There is this section in LTA's website saying that a work pass holder can drive in with a foreign vehicle but,

"the vehicle is kept or used outside Singapore for a total period of 6 hours or more everyday"

I am new employment under SG company and yet to get EP but already in process

I am new employment under SG company and yet to get EP but already in proces

Since this is a Singapore thread, I was expecting a more "Singapore oriented" insights. I just arrived in Singapore 2 months ago. Able to save SGD 2800 a month excluding bonus. Single and non-PR -- HDB is still a dream    Other than working hard and making sure I won't be sent back Malaysia "prematurely", I'm currently exploring Singapore investment options.

I have many friends work in Singapore don't want to come back

I have many friends work in Singapore don't want to come back

Kindly let me know if there are any other charges which I didn't factor in. Thanks!

Hey guys, i wanna know which mobile and broadband plan you are using at this moment?

My current mobile plan (S$30) and broadband plan (S$80, both starhub) just finish contract, wish to renew but the offer they give me is crap (only about 100 dollar voucher or something).

Hope you guys can share with me any good mobile and broadband plan which you are currently using.

Best regards,
tk1025

There is this section in LTA's website saying that a work pass holder can drive in with a foreign vehicle but,

"the vehicle is kept or used outside Singapore for a total period of 6 hours or more everyday"

http://www.lta.gov.sg/motoring_matters/mot...de_overview.htm
I did some rough calculation. Monthly installment for a B-seg car, say a Toyota Vios in SG could cost you around $1k (9 years tenure). But the same car in Msia will just costs RM900 (~SGD 363).

After factoring the costs for daily $20 VEP and causeway toll charges which are approximately (24 * 22 days) = $480. The total cost per month is $843. Still cheaper than getting a SG registered car. Besides the Msia car gets to save on petrol, insurance, road tax, HDB parking charges... and most importantly, you can still keep the car after 10 years 

I'm planning to do so after my graduation since my house is in JB. No need to squeeze with others in MRT and bus 

Kindly let me know if there are any other charges which I didn't factor in. Thanks!

most of us posting here are working in singapore too. what's your point?
Time wasted crossing the border every day? Could be easily 1-2 hours daily depending on where you stay and where you work.

so will you carpool with others if they offer you  ~s$480/month?
if someone else drive me to and fro SG then I can take a nap or sipping coffee while reading news paper in the car. If the service is reliable then I can sell away my SG car or just get a backup OPC when my COE expired.

I can't imagine myself paying RM133750.00 (S$54887) just for that piece of COE. That's S$457/month, I rather pay that money for someone else to drive.

Just tasted Kong Kee famous KL Hokkien met @ Geylang yesterday. My 'virgin' trip there.

most of us posting here are working in singapore too. what's your point?
Time wasted crossing the border every day? Could be easily 1-2 hours daily depending on where you stay and where you work.

so will you carpool with others if they offer you  ~s$480/month?
if someone else drive me to and fro SG then I can take a nap or sipping coffee while reading news paper in the car. If the service is reliable then I can sell away my SG car or just get a backup OPC when my COE expired.

I can't imagine myself paying RM133750.00 (S$54887) just for that piece of COE. That's S$457/month, I rather pay that money for someone else to drive.

That's why there's taxi drivers.

Car pooling in my opinion is never reliable. That's because people get sick, get emergencies, get lazy, get late, get forgetful and at some point, they have something better to do. If anyone in the car pool is late, everybody is late. If the driver doesn't want to drive that day... everybody has to scramble for alternative transport.

Keen on getting a job with car allowance after my graduation from NUS later. Anyone knows what is the car allowance rate like for sales/marketing personnel in SG? My sis's company, an MNC in healthcare industry is offering SGD1200/month for their fresh grad sales staff.

Yea it can be very time consuming to cross the border even though the distance is near. For me I think it's still ok to spend 2 hours daily in traveling. 1 hour go, 1 hour back. Not too bad la.. Many of our fellow country peole in KL travel like that also 
SG is really one of the richest country in the world by looking at how the price of the COE gone up in recent years. Singaporeans are getting richer and richer, the demand for COE seems to be rising forever.

As long as I can afford, I won't be considering a car pool. Seantang has stated all the reasons well why car pooling is troublesome 

Keen on getting a job with car allowance after my graduation from NUS later. Anyone knows what is the car allowance rate like for sales/marketing personnel in SG? My sis's company, an MNC in healthcare industry is offering SGD1200/month for their fresh grad sales staff.
Good points.

We pay S$1500 for non-managerial staff as long as they need the car to work (tool of trade allowance). For managers, the car benefit perk starts at S$2000 for junior managers to $4500 for senior directors.

Our HR tells us that this is competitive vs the rest of the market and is based on the cost to buy, run and maintain a car in Singapore. But this scale was last revised when the COE was still S$20K, about 2 years ago. I expect it to be revised again soon, now that the COE has become $50K with no possibility of going back down, due to step-by-step decreases in COE supply. Over the car's lifetime of 5 years, the $30K difference in COE is worth approximately $500 a month extra.

It will be more than 2 hours daily.  During normal commute, expect about 1.5 hours per way so get ready for three hours quality time spending in the car.