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I purchased a Toyota Fortuner originally with a 4 year loan, negotiated in with a small discount, free first class insurance, and 5 years free servicing.
They didn't approve the loan as I'm here currently on a PE visa without a work permit so I just bought it with cash without a new contract drawn up. They wanted remove the discount and the freebies but I said I wouldn't go through with the purchase unless they kept them in so agreed to provide them all.
A few questions:
- The contract states first class insurance is included but it doesn't specify a length. I assumed the length of the insurance would be the length of the original loan like Mercedes does but now they're saying it's only 1 year. What is the norm with Toyota when you get a loan and they include insurance? Is it for 1 year or for the duration of the loan?
- When I brought the car in for the first service they said only labour is included for free and I had to pay for the oil. Is that normal? I would've thought free service meant the service was completely free.
- I purchased the "AirLumba" massage seat option which the brochure showed two buttons for (both front seats) but they only installed it on one seat saying I needed to pay extra to have the 2nd seat. Anyone know if that's correct? I wasn't given an option to buy the option twice when I bought it so I assumed it would be on both front seats.
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14 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:
In a close proximity party, only 8 people tested positive for Covid-19...
Is anyone elses take away from this story that ketamine and amphetamines should be investigated as a Covid protection measure !!!! ???? !!!!!
It takes time for people to turn a positive test. Those 8 people were probably infected before the party.
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7 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:
"You said the car will probably be written off, you're wrong".
I disagree, I believe it will be written off. You're wrong.
No one would be "writing off B5m", it's the car that gets written off by the insurer.
You seriously think that an insurer will pay to repair this for the owner to the standard it was before the fire? Have you any idea how much was spent on this car and what the mods were?
If the insurer decides that they will not cover the cost of the rebuild, i.e. they write off the car, of course it will get sold...by the insurance company. That's what they do with written-off vehicles, they sell them, what else would the insurer do with them?
The insurer will only write it off if the cost of the repairs is near to or above the insured value.
If the modifications are not insured, the cost of repairs will be 5MB and the insured value will be 10MB so they will repair it.
If the modifications are insured (which is unlikely unless he had some special provider), then the cost of repairs would be 10MB, and the insured value 15MB, so they will repair it.
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2 hours ago, Rampant Rabbit said:did u mention new
The quote I was replying to would be meaningless if it wasn't referring to new cars.
3 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:This was a million miles away from a stock GTR!
All the more reason it won't be written off...A stock car is the base case, the more valuable it is, the more economical it is to repair. At this point you're just trying to defend the indefensible using a strawman fallacy. You said the car will probably be written off, you're wrong.
The bottom line is the wreck alone is worth at least 5MB in Thailand because it allows you to rebuild a GTR with the tax paid. For this reason there is an active market for wrecks. No matter what way you'd like to spin it, nobody is going to write off 5MB when they can either sell the wreck or repair it into a 10MB car for just 5MB. One way or another this car will be repaired and back on the roads.
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Just now, Liverpool Lou said:A repair in this case is very unlikely.
Once again showing off your ignorance. The replacement cost of everything in a stock GTR is around 5MB including taxes + labour. No idiot is going to write off a 10MB car when it can be fixed for 5MB.
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2 minutes ago, Rampant Rabbit said:
Those are used and very old at that.
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3 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:
Insurance scam?, or is this a known mechanical issue, of which when I research the issue is not a known problem...hmmm
What kind of scam did you have in mind? That car is getting repaired for sure so the owner isn't getting a payout.
Expensive cars never get written off here unless they're very old. Because the taxes on whole cars are so much higher than the import taxes on parts, you can rebuild cars from just the VIN number for 1/3 of the cost of a new car.
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1 hour ago, vinci said:first off a Nissan GTR does not worth $10m baht even with mod, you are talking about Ferrari category, exaggeration number, second the car has been alteration, if its burn blame on the alteration of the car, who knows what they did to the car
You have no idea what cars sell for here.
10M is nowhere near Ferrari money. A stock GTR starts at about 10.9M.
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I tried to film check in staff as evidence to show they refused to rebook me on a new flight within a reasonable time which they were required to do.
The ground staff manager said it was a violation of the Computer Crimes Act for me to film them and said they called the police. Maybe check that act.
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1 hour ago, wwest5829 said:
Señal decade ago, I remember we had access to programs which would overwrite your storage two or three times. Whatever happened to that idea or is it no longer necessary?
