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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
May 2017
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0203-17 Ultra Tune Australia
The ad included a group of males approaching two females who had car issues at night time. Then, Jean Claude Van Damme appears and 'saves the day'
Dismissed Automotive TV - Pay 24/05/2017
June 2016
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0236-16 Ultra Tune Australia
Ad where women accidentally take their car though a car wash and got wet.
Dismissed Automotive TV - Pay 08/06/2016
May 2018
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0251-18 Caltex Australia Ltd
A short video clip showcasing the new 3 option meal deal with caltex to save 30% on the cost of the products.
Dismissed Automotive Internet 23/05/2018
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
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 2014
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0276-14 My Plates
Www.manproof. Com.au. Man picking nose and wipes it on car door.
Dismissed Automotive TV - Free to Air 23/07/2014
0277-14 My Plates
Ad 1 features a man passing gas in a car repeatedly. The voiceover says something along the lines of "Ladies, you never know what your man gets up to with your car. Get these plates on your car so he wont go anywhere near it".
Dismissed Automotive TV - Free to Air 23/07/2014
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
July 2016
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0289-16 Ultra Tune Australia
This is in relation to two ads. I have just watched the second of two sexist ads tonight on network nine. This first ad two women in a car drive of a cliff and are rescued by Ultratune men in a helicopter - the last screen finishes with a shot of the women look up to the men in a gratuitous cleavage shot. The second ad are two women again depicting a 'dumb' stereotype accidentally getting soaked going through a car wash with the top down.
Dismissed Automotive TV - Free to Air 13/07/2016
July 2018
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0289-18 Ultra Tune Australia
Two women sitting in a car that gets trapped at railway crossing.
Dismissed Automotive TV - Free to Air 11/07/2018
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
0314-14 My Plates
As seen on youtube, eg: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziN8gMXzEuk plus other related ads from same company.
Dismissed Automotive Internet - Social - Other 27/08/2014
0327-14 Valvoline (Aust) Pty Ltd
I have complaints regarding two advertisements that my grandchildren and I observed during the AFL football on channel 7 on Saturday afternoon and early evening. The second ad was for VALVOLINE Oil where drivers are turned into werewolf type characters, driving very fast.
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
0330-14 My Plates
The advertisement features a courier ringing the doorbell of a house with a delivery for a woman named Tanya. The man who answers the door denies that this woman is at this house. The courier insists. Tanya then comes to the door, and excitedly reaches for the parcel. While she opens it, the man shakes his head and looks desperate. Tanya pulls out a bright pink numberplate. The logo is "manproof your car".
Dismissed Automotive TV - Free to Air 27/08/2014
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
September 2013
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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
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
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
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
0353-14 My Plates
Leaflet: "Tired of that man smell in your car? Man proof my number plates initiative.
Dismissed Automotive Print 10/09/2014
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
August 2018
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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
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
0366-18 Ultra Tune Australia
'Unexpected Situation no. 6 - Mike Tyson'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN62pRE8rYU
Dismissed Automotive Internet - Social - Other 22/08/2018
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
September 2018
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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
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
October 2015
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0376-15 Super Cheap Auto Pty Ltd
The fathers day television advertisement shows a vehicle up on axle stands and a father underneath the vehicle and the child laid on a skateboard goes under the vehicle as well
Dismissed Automotive TV - Free to Air 14/10/2015
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 2013
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0404-13 Everlast Trading
A fax was sent to my office advertising Truck Tarps and new website - Visit our new website for a chance to win trip to Las Vegas.Everlast Australia Wide Truck TarpsPH 1300795112PO Box 7231 Mount Annan NSW 2567
Dismissed Automotive Print 27/11/2013
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
0425-15 Metropolitan Motorcycle Spares
Online ad http://www.motorcyclewreckers.com/: depicts a motorcycle in the background and in prominence in the foreground a lady dressed in lingerie with back arched face up, reclined; speech bubble from her mouth stating the business dispatches in 48 hours.
Upheld - Not Modified or Discontinued Automotive Internet 28/10/2015
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
October 2018
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0462-18 Jackson Motor Company
Separate scences showing a young man and a man driving different vehicles by themselves at different locations (city, country).
Dismissed Automotive TV - Free to Air 24/10/2018
0470-18 Repco Ltd
Advert shows someone sniffing oil fumes to guess the oil, penrite.
Dismissed Automotive TV - Free to Air 24/10/2018
November 2018
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0477-18 New Age Caravans
The large advertisement is across the entire bottom third of the page (I think it was Page 9, 11 or 13, right-hand side fairly close to the front); showing a large photo of a New Age Caravan Wayfinder camper parked (with no car attached) across two lanes of a country road, over double yellow lines. The heading is Escape The Ordinary.
Dismissed Automotive Print 14/11/2018
January 2015
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0480-14 Federal Tyres Cairns
This is only the approximate time and date of the Advertisement, but has been played a number of times.It advertises Federal Tyres in Cairns, and at the end of the advertisement, the ad features the owner doing a massive burnout in the driveway of the tyre retail store of Federal Tyres.
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Automotive TV - Free to Air 28/01/2015
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
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
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
December 2014
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0504-14 Cars Guide
A young lady standing on the right of screen in front of a purple background and an older man standing on the left side in front of a white background. A man is hit in the head and groin by a ball or by bees.
Dismissed Automotive TV - Free to Air 10/12/2014
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
December 2016
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0532-16 Super Cheap Auto Pty Ltd
The advertisement features 4 raised 4WD Ute being driven furiously and dangerously on a beach and on public roads. Super Cheap Auto and the producers of this advertisement should hang their heads in shames, as should Shell and Castrol. I have uploaded a copy of the ad to YouTube: https://youtu.be/V6eH-2u2Rw
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Automotive TV - Free to Air 07/12/2016
December 2017
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0547-17 2SM
A female voice describes her experience in visiting Peter Warren Automotive. She tells listeners that "as a female" she was uncomfortable and nervous and didn't know what to expect. The ad then goes on to describe how Peter Warren Automotive made it easy and how comfortable she felt, or a similar message such as that.
Dismissed Automotive Radio 06/12/2017
January 2015
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0557-14 Ultra Tune Australia
I visited the Ultra Tune website to determine where my closest store is located. Once there, an advertisement popped up to saying "We do things strictly by the book. Talk to us about Manufacturer's Handbook Service to keep your warranty intact." Then a clickable button to find the closest Ultra Tune, or the option to close the advertisement.
Dismissed Automotive Internet 14/01/2015
January 2017
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0564-16 Super Cheap Auto Pty Ltd
Father told son do not touch my car while I'm away. Some takes the car for a joyride type weekend away, driving recklessly with friends and getting the car really messy/dirty. Dad texts to say he's coming home early so son rushes to clean car using products from Supercheap Auto but although the car is clean the dad catches him out because the driveway is dirty.
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Automotive TV - Pay 18/01/2017

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