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11 hours ago, wozzlegummich said:

My Thai home is in a little village north of Korat. Many homes are dilapidated and about to fall over but always have the latest Hi-Lux or Isuzu pickup in the driveway. it's all about "FACE".

And more people see the car that they can show off with, and usually not see the slum they live in. My previous car cost more than our townhouse, but we moved out and sold the car. New car is 3X less than the house. Get no visitors at home and don't car who sees me in my car. 

I've been able to do online reporting for 2-3 years. Left the country in April, returned, and tried to do the online report (rejected as expected). Went to the office to do it online. Took about an hour. I'm due to report again by Oct 7, so I'll try the online again in a couple of days. I'll report back. 

But yes, you need to report in person for the first time. Thereafter, it 'should' work online, but some still have issues with it. I've never had a problem when not leaving the country. Every time it has worked. 

5 hours ago, KhunLA said:

Do you have a better suggestion considering buy in price and operating / maintenance cost for knocking around town.   I sure can't think of a better value.

 

Or you just showing your EV / CN prejudice.  I'd never own an ICEV to knock around town, or ever really.  They're crap, poor performers & expensive in comparison.

That's your opinion. And you know what they say about opinions...

1 hour ago, Will B Good said:

 

 

To be fair, you might have accidentally hit upon something there.....555

Japan has high rates of mental illness also...but they don't have easy access to guns...so...

8 hours ago, Yellowtail said:

Be happy to know that EV's are about a dozen times LESS likely to catch fire than most ICE cars and 130 times LESS likely to catch fire than (say) a Toyota or Honda Hybrid.

Post the link for this statement. 

3 minutes ago, Bangkokhatter said:

I appreciate both your comments, however taking too much medication cannot be good for the kidneys surely, and don't like the idea of taking pills for the next 20 odd years if i'm lucky enough to live that long.

 

Another issue is just who do you believe, a couple of hours on Google/You Tube can leave your head spinning, some say cholesterol is a killer others will say what your worrying about.

This is why you should have regular blood tests to check for cholesterol levels and effects on the kidneys. Don't self medicate. Get regular checkups. By doing this the doctor can change dosage or change the type of medication used. 

15 minutes ago, Bangkokhatter said:

I have no idea of my BMI, but could do with losing around 5kg for sure.

 

Stopped taking the prescribed statins, they worked fine for lowering my cholesterol numbers but as soon as i stopped, the numbers started rising almost straight away so decided to try something different.

There won't be anything that will reduce cholesterol to the levels statins will. I tried really hard to reduce cholesterol over 3-4 months. Lost about4 kgs (down to 84 kg). Barely touched any junk food, not a biscuit or bag of chips. And walked most days. LDL cholesterol stayed at 160. In 3 months a statin dropped it to 74 (with no side effects). Blood tests were normal. Exercise really doesn't do a lot for ldl cholesterol - it's mainly diet and genetics. Mostly genetics in my case. 

BP had crept up since the pandemic (was 135/85 average for a long time. Now take meds for that also. Mother has had high bp since she was 50. Again, genetics plays a significant role. Personally its better to stay with the meds if they are not causing any problem, and keep up a good diet and lifestyle (for a lot of people we need both). 

10 hours ago, Smokin Joe said:

In my case it will be four visits. The total time can be anywhere from 3-6 months. Generally the longer you wait after the initial implant the better.

I had a lower molar implant done. Waited for 3  months before the implant was done. New bone growth was sof enough to drill easily. I had another implant to replace a missing upper tooth. That had been gone at least 5 years. The bone was very hard and harder to drill. That was less comfortable and took longer to do. Still tolerable though. That was Mahidol university dental hospital done by professors. Cost was about 60K each using Swiss implant material. Cheaper material gives a cheaper total cost. 

OP perhaps get your gall bladder checked also. It's close to the pancreas and is also involved in digestion. Some people get gall stones. I had a pain in this area for 6 months...saw a specialist, he pushed and prodded. Said it wasn't the gall bladder. It was most likely a muscle /rib cartilage strain and got better after a while. 

I've used wd40 before. And also to remove grime on the paint after it hadn't been washed for a month. But I kept a bucket of soapy water and immediately washed the surface after it was cleaned with the wd40. The paint was unharmed, but I would not leave wd40 on the paint for a long time. 

11 hours ago, georgegeorgia said:

I have just received the results of my latest blood test by email which I get monthly 

I have been worried sick the latest one

It's says 

Lipase test -which is apparently Pancreatic 

5th July /24.  1 aug     26 Aug 

56.                   63         64

 And normal range for this LIPASE is 

(8-57)

Mine is 7 over !

I googled to this ,it says possible pancreatic disease !!!

 

Does anyone have this disease ,I know the Apple guy had this 

 

 

8 hours ago, retarius said:

 

 

I have gone back to the website where it was advertised and unfortunately the ad is no longer there, but searching for spike protein test brings up a test which is indeed a test measuring antibodies formed rather than the spike protein itself, and not much use to me.

