Hi Mark
In case no one can help
2 year ago I Purchased a car which was privately owned from Kingaroy QLD
I rang a Kingaroy based Mechanic and organised an Inspection together with a REVS check the owner was happy to drop the 2010 200 series Cruiser off as it was local to him
It cost me less than $200 for the service
I ended up buying it just on the Mechanics report and some photos that the mechanic had taken
$44,000 and the best I could find in Sydney were all around $60,000
It may have been a risk but at that price I felt I had enough left over to fix anything that the mechanic may have missed but I have not had anything go wrong love the Thing
Cheers Michael