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On 10/29/2024 at 8:23 PM, Pib said:

 

Just confirmed we can now once again post weblinks to Bangkok Post new articles...so here's the link.

https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/motoring/2892323/chinese-ev-sets-german-test-track-record

Chinese EV sets German test-track record

 

"Modified EV" sets lap record. Now they need to run a standard car around. This car had a gutted interior and race slicks. A standard car should be close the the tesla plaid with trackpack, that is 30 seconds slower. It's still a very impressive time though. 

On 10/31/2024 at 4:02 PM, NowNow said:

 

But yet you were way off with the pricing. Perhaps you had your implant twenty years ago. That might explain your 70k fantasy 😊....or do you think their price jumped 50k in two years?

My implants were Straumann done 2-4 years ago. they were about 60-65k with the crowns. Mahidol University Dental Hospital. I don't know their current price. 

Around 60-65K at Mahidol University Dental Hospital (Close to Victory Monument). This is using Swiss implant material. The professors did my work, and mostly in the evenings or the weekends. You may get it cheaper elsewhere and with cheaper materials. I should add I didn't need any bone graft or 3d ct scans. 

On 10/25/2024 at 8:22 AM, tomazbodner said:

I'm looking out the window... all is see are shadows of some towers nearby through the haze making the rest of the sky grey. That's the view I'll have until June or July. You ICE fanboys are surely contributing to it. Please go out and use your lungs to filter the air for us a bit, will you?

Ya better talk to the transport department, not us ICE fan boys. I decatted a car, have ultra dark tint, installed leds and an insanely loud exhaust. Passed inspection with flying colors. Keep suckin on those fumes lol

11 hours ago, Aussie999 said:

Considering you are considered unemployed if only working 1 day, even in your own paddy. Do not be confused with your home country.

Australia is the same, or it was when i was included in the census one year. I was literally only working a couple of hours a week at the time, and the census officer said, ok you are 'employed'. These were the dark Keating years where unemloyment was running at 10%. Horrendous!

On 10/23/2024 at 2:53 AM, Ralf001 said:

No, you should wait 24hrs.

Ans check with the doc if its ok to eat 😄

Actually 3-5 day fasts are good...after the initial hunger pains, the body learns to burn fat, as you enter ketosis. Hunger reduces at this time. 

On 10/17/2024 at 6:21 AM, Johno57 said:

This delves right into the entire system of the ease of  obtaining a driving license, the complete disregard for pedestrians, the lack of care and respect for other road users & traffic laws, and the ignorance of driving off when an accident has occurred.

So many accidents at padestrian crossings in thailand defies belief...

Its just a lack of law enforcement and leaving it all up to karma. 

9 hours ago, Sheryl said:

Under the 3 components that make up the government health scheme, only one -- the Civil Service SS - allows a spouse to be added, and in that case it does not  matter whether or not the spouse has permanent residency.

I'm covered under my wife's CSMBS (civil servant medical benefits scheme). My son was also covered until her turned 20, and her parents were covered (both deceased now). his is a good scheme as I can use any public hospital, and I've used several! I just usually pay a small amount for the after hours clinics.  don't pay for medicine also. 

3 hours ago, Gweiloman said:

Most people that I come across are charging to 100% or close to it, even when there are others in line. I think this is because the charging is free and human nature is that people will take advantage of whatever they can. The issue is that it takes about the same amount of time from 80% - 100% as it takes from 20%-80%. Therefore the time taken to charge to 100% is doubled which means longer queues for everyone.

 

I don’t know what you mean by your final sentence. If it costs money to charge from 80%-100%. I would wager that pretty much everyone would stop at 80% and charge the last 20% at home rather than sitting in the car.

Well there is a good reason to charge to 'only' 80%, and all owners should know that reason. keeping the charge between 20% and 80% will maximise the life of the battery. 

On 10/15/2024 at 4:38 PM, Pattaya420 said:

My 2025 Civic feels most power on E85, propabely highest consumption vs other ⛽ 

If you got it remapped, they may have mapped it to run optimally on e85. we have a suzuki swift and remapped it on e20. I would say e85 would give you  the best performance if it was remapped to run on this fuel. 

