Recent content by XPD

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    Stealerships

    I have noticed that quite a few Chinese brands give franchises to dealerships that previously only did second had cars like this Mobilis Auto. While this is good to expand the footprint, lots of these smaller dealer groups don’t have the leverage and volumes to deal with these issues. When...
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    Affordable EVs making it possible for many more people to make the switch away from petrol and diesel

    The battery and charging risk may be a non issue in the future. Apart from the ability to change single cells in a battery unit, most OEM’s are working on mass deployment quick battery pack swap outs (less than 2 minutes). By the time that comes there won’t even be human intervention to do it...
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    Dongfeng launching a new REEV in South Africa with prices from R559,000

    Just too much complication and things to go wrong in the long run, a generator and an electric setup. They should rather shove more batteries in it in place of the generator to increase the range.
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    Stealerships

    Yip, mine was under warranty and they sent the “box” to Mayfair Gearbox. They basically changed the internal stuff with OEM parts like the clutch packs and various other things. On the invoice, the parts and “re-manufacturing” cost was about R110k and they added another 10k for fitting and...
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    Lease Agreement Late Payment

    You can Google/AI the procedure to follow and the wording for letters etc but after one month of no payment is made after following procedure, best is to just send a builder to go there with spare keys and say “urgent maintenance”. Then proceed to remove all entrance doors to the house and...
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    Fedgroup - Impact Farming Investment

    Any income paid out or accrued from impact farming is fully taxable at your marginal tax rate. They should have had a more tax efficient structure. They do say (and give some guidance) on deducting certain expenses for tax purposes but I wonder if SARS will accept it?
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    Stealerships

    These wonderful dual clutch gearboxes. Seems reasonable compared to what the VAG dual clutch boxes will cost you to fix at the “stealers”.
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    The Department of Minerals and Petroleum Resources is proceeding with its fuel price review

    Apparently Bain and KPMG won the joint tender to do the review 🤣🤣
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    Warning about fake Ubers scamming travellers at South African airports

    ACSA is run like a government department so no surprise they have no control over service providers who peddle their scams right under their noses. From these scams to petty crime and all the way to organised hits and “follow you” thefts they are truly clueless.
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    Chinese cars, are they as bad as everyone thinks?

    At least the Proton X50 is now a slightly safer used buy (can be had for less thank 250k) as the Coolray parts are likely interchangeable with it.
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    Downgraded safety equipment for top-selling Chinese cars in South Africa

    Toyota, Suzuki, VW etc all have done the same for years so not a Chinese specific thing. Our safety bar is very low and unlikely to change soon as I see our DoT is far too busy trying to fleece motorists with extra licence taxes to prop up the RAF than worry about safety. The rule should be...
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    Chinese cars, are they as bad as everyone thinks?

    The Box only has 2 airbags across the range. Meaning it’s likely a 2 or less star NCAP rated car. I mean really, how much can it cost for 4 extra pieces of stitched fabric with some gas discharge and a sensor. Take away some of the cameras and sensors and put in something that may actually save...
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    Car brands not supplying service books name and shame

    Invoices for each service and maintenance operation are far more useful than a stamped service book. Most of the time dealers don’t fill the info properly and it’s easy to do fake entires and stamps.
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    Transport minister says the taxi industry must shift to automated, digital transactions

    lol. Fat chance this will happen. The taxi industry does not like change and dictate to the government how things are done.
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    Chinese cars, are they as bad as everyone thinks?

    So Geely E2 just launched here is the old version already then?
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