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April 6, 2017

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Weak rand not all gloom

YOURÂ CARÂ QUESTIONSÂ ANSWERED

 ... but higher fuel prices and more expensive cars will hit us all hard enough

WITNESS Wheels and Capital 104 fm’s popular Nqola  show on cars on Saturday expands to include two au­ to technicians in studio to answer your car questions.  Tune in from 9 am to 10 am to hear how the new dagga ruling doesn’t mean you can use it to make the daily commute bearable, and what it means if your car really does blow out clouds of white smoke. Our two techies are not just diagnosticians either, but have several years’ ex­ perience between them in cheaply fixing skorokoros in the back yard and can tell listeners what to look out for before they buy that un­ believable bargain. Using Mead and Mcgrou­ ther’s collated prices for used cars, we can also adi­ vise what is fair and what is asking too much. All this only on 104 fm.

ALWYN VILJOEN AFTER a good start to the year, with sales of both private and commercial vehicles on the rise, that midnight Zuma shuffle has crashed all plans in the auto trade. Ahead lies a weaker rand, which means all the imported cars  will cost even more, driving sales lower again. While this is bad news for new car sellers, the used car dealers can expect more sales as people seek affordable transport, or a taxi. Already, domestic sales of in­ dustry new light commercial ve­ hicles, which includes mini­bus­ es, saw  a gain of 1,1% in March, according to the latest data from the National Association of Au­ tomobile Manufacturers of South Africa (Naamsa). A weaker rand will also lead to

more car pooling, because a litre of fuel will cost even more and when the crude oil price rise in tandem with increased demand during winter in the northern hemisphere from June, we are go­ ing to feel the pain down south, paying well over a rand a kilome­ tre to drive. And with increased fuel prices comes increased ev­ erything else, as Transnet’s dys­ function still means everything we buy gets transported in trucks. There are some silver linings though. Anyone who bought a new car in the last year will see its value holding steadily, if not actually increasing. A weaker rand will also be a boon for tourism, despite the damage done to the industry by the Zupta’s new finance lackey Malusi Gigaba, who dented tour­ ism numbers with his irrational

Staff at Toyota’s plant in Prospecton can thank President Jacob Zuma for weakening the rand to make the thousands of exported Hilux bakkies more profitable. PHOTO: FILE demand for unabridged birth certificates while he was minister of home affairs. And of course South Africa’s mines will be mak­ ing handstands all the way to the bank and back, because they sell in dollars per ounce and then convert to rand­based revenue.

Wealthy mines means truck agencies can look forward to more orders for locally assem­ bled trucks. Among the extra heavy commercial vehicles, the Volvo Group, which includes UD trucks, leads with 279 local and exported sales reported last

month, with the Volvo FH lead­ ing sales with a 117 units sold. (UD’s success was in part due to the efforts of two KZN dealers, more on them on page 3.) Scania is currently SA’s second best­selling truck brand, with 189 units sold locally and eight ex­ ported. Among the private cars, the Polo Vivo remains the top selling passenger vehicle, with 2 383 units sold in March. The Polo is not SA’s best­selling vehicle overall, however, as that title is still held by the Hilux, of which Toyota dealers sold 3 447 units locally while the Prospecton plant export 3 463 Hilux units during March. Toyota will also see a silver lin­ ing in a weaker rand, which helps to make each exported Hilux that much more profitable. â€˘Â alwyn.viljoen@witness.co.za

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Mazda vehicles have always been designed and built to the highest standard of performance and reliability and now for complete peace of mind motoring; Mazda Southern Africa has introduced the Mazda Lifetime Parts Warranty which will be effective on new and existing models from January 2017.

Keep your Mazda in tip top condition by taking advantage of low service costs

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R1727.31* R1800.00* R1800.00* R2370.31* R2050.00*

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15% discount on parts and labour on all additional repairs done in workshop. Offer ends 30/06/2017

Continuing to defy convention, MazdaSA will repair or replace any part that fails to perform its normal function without any charge to the vehicle owner for the lifetime of ownership. Claims under this warranty will exclude repair or replacement of parts required due to an accident, misuse, lack of proper maintenance, improperly performed repairs or environmental conditions damage. Incorrectly installed parts, non-approved parts and YHKLFOH PRGL¿FDWLRQV DV ZHOO DV SDUWV LQVWDOOHG WR YHKLFOHV WKDW DUH XVHG IRU FRPSHWLWLRQ UDFLQJ RU HPHUJHQF\ ZLOO DOVR EH H[FOXGHG Serviceable parts; parts replaced under the provisions of the Manufacturer’s warranty; batteries, additives, oils, seals, gaskets, trim items and glass or any parts replaced at the owners request that were deemed inappropriate or unnecessary by the Mazda dealer will also not be included under this warranty. 7KH 0D]GD /LIHWLPH 3DUWV ZDUUDQW\ DSSOLHV WR WKRVH UHSODFHPHQW SDUWV ¿WWHG E\ D 0D]GD DXWKRULVHG GHDOHU DQG IXOO\ SDLG IRU E\ WKH vehicle owner; so the vehicle owner will be required to produce the original repair invoice when returning to the dealer for repairs under this warranty. Terms and Conditions apply.

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Tel: 033 392 4444

www.mazdapietermaritzburg.co.za

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