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June 2018
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0273-18 Payless Tyres
It is a billboard which states the direction and distance of Payless Tyres.
Dismissed Automotive Outdoor 20/06/2018
0275-18 Everlast Trading
The ad features the name of the company and a blonde woman in a swimsuit wearing high heels standing astride a smaller photo of a b-double truck.
Dismissed Automotive Transport 20/06/2018
July 2019
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0224-19 Global Shop Direct
This television advertisement is for a product which is designed to fix phone onto car dash.
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Automotive TV - Pay 24/07/2019
0226-19 Cece Crash Repairs
This advertisement depicts the text "RIM JOBS...Colour changes and repairs to your damaged rims". Two images of wheels are ncluded, one with a winking face emoji and one with a tongue oout emoji in the centre of the wheel.
Dismissed Automotive Poster 24/07/2019
September 2018
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0393-18 Motorcycle Service Centre
A mobile billboard on the rear of a bus, promoting a motorcycle servicing and roadworthy centre.
Dismissed Automotive Transport 12/09/2018
0373-18 Caltex Australia Ltd
The lady is entering data on her smartphone to pay Caltex ( fuel?) to illustrate how quick this can be she is engaged in a race with a man using a chainsaw to cut through timber.
Dismissed Automotive TV - Free to Air 12/09/2018
July 2017
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0313-17 Century Batteries
TV Commercial on WIN [12.35pm] that I feel warrants urgent advice to WIN and Century battteries.Basically shows a 4WD with boat trailer attached, parked on the wrong side of a rural road, [would expect to be 100kph speeed limit] doing a jump start to a sedan, then rapidly pulling back across the road and continuing journey.
Dismissed Automotive TV - Free to Air 26/07/2017
February 2016
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0022-16 Ultra Tune Australia
Short ad for current specials. 2 women in black rubber suits play with tennis rackets and balls while tyre brands and prices flash up on screen.
Dismissed Automotive TV - Free to Air 10/02/2016
0041-16 Ultra Tune Australia
Two females enter a white convertible that's sitting precariously near the edge of a cliff. In stead of putting the car into reverse they go forward and off the cliff. The driver activates her roadside assistance and a helicopter with males rescues them.
Dismissed Automotive Internet 10/02/2016
0021-16 Ultra Tune Australia
Ultra Tune advert
Upheld - Not Modified or Discontinued Automotive Internet 10/02/2016
0025-16 Ultra Tune Australia
Ultra Tune advert
Dismissed Automotive Internet 10/02/2016
August 2017
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0352-17 Tuff Muff Exhausts
A group of men chanting "No muff too tuff" before a voice over sayings they repair mufflers
Dismissed Automotive Radio 09/08/2017
May 2016
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0176-16 Ultra Tune Australia
Two women dressed quite provocatively in a car while it breaks down on train tracks.
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Automotive TV - Pay 11/05/2016
0175-16 Ultra Tune Australia
Add shows two women in a car that has broken down on a railway level crossing suggesting that if there car had been serviced by Ultratune this would not have happened.
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Automotive TV - Free to Air 11/05/2016
August 2015
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0303-15 BP Australia Pty Ltd
It's a BP Fuel TV advertisement.
Dismissed Automotive TV - Free to Air 12/08/2015
March 2020
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0083-20 Lifestyles Hi-Way Carwash
This billboard advertisement features the name of the business, along with a cartoon image of a woman cleaning a car. The woman is wearing a whit crop top and denim shorts and is bending over to get cleaning supplies from a bucket.
Dismissed Automotive Billboard 11/03/2020
October 2015
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0424-15 Metropolitan Motorcycle Spares
Print ad - cycle torque: It is an ad advertising a motorcycle wreckers and the parts they sell. The main headline says bringing things back together for over 30 years. It depicts damaged motorcycle on the left and on the right 2 women in lingerie/swimsuit lying down horizontally embracing one on top of the other both looking seductively at the camera.
Upheld - Not Modified or Discontinued Automotive Print 28/10/2015
April 2016
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0145-16 Ultra Tune Australia
Two women in a sports car are apparently so stupid they follow phone maps to drive their car off a cliff. Their car explodes and ultra-tune employees rescue them in a helicopter.
