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DS51
post May 8 2026, 01:36 PM
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QUOTE(xpole @ May 8 2026, 10:56 AM)
I don't know why some people like to burn money for car maintenance. If you know that car gave too much headache, just sell it and buy a reliable car.

With that money you spent for maintenance, you can spend the money to go cafe hunting every single day, eat good food, no need to cook at home.

Or spend go to staycation or vacation outside Malaysia.

Or even spend for your hobbies. Hobbies that doesn't related with your car.

or perhaps put that money on investment.

I only see car as a mode of transportation only.

I don't give a shit about modified my car, or do anything to make the car prettier.

Car is a liability, why we need to spend so much on maintenance and other stuffs
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QUOTE(gobiomani @ May 8 2026, 11:39 AM)
Different strokes for different folks.

Some don't care about food coz its just for sustenance, after eat will shit out anyway so why waste time and money on this, bodoh is it? Better spend on cars.

Some like going on vacation everywhere and talk about memories lah, experience lah, while others don't care about wasting time and money travelling to silly tourist places where you get fleeced and have to deal with a foreign language, foreign currencies, etc. Might as well spend money on cars coz vacation memories & experience fade very fast once back home, so why waste money on that.

At the end of the day, everyone picks their own poison, just like you, but you just feel that you your poison makes more sense and others' poison appears stupid to you. Well, this is your hubris.
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Tbh, I regret paying installment rm3k monthly for car. Expensive car, more expensive tyre, more expensive service, parts everything also expensive. U will feel very syok initially, but the car will lose prestige overtime. And u need to renew the prestige by purchase and fork another 3k installment few years later.Not to say, the car depreciate a lot faster more than ur installment. And some people will love to cucuk u also for no reason.

If someone ask me, what hobby to do, I will advise, car purchase hobby should be the last things that people should commit, as many cost associate with it, in the future.

Now my hobby is, travel business class. All those expensive car sell already. No more heart attack when getting repair bills. Use cheap car got its own perks too, just people not realize it. Everything is cheap and hassle free.
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post May 8 2026, 01:58 PM

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QUOTE(Boy96 @ May 8 2026, 01:13 PM)
Eii u pakai kereta apa sekarang
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sama fiesta la. 300k baru
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post May 8 2026, 02:03 PM
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QUOTE(deejay_krish @ May 6 2026, 08:29 PM)
sorry to say but u must be a special kinda sohai to still keep it
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sunk cost fallacy mah
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post May 8 2026, 02:08 PM

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QUOTE(COOLPINK @ May 6 2026, 10:42 PM)
Damn.
My family still using their fiesta but only for short distance daily drive only as they got another car ready to replace it.
The transmission error popping up but still can drive normally.
Honestly the other car handling is nothing compared to the fiesta.
Now deciding to transplant manual ST into it or not and become weekend car.
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i using manual gearbox from pijot. also naik towing twice within 6 months.

QUOTE(MegaCanonF @ May 7 2026, 02:38 PM)
why are you torturing yourself like this man ..
is the handling worth all this?
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need, becos my kuku quite short.
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post May 8 2026, 02:17 PM

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QUOTE(DS51 @ May 8 2026, 01:36 PM)
Tbh, I regret paying installment rm3k monthly for car. Expensive car, more expensive tyre, more expensive service, parts everything also expensive. U will feel very syok initially, but the car will lose prestige overtime. And u need to renew the prestige by purchase and fork another 3k installment few years later.
go debt free, at least away from car loans. not worth it.

your next car just go for a reliable no headache good car. Just service and pump petrol and go car.
i've been debt free for more than 10 years plus now.
car very reliable. just service maintain and drive. no need to worry about calling towtrucks. peace.


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post May 8 2026, 02:32 PM

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QUOTE(DS51 @ May 8 2026, 01:36 PM)
Tbh, I regret paying installment rm3k monthly for car. Expensive car, more expensive tyre, more expensive service, parts everything also expensive. U will feel very syok initially, but the car will lose prestige overtime. And u need to renew the prestige by purchase and fork another 3k installment few years later.Not to say, the car depreciate a lot faster more than ur installment. And some people will love to cucuk u also for no reason.

If someone ask me, what hobby to do, I will advise, car purchase hobby should be the last things that people should commit, as many cost associate with it, in the future.

