Yme

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Ok, I posted the relevant info I have no more need to discuss with you as you only have one passion in life to confront people over nothing and I have better things to do and more important advice to give on other threads so enjoy your masturbation session on your own ok?

You haven't posted anything relevant at all. You jumped on this thread and tried to make yourself look like a know-it-all smart a*se and trivialised a problem that has resulted in at least six deaths, hundreds of injuries, the establishment of a senate sub-committee inquiry with demands for a full national recall of all vehicles with the "beta" Takata airbag inflator fitted to the drivers side of the vehicle.

The only <deleted>, is you.

Photo of USAF 1st Lt Stephanie Erdman "Shrapnel from the airbag shot through the airbag and embedded in my right eye"

You're in Thailand.

That's not the issue. The issue is the OP asking a question and this other toss pot stomping all over the thread with his self-proclaimed level of expertise "BTW I know more about vehicle safety then you ever will" when he has no idea who I am or who I work for and then passing his "expert" opinion that there were very few cars affected in Thailand. If you're the only person telling everyone what a automobile safety expert you are, you sure aren't an expert and pretty insecure as well.

More importantly, the information you impart is WRONG and there is no mention as to which airbag the OP was inquiring about. Pretty moot anyway seeing as the driver side airbags have been deemed just as dangerous as the passenger side airbag.

Now I can also humiliate you further by posting the complete list up until the start of this month of all Honda vehicles SOLD IN THAILAND with defective passenger side airbags as well. I've supported my statement. Now lets see you put up or shut up. So far nothing but hot air and public m*sturbation.

Clearly there are more than a "very few" cars affected in Thailand

Let me make it clear for those who can't read. The figures from Honda Asia above are for THAILAND only and ONLY represent Honda and exclude Nissan, Mazda, Toyota, Mitsubishi, BMW, and Subaru. With the focus now on the driver side airbag you can reasonably expect the figure for diver and passenger-side airbags to be somewhere around 100,000 vehicles IN THAILAND!

As far as running out of patience? Go tell some one who cares, while your also telling them what a super knowledgeable auto safety expert you are. Because clealry you have no clue on how many vehicles are affected in THAILAND.

Ok, I posted the relevant info I have no more need to discuss with you as you only have one passion in life to confront people over nothing and I have better things to do and more important advice to give on other threads so enjoy your masturbation session on your own ok?

You haven't posted anything relevant at all. You jumped on this thread and tried to make yourself look like a know-it-all smart a*se and trivialised a problem that has resulted in at least six deaths, hundreds of injuries, the establishment of a senate sub-committee inquiry with demands for a full national recall of all vehicles with the "beta" Takata airbag inflator fitted to the drivers side of the vehicle.

The only &lt;deleted&gt;, is you.

Photo of USAF 1st Lt Stephanie Erdman "Shrapnel from the airbag shot through the airbag and embedded in my right eye"

Obviously you hav a problem with both arithmetic and English. But please do tell how many people should be at risk before anything is done about this "trivial" problem?

The only RX-8s on the list were imported 2003 models, which Mazda is requiring owners to pay for the replacement. So did you pay, or leave them as a "trivial" matter?

Oh ad I noticed you went back and edited out the arrogant, self-serving comments about knowing more about automotive safety than anyone else. Clearly you don't. Good to see your hand finally slipped off what it was rubbing while you were writing your initial reply.

And Mr self-acclaimed "motor safety expert" you're totally overlooking the issue of driver-side airbags.

And very few cars in Thailand? Really? Just some of the Honda's in THAILAND involved before the extended recall of vehicles with DRIVER's -Side airbags announced in the US last week.

Honda Front passenger's side Civic 2001-2002 - 3,984

Honda Front passenger's side Civic 2001-2002 - 9,400 (different from above)

Honda Front driver’s side Civic 2012-2014 - 4,408 ; CR-V 2013-2014 - 489 ; Brio 2012 -2014 - 3,348 ; Amaze 2014 - 769

Honda Front driver’s side City 2003-2004 - 17,369

Trivial problem when it's affecting current build vehicles? You must be joking.