Those are for mechanical disks which aren't often used anymore. Consumer solid state disks can barely hold the data you need on them let alone survive after a rewrite so one write of 0s is enough. Additionally their endurance is based on the number of writes which makes software that writes on disks repeatedly undesirable.
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10 hours ago, nattaya09 said:
I suspect the US is in a distant 2nd place to Thailands real favored tourists, the Chinese; but we'll never know for sure
Thailand doesn't really care where you're from, really they want people from everywhere to come (as long as they have money of course).
They just pick countries with large numbers of rich travelers that might want to come to Thailand because it's an effective way to target them.
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On 9/30/2021 at 6:10 AM, jacko45k said:
Daikin and Mitsubishi are cited as best frequently, I also have some Saijo Denki units that are very good and have lasted a long time.... but are harder to find and get support for. LG, I always thought of as a cheap Samsung, but that may apply only to TVs. I am very disappointed to hear of Numchai backing down from their responsibilities here.... I expect better from them. Possibly installation is handled separately and poorly.
Turns out the Numchai service lady didn't understand the situation (no idea what kind of situation she thought it was that I should have had to pay for a repair of a brand new unit). Got in touch with the original salesman who organised another fix. This time they found a leak. It wasn't on the A/C unit but on something outside so it was a problem with the installation rather than the A/C unit itself.
On 9/29/2021 at 8:28 AM, chakatee said:leaking coolant gas?
rub some dish washing soap at the connections with the gas tube (outside compressor) and see if you see bubbles coming up (of course if the gas is empty it won't bubble anymore now but then after refilling it with gas)
I believe this was the problem (as I understood it). It's a bit strange though. In previous fixes if they just filled up the gas, surely they'd realise that if it was empty it must have had a leak and check for a leak then instead of just waiting for the problem to happen again...
Hopefully that was the only leak.
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13 hours ago, Puccini said:With Thailand's defamation law and its often unorthodox interpretation by the courts it is useful to remember that c'est le ton qui fait la musique, it's all about how you phrase it. For example:
"The risotto was out of this world, the rice much more al dente than in any Italian restaurant where I have eaten this speciality. De gustibus non est disputandum and for all I now this is how other people like it, but sadly it was not to my taste."
People who know risotto as it should be will get the drift and to others, it won't matter how hard the rice is.
Don't forget to leave 5 stars.
I left a 5 star review for a restaurant here with the comment, "the cuisine here was marginally preferable to starvation" and they posted it up on their Facebook page.
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17 hours ago, thvima said:
This is the result when trying to save. Was the price difference so different with Daikin and Mitsubishi ?
I would never buy any other brand, they are just $hit, people like it or not its a fact.
Isn't LG supposed to be a good brand?
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7 hours ago, guzzi850m2 said:How about the Volvo S60 recharge?
2.2mill, over 400hp combined! That's more than the C43 at 60-65% the cost?
Okay you don't get the MB badge.
That's a sedan, if he's looking at the C43 coupe he wants a performance coupe.
5 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:Merc’s are excellent cars to choose in Thailand if one is in the market for a premium brand car.
There is an excellent dealer network and they hold their value better than other premium brands.
Obviously styling comes into, as does the engine etc.
The locally made models are surprisingly good value these days too, same with BMW.
If you want a performance coupe the new low-end AMGs like the C43 are the cheapest on the market (though I think I read above BMW is entering this space, not sure on their pricing).
If you want a "four-door coupe", the CLS is by a long-shot the cheapest available in Thailand.
If you want a small roadster the SLC or the Z4 are again the cheapest on the market.
If you want a four-seater cabriolet Mercedes offers the C/E Cabriolet here and BMW the 4 series (6 & 8 series are imported last I checked) and they're the pretty much the cheapest cabriolets in Thailand. Even the low-end competitors like the VW turtle thing sell for similar prices and the MBs hold their value better so they end up cheaper in the long run.
People accuse MB owners of being attention seekers like the quote below, but for particular types of cars we're starved for choice here in Thailand so they end up being the cheapest.
6 hours ago, itsari said:The most ridiculous car to buy in Thailand .
Over priced and just bring unwanted attention to your self without going into the quality of the roads .
Buy a used pickup truck and be one of the locals .
