Going From 2 Cars To 1

[snowflake]

What should I do? I am a poor teacher in Thailand and my salary will no longer be enough to cover the expences on 2 cars so I have decided to change into a nicer larger car??? (STUPID ME)

I want to sell my Vigo 2.5G and my Yaris 1.5E and buy a Fortuner... Sounds crazy? It would be the 2wd version (2.7L) petrol...

What are your take on this???

My GF went balistic but she knows that I own both the cars and she cant do anything but move :-) so she will get a yamaha fino to shoot around town..

[monkeytunes]

What should I do? I am a poor teacher in Thailand and my salary will no longer be enough to cover the expences on 2 cars so I have decided to change into a nicer larger car??? (STUPID ME)

I want to sell my Vigo 2.5G and my Yaris 1.5E and buy a Fortuner... Sounds crazy? It would be the 2wd version (2.7L) petrol...

What are your take on this???

My GF went balistic but she knows that I own both the cars and she cant do anything but move :-) so she will get a yamaha fino to shoot around town..

The fortuner is a fine car so not a bad choice, but if I were you and trying to save a few THB I just get rid of the Yaris, youll lose quite a bit selling of two cars, so you need to weight up what savings you really are going to make.

If its just that you want a fortuner and saving money is not the real incentive, go ahead and get one, there lovely cars

[micksterbs]

Something doesn't add-up here. Or you're not telling us the whole story. If money is that tight, flog the pickup and keep the Yaris. Forget a bloody Fortuner.

[snowflake]

Well what part of the story am I missing out on?

I want to save running costs, insurance, petrol, tax and so on... I know that I will loose money on the deal (has anyone ever made money on a car sale?)

I would really like the fortuner, yes the least money I would save would be to keep the yaris, sell the vigo, forget the fortuner and change the GF, but we cant have all can we?

[SnakeBite]

Who has the pants in the family, you or your GF?

[micksterbs]

Well what part of the story am I missing out on?

I want to save running costs, insurance, petrol, tax and so on... I know that I will loose money on the deal (has anyone ever made money on a car sale?)

I would really like the fortuner, yes the least money I would save would be to keep the yaris, sell the vigo, forget the fortuner and change the GF, but we cant have all can we?

Snowflake, in the first sentence of your OP, you invite opinions. In the second, you tell us you are poor. Yet when you receive a reply that suggests a way of saving the most money, you reject it. It seems to me that you don't want advice; you just want us all to agree with your plan to buy a thirsty new SUV. Status more important than money, 'eh?

[snowflake]

So I should sell the Vigo and keep the yaris??? OK, I will do that for a time and see how it goes... I will listen to your wisdom and follow it..

Thanks,

KICK ME IN THE FOOTBALLS...

[micksterbs]

So I should sell the Vigo and keep the yaris??? OK, I will do that for a time and see how it goes... I will listen to your wisdom and follow it..

Thanks,

KICK ME IN THE FOOTBALLS...

Well, I don't know about wisdom but just tried to put myself in your position. By selling the Vigo, you release a bit of capital and you're left with a car that's pretty cheap to run. Of course, if you need the space/versatility that the Vigo gave you, then you might need to think again. If it's just you and your GF though, the Yaris should be fine.

Let us know how you get on.

[snowflake]

Well after much consideration the Vigo will go and I will keep the Yaris for now...

It is usually only me and my GF but there are several occations when I shoot down to Had Yai or to Phuket and a larger car would be nice since there would be two large golf bags and 4 people in the car... The yaris is a bit small for that...

Said that I will try with the yaris first (then if it doesnt work I will get the Fortuner).

Thanks, BTW anyone wants to buy a very nice 2.5G vigo from 2005 in red mica with 20' alloys? very nice car...

[micksterbs]

Okay, well see how you get on.

Mind you, I think I could almost write your next post on this subject...

[torrenova]

Okay, well see how you get on.

Mind you, I think I could almost write your next post on this subject...

Yeah, I reckon the Toyota garage are preparing the Fortuner as we speak. If he's broke, then having one car is a luxury and that shouldn't be a gas guzzling Fortuner.

[micksterbs]

You said it, torrenova. That's the problem with introducing too much emotion into something that should be a logical process, especially if money really is tight. Ho hum, we'll see...

[snowflake]

It's not that tight, I just think paying for 2 cars is more expensive than paying for 1 car? Fuel, for 2 cars are more expensive than 1 yes???? Insurance 2 cars vs 1???

I think a future post will be "Crazy snowflake with a teachers salary bought a Fortuner... " We are overpaid..."

[VTR1000]

It's not that tight, I just think paying for 2 cars is more expensive than paying for 1 car? Fuel, for 2 cars are more expensive than 1 yes???? Insurance 2 cars vs 1???

I think a future post will be "Crazy snowflake with a teachers salary bought a Fortuner... " We are overpaid..."

Nah, something more like "A fool and his money ......."

[micksterbs]

In a country where, I believe, more than 10% of the population live below the poverty-line, I feel that your choice of the adjective "poor" was spectacularly ill-chosen. I can think of quite a few people in my village who would love to be as poor as you; owning two cars, driving down to Had Yai or Phuket to play golf, thinking of buying a new Fortuner.

[snowflake]

The thing is that 2 years ago I listened to much to my friends when I bought a new car, I bought something that was nice (yes I did like it) but not what I really wanted, I did some stupid things and I do regret some of them... But I did ask my friends and they were convicing me that buying what I wanted was bad...

Looking at it today I would like to say that they should have let me buy that as I would not have wanted to change now...

For the record, all I wanted 2 years ago was a white fortuner or a C180... But they convinced me othervise...

