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Residents in an upmarket apartment tower have been left without access to their cars for almost two months after a six-storey car stacker went haywire - crushing one car and trapping 30 more.
The residents of Melbourne's Bond Quarter building were startled by huge bang which shook the walls as one car was dropped by the car lift moments after the owner got out of the way.
Almost two months on from that July 4 mishap the cars remain inaccessible and frustrated residents still have no answers as to when they will be able to use their vehicles again despite being told a full investigation was held days later on July 7.
Currently they remain piled in the car-stacker, with the owners of the building on Spencer Street in the CBD still assessing how to get them out.
The car lift malfunctioned and dropped one car - crushing the vehicle and trapping the remaining 30 (pictured)
One resident said he and his partner - both essential workers - now have to pay for Ubers to and from work each day which is costing about $750 a month.
'I can't afford to sustain it... It's just been a blame game about what's happened and who's responsible,' Corey Dickson told A Current Affair.
He said he's still