That being said, I understand your position. Driving a nice car in BKK is stressful. Just today a motorbike hit the wing mirror of my S class while we were stopped in traffic and as someone who likes to keep hits cars perfect, it annoys the hell out of me. I find the best combination is to have your nice cars but also have a big car for errands/lending out/letting the girlfriend drive. Pickups are great for that - I wanted a Hilux but my girlfriend insisted we get a Fortuner instead (she felt shy to drive a pickup for some reason).
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How is this different from the other Thai influencers? Their on-line appearances are just as "virtual". ????
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3 minutes ago, Farmerslife said:
Thank you, seriously. You have taken the trouble of attempting to explain it to someone whose grasp of these matters is non-existent. ????
A valiant effort on your part and whilst I can understand what you have written I find it difficult to relate it to the OP. NFT was the National Film Theatre in my day, what is it now? "Drops" is this putting something up for sale? OMI is this another cryptocurrency?
Sorry, stoneage man here but this is all beyond me. ????
NFT stands for Non-Fungible token. It uses blockchain technology like cryptocurrencies but the tokens are one off things rather than mined things like cryptocurrencies, and they represent some underlying asset.
3 minutes ago, HenryfromMalaysia said:But NFT? When the whole NFT drop you will have a digital logo that a kid can draw out and that is worth nothing
I would tend to agree that most NFTs should be worth nothing. But take for example an NFT representing a popular stock photo which you receive royalties for whenever it is used - that has underlying value because it generates an income.
Like most things, it's not the technology that's a scam, it's that some applications of it are scams.
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7 minutes ago, Farmerslife said:
Has anyone got a translation ?
Thank you for reminding me but, Jesus, I am old!
It's basically a blockchain ledger system that is used to identify ownership of particular things. The decentralised nature simplifies and cheapens selling the item, particularly for cross-border sales.
They can also be used to record shared ownership of expensive items allowing for people to invest in very expensive items like fine art by purchasing small shares of the item. This I particularly like because it makes investments typically only available to the rich, accessible to everyone. This could really push the prices for such investments up a lot as it'll increase the pool of money seeking to buy.
They're also being used to represent non-physical items. These sometimes come with an income from royalties for the use of the item it represents so they can have some underlying value. Usually NFTs for non-physical items are in my opinion a scam though. I can't imagine anyone paying for an NFT representing a Shakespeare quote 50 years from now when the fad has passed.
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On 9/27/2021 at 1:38 PM, Swiss1960 said:
It took me 5 seconds in Google to find this link to a reliable agency with the requirements for Thai residence certificate.
In Thailand there are written rules and then there are the rules people actually follow.
If he went with your link, he would've missed bringing evidence on his need for a CoR. At Pattaya they won't issue one without it. I fell for this one last time I needed a CoR but was lucky to be able to get a copy of my car purchase contract sent via Line otherwise it would've meant another trip.
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6 hours ago, bbko said:
Don't new items like A/C's come with a warranty?
Yeah they checked it out twice under warranty and each time they got it working again but it fails after a few days. I'm looking for a permanent fix and have given up trying to get Numchai to do it under warranty.
4 hours ago, Broken Record said:
These people were recommended to me, very good, English speaking, fast and professional.
Thanks, will contact them. The name seems very familiar.
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At Pattaya immigration you need:
- Passport
- TM30 receipt
- Copy of passport, visa page, and TM30 receipt.
- 2 passport-sized photos
- Proof of need for a CoR (e.g. a contract to purchase a car)
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If you want a cheap performance coupe then there really isn't any other choice in Thailand. MB has really captured this segment well.
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I purchased 5 LG air conditioning units from Numchai and since new, one of them just blows out hot air. Numchai has only been able to fix it temporarily (they can fix it so it blows cold air but after a few days the problem will return), they're not interested in providing a permanent fix and are now threatening to charge me a fee if I want it fixed again.
Is there another company in Pattaya that can fix this? Preferably a large company, not a Somchai.
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2 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:
If he'd sold it why would he have any interest in any further involvement (particularly as he's leaving Thailand)? It would then not be his car, it'd be the purchaser's problem.
You've obviously never bought a new car here.
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Where to get a TorRorOr in Bangkok
in Thailand Motor Discussion
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I took a 7 year old car to Chonburi DLT to pay the car tax and they sent me across the road to do the TorRorOr which was done on the spot with no appointment.
I can't confirm if it's the same in BKK but I would think so.