Hi

What is this WOT that I see mentioned in some posts here?

I drive a 3.7 Sport and with the price of fuel in South Africa increasing every month I think it is time to take a look at a diesel Liberty or Grand Cherokee. So I might be asking quite a few questions here over the next month or so

How much is your gas down there? Are wages enough to compensate for the high price like they are in Europe? Here in the USA, if we had to pay $7 a gallon on our wages, we would freak.

WOT = Wide Open Throttle

So does that mean pedal to the metal, as in floor it in every gear?

Well I am not sure if a direct conversion is correct, but it comes to $0.90. Next month it will be about $0.96. To put this into some kind of perspective, I am in what is regarded as the upper income level. I pay more tax a month that what maybe 60% of the population earn a month. My after tax income (less life insurance, medical insurance and retirement annuity) is about $3000 and my monthly petrol bill is $300 - $350 depending on what I do weekends.

Based on my wife's cousin's consumption on his 2.5 CRD stick shift, my fuel cost should drop to about $160 a month.

How does this compare to over there: brand new 2.8 CDR Auto Limited is $53,641 in South Africa . Ok, it does include a full maintenance plan valid for 3 years or 60 000 miles i.e no service charges and ALL repairs are free of charge.

Wow! 10% of your income goes to fuel. For me, that would equate to a $700 a month fuel bill instead of the $200 I pay now. We are upper middle class here. $500 a month is still more than chump change.

I could actually use the $300 dollars to pay the installment on a new small car like a VW or Toyota. If I don't come right in finding a nice diesel KJ then that will be plan B - buy a small run-around and only use the KJ for off-road and long distance trips. The KJ diesel is in such a demand here that the stealerships have a waiting list for used ones They only get ones in when the owners trade up to the 2.7 Grand Cherokee. Which my wife's cousin did this weekend without telling me that he was going to trade his 2.5 KJ in.

I am so off-topic in my own topic

AJ....
I know I'll probably get a black dot on my forum file here....but what the h**l.
When water goes down the drain in South Africa, like in a sink or toilet (water closet, lou, or what ever you South Africans call it) which way does it spin.
Counterclockwise or clockwise ????

Water... you know as it goes down the drain in a basin or sink.
Here in the northern hemisphere it spins clockwise going down the drain. Supposedly in the southern hemisphere it spins counterclockwise or anti clockwise.
I've never been in the southern hemisphere to see if its true....

Clockwise.
Thanks AJ....
Aw... C'mon... You guys were wondering too.
I'll take the bbd. Is it a PERMANENT record, like grade school.

Water... you know as it goes down the drain in a basin or sink.
Here in the northern hemisphere it spins clockwise going down the drain. Supposedly in the southern hemisphere it spins counterclockwise or anti clockwise.
I've never been in the southern hemisphere to see if its true....