 

 

Spike protein only lasts a few days to a few weeks in the body. No test will detect any of it in your body if you were infected in 2021. Unless you have some research findings to suggest otherwise. I didn't find any on a brief search. Long covid is certainly real, but not as a result of spike proteins left over. Many viruses can have long lasting effects, such as dengue. 

8 minutes ago, Upnotover said:

 

 

Missed that...what where the results of the tests OP ??

10 hours ago, georgegeorgia said:

Thankyou !😂

 

Have you had any kinds of tests at all? How about a blood panel to check your cholesterol and triglycerides? Have you done that recently? There is the stress test that can be done and the non-invasive coronary calcium test. Thinking and worrying about it does not help and can actually increase the sense of pain (personal experience). If the tests prove ok, you will stop worrying about it and the sense of discomfort will decrease. I had this issue with a testicular cyst - kept thinking about it and over time it became painful. Went to the doc, did ultrasound and it was a benign cyst. Stopped worrying about is and the "Pain" went away (in fact these cysts rarely cause pain). I still have it. Its the psychosomatic effect. 

9 hours ago, Sheryl said:

Coronary cslcium CT can be done at any large hospital. There are promotional packages from time to time. 

I just had that done at the chest institute in Nonthaburi. I think it was about 4000 baht. But i have have health cover for it. 

1 hour ago, Dan O said:

I dont believe its his place to offer this option as he isn't in a political office. The press should stop contacting him for fodder just to get readers.

He's running the country by proxy. Everyone knows that. He should just keep his mouth shut and let the PM come up with the silly ideas (his ideas). 

On 8/26/2024 at 8:32 PM, jayboy said:

 

But that's exactly what's important to me.

 

In Thailand nobody comes close to Toyota's servicing capability.(At least that's what everybody tells me)

Honda is pretty good too and I've never had a problem with them in 20 years. If you're not against hybrids, look at the base model crv hybrid (1.5M+ ). Or the petrol turbo version (less HP and fuel economy though). Whatever you choose, you should test drive it first anyway. 

13 hours ago, save the frogs said:

Fair enough. In some instances it is necessary to take them indefinitely.

 

For heart disease,  the problem appears to be too complex to fix with a pill. Statins have been used for a long time, but heart disease rates are still high. 

 

 

Probably there are millions of people world-wide who have very high LDL levels and don't know it as there are no symptoms. And many who take statins stop taking them for whatever reason. These factors+genetics+poor dietary habits still leads to high heart disease rates.

On 8/21/2024 at 12:00 PM, Jitar said:

 

I would guess the V6 Pajero Sport did not sell as well as the 2.5L Turbo Diesel because of high fuel consumptions concerns, limited models and limited availability. 

 

At the time, common rail diesels were well promoted, and generally well recieved, for their improved performance and fuel economy.  The Pajero SPort 2.5L Turbo Diesel was the Mitsubishi 4D56 updated with DOHC and common rail fuel system.  It was a little rough and noisey but performance was OK / competitive with other pickup diesels. 

 

The Pajero Sport V6 was not well promoted and only available for 2 years as one model, competing with the 4WD GT at the top end price level.  The 2.4L petrol already appealed the low cost / LPG buyer, so the V6 had limited appeal.  

 

The V6 was smother and quieter, and did accelerate better than the diesels.  However in normal driving the extra performance from more power but less torque, was not that noticable. 

 

Headlight magazine did a good review of the V6: https://www.headlightmag.com/ทดลองขับ-mitsub4261/

 

Quite a few were converted to LPG due to the fuel consumption that was higher that the respective diesel version. Diesels tend to be more durable, but I guess it depends a lot on how its been looked after by previous owners. For petrol cars like this I'd also look at the cx-5 2.5 petrol car, if a 7 seater is not needed. My brother in law has a pajero sport diesel. Not too bad but still as heck as he changed the suspension to old man emu.

1 hour ago, marino28 said:

At the moment the best suv is the Ford Everest in my opinion (pick-up based)

 

or the Honda Crv

CRV for a smaller vehicle; the Everest if one wants a larger vehicle. Those are good dinosaur choices LOL

44 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

Great ... a 'what if' situation.   It doesn't cost that now to replace the battery, let alone after an 8 yr warranty.  And the whole battery probably wouldn't need to be replaced, just the module not performing.  

 

Another 'what if' ... the car last even close to the almost 1M kms expected.  Oh crap, that's only 50 years of driving for us, what will do 

 

A Swift, and an 11 yr old one.  My condolences 

Jesus really now you can just change out a module on your ev? How abotu you contact MG and see if that is possible, I bet it is not!! As for my swift is way more fun to drive than any Chinese EV pos. Even my Chinese microwave doesn't work properly lol.