Should have bought it then, so I dont have to think now... ....

Well we will see....

PS VTR, It takes one 2 know one

[VTR1000]

The thing is that 2 years ago I listened to much to my friends when I bought a new car, I bought something that was nice (yes I did like it) but not what I really wanted, I did some stupid things and I do regret some of them... But I did ask my friends and they were convicing me that buying what I wanted was bad...

Looking at it today I would like to say that they should have let me buy that as I would not have wanted to change now...

For the record, all I wanted 2 years ago was a white fortuner or a C180... But they convinced me othervise...

Should have bought it then, so I dont have to think now... ....

Well we will see....

PS VTR, It takes one 2 know one

Ha ha, indeed it does - but I earned my money, working, not some inheritance from some rich grand mother, hence I value it more. And you?

[madjbs]

What is wrong with you people? Jealous of him or something?

[torrenova]

What is wrong with you people? Jealous of him or something?

Not at all. Just someone puts forward a lack of income as a need to reduce a financial outgoing and yet at the same time refuses to see the obvious because of a deeper desire. By any logical definition, the original financial desire is not so acute or the only question would be to sell one or both.

[RAZZELL]

For the record, all I wanted 2 years ago was a white fortuner ...

Thank your friends

RAZZ

[snowflake]

Well If I spend my money that I have earned here... I can buy a bicycle, with pedals...

Nope sir, so why does it matter how I got the money? Would give it all back if I could but I cant...

I should not listen to my friends so much and start listening to my inner ear... Then I can not blame other people for my mistakes like now... (But I am not blaming anyone now... )

[VTR1000]

Well If I spend my money that I have earned here... I can buy a bicycle, with pedals...

Nope sir, so why does it matter how I got the money? Would give it all back if I could but I cant...

I should not listen to my friends so much and start listening to my inner ear... Then I can not blame other people for my mistakes like now... (But I am not blaming anyone now... )

It matters because you will never know the true value of hard earned cash until you have sweated through 24hr shifts in severe conditions, worked an 18hr day for months/years on end to earn etc etc. Then and only then will you find out the true value of money. Cooking doesn't come into any of those categories I'm afraid.

You're talking about buying another car - you still haven't paid for the Vigo, so how is buying another one going to be an economy for you?

You seem to forget, I know what your little whims are like and how much they end up costing you. I thought you were saving up for your little jaunt across Siberia.

[nikster]

get the fortuner and get it over with

know that you are just trying to rationalize the purchase. saving money by sellling two cars and buying a new one is a pretty unlikely proposition. poor people don't buy C190s, BTW, especially not in Thailand where they cost 3x... if you drive up to your school in a benz people will think you are selling drugs..

Fortuner is a nice car, and especially nice on road trips. I am on 40k and no problems... except that one time the Toyota garage messed up when doing the scheduled service, but can't blame the car for that, really.

[stingray]

get the fortuner and get it over with

know that you are just trying to rationalize the purchase. saving money by sellling two cars and buying a new one is a pretty unlikely proposition. poor people don't buy C190s, BTW, especially not in Thailand where they cost 3x... if you drive up to your school in a benz people will think you are selling drugs..

Fortuner is a nice car, and especially nice on road trips. I am on 40k and no problems... except that one time the Toyota garage messed up when doing the scheduled service, but can't blame the car for that, really.

Wego or fortuner is not much different. Same Frame, same technology. Fortuner Petrol engine is not much powerful (underpowered), so you need push your gas pedal allways to the floor, to get movment. If you buy fortuner, buy 3 liter turbo diesel. But is it worth to buy a fortuner when the technology is the same as a vigo? Runnincost of 2 cars: How can be double? You can drive anyway only one car at te time. There is only insurance ant tax, which cost more. But fuel, tires, etc, not

[nikster]

Ahem.. Fortuner and Vigo (not Wego) are based on the same frame, but that's about it. Fortuner has a nice car-like rear suspension, so the ride quality is way better. Fortuner also has permanent 4WD which again makes the ride quality different. Vigo is a nice pick-up. Fortuner is a nice SUV. Two different things.

[Who, me ?]

Fortuner has a nice car-like rear suspension, so the ride quality is way better

If you are the driver, maybe....but passengers have a quite different opinion......Have travelled sometimes for 2-300 kms as a rear passenger in a Fortuner, and I was very happy to get out of it.....It is by no mean a car-like rear suspension

[micksterbs]

Yep. The Fortuner has coil springs instead of leaf springs but it still has a live axle so is forever stuck in the Jurassic age. Pretty agricultural. Also, having permanent 4WD is no benefit. It just means that you don't have the option of reducing KPL and front tyre wear.

[nikster]

I am actually sometimes a rear passenger in my own car [watching the baby]. Didn't claim it's a Mercedes Benz but it's pretty OK. It's a "4 link with coil spring and lateral control rod". The suspension is set to be hard like it is appropriate for a 4x4, so yes, it's not a cushy ride. But not a leaf spring either

Permanent 4WD has the advantage of providing better traction on dry roads.

[micksterbs]

Permanent 4WD has the advantage of providing better traction on dry roads.

Well, yes, but if the roads are dry, one doesn't need better traction. Not unless you drive like a complete nutter and, seeing you're a dad, I doubt that.

Anyway, personally I prefer switchable 4WD; if you want the extra traction, bung it on. If you don't, pocket the saving in greater tyre and fuel-economy.

[snowflake]

Just a quick questions since I thought about buying a fortuner, what is the main different in ride comfort between a 2wd fortuner and a 4wd fortuner???

Just wanted to know...