What would you do?

WireFree said:
Get a small car (even second hand will do) and park it at the Gautrain station in Joburg. Travel from Pretoria to Joburg by Gautrain and use your small car in Joburg.
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His journey time will almost be double. If there was a Gautrain station in Menlyn, maybe it would be a choice.

First off he will have the drive 12km North West to the Hatfield Gautrain Station, not southwards towards JHB, by the time he gets to the station he could already be past Brakfontein interchange on N1 South.

Then there is the cost (was R2200 for monthly ticket back in 2013, so must be more now), plus the cost of this other car.

The Gautrain is unfortunately of more limited use to us here in PTA East.
 
My Ford EcoSport 1.5 TDCI is returning about 5.8l/100km. So something like that might be an option? Any chance of rather speaking to your workplace to arrange working from home once or twice a week? That would cut your expenses more than any of the other options thus far.

Or try to arrange to see PTA based clients once or twice a week? And stay in the area?
 
I make that same commute every day and had the same problem you had Hemi, I looked at buying another car but that would definitely work out more expensive.

I am currently researching either buying a bike or finding work in PTA, as those seem to be the only options unfortunately.

Edit : I drive a Polo 1.6, petrol cost is roughly R2000 p/m depending on what clients I go see
 
sucked said:
Buy a BMW GS motorbike + full body raincoat. Research it.

Less fuel.
Quicker to and from work.
Better quality of life.
Also nice for weekend roadtrip to clear the mind.

Do the math. If you buy a smaller car the monthly finance cost + fuel will be quite a bit more
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^ This for sure
 
MightyQuin said:
I really don't understand this? You guys want to create R7k to R10k a month problems to alleviate a R3k a month problem?
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who said anything about creating 10k problems

is it "make up facts month" ?
 
saturnz said:
who said anything about creating 10k problems

is it "make up facts month" ?
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For an extra car, he'd need to pay the installment of the new car + it's petrol + it's insurance and possibly it's maintenance. So he'd end up paying more then what he is now.
Unless he sells his current car and gets a more fuel efficient one.
 
Lupus said:
For an extra car, he'd need to pay the installment of the new car + it's petrol + it's insurance and possibly it's maintenance. So he'd end up paying more then what he is now.
Unless he sells his current car and gets a more fuel efficient one.
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saturnz didn't say anything about a second car. Now, a second property he did allude to.
 
supersunbird said:
Well, you leave things open because you didn't just say he should rent his place, leaving space for people to assume what they want.
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Agreed. OP also didn't mention if the Nissan is paid for or not, so one can assume that it is paid off and getting another will lead to installment + insurance + fuel costs.

What about getting a diesel car (replacing the Nissan), with a trailer to use on the weekends?
 
sucked said:
Buy a BMW GS motorbike + full body raincoat. Research it.

Less fuel.
Quicker to and from work.
Better quality of life.
Also nice for weekend roadtrip to clear the mind.

Do the math. If you buy a smaller car the monthly finance cost + fuel will be quite a bit more
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gamer16 said:
^ This for sure
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Don't forget the "hidden" costs. Depending on skill/comfort, OP might need to do training, which can be expensive. Then add in ATGATT to make it safer/more comfortable and it ends it getting expensive.

Not that it's a bad idea at all, but buying a bike to save $$$ isn't as cheap as people would lead you believe. Fuel usage is less, and that's about it.
 
Hemi300c said:
Right so For the past month I have been working in Jhb and it seems I might stay working there for some time.

I live in Pretoria and the journey starts at 05:10am end I leave Jhb at 15:25pm. It's a 58Km trip one way and 116Km per day.

I currently drive a 2010 Hardbody 2.4 Petrol D/c which it giving me 8.25Km per litre - yip eina.
The Hardbody is in pristine condition and has 103 000Km on but it's thirsty as hell.

The monthly cost in petrol is about R3500. And I do need a bakkie for my weekend trip to the Monkey Rescue Center.

I'm contemplating either getting a small car like the Picanto or Ignis etc for the daily trip or trading the Hardbody in on a 2.2 D/C Ranger but I know they will screw me for the trade-in and give me +-R85K for the HB which is worth alot more.

So chaps what would you do?
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1st prize a bike. At least 400cc up.

Second prize, a cheap car: Golf 1 or similar, Should give you around 12km/l at least and you don't have to worry about putting miles on it.
 
Hemi300c said:
I'm contemplating either getting a small car like the Picanto or Ignis etc for the daily trip or trading the Hardbody in on a 2.2 D/C Ranger but I know they will screw me for the trade-in and give me +-R85K for the HB which is worth alot more.

So chaps what would you do?
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If you get 85K trade-in and go for the small car you are looking at what R2500 or so per installment?

Then with fuel on the small car you are looking at about half the petrol bill per month so you could set that off against your current bill and decide if the X amount remaining is worth the effort or not.

In the real world my difference to my pocket in switching cars after fuel etc has amounted to <R1000 which is a no brainer considering warranty, new tyres, cheaper insurance and maintenance paid for the next three years.

I settled on the Picanto but did also look at the Ignis and went from a car burning on 9,7 l/100 so seems very similar.

Car was doing less distance so you should in theory save even more for the swop.


*****

On the topic of bikes never learn to ride one by being forced to use it.

You buy bikes and learn to ride them optionally while having access to a car. Once you are on a level of comfort you can consider getting rid of the car.
 
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GhostSixFour said:
Don't forget the "hidden" costs. Depending on skill/comfort, OP might need to do training, which can be expensive. Then add in ATGATT to make it safer/more comfortable and it ends it getting expensive.

Not that it's a bad idea at all, but buying a bike to save $$$ isn't as cheap as people would lead you believe. Fuel usage is less, and that's about it.
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The time saver alone should be a deal breaker.
 
SauRoNZA said:
If you get 85K trade-in and go for the small car you are looking at what R2500 or so per installment?

Then with fuel on the small car you are looking at about half the petrol bill per month so you could set that off against your current bill and decide if the X amount remaining is worth the effort or not.

In the real world my difference to my pocket in switching cars after fuel etc has amounted to <R1000 which is a no brainer considering warranty, new tyres, cheaper insurance and maintenance paid for the next three years.

I settled on the Picanto but did also look at the Ignis and went from a car burning on 9,7 l/100 so seems very similar.

Car was doing less distance so you should in theory save even more for the swop.


*****

On the topic of bikes never learn to ride one by being forced to use it.

You buy bikes and learn to ride them optionally while having access to a car. Once you are on a level of comfort you can consider getting rid of the car.
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I'm a old biker, had a Katana 1275 Striker back in the day, but things are different now.

Thanks all for the valued input, time to start the pondering with suggestions.
 
Hemi300c said:
I'm a old biker, had a Katana 1275 Striker back in the day, but things are different now.

Thanks all for the valued input, time to start the pondering with suggestions.
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Well in that case it maybe is a realistic consideration.
 
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