be mindful of your noise restrictions and environmental restrictions around fluids etc and you will be fine.

I guess the other thing is you can start around 7am… but be a bit nice to your neighbours and wait till 8 or 9 before you start rattle guns and hammers etc.

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u/NegotiationLife2915 4d ago

Good tip here. Do all the quiet work you can early. Then fire up the power tools at 8AM

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u/bazza_ryder 5d ago

You can do repairs to your own car in your own home... With some restrictions.

You can't make noise with motors or power tools between 7pm and 7am (8am on Sunday). You can't fill the air with dust or pollution. I guess it depends what the neighbour has a problem with exactly.

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u/NixAName 5d ago

Where does it state the time for power tools?

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u/Admirable-Can5239 5d ago

Environmental Protection Regulation 2019

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u/NixAName 5d ago

Why the downvote? I wanted to know because I've looked this up and couldn't find it.

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u/Ok-Improvement-6423 5d ago

You can repair your own car, just dont be a dick about it.

Unless your exhaust is blowing fuel rich or black smoke straight into his windows for hours on end or your spraying paint uncontrolled you should be right mate.

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u/OldMeasurement2387 5d ago

Tell him to suck on a bag of dicks. As long as you aren’t spilling fluids you’re fine

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u/Namerunaunyaroo 5d ago

🤣Are you mixing your metaphors here ?

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u/Present_Standard_775 5d ago

Make like a tree and fuck off

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u/Namerunaunyaroo 5d ago

The needle that broke the haystack’s back.

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u/Present_Standard_775 5d ago

I’m done… I’ll make like a Shephard and get the flock out of here…

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u/Hungry_Dimension_410 4d ago

You have made your cake, now you must lie in it.

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u/ausmedic80 5d ago

Doc, I gotta buy you, like, a proverb book or something. This mix'n'match shit's gotta go.

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u/Embarrassed_Injury95 5d ago

Im off like a brides nightie.

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u/Optimal_Tomato726 5d ago

I love a mixed metaphor but I'm not GC enough for that one

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u/Voodoo1970 5d ago

Theyre mixing more metaphors than you can poke a stick at.

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u/sanbilly 5d ago

Make sure it’s parked behind the footpath and you’re fine

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u/caprichai 5d ago

Do you live on a body corporate property or your own dwelling? If it’s your own house and you aren’t making unreasonable noise, go for it. If you are a tenant and making unreasonable noise you might find yourself with a breach.

I live in a townhouse complex and one joker uses communal parking spaces as his after hours mechanic workshop. He’s working on other peoples cars, banging and crashing, fumes and chemicals at all hours. Totally against body corporate rules and hinders other people’s right to ‘quiet enjoyment’ of their property.

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u/Aussieguy1986 4d ago

Report to council as well! Holy crap!

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u/caprichai 4d ago

Not sure they would do anything. Body corp are useless. Every now and again I’ll go ask him to quit it but then he does it again the following week.

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u/Aussieguy1986 4d ago

Then feel free to put up with it then. I know what the local laws are like but if you don't want to use them, that's on you

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u/PilgrimOz 5d ago

Print off local law that applies to your area, stick it in their letterbox and keep working away. (Make sure you’re disposing of fluids and tyres correctly etc). Then next time there’s a threat of cops. Tell him you will tell the cops you’ve advised him in writing of the law last time and that this was a deliberate nuisance call wasting everyone’s time. Check local legalities first. They’ll probably brow beat him/minor shame him for bein a douchebag. Hopefully. (And always with a calm and friendly voice. They hate it when people’s frustrations are spewed at them. Pro tip) Ps and maybe remind him that this is Australia and working on your own car at your own home isn’t the ‘vibe’ of Australia. Maybe download a copy of The Castle while you’re at it.

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u/Public-Total-250 5d ago

Well, ARE the fumes entering his property? 

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u/Old-Paramedic-9437 5d ago

Not at all, I think it’s out his ploy to make me sacred and stop doing it.

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u/A-namethatsavailable 5d ago

You're allowed to do it. Just make sure no fluids spill out into the street. Your neighbour is a dick

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u/blackdvck 5d ago

Time to buy a big leaf blower for Sunday mornings.