1 hour ago, Yodarapper said:

How does it compare to an MG ZS - been told it’s smaller but I’ve been in it and can’t tell. We have two child seats back should fit right. How is the sound driving on highway heard it’s loud?

is the premium luxury worth it what extra do you get?

If you list you priorities, its easier to give advice. Like new vs second hand first. You will get more for your money if buying second hand (the initial drop in value has happened). Resale is not great on any brand at the moment but its best with toyota and honda. It's a buyers market if you are looking for second hand (don't go too old though_ and see if you can find something with warranty remaining on it. You can find something larger and better specced than a yaris cross. Do you need size, performance, comfort, etc. Do you travel far or mainly in the city. etc. Sorry if you have already mentioned your main specs. 

I do like the yaris, if I wanted something smaller than I have (crv diesel) and wanted a relatively fuel efficient car that can cope with road flooding. Or try second hand fortuner/mu-x, but the ride is stiffer than most regular cars (easy to sell though!)

1 hour ago, georgegeorgia said:

Seems to be getting worse 

Oh please 

$100 is now 21.73 

So it's $50 nearly for 1000 baht 

$25 for 500

How much is 100 baht ?

 

Not enough to cover your medical expenses 😄

1 hour ago, Bandersnatch said:

Oh look another EV fire

 

 

What's your point? 

16 hours ago, Lorry said:

Prachachuen 28, opposite DBU

reliably flooded every time it rains

Prachachuen itself is not flooded, starts a few meters inside the soi

Sounds like Bond St and its sois. I think 2 years ago there was a big downpour. Muang Thong Thani went under water and many cars were damaged. My crv got through it, but in some locations, even pickups wouldn't go through it. My doc on Bond st reported water going into her clinic when cars went by. 

Im not sure the concrete wall could stop water - There are plenty of gaps in it. Not sure they have all been sealed. 

On 10/9/2024 at 7:34 PM, digbeth said:

 

raising the drain with pipes sounds like good idea, had heard of some rare case where blocking the drain with bags of water or capping it off leads to the pressure causing leaks in the drainpipes often underground where it's hard to reach and fix later

If I had a decent plot of land to protect, and it was flood prone, I'd probably put a high dirt mound around the border of my property - leave it there permanently and let grass grow on it. This is what they did along klong Prapa in 2011 to protect Impact and Muang Thong Thani from getting flooded. Around this area and some parts of Pak Kret were among the few places to avoid getting flooded. A number of new villages since 2011 in my area were build on raised land (at least 1m higher than the road level. 

On 10/9/2024 at 6:59 PM, JAS21 said:

Well you could attach some blue plastic pipe vertically onto your drain with a bit of silicon and block your toilet with a plastics bag full of water held down with a weight…got the idea …of course if you are talking quite a depth of water then probably you are <deleted> … 

I tried the pipe in the drain hole...silicone everywhere ...didnt work. I only know of one resident in my village who managed to keep the water out of his house...had pumps running 24/7 for like 6 weeks. It was just easier to abandon the place. The guards did stay the whole time though. Next time Id make more effort to move more stuff upstairs. 

20 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

I don't see that the prices drop any more than ICE's do...  that would be my concern if buying one, but I've seen no evidence of the prices dropping (and this thread is about the show rooms lowering prices on new models forcing the value of already purchased models to drop - which is a different argument). 

There was recent posting of a low km byd seal for sale at 1M, baht, so that's a 500K drop in less than a year. It's not advertised anymore so I guess someone snapped it up. Losing a 1/3 of value in 1 year is steep. 

12 hours ago, Gweiloman said:

I have been to the fjords in Norway a few times. Some of the most breathtaking scenery you can ever hope to see. I’m glad that Norwegians have taken to EVs so as to minimise tailpipe emissions which I would imagine would be detrimental to the glaciers.

