One more new resident to Hua Hin

[Bardigiana]

Hi everyone...........my name is Angela and happen to be a new resdient in Hua Hin however new to Thailand I happen not to be.Lived in Bangkok many moons ago before the days of high rises and fast food change and skytrain I may add but still the country has not lost it charm.I am in the throws of furnishing my house and now have to buy a car.I have owned cars in the past and always kept them for a long long time so now I have been looking at the Honda crv or cvr in Bangkok but have no idea realy whether better to buy from a dealer here in Hua Hin or from Bangkok where there are more dealers.................................any advice would be greatly appreciated, and happy to meet you all....................................

[Lev]

Welcome to HHAD, be sure to have a read of this: http://www.huahinafterdark.com/forum/vi ... 26&t=10054 and fire away with any questions you have.

[Khundon1975]

Welcome to the forum Bardigiana and good luck with the hunt for a new car.

[Spitfire]

Welcome to the forum.

Regarding cars, I'd probably buy a second hand car from Bangkok but it's a complete gamble, wherever you are. The locals often don't maintain their cars so well, usually due to lack of disposable income or just consider it as a low priority. Generally, their attitude is "We'll fix it when it breaks." There's not much concept of 'preventative servicing' here, reason why you see so many blow-outs and immobile vehicles on the highway, be afraid.

Really, they (second hand cars) are over-priced with few guarantees that have been apethetically maintained. Find somewhere that gives out a kind of warranty, like the Toyota "Sure" garages etc, depends how much you want to spend. To be honest though it's like rolling a dice here and many places may give short shift if you go back to complain.

Sorry I can't be more positive here.

However, you'll be happy in HH.

[Khundon1975]

Spitfire

I think you can almost guarantee that most of them have been "apathetically" maintained.

Personally, I would go for one that has been sympathetically maintained.

[Spitfire]

Works for more than just cars KD!

[Khundon1975]

Only on some models Spitfire.



I have noticed a lot of people on this forum talking about the Honda CRV, is it a good car?

I seem to remember following a story in the BK Post around 2002/3, when a Hi So lady bought one from a main dealer in BKK and she had nothing but trouble with it. She took it back to the dealer on numerous occasions but got no joy from him. He did not seem to care, once he had sold the car!
What he didn't realise was the lady was very rich and she arranged for the car to be parked outside the dealership with several signs setting out the problems she had with the car and the dealer.
She invited the press and TV to a little party designed to highlight the defects and the dealers attitude towards her.

The press and TV companies duly turned up and the cameras and pens rolled.

Out of a parked van, came two burly men with sledge hammers, whom she had hired and they duly set about the car in question. Totaling it on live TV.

That got the dealers attention and he tried to stop the carnage that the two hired wreckers were doing, but to no avail and it was all caught on tape.

Que panic at Honda HQ in Japan, 3 top execs flew over and tried to placate the woman on TV but she was having none of it and continued to lam-bast the dealer, Honda and anyone else who came in view.

Honda offered her a new CRV plus a full refund of her money but she told them to stuff their offer where the sun don't shine. She told them she was going to buy a Nissan instead.
It turns out that the Honda wasn't even for her but for her chauffeur to run around in.

So Hi So's do have their uses.

Is the CRV a better car now?

[Bardigiana]

Welcome to the forum.

Regarding cars, I'd probably buy a second hand car from Bangkok but it's a complete gamble, wherever you are. The locals often don't maintain their cars so well, usually due to lack of disposable income or just consider it as a low priority. Generally, their attitude is "We'll fix it when it breaks." There's not much concept of 'preventative servicing' here, reason why you see so many blow-outs and immobile vehicles on the highway, be afraid.

Really, they (second hand cars) are over-priced with few guarantees that have been apethetically maintained. Find somewhere that gives out a kind of warranty, like the Toyota "Sure" garages etc, depends how much you want to spend. To be honest though it's like rolling a dice here and many places may give short shift if you go back to complain.

Sorry I can't be more positive here.

However, you'll be happy in HH.

[TypicallyTropical]

It's more and more common by the dealers to sell "Certified Pre-Owned" cars, they put the car through numerous tests and inspections. It costs more than the "regular" used car but it offers some peace of mind. Did this trend caught up in Thailand yet?

[hhfarang]

It's more and more common by the dealers to sell "Certified Pre-Owned" cars, they put the car through numerous tests and inspections. It costs more than the "regular" used car but it offers some peace of mind. Did this trend caught up in Thailand yet?

TT, no offense, but I take it by many of your posts that you haven't spent much time in Thailand. Almost every post you make equates business here to what you are used to in the U.S. and you are in for a big surprise... here there are no rules and almost no laws that are enforced.

That trend may come along in about 50 years.