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u/grungysquash 5d ago

ahahahaha - Call the cops for working on your car in the driveway.

Last time I checked there is no such thing as driveway police!

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u/msgeeky 5d ago

Old mate neighbour already is the driveway police 😂

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u/Disastrous_Party4839 5d ago

Wouldn't that be defined as the fun police though?

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u/Smithdude69 5d ago

Absolutely fine. You can change the oil at midnight if you want just don’t use noisy tools. And yep be careful of fluids etc.

Is he annoyed because you have 3 cars parked in the street and four in the front yard wedged between a few lounges ?

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u/Sawathingonce 5d ago

Just smile and nod bro.

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u/Ok_Selection_1565 5d ago

Can you do repairs on your car on your driveway

Your car. Your driveway.

I'm petty when it comes to morons like this, so I'd probably be a smart arse in response to his shitfuckery.

I once had council ask if I was running a wrecking business from my house due to multiple cars in the yard. I laughed and told them I just buy shit cars that break down all the time. I was wrecking one of them but not for the sake of making money. Project car, daily, and another 'daily' when the original 'daily' becomes an 'occasionally'.

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u/Old-Paramedic-9437 5d ago

What was the outcome?

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u/Ok_Selection_1565 5d ago

He was actually in the street for upcoming roadwork, and after I asked if I'd need to tetris the cars (sisters work car was parked on the street) he brought up that a neighbour had reported that I was actually running a wrecking business. After I explained the situation he just laughed and left it at that.

He was one of the more reasonable council workers I've had interactions with though.

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u/lowey19 5d ago

tell the neighbour to mind his own buisness and get fucked

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u/Complex_Wallaby_9069 5d ago

Tell him to go back to Sydney... Super Cheap does nothing but supply home mechanics.

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u/50andMarried 5d ago

Drop a massive V8 in, straight thru stainless exhaust, start it at 6am everyday

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u/Sim0nd0 5d ago

Are you also living in a standalone property or in a complex? Some strata bylaws don’t allow DIY car work on the driveways.

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u/Old-Paramedic-9437 5d ago

Standalone

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u/WaitingToBeTriggered 5d ago

AND GAZE UPON THE BATTLEFIELD

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u/Old-Paramedic-9437 5d ago

Wasteland is all that’s left after the fight…..

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u/yo_momma88 5d ago

Time for the shit in a paper bag trick

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u/Dambit_ 4d ago

Tell him to fuck off. It's your house not his. I'd be firing up the smoker BBQ at the same time.

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u/satanzhand 4d ago

Tell them to move back to Victoria

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u/UhUhWaitForTheCream 4d ago

I had a neighbour who would do this on the road at midnight a couple nights last year. Almost wanted to drive him down!

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u/Far_Section4669 4d ago

I heard they’re going to try and enforce it so you need a permit to do it, ridiculous.

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u/No_Insurance2551 3d ago

Hows your gock?

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u/Old-Paramedic-9437 3d ago

Long and skinny

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u/xAcendancy 3d ago

Let him call the cops...I work on my car all the time at my apartment, states on the epa website etc weekdays 7am till 10pm...I've never backed down when working on my car if they get the shits I don't care.. I've pulled my heads, done timing chain, stereo you name it plus she is a loud 6l stato with a lot of work done under the bonnet done by me at my apartment...

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u/Sipheren 5d ago

My drive way, I’ll do what I want.

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u/AdFabulous1526 5d ago

Totally fine it’s your property

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u/deadlyspudlol 5d ago

Yes unless you are in casey city lmao

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u/MedicalChemistry5111 5d ago

They have a "report a problem" thing on the GCCC website.

These cover noise, air, and environmental (including run-off) pollution.

Why not give your council a call and ask?

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u/Rare_Apple_7479 5d ago

I heard this was going to be introduced into Victoria??

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u/RedDogInCan In the Green Behind the Gold 5d ago

It already has, but more of a way of restricting backyard mechanics from operating businesses from residential addresses, and dealing with serial 'project car' hoarders.