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If you can print the Thai label, leave it at that, Bangkok and Thailand will get to the right country already

This is the style of modification that's seen around Chonburi and Pattaya area, where as most Thai kids goes with really narrow wheels for their drag racing cred, these guys goes big

The rear disc brakes on Waves were only for 125 models, last seen around 2012 and it disappeared for a long while

It is now am 'option' since 2017 models but hardly any dealers stock them

Depending where you are in the country, wider alloys and tyres are a good upgrade too, they seem to be fashionable in the East Chonburi, Pattaya older Wave models with rear disc brakes seem to be the preferred models around here, never see it in other part of the country, non standard size tyres could be trouble some to source replacements.

As for tyre repair shops refusing to touch the motorcycle tubeless, could be that their mounting machine is too big for the tiny rims, meaning that they'd have to do it manually hence the reluctance.

There's one kind of repair where you plug the hole from the outside with sausage looking rubber thing with glue and the other that patches the rubber from the inside necessitating the removal of the tyre from the rim. I always carry the sausage patch thing and a co2 inflator from bicycles

3 hours ago, Vacuum said:

Well, not an upgrade but more like a modification; if you have aThai wife/gf who'll be driving the bike, you should adjust the rear brake. Most/very many Thai drivers use the rear brake pedal as a foot rest, resulting in premature brake shoe replacement. And while you're at it, adjust the rear brake light signal accordingly.

I heard that some Thais prefer dual drum brakes on some bikes because once the rear wears out, they just swap over the front wheel, nobody knows how to use brakes properly hence the rear wearing out before the front

 ฃ ฅ ฆ seem to be nasally raspy arabic kh sounds that is no longer voiced in normal Thai language

Maybe you'll have to look in to Khmer as that seems to be how the Thai got the alphabet from too.

แก้ผ้า = naked

quite apt naming actually

there's a traditional menu called กุ้งห่มผ้า shrimp in a blanket which is shrimp wrapped in spring roll pastry

There is said to be 4 ปัจจัย in living

1. Food

2. living space

3. Clothing

4. Medicine

Some modern take has a 5th one either transport/car or money

As it is technically prohibited for Buddhist monk to handle money, sometime cash is euphemistically referred to as giving ปัจจัย to the monk

หมั้น is official 'proposal' after the หมั้น you are fianceed modern Thais do this in the morning of the wedding day, or it can be done well in advance of the proper wedding

3 hours ago, DrTuner said:

Kids have reverted back to Central for meeting their friends. Apparently T21 isn't the teen magnet I thought it might be. Waiting for the first farang restaurant casualties, beerfest and teddy's in the dead corner are likely to croak first I think. 

PALA by Pan Pan is definitely on the watch list, it's on the top floor next to the loud game arcade and cinema. When they were in Central even as it was getting long in the tooth they had the 'old faithful' menu and the Pizza was always dependable, now with a new format and menu there's more pasta on the manu but the Pizza is reheated from a selection in the window, ok for grabbing a few slice before going to the cinema in idea, but they price for a couple of reheated slices of Pizza is about the same or more than their freshly made whole pizza in their other locations.

4-5 storey building with workshop, accommodation and retail space could just be a shophouse 

6 hours ago, jacko45k said:

Now we are talking about a serious crime here!

How much didnt she pay? was it 10 baht or 20 baht

 

The SIM has nothing to do with online banking.  The SIM is for the telephone part of the smart phone that will allow you to receive OTOP's or other text messages from your Thai bank. Usually are free since they are free for the Thai banks to send (I get SMS from both Bangkok Bank and SCB while in the US using a Thai SIM card that I keep in an extra phone)

 

Online banking is done on the Internet, independent of what type of SIM card you have, the only connection between the two is that the SMS from your bank on your phone may notify you that you need to check you online account via an Internet connection 

The Kasikorn phone app does check the HTTP header to see if the telephone number of the originating packet matches the registered number and won't let you connect over wifi or other sim cards, it must be via the data from the phone number that you registered only.

but if you quit the app and use a browser to ask for a desktop site, you can log on normally anywhere. To my knowledge only Kasikorn bank does this, other bank lets you use the phone app on whatever internet connection you have

Thailand is a tropical country and the humidity means you have to have showers every day 

What's the best place to catch a Baht bus from T21 heading back towards beach road and Jomtien? does the bus stop by where they make a u turn on North Rd.? or do you have to walk further down towards beach road?

I see T21 has a made a pull in drop-off lane in front but like the one in Central Beach, they seem go unused, but I don't see the Songthaew waiting around in front of T21

2 hours ago, tropo said:

November 22 is NOT the rainy season at all. It's way past the end of it and it is probably one of the worst rain showers in Pattaya in November for many years, but calling it the worst in 11 years (as one poster did) is a stretch. I remember seeing Pattaya Tai as a virtual river back in mid-2015. I was having a coffee in Starbucks and it provided riverbank style scenery under the moonlight.

The big 2015 one was November 15

in 2014 the big one was Halloween day October 31

Last year was October 22

Usually the stray flooding is around mid October, this year it has been unusually late and even the humidity lingers around now still.

Why would you go to the dealer for perishable stuff like battery and tires? you'll be overcharged and get old stocks. Even rip-off shops like B-Quick would be cheaper than Honda dealers for Tires and Battery.

A new battery after a year and new tires every two? next you'll be complaining that the car needs fuel every couple of days also

Your car probably uses 5x100pcd/bcd pattern, the wheel you got is probably 5x112pcd Toyotas uses both pattern but more recent cars are 5x100. 

aftermarket rims in 5x100pcd for Toyotas are rare, most shops just drill the hole a bit to fit, that's the cheap fix, if the shop is competent there shouldn't be any issue 

for expensive fix, adaptors or sell the wheel you have and try to get one that fit correctly

Apart from the classified magazines with pictures from each dealers and personal ads, the 2nd hand dealers and showroom when trading in uses Red Book which would list car model for each year and conditions

also there's some banks which does their own like this blue book (link in Thai)

On 11/23/2018 at 5:27 PM, marcusarelus said:

Hard to compare since the one at Foodland you can pick food from the grocery store and they will cook it.  At least they cooked it for me.  Make your own menu.

There's a Foodland in T21

Super rich exchanges in the basement of the Airport where you take the trains to Bangkok has better rates than bank, almost the same as most Pattaya rates that's always worse than Bangkok

 albeit the rate in Super Rich in Bangkok is better still.

So are they having another crackdown on counterfeit goods on beach road I see... fake watches, fake brand name clothes and now fake ladies.

you can go to driving schools that will pay to bring officials in to take tests on their premise, which will then provide you with a paper to prove that you've passed to go and issue a licence from the DLT. On schools that have this facility, they don't do these every day like the DLT so the waiting times could turn out to be in months still, but a better option that waining multiple months for an appointment at DLT

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