၀ယ္ႀကမလားကားေပါေပါေကာင္းေကာင္းေလးေတြြ

ဒူဘုိင္းမွာေနာက္နွစ္ဆန္း (၂၀၀၉) ဇန္န၀ါရိီကစၿပီး သက္တမ္း (၁၀ ) နွစ္ေက်ာ္ရွိတဲ.ကားေတြကုိ
ပုိင္၇ွင္နာမည္ေၿပာင္းမွတ္ပံုတင္ခြင္.မေပးေတာ.ဘူးဆုိလုိ.အဆုိပါကားေစ်းေတြအလြန္အမင္းထုိးက်
ေနပါတယ္။၀ယ္မယ္.သူေတာင္မရွိလုိ.တစ္စစီၿဖဳတ္ၿပီးအစိတ္အပုိင္းလုိက္၀ယ္ေရာင္းလုပ္တဲ.သူေတြ
ကုိထုိးေရာင္းရေတာ.မယ္.အေၿခအနမုိ.၁၀ နွစ္ ၁၁ နွစ္ သက္တမ္းရွိတဲ.ဟြန္ဒါကားတစ္စင္းေတာင္
ဒူဘုိင္းပုိက္ဆံ ( ဒါဟန္း ) ၁၅၀၀ ( ၿမန္မာက်ပ္ေငြ ၅ သိန္းေတာင္မၿပည္. ပါ ) ေလာက္ပဲေစ်း၇ွိ
ေတာ.တယ္လုိ.သတင္းထဲမွာဖတ္ရပါတယ္။တုိးတက္မွဳအေပါင္းသရဖူေဆာင္းေနတဲ.က်ြန္ေတာ္တုိ.
နုိင္ငံမွာေတာ.အဲဒီလုိမ်ဳိးကားကုိပဲ သိန္း ၅၀၀ ၊ သိန္း ၁၀၀၀ ေပး ၀ယ္ေနႀကရပါတယ္၊ၿမန္မာေတြ
ေတာ္ေတာ္ခ်မ္းသာႀကပါလားလုိ.ဘ၀င္ၿမင္.ခ်င္စရာပါပဲ။ မူရင္းသတင္းေလးဖတ္ႀကည္.ပါဦး။

Concern over norm of 10-year-old cars

24 June 2008

DUBAI — Used car showrooms and car dealers in Dubai and Sharjah are inundated with frantic calls these days. Owners of light vehicles want to sell off their 10-year or older vehicles to them. And they want to do it as soon as possible.

This follows the recent announcement of the Ministry of Interior banning transfer of registration of cars more than 10 years old. The rule is to be effective January next year. The decision implies that while the owners of 10-year old vehicles will be allowed to renew their car registrations, they will be prevented from transferring the registration to others from January 2009.

Motorists complain that 10-year old vehicles are technically 'not old' not to allow their re-sale. But the new rule will leave them with little options, they say. They'd have to either sell off the 10-year old cars now or try and export it to their home countries later.

While most of the used showrooms make it clear to them that they do not deal with very old cars, others offer to buy these cars "only as scrap".

"I have a car which is almost 10 years old now. It's in a pretty good shape and I don’t want to sell it off right now. But with this decision, I am forced to seriously consider selling it off, at whatever price I manage to get," says Saifur Hassan, a Bangladeshi national working with a real estate company in Dubai.

Another motorist who recently purchased a 1999 model Toyota car says, "I had decided to purchase a used vehicle to be able to perfect with my newly acquired driving skills before I could go ahead and purchase a brand new car after two years. But the new rule has turned my plans upside down. I now want to sell the car at whatever price available and purchase a new car at the earliest. I am sure that under the current situation the market price for used cars of 10-plus years will be very low."

Motorists also rue that the option of exporting their used vehicles to their home countries is not a very wise one, thanks to the steep duty and transportation costs as well as freight charges.

Says Sukumar Roy, an Indian national working with a Dubai bank: "I have an 11-year old Honda Civic car and I'll prefer to send it to India rather than sell it off here as scrap. However, I have been informed by dealers that the cost of changing the steering wheels from left to right comes to Dh7,000 or even more. Then, there are the exorbitant shipping charges. With so much investment, I can very well buy a branded new car. I am in a fix what to do!"

Meanwhile, an official of the Al Dahud Used Car Showroom in Dubai said he had received calls from motorists who wanted to sell off their old vehicles before the end of this year.

"But then most of the used car showrooms don’t deal with that old vehicles. We can only buy it as scrap material. For example, an 11-year-old Honda will fetch only Dh1,200-1,500," the official pointed out.

Another car dealer said that since there would be no takers for 10-plus year cars in the future, it's not a feasible option to purchase these cars now. Motorists say once the new rule is enforced, there will be no buyers for their old vehicles. They will be either used by the motorists until they lose their road worthiness, or they'd be forced to dump them as scrap.

Motorists say the authorities should take necessary steps to either compensate them for their old cars or facilitate their exports.

Earlier, Ali Abdulla Al Jasim, Director of the Licensing Department at the Roads and Transport Authority had ruled out any kind of compensation for owners of old cars