Dismissed Automotive TV - Pay 13/04/2016
September 2013
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0316-13 Metropolitan Motorcycle Spares
Advertisement banner says Australia's Largest Wreckers (in red)Photo of motorcycle with almost naked woman lying on the ground in front of it in a pose suggesting she is inviting sexual advances.
Upheld - Not Modified or Discontinued Automotive Print 11/09/2013
0307-13 Dapco
Features 5 cheerleading girls with the Dapco logo on the front of the uniform and a single letter on each of the girls posterior skirt bottoms to spell DAPCO
Dismissed Automotive 11/09/2013
November 2014
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0500-14 RAC of WA (Incorporated)
There are a group of catholic nuns stuck on the road side who don't want help. Then there is a group of catholic nuns in lingerie who want help.
Dismissed Automotive TV - Free to Air 26/11/2014
November 2019
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0388-19 Bayswater Car Rental Pty Ltd
This radio advertisement is for No Bird Car Rental.
Dismissed Automotive Radio 27/11/2019
October 2018
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0470-18 Repco Ltd
Advert shows someone sniffing oil fumes to guess the oil, penrite.
Dismissed Automotive TV - Free to Air 24/10/2018
February 2018
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0531-17 Holden Ltd
An add on television depicts unsafe positioning of seatbelt on a pregnant woman.
Dismissed Automotive TV - Free to Air 07/02/2018
0027-18 Ultra Tune Australia
A group of women dressed for a night out walk through a dark street in Melbourne only to find the tyre on their car is flat. They are confronted by a gang of men, one of them holding a baseball bat. One of the men smashes the car headlight with the bat after asking in a threatening voice if they have "car trouble". Then actor Jean-Claude Van Damme comes to their rescue.
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Automotive Internet - Social - Other 07/02/2018
August 2018
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0365-18 Ultra Tune Australia
'Unexpected Situation no. 4 - Jean Claude van Damme' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hy6jQZVGfbw 
Dismissed Automotive Internet - Social - Other 22/08/2018
0364-18 Ultra Tune Australia
'Unexpected Situation no. 3 - Car Wash' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EQ-af6Pb2o 
Dismissed Automotive Internet - Social - Other 22/08/2018
November 2016
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0490-16 Cairns tyre specialist
A large bikini cleavage close up followed by pictures of tyres.
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Automotive TV - Free to Air 23/11/2016
0500-16 Marshall Batteries
Husband and pregnant wife stagger down steps and get into car, attempt to start the car to head to hospital, however car does not start. They call Marshal Battery replacement.
Dismissed Automotive TV - Free to Air 23/11/2016
February 2020
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0057-20 Toyota Motor Corporation Australia
This television advertisement features footage of a Toyota motorsports vehicle driving on a track, interspersed with Toyota vehicles driving on and off roads.
Dismissed Automotive TV - Free to Air 12/02/2020
October 2020
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0308-20 Auto Masters
This radio advertisement had three versions featuring a little girl on skates.
Dismissed Automotive Radio 21/10/2020
May 2014
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0150-14 Valvoline (Aust) Pty Ltd
Men driving round in cars doing burn outs/doughnuts.
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Automotive 14/05/2014
January 2016
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0500-15 Novus Auto Glass
They are advertising repairing cracks in the car windows.
Dismissed Automotive TV - Free to Air 20/01/2016
June 2014
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0201-14 Ultra Tune Australia
Ultratune advertisement just before state of origin kick off.
Dismissed Automotive TV - Free to Air 11/06/2014
0186-14 Ultra Tune Australia
Ultratune ad; 2 girls driving a car following navman for directions, they keep being told to go left by navman and end up driving into a dam, then get towed out
Dismissed Automotive 11/06/2014
June 2018
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0267-18 Prestige Hino
Radio ad about two guys talking about the recent purchase of a new truck. The guy who bought the truck should have gone to Hino. They use the word ‘truck’ suggestively, but it leaves little to the imagination. ‘Truck me!’ ‘Are you Trucking serious!?!’