Well time you got that swollen head out of the smelly dirty place you keep it and re-think your self-proclaimed motor vehicle safety expert title

So your claim to the all knowing is based on what experience.?.Air Bags were options or based on range toppers only back then.

Directly from Honda Asia

Obviously you hav a problem with both arithmetic and English. But please do tell how many people should be at risk before anything is done about this "trivial" problem?

The only RX-8s on the list were imported 2003 models, which Mazda is requiring owners to pay for the replacement. So did you pay, or leave them as a "trivial" matter?

Oh ad I noticed you went back and edited out the arrogant, self-serving comments about knowing more about automotive safety than anyone else. Clearly you don't. Good to see your hand finally slipped off what it was rubbing while you were writing your initial reply.

And Mr self-acclaimed "motor safety expert" you're totally overlooking the issue of driver-side airbags.

And very few cars in Thailand? Really? Just some of the Honda's in THAILAND involved before the extended recall of vehicles with DRIVER's -Side airbags announced in the US last week.

Honda Front passenger's side Civic 2001-2002 - 3,984

Honda Front passenger's side Civic 2001-2002 - 9,400 (different from above)

Honda Front driver’s side Civic 2012-2014 - 4,408 ; CR-V 2013-2014 - 489 ; Brio 2012 -2014 - 3,348 ; Amaze 2014 - 769

Honda Front driver’s side City 2003-2004 - 17,369

Trivial problem when it's affecting current build vehicles? You must be joking.

Well time you got that swollen head out of the smelly dirty place you keep it and re-think your self-proclaimed motor vehicle safety expert title

You might not think it's so trivial if it's your throat the piece of steel from the inflator ring is passing through.

And where do you get 2,000 cars from "Mr motor safety expert"? That's BMW only.

There's a 141,000 cars listed above and that was before the extended recall announced after the Malaysian death and before a voluntary national recall in the USA by Honda and BMW announced last week for drivers-side airbags in affected models with Takata and other auto makers resisting a call by the NHTSA to extend the recall nationally to drivers-side airbags on affected vehicles instead of just those in hot and humid regions.

"but I usually post late at night...". Oh you poor precious little thing. Better you get some sleep. The only person "being an .................." on this thread is you.

Very few vehicles in Asia even had airbags back when they were supposed to have been installed, especially Thailand. Op I'm not familiar with the incident you're speaking of nor the circumstances of her death so I can't speak to it? It seems the reason you've only found info only pertaining to those regions is because they were the only regions the cars were effected as it's been stated, that seems to answer your OP..

Not so. Please check your facts before posting on an issue as important as vehicle safety.

“the total accumulative number of [Honda] affected vehicles in Asean is around 27,000 units so far”.

"According to Toyota’s Singapore regional office about 112,000 Toyota vehicles sold throughout Asean were fitted with the potentially deadly airbags"

"BMW Thailand said there were “about 2,000 affected cars in Thailand”

"Emails sent to Nissan Motor (Thailand) and Mazda Sales (Thailand) over the number of their vehicles involved and seeking details of their replacement policy were not responded to."

Source: http://www.establishmentpost.com/asean-auto-manufacturers-act-on-deadly-airbags-as-regulators-stay-mute/

No Ford vehicles sold in Southeast Asia have used the Takata airbag

Ones that were born a girl

The OP might like to consider that not everyone in Thailand spends their days in the pub, chasing girls young enough to be their grand daughter or worrying whether the exchange rate has affected their pension. Many of us work or have businesses in Thailand and are concerned about where Thai logic will take the country and how that affects our livelihoods or the money invested in businesses that give Thai people jobs. And those concerns are what causes people to comment on everything from whether the BTS is running late or whether people are bottling up frustrations and anger because they can't speak or act freely. Anyway, nice troll post, take another sip of oxygen and stay calm.

I had a Phantom2 Vision and thought it was crap. FPV (first person view, ie., what the camera is seeing) broke up after about 50 meters. Great if you're flying in a field where you can see it, but useless if you can't.

Took it back to Hobby Thai three times, three times it came back and they said it was fixed, but it wasn't.

Ended up getting a full refund after 7 months of messing about.

Typical Chinese built quality control. Support from their US and Hong Kong office was non-existent.

