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Some people got passport stamps made near China Town which did cause a small problem.

Meeting in Pattaya?

I've got a worster one than that.

I am using a rent a car and I needed my phone GPS (as the rent a cars doesn't have them). I plugged in my phone to the USB car female plug, turned it on and also the car entertainment unit and Android Auto came up on the car screen. I connected and my car gps (Google Maps) displayed on the car screen.

I agree. I looked at it this way: Our old car is 12 years old, still good but at 250000 km things will start to go wrong, so buying a new car that will hopefully be trouble free for another 10 odd years will probably be a good investment. I also (more for wifey) a greater acceloration in the car for those times she misjudged a bit and needed more passing power.

Car being detailed. Wifey picks it up next week. Exciting.

Dancer and singer.

A long time ago the Japanese bought up an easy way to reduce the pollution from those black smoke blowing trucks in Bangkok. All trucks should have their exhaust pipes vertical, like ending above the cab instead of horizontal to the ground. This was not going to solve, but reduce the problem. They also did extensive studies with a fully automated traffic light system, instead of a few police pushing buttons. Non of their extensive research findings were implemented.

Try searching with Thailand, water filter, make, model. Something like that. I think you can slip out that brown filter (was white) and take it to a shop. Sorry I just can't remember where the best water filter shop is. You could probably replace it with a Big Blue sediment filter then get a reverse osmosis 6 stage filter if you are going to drink the water.

Great. Wifey picks up ours on the 19th. Unfortunately I won't be back until 6th March. She's off to see the BYD Mukdahan salesman as he rang asking for another B20000 to ensure we still want delivery before they get it sent from Bangkok. Salesman said the vehicle cost price is the same. Bit strange, but if the price we agreed on when I paid the deposit is the same, I think no worries. Will be interesting to see on the 19th if she's told about driving in the ECO mode initially.

Easy solution: vehicles have right of way at pedestrian crossings. Anyone been here for awhile knows you wait until there are no cars to cross. Or go to the nearest overhead bridge crossing.

I'm old but had to fill in a form the other day. The usually stuff, Name, Address etc. Then Male, Female, etc, then a box 'Identify as Something Else' and 'What do you identify as'. Us taxpayers payed a group of people to have meetings and come up with this line of text on a form. If the movement would have stopped at Male, Female, Gay, Lesbian, I supported that but to keep going, now identifying as something else went tooooo far and of course there was going to be a backlash. Don't particularly like Donald Trump but he's got some good ideas.

Thank you very much for this. 🙂 I can read Thai too (an old AUA Bangkok adventure), but would also be painfull for me. Been practising a bit on the Thai BYD sites. 🙂 Talking about SIMs; I don't know anything about car SIMs. I suppose if I look at a car as a device, then the SIM is connected to a BYD cloud? I suppose it can update any car software function. What is it's main purpose and how was it activated? Does it have a Wifey function? Like mute the car GPS when wifey is on board as she knows directions better than the GPS. 🙂

Jealous @motdaeng :). Still waiting but only approx. 2 months since ordering. Keep us informed of how it's going. Why do they say only drive in the eco mode initially? Not worried but just wonder why. Years ago you had to 'run in' a new car. Many adds for carpets, internal trims etc on the BYD internet sites for the Sealion 7. I thought it came with carpets etc. Did the dealer advise you it was delivered and then you said what % windows tints, carpets etc. or did the dealer complete all that to your previous specifications then ring you and say pick it up? Did you know what number you were on the farque or did the dealer just say it's here? 🙂

I have ordered the Sealion 7 as you'all probably know. At present I'm visiting Aus and have been driving a little Toyota hybrid rent a car. I can see why drivers (specially in Aus) don't go fully EV but make the Hybrid step first. This little car had a range of over 800km when I picked it up. I did about 600 odd km and cost me $52 to fill up the tank again. Hybrids seem great value if someone is scared to make the complete jump to EV. Rental about $100/day but dosen't come standard with a GPS. I would have thought that all modern cars would have standard GPS. Don't think I'd order a BYD car and have to ask for GPS as an add on. Maybe just the rent-a-cars....stupid.

Na...that's not as worst as the other one. You keep winning WJE in my opinion, but then I come from Aus. 🙂

B10000...

As the Chinese would say ' A Bic erection'. No disrespect to my Pu Tai wife intended.

We ordered on 10th December, last day under promotion. Salesman said delivery December. Now they say we are top of the que. Believe it when I see it. Mukdahan is like the end of a run, so not sure they would deliver a 1 off to Muk but wait to drop other cars off on the run. The longer we wait the more wife will get Ped off and want to buy another Honda CRV.

F...off :))))

Thanks. Saw the comments, but because I don't have the car yet, not made much sense to me. Just trying to get ahead before I get the car. Not putting down the Thai sites, but most don't seem to answer technically.