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45 minutes ago, EVENKEEL said:

Don't think there's a law like that

You should find out by going to leaf through the real Highway Code which must certainly count several books and not the little one you learned to pass your driving license.
In addition, most trailers in your country do not have a cantilever like most trailers in Thailand

On 4/23/2020 at 2:30 PM, Singtoo said:

some times a ticking sound in the engine room.

I immediately thought of an injector

On 4/23/2020 at 2:30 PM, Singtoo said:

But the ticking sounds is only at this low speed range.

It seems to me that it is something else because a dead injector makes noise at any speed.

I broke down on one injector in the Mont Blanc tunnel with a Saviem 280TU; in charge, of course ( 38 t on the scale ); start without problem, go to first and lift the right foot gently; nothing helped, the engine called; not enough torque with 5 cylinders .

1 hour ago, kwonitoy said:

I changed out the original Bridgestones on my 2013 Ford Wildtrack in December.

7 years old and 115,000kms, just down to the replace mark and honestly didn't look to bad at all, 

And if anything I've got a lead foot. Bought exactly the same type again.

As they say YMMV

127,000 km with the original train fitted at the factory; Bridgestone on a 3-liter Isuzu pickup with automatic transmission; and I could have done at least 10,000 km more but I estimate that at 7 years old they were tired.
Generally 4 to 5 people and their luggage;

I must also say that driving has been my job all my life;

I respect the pressures recommended by the manufacturer, vehicle maintenance at isuzu every 10,000 km; non-sporty driving, I drive between 85 and 95 km / h and much less than the 80 authorized in town;

let's say like in Europe, between 30 and 50 km / h.

The second set of tires, same Bridgestone brand, has already almost 70,000 km and is still like new;
of course i have a cross exchange every 20 to 30,000 km.

This is not the subject, but my brakes are original at almost 200,000 km;
an automatic gearbox is handled like a manual gearbox in the mountains in order to touch the brake pedal a minimum of times.

40 minutes ago, owl sees all said:

Just a load of empty crates on a pick-up. No big deal. See sights like this every day around here.

 

Now if they had been filled with fruit......

Or bags of fertilizer

1 hour ago, Mavideol said:

the envelope must have been very thick.... who cares about safety

this is the thing I don't understand here in Thailand;
if the cops did their job properly they would be rich like Cresus

2 minutes ago, VocalNeal said:

Not aimed at you. Aimed at the idiots that assume everything in Thailand is wrong or must be wrong.

 

Edit: Although there is a possibility that vehicle would not be allowed on the Chonburi Motorway. As they are quite strict on there. Even about uncovered motorbikes and other loads.

If the thai police were at the side of the road to enforce the Highway Code, that would be known.
Unfortunately that is not the case and that is why we see so much <deleted>, vehicles in the pit, or on the back, other vehicles with a huge cantilever
I do not know how much it is in the USA or in Thailand but in France the maximum authorized is 3.5 meters from the middle of the last axle ;Here we often see vehicles with a cantilever of several meters

9 minutes ago, Kadilo said:

Most of them were taken by the gf or her 4 year old niece. I guess I’m a bit old school and never messed around with pics and been quite content to receive them and keep them as taken/ received. 
 

Maybe i should use this lockdown time to have a go. 

I also noticed it but didn't say anything.
On the Photography of the month line, we have similar ones; it does not seem to gener generously those who post them, nor the jury for that matter 

Just now, VocalNeal said:

Was it overweight? 

 

What is the maximum height? 

There are none as I write just above.

1 hour ago, colinneil said:

That is unbelievable, why on earth did the police not pull that pickup over?

Unsafe, slightest bit of wind and its over, possibly hitting other vehicles, maybe injuring/ killing people.

That bit of video just shows what A bunch OF USELESS PATHETIC BUMS THE POLICE ARE HERE.

It's incredible, but nothing in the Thai traffic laws prohibits that.
It is also the same thing in the French Highway Code;
there is no height limitation, however incredible it may be.
on the other hand, if this vehicle because of the wind for example, moves on a side and touches another vehicle, the driver will be at fault; same thing if it destroys power lines or internet fiber cables.

In 1976, we had a terrible drought in France; Breton farmers no longer had straw for their animals.
For 2 months, instead of going on my regular trips to Italy, I carried straw in my semi-trailer; we had 14 rows of straw which made a height of 5.70 m; of course one could not pass under any bridge on the motorways; the tallest are 5.5 m; we were therefore obliged to cross cities prohibited for heavy goods vehicles;

the police were running after us; we managed not to drive too fast but enough to be able to pass all the green lights to avoid stopping and taking a fine.
In any case, in the event of fines, they were systematically taken care of by the departments concerned by the drought.

2 hours ago, hotchilli said:

She's not alone, and I wonder which ballot box she will NOT be choosing next election day?  

Unfortunately ..
A French humorist, Coluche, said:
"if the elections were useful , for a long time that they would have been suppressed"

actor

2 hours ago, pineapple01 said:

Must say this Topic is much more cheerfully then most to read whist drinking what Englanders lived for The Tea Break and Park Drive or Woodbines 60 years ago. Many old Farmers here stll do rollups wih one hand  

with one hand and a small cigarette rolling machine

what I also see are small manual machines that put tobacco in cigarette paper pipes

12 hours ago, Odysseus123 said:

Gauloise mate...rough as guts..

When all seemed lost the Foreign Legion loaded them into their mitrailleuses and fired 'em at the foe..never failed.

 

Even the camels fled.

There were also the "Celtiques" with a larger diameter (10 mm) than the Gauloises or the Gitanes;
and the famous Boyards of the same diameter as the Celtics
two kinds of paper: white and corn paper

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauloises

3 hours ago, pineapple01 said:

Bum Waggers.

Is it the sexy outfit that makes you write that? 

I always say that I dress like a clown;
when you are on a bike on the leftmost side of a busy road, it's very good to be dressed in "multicolor" I think .

3 minutes ago, Odysseus123 said:

"Vive la farthing du penny!"

I had forgotten this coin that I used when I was in the Republic of Ireland in 1966;

I also ate Gye there for breakfast; product which has also disappeared; it looks like " marmite " .
I sent 5 years ago, 5 years already, a letter to the Guinness company in Ireland and a person very kindly answered me by sending me a document on this subject:
GYE = Guinness Yeast Extract

6 minutes ago, NCC1701A said:

after reading this i am going to be stocking up again on everything necessary to get through the next wave of virus sure to hit Thailand (timing unknown).      

These are proposals which will happily remain a dead letter.

We must expect everything and unfortunately some madness from the TAT.
It is still written that the future of tourism in Thailand should be of quality rather than quantity.
In any case, as the situation is and will be for many more months, if not years it will be neither in quantity nor in quality.
Even in domestic tourism it will be very difficult if not impossible to return to the situation before Covid-19.

On 4/27/2020 at 12:23 PM, cmsally said:

"training them"......   the friends or the dogs ???!!!

Surely the friends are the dogs