Have seen some other people with the newer Phantom2Vision+ and they have the same problem with the FPV.

There's always GrabTaxi or Grab Car - both of which operate legally in Thailand and haven't as yet attempted to bully journalists or unlawfully track passengers trips

Children's issues... they got an award for writing about their own problems?

The digital roll-out has taken place in Chiang Mai yet, hence no coupon distribution yet

Despite the terminology, I believe they are advocating removal of the party list system, something I have long supported.

This system has allowed scum like the Shinawatras to gain power using their wealth to buy popular local politicians, appoint unelectable cronies like Chalerm, and reward their criminal lackeys.

Did Thaksin create this system or was it in play before he was even born?

My recollection is it, along with the redrawing of some electoral boundaries, was introduced in the wake of the 2006 coup as an attempt to boost the number of seats the Democrat's could win due to their power base being predominantly in more densely populated urban regions such as Bangkok. Happy to be corrected if that wasn't the case.

Does the stupidity in this country never stop?? (Rethorical question!)

Do bears shit in the woods?

Sorry to read about your distressing time. You could try helium (party balloon) gas or insulin. Was the stuff you injected green colour? If it wasn't green it wasn't nembutol. A sealed up small room with some charcoal burners is another option.

Good luck. Must be very stressful.

The most common reason for blocked arteries in the legs - peripheral vascular disease (PVD) - is from smoking (nicotine).

In fact, the anesthetist in Darwin said every single by-pass surgeries he had done was on a smoker.

cold feet / toes is another symptom of poor circulation in the legs.

Yme, what were your initial symptoms?

Claudication in the calves at increasingly shorter distances. No ridiculously short, but why wait until it gets to that.

Can't help you with a name, but I've just had an aorta to femoral Iliac by-pass and "kissing stents" - one off each side of the aorta – done.

I originally went to Siriraj, but just got totally screwed around by them. They originally wanted to angioplasty where I eventually had the Iliac bypass done and quoted Bt250,000 for that.

I was booked in for the surgery and then the surgeon didn't show up because they had an emergency. Was left on fast for 26 hours even though they ddn't do the surgery and wern't able to do it the next day. F*ckers still gave me a bill for the hospital stay plus extra needless blood tests.

Then I was told they couldn't operate until I sopped smoking for for two months. After I sopped the smokes for three months they said they couldn't operate while I was using nicotine patches. Total BS.

Then I went to Ramathibodi and they wanted to do the same. I sent the CT scans to Singapore and Malaysia for a second and third opinion. Singapore quoted S$20,000 (about twice the price of here) to do an angioplasty and one stent from the Iliac into the femoral and Malaysia quoted RM 20,000 (a bit less than here, but for a lot more work) for all of what I eventually had done.

Instead I got on a plane a flew to Darwin where the surgery was done in two rounds (two trips) at Royal Darwin Hospital. In the time I was getting messed around by Siriraj and waiting between the two different rounds of surgery the popliteal artery below the knee became 100% blocked.

The surgeon in Darwin (English) who did the bypass was exceptionally good. The by-pass took nine hours instead of the expected three though. The stents were inserted a month ago by a vascular specialist under a local anesthetic and took about three hours.

A few points to come out of all of this.

1. Once an artery becomes 100% blocked the blockage becomes hard like coral and just about impossible to pass the angioplasty wire through. In other words, what Siriraj, Ramathibodi and Singapore were suggesting was unlikely to work.

2. Regarding the blocked lower artery (popliteal) below the by-way split. The specialist and the surgeon both said they doubted they could get a wire through it now that it is 100% blocked. They said it is only about 2mm in diameter compared to 7mm for the Iliac.

They both said that even if stenting was possible it was unlikely to be successful. The option was either a gortex by-pass the same as I had done on the upper leg or replacement with a vein. They both said the success of these was varied and generally only lasted about 5 years. They said the procedure could be done twice (don't know why only twice).

First thing you'll need is a CT scan. At a public hospital in Bangkok a CT from Aorta to toes of both legs was about Bt1,800 baht including the iodine (contrast material). Siriraj did a whole bunch of other PBR tests, etc, but in Australia all they were interested in was the CT scan and there was no battery of blood tests before the new CT scan or the surgery such as I was ripped off here.