Now my hobby is, travel business class. All those expensive car sell already. No more heart attack when getting repair bills. Use cheap car got its own perks too, just people not realize it. Everything is cheap and hassle free.
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I agree with you but not everyone is the same, for some car is their biggest hobby and they have friends groups that are into the same thing to poison each other. It is indeed healthier to have hobbies that don't cost too much money.

For me, I only bought a high maintenance car due to mid-life crisis, have always been sensible before that. But the truth is, I enjoyed driving the car, being in a group and spending money fixing the car to make it as good as new and increase its performance (I bought it used). Only sold it off coz my wife keep nagging me to stop wasting money on the car and to buy a family SUV. The key thing is that I could afford it and if I don't spend money on the car, I would spend it on my other hobbies anyway. For those who get into this without being able to handle the cost, it would be a painful lesson indeed.
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post May 8 2026, 03:24 PM
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QUOTE(ktek @ May 8 2026, 02:08 PM)
i using manual gearbox from pijot. also naik towing twice within 6 months.
need, becos my kuku quite short.
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Due to gearbox?
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post May 8 2026, 06:16 PM

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QUOTE(COOLPINK @ May 8 2026, 03:24 PM)
Due to gearbox?
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yup. once is shifter linkage bush pecah, linkage terus fell off. gear knob terus lembik.
ayam left with 3 & 4 gear limb mode only.

another round is clutch cable snap. end of setori
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QUOTE(ktek @ May 8 2026, 06:16 PM)
yup. once is shifter linkage bush pecah, linkage terus fell off. gear knob terus lembik.
ayam left with 3 & 4 gear limb mode only.

another round is clutch cable snap. end of setori
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poor design/quality to blame.
Btw its not the gearbox itself that failed here but the external parts associated with it.

I have never had a manual transmission failed me, ever.
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QUOTE(skyblu3 @ May 8 2026, 02:17 PM)
go debt free, at least away from car loans.  not worth it.

your next car just go for a reliable no headache good car.  Just service and pump petrol and go car.
i've been debt free for more than 10 years plus now. 
car very reliable.  just service maintain and drive.  no need to worry about calling towtrucks.  peace.
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Agree. Reliable car is heaven. People will not appreciate it until they met a lot of sudden breakdown if they use non reliable car.
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post May 9 2026, 12:59 PM
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QUOTE(gobiomani @ May 8 2026, 02:32 PM)
I agree with you but not everyone is the same, for some car is their biggest hobby and they have friends groups that are into the same thing to poison each other. It is indeed healthier to have hobbies that don't cost too much money.

For me, I only bought a high maintenance car due to mid-life crisis, have always been sensible before that. But the truth is, I enjoyed driving the car, being in a group and spending money fixing the car to make it as good as new and increase its performance (I bought it used). Only sold it off coz my wife keep nagging me to stop wasting money on the car and to buy a family SUV. The key thing is that I could afford it and if I don't spend money on the car, I would spend it on my other hobbies anyway. For those who get into this without being able to handle the cost, it would be a painful lesson indeed.
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Well said brother. Thumbs up 👍
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QUOTE(Boy96 @ May 6 2026, 08:23 PM)
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Ford? Fiesta? In Malaysia..? no need read further, either dun buy or wait to gibe up on you down the road, sell for scrap. No point throwing good money to repair, will soon rosak again. whistling.gif
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QUOTE(DS51 @ May 8 2026, 01:36 PM)
Tbh, I regret paying installment rm3k monthly for car. Expensive car, more expensive tyre, more expensive service, parts everything also expensive. U will feel very syok initially, but the car will lose prestige overtime. And u need to renew the prestige by purchase and fork another 3k installment few years later.Not to say, the car depreciate a lot faster more than ur installment. And some people will love to cucuk u also for no reason.

If someone ask me, what hobby to do, I will advise, car purchase hobby should be the last things that people should commit, as many cost associate with it, in the future.

Now my hobby is, travel business class. All those expensive car sell already. No more heart attack when getting repair bills. Use cheap car got its own perks too, just people not realize it. Everything is cheap and hassle free.
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Same la, me guilty on expensive bikes.
Over all these years if i din purchase all the bikes, could have saved a mil.

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