Mount Waverley's roads
The four edges
Highbury Road to the north, Ferntree Gully Road to the south, Huntingdale Road to the west and Blackburn Road to the east, with Stephensons Road straight through the middle. The Monash Freeway's Forster Road exit is signed for Mount Waverley.
Up the hill
Around the reservoir on High Street Road the land sits 138 to 150 metres above sea level, one of the suburb's high points. Hill starts on streets like these are a workout for brakes, clutches and automatic gearboxes.
Offices as well as homes
A business park and office corridor runs along Ferntree Gully and Blackburn Roads, and the south-east is part of the Monash Technology Precinct. If the car won't start at work, use the postcode where it's parked.
Where the Melway began
The Melway street directory was first produced in a garage in Mount Waverley in 1966. These days the postcode does the finding.
Three reasons you might need a roadworthy
In Victoria a roadworthy certificate is needed to sell a registered car, to re-register one, and to clear some defect notices. Only a licensed vehicle tester can do the check, and the certificate lasts 30 days from issue.
Re-registering is the one people forget, often for a car that's sat in the garage. A defect notice is the other: some can only be cleared with a roadworthy, so read the notice and give the tester a copy.
Before the roadworthy
You can
- Walk round with the lights and indicators on, and get someone to watch the brake lights
- Look over the tyres for worn tread, cuts and bulges
- Check the wipers clear the screen and the washers squirt
- Note any warning light that stays on after the car starts
- Make sure every seatbelt clicks in and winds back
Leave to the mechanic
- Brakes, steering and suspension
- Anything leaking underneath
- Fixing whatever the tester lists, before the recheck
- The certificate itself, which only a licensed vehicle tester can issue
Where we'd start
If the car has been off the road for a while, we'd have a mechanic service it and sort the obvious faults first, then go for the roadworthy. One trip to the tester beats a list of fixes and a second visit.