Dismissed Automotive Radio 06/06/2018
January 2019
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0022-19 Ultra Tune Australia
TV advertisement for Ultra Tune featuring Charlie Sheen
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Automotive TV - Free to Air 23/01/2019
September 2017
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0387-17 Tyrepower Marketing
Sexist ad. Against women. Ad says "us girls just get in the car and don't even think about tyres" portrays women as stupid.
Dismissed Automotive Radio 13/09/2017
November 2015
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0440-15 Super Cheap Auto Pty Ltd
Ad depicts 4 vehicles doing burn outs and crossing each other in a figure 8 pattern. They cross in front of a SuperCheap semi trailer and it is shown to swerve and almost roll
Dismissed Automotive TV - Free to Air 11/11/2015
August 2014
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0301-14 My Plates
The ad shows a woman discussing how she has stopped her 'disgusting' male partner from using her vehicle, by purchasing plates with women's shoes on them. She goes on to say it's great that he has lost weight, as he now walks everywhere.
Dismissed Automotive TV - Free to Air 27/08/2014
0328-14 Valvoline (Aust) Pty Ltd
The "Man Like Horespower" ad that supposedly promotes their Synpower Oil
Dismissed Automotive TV - Pay 27/08/2014
February 2017
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0045-17 Ultra Tune Australia
1: Women approaching a car at night, they are approached by a group of men asking about car troubles, a martial arts star appears and the group of men take photos with him.
Dismissed Automotive TV - Free to Air 08/02/2017
August 2020
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0235-20 Renault Australia
This television advertisement is a promotion for the Renault Koleos and features a family running towards the car from house (father, mother & two children) and they pack their belongings into the boot.
Dismissed Automotive TV - Free to Air 12/08/2020
July 2014
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0281-14 My Plates
Man sitting in car picks his nose, staring at his snot on his finger, looks around the car for a place to wipe his finger and wipes it on the car door. This is pixelated but still clear as to what is happening. The idea being 'get female number plates to keep your husbands/partner out of your car by buying 'girly' number plates.
Dismissed Automotive TV - Free to Air 23/07/2014
September 2014
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0350-14 My Plates
A young boy asking to borrow his dads car and instead of using his mothers decides to walk.
Dismissed Automotive TV - Free to Air 10/09/2014
September 2019
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0291-19 Volvo Car Australia
In the opening scenes of the advertisement, a woman is depicted leaving her home and saying goodbye to her partner as she prepares to set off into the stress of a working day. Separately, a young girl is shown leaving her family home in the morning to go to school. The advertisement follows these two people until their paths cross when the girl steps onto a crossing and the woman's vehicle uses its technology to avoid a collision with the girl.
Dismissed Automotive TV - Free to Air 25/09/2019
January 2015
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0017-15 RACQ
RACQ ad. Closing scene depicts a woman who has broken down on a isolated rural road. Following scenes depict Good Samaritan who stops to offer assistance. Woman confidently responds she is all good and waiting for RACQ service to arrive. Closing segment of ad shows RACQ vehicle arriving on scene. Good Samaritan vehicle & broken down vehicle can both clearly be seen in the shot. Both these vehicles are parked on the through traffic lanes which are obstructing through traffic.
Dismissed Automotive TV - Free to Air 28/01/2015
November 2013
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0371-13 Darwin Truck Parts
People are discussing this company and talking about how you can get all of your tucking needs there. The ad plays on the 'truck' word insinuating the word F*@k
Dismissed Automotive Radio 13/11/2013
February 2018
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0053-18 KIA Automotive Australia
Towards the end of the ad spot, the Apple CarPlay screen was shown whilst the car is driving, and the driver’s finger is seen swiping the screen whilst the car is moving.
Dismissed Automotive TV - Free to Air 21/02/2018
September 2020
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0276-20 Ford Australia
This television advertisement for a Ford Ranger features a man with his vehicle stuck in a body of water, watching a Ford drive through the water easily.
Dismissed Automotive TV - Free to Air 23/09/2020

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