Here they'll probably prescribe you Pletaal if you are having claudication. It's available in 50mg and 100mg. Siriraj prescribed 50mg twice a day, but the dosage in Australia is 100mg twice a day - though they said they don't use it a lot. The wholesaler price of the 100mg were about Bt330 for 10.

Siriraj prescribed aspirin 81mg, but in Australia they don't have that so it's 100mg once a day. 81mg is okay though they said.

Post surgery Australia put me on a cholesterol lowering med even though my cholesterol was fine. Australia dispensed a atorvastatin 20mg for once daily consumption. When I came back the local wholesaler charged Bt880 for a one month supply of Atorvastatin by Sandoz.

I went to the local pharmacy last weekend and they have Bestatin at Bt200 for a month. The Australian docs said not to waste money on Lipitor (very expensive here) as one "statin" was the same as another "statin".

If you decide to proceed I would strongly suggest you get the diagnosis and the CT done here and then get the surgery done in Malaysia or India if you are having to pay cash.

Hope some of that is of help.

The massive vehicle safety recall in the US has now reached over 50 million vehicles. Most of them are due to GM failing to disclose its faulty ignition switch for more than a decade.

In the last couple of weeks though the number of vehicles with the killer Takata airbags has grown to more than 16 million vehicles as it appears Honda kept the matter secret from 2004 when it became aware of the problem until 2008 which saw ten other manufacturers using the bags.

In addition to Honda, which along with Takata is accused of first becoming aware of the deadly airbags as early as 2004, but failed to make public until 2008, the recall affects ten other manufacturers who also use Takata airbags in their vehicles.

According to this article: Asean Auto Manufacturers Act on Deadly Airbags As Regulators Stay Mute

Honda in Asean has replaced "27,000 units so far”. And that's over 10 recalls!

Toyota Singapore say they replaced 112,000 last year and so aren't affected by the latest recall.

BMW Thailand say they've replaced “about 2,000 affected cars in Thailand” alone on BMW 3 Series (E46) produced from May 1999 to August 2006. Most of these were assembled in Thailand.

Takata-Toa, Nissan Motor (Thailand) and Mazda Sales (Thailand) failed to respond to enquiries.

Other manufacturers affected are: Isuzu, Mitshubishi, Subaru, Ford, GM, and Chrysler

The Honda numbers seem a bit light given they are the #1 selling passenger car in Thailand.

Also interesting that the Asean committee on Consumer Protection’s (ACCP) – established in 2007 as an initiative under the Asean Economic Community (AEC) Blueprint – makes no mention of the recall or dangers posed by the deadly airbags.

I'm pressuming this is becasue of the graphics chip failure that Apple refuses to acknowledge, partly becasue they only count failures that occur to product in the US and the rest of the world is just a milch cow for Apple's burgeoning profit.

I had mine replaced at Macintosh Centre at Fortune Plaza 02-642 0400 / [email protected]. Cost for a swap out 17-inch logic board was Bt19,200. I passed on their Bt1,500 examination fee despite their protests that "it might be something else" as I was pretty confident I knew what the problem was.

It took them less than a week to get the new board from Singapore and fit it. I had them remove the HDD when I left the PowerBook with them.

3months guarantee on the new board.

Interesting. Are you referring to the leadless solder being used to attached the chip - which over time and heat can become decoupled from the LB? I had a 12" powerbook with the exact same symptoms. I could get it working by putting some pressure on the GPU........How about running a heatgun over the area to reflow the solder a la xbox fix ?

Did a google, a heatgun is indeed a fix

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4766577?start=3750&tstart=0

I did the Google search as well before opting for the change-over. If you damage the logic board and you'll have to pay full retail for the swap out and that is considerably more.

There's a few places in the US putting the logic board into an oven to reflow the solder, but the reports are that a lot of these stop working after a while.

There's a story here: http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/08/12/apple-ignores-calls-to-fix-2011-macbook-pro-failures-as-problem-grows

There's a petition here that has reached more than 26,000 signatures that Apple is still ignoring https://www.change.org/p/timothy-d-cook-replace-or-fix-all-2011-macbook-pro-with-graphics-failure

According to one article Apple only count failures of product sold in the US.