They should have thought about the glaciers before developing their economy largely based on the oil and gas industry! Bunch of bloody hypocrites I say..

20 hours ago, jaizan said:

Agreed.   The bus has next to no visible impact damage.  Yet it's caught fire.

 

Passenger cars are subject to various crash test that leave the cars heavily deformed after crashing into solid barriers at 30mph.  They still must not catch fire after such tests.  
I presume the same kind of principles apply to the engineering of buses in developed countries.

I note it's a Mercedes Benz bus.  I suspect it would be some kind of aftermarket conversion to catch fire like this.  

This was an illegally modified 50+ year old bus. Catching fire is relatively easy if there was a gas leak and the bus grinded up against the guard railing causing sparks. The gas tanks looked intact from the photo I saw, but the burn larks on the bus suggested a leak from the tanks. The tanks did not appear to have exploded.

21 hours ago, Tropicalevo said:

When you have learnt to drive in a manual car, changing gear often is never an issue. It is happens without thinking.

I learnt to drive a manual car more than 50 years ago.

All of my cars have been manual ones but I have also driven hundreds or rental/company automatic cars.

Floods and steep hills, manual is much better. (Very hilly where I live.)

It is called clutch control.

Not an option in automatic cars.

Overtaking? Dropping a gear is quicker in a manual (and you can choose the gear)

I leaned to drive in a manual also, In Australia. Then drove a mini. The manual was fun in that but autos have come along way. my car's paddle shifters shift much faster than I could ever in an manual car (unless it had been modified for racing. Un country driving is fine, and I drove a manual honda city when i first came here. I would not get a manual unless it was a second car, maybe a k-swapped eg civic for fun or something like that. But not a daily driver. 

On 9/30/2024 at 6:33 PM, ukrules said:

 

I bought a Vios about 10 years ago, cost me 600k baht.

Zero problems on it over the full 10 years, only did about 22,000 km total, couple of scratches, good for a few more years I think

When I'm done with it I'll pop down to Toyota and order a new one then just toss the old one out like the disposable tool it is.

2014 sells for 200-300K now. So you its probably depreciated about 50% in 10 year...not too shabby! You can sell a vios any day of the week...well, in the past you could. But the market is depressed at the moment. People just aren't buying cars at the moment. 

Just now, malct said:

Thanks for your reply, No i have never driven in Thailand or my wife and only use to Manual, The last time that i drove an automatic in the UK I kept on going for the clutch and pushing the brake all the time , But i guess its getting use to Auto Boxes 

You get used to it pretty quickly, and resale on an auto is much easier later when you plan to sell it. You have to stay on high alert driving here, so its best not to have to be changing gears a lot as well. Once I drove 17 kms in over 3 hours when the roads flooded badly. Imagine that in a manual? I would recommend getting a vehicle with more ground clearance (as opposed to looking for a manual). I have a crv diesel with 9 speed auto. You can get one for 700-900K now second hand. It does well on flooded potholed roads. browse on www.one2car.com

6 minutes ago, malct said:

We have been looking on google for a new Toyota Yaris from the UK Via a VPN linked to Thailand on the Toyota website and all their cars seem to be Automatic, We really do need a Manual car in Thailand since we are planning on spending a lot of time in Thailand in the future but also going back to the UK. I have driven Automatics, But i just can't get use to them and my wife has only driven Manual since passing her UK Driving test.  My wife is Thai and passed fitst time in the UK.

So which companies are building cars with Manual gear boxes ?  Ideally we are looking at mainstream cars like Hondas, Toyota, Maybe fords but interested to hear what other manual cars are in Thailand worth buying 

 

Honda jazz came with a manual gearbox, but they are not made anymore. A number of the smaller ecocars had them also. I can only think of the suzuki ciaz that currently has a manual option. Unless you go to something more expensive like  subaru brz. Lots of older cars came in manual, but will cost more to maintain. 

Have you driven much in Thailand before? I've used a manual here as out first car, but would in no way go back to a manual car now. The traffic can be really bad in many places, and you will wish you were in an auto.