Freebies for celebrities? What could go wrong?

Freebies don't necessarily guarantee good publicity. Appears even some journalists don't even feel obligated to say nice things just because they get a freebie. Was a bit surprised at the the level of candidness in this article. Thailand Tourism Pins Hopes on AEC

That Thai beaches overall are not the nicest, cleanest or safest in Asia has little to do with the marketing hype, while the overall political and economic climate has meant most Thais have stopped smiling a long time ago, despite what some opinion polls would try to make out, unless there is a financial transaction in their favour.

At the same time rises in wages, land prices, construction costs and a dual pricing regime that sees foreigners charged up to 500 per cent more for entry into tourist attractions and national parks than Thais has seen Thailand now become a considerably more expensive and less amazing destination than many of its competitors.

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In comparison to the majestic, ornate and extensive temple ruins of Cambodia’s Angkor Wat or Indonesia’s Borobudur, visitors to Ayutthaya find the decaying stone structures and prangs (Khmer-style towers) of Wat Phra Mahathat, rows of headless Buddha statues and the much photographed Buddha head entwined in the roots of a tree.

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At the Ayutthaya “Japanese village” visitors would need to read a signboard to know that what they are looking at in any way commemorates the role of early Japanese settlement in the city’s growth.

Surrounded by meticulously manicured lawns there is virtually nothing that takes visitors back to a time when some 3,000 Japanese traders, missionaries and settlers were a vibrant part of Ayutthaya’s prosperity.

How this can be termed a village beggars belief, while the plastic elephant tusks used to illustrate the ivory trade are laughable.

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Likewise the city’s “Buffalo Village” with its black, white and pygmy buffalo herd rescued from abattoirs and 20-metre long demonstration ploughing and unladen sled pulling show is unlikely to be high on the “must do list” of most Southeast Asian tourists.

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While Buddhists might attach great importance in visiting an endless number of temples “famous” for this reason or that, whether a man-made cement Buddha statue is sitting or laying down, has its legs crossed one way and its hands crossed another is likely to be of little interest to the regions Muslim or Christian followers.

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While the “Asean’s tale of the old town” familiarisation trip failed provide much of an insight into the work and living environment of the regions inhabitants, it did expose what critical condition the Thailand tourism industry is in, as well as the blasé approach educators, lawmakers and industry leaders have taken to ensuring readiness for the AEC next year.


At all of the tourist destinations visited over the three days of the “Asean’s tale of the old town” familiarisation trip, foreign and local tourists were all but nowhere to be seen, with the exception of two tourist coaches at Wat Phra Mahathat in Ayutthaya.

While the TAT might see the future of the Thailand tourism industry being in attracting fewer, but higher spending tourists, it is quantity and not quality that are needed to make tourist attractions viable and fill the tens of thousands of currently empty hotel rooms nationwide.

Viewing the AEC simply as a milch cow from which large numbers of tourists can be harvested is doomed to failure if those tourists can’t communicate with hotel staff to ask for a clean towel or get directions from tourist attraction staff on the location of the nearest toilet.

Likewise the continuation of racist dual pricing is also a no-brainer and a potent insult to tourists who have elected to spend their hard earned savings by travelling to another country and injecting their money in the local economy.

There's also a pretty hard slap of the Ministry of Tourism and Sports over revenue figures at the bottom.

Seems some people don't know the rules of the game when they are given something for free. No doubt they won't be invited on another so-called famtrip

Source: http://www.establishmentpost.com/thailand-tourism-pins-hopes-on-aec/

I'm pressuming this is becasue of the graphics chip failure that Apple refuses to acknowledge, partly becasue they only count failures that occur to product in the US and the rest of the world is just a milch cow for Apple's burgeoning profit.

I had mine replaced at Macintosh Centre at Fortune Plaza 02-642 0400 / [email protected]. Cost for a swap out 17-inch logic board was Bt19,200. I passed on their Bt1,500 examination fee despite their protests that "it might be something else" as I was pretty confident I knew what the problem was.

It took them less than a week to get the new board from Singapore and fit it. I had them remove the HDD when I left the PowerBook with them.

3months guarantee on the new board.