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Its standard for the NHS to repeat and confirm results obtained elsewhere. If there is any suspicion of cancer he will be put on a Two Week Wait (TWW) pathway and seen by consultant within two weeks. I think PIP will be Personal Independence Payment - government money to support living/homecare costs of someone suffering major illness.

The conundrum with buying a 'challenger brand' like MG is that although the purchase price is lower, depreciation tends to be much higher than with an established brand like Toyota or Isuzu. This means that overall cost of ownership if you sell the vehicle at say 3 or 4 years will likely be higher than for the established brand. On the other hand, if planning to keep long-term reliability and product support are an unknown. The MG/Maxus transmissions have a good pedigree and should be reliable. The GM 1996cc Diesel engine is a very fuel efficient engine and variants have been used in other vehicles around the world for several years. Reliability-wise its probably average. At the end of the day what you are buying is a Chinese-assembled small GM truck with as much cost as possible taken out of it. Such issues as arise will most likely be with ancillary components and electronic/electrical parts. For example, the quality of wiring and connectors etc I've seen so far on MG products is pretty shoddy. At a personal level I think they look very unappealing. That huge front grille is almost a parody.

Definitely a centipede.

I don't have a product name but I know HG make one and HG are usually pretty good. I've seen HG products in Thailand. Search Lazada for 'HG urine' or 'HG odor' and something should come up.

When were you last in UK, 1964?! I can't remember ever having eaten Toad in the Hole (possibly as a child 50+ years ago). Nobody is going to be 'amazed' by a Thai dish. Even small UK towns have Thai restaurants - even specificly Isaan and 'Northern Style' restaurants. Ingredients are readily available in supermarkets.......including (to the delight of my wife) pla-ra sauce...

In used vehicle preparation we use an enzymatic cleaner to remove urine smells, followed up with an ozone generator. HG International (a Dutch chemical company) distribute in Thailand and they make a suitable cleaner. Check out Lazada. Failing that then a clean with a biological washing liquid detergent would help. Remove the seats from the car to clean thoroughly. A car valeting shop might be a good option - they would have done this before...

The MG Extender is a rebadged SAIC-Maxus. Like almost all export-market Chinese vehicles it is built with licenced Western technology. Almost all SAIC-MG-Maxus-Roewe products are based on General Motors designs. The 2.0 petrol are the GM/Opel MGE engine. 2.4s are Mitsubishi units. 2.0 Diesel is a slightly modified GM Family B engine (much the same as in Chev Cruze 2.0TDi). The 2.8 Diesel is an Italian VM Motori that was designed for GM and built under licence. The six speed auto is a rebadeged GM 6L50 - GM licenced this to Punch Powerglide (a Belgian company who operate the old GM Strasbourg transmission plant) and Punch then sub-licensed to Shaighai Auto Gearworks (SAGW) who build the boxes from kits supplied via BorgWarner (China) in Dalian. The manual transmissions are Aisin (Toyota) units made under licence. I think these MG vehicles are OK as a product. However my knowledge and experience of MG on the UK market is one of poor spares availability, poor technical back-up and failure to take ownership of known problems (i.e. timing chain problems on the SGE engine). Of course the Thai market might be handled quite differently, I really don't know. But keep in mind that the cost of a vehicle is its depreciation (purchase price - disposal value). My advice to family and friends is that if Toyota makes something that would do the job then buy that. Toyota are not perfect but they get it right most of the time.

Wow!

Most of Africa AA ? I don't so. I visited a few African countries and I would say an AA would be the exception.

3BB put fibre in our condo (Pratamnak). We have their cheapest fibre package at 300mbps download whIch was ฿290/month on promotion last year. There was a further 5% discount for paying one year in advance. Had it about 9 months are it seems very good.

Another happy 3BB customer (Pratamnak). No problem with torrents.

My wife has several houses that she rents out. Earlier this year the shower packed up in one of the houses. I went to replace it. Turned off power at main breaker in fusebox. Took the precaution of checking for voltage at the shower - it was live! On further investigation the shower was found to be wired direct to incoming mains from the meter! There are two showers in the house and both the same. Fitted by local 'electrician' when the house was built 8 years ago. All sorted now with breakers...

Clearly you don't understand the physics of vehicle suspension. Many suspension components are strong in only one plane or axis. A wishbone is designed to be strong and stiff in the lateral plane of the wishbone. To take axial loads during cornering and to restrain the bottom of the suspension upright during braking and acceleration. If you place a jack under a wishbone and lift the vehicle you are trying to bend the wishbone. There are plenty of vehicles with thin pressed wishbones that are easily damaged. Similarly you don't jack cars under ARBs, drop links etc etc In the UK if you are responsible for a workshop and VOSA or HSE pay a visit and see vehicles lifted on suspension components then you'll have trouble.

Some very dangerous advice above! Never support a vehicle by suspension components... (1) they obviously can move, and therefore the vehicle is not stable, and (2) they are not designed to take the weight of the vehicle and may be deformed by the pressure exerted by the end of the bottle jack ram. The Triton, and similar vehicles with body-on-chassis construction, should be lifted on the chassis frame or (at the rear) on the axle casing. In the case of the Triton you'll find lifting points on the front chassis outriggers where they meet the main frame. At the rear you can lift under the axle - the nose of the bottle jack has a groove in it which the seam on the axle casting should align with (turn the jack ram so it lines up). If you couldn't get a fully inflated front wheel to clear the ground then, (1) the jack was in the wrong place, (2) the jack was not fully extending or not the one supplied with the vehicle, (3) the wheel/tyre combo was a larger diameter than standard.

Absolute twaddle...

This is nonsense. A visitor visa to UK costs £100 (฿4000) and is valid for 6 months. It is multiple-entry. For Thai applicants the overwhelming majority are granted (I think its 90%+). About 5 Thai people I used to work with have taken holidays in the UK. Last year a friend of my wife resigned her job in Bangkok (worked in an advertising agency) and came to the UK for a six month holiday. No sponsorship involved. As it happens she then worked illegally (in the offices of a large UK manufacturing company who made no checks - she is very smart and fluent in English). She met a British guy there and overstayed about three weeks (no penalty or stamp in passport). They married in Thailand in February. Already has spouse visa and flight to UK booked for next month... For a 'racist' country the UK is remarkably welcoming to non-Westerners. Legal immigration to the UK is around 700,000 in the last year - the great majority non-white.

I read a lot....

Around 8 years ago I had to visit Hat Yai on business. In the evening, after dinner, I decided to take a stroll around town. It was dark and the street near my hotel was quiet with very little street lighting. As I was walking I noticed a darker patch of pavement in front of me. I stopped just before stepping onto it when I realised it was a large hole - a missing manhole cover - opening into a void that must have been at least 2m deep.

Previous permission to stay stamp is irrelevant. His visa is no longer valid after 12th May. And he wasn't expelled, he was denied entry. I would have asked for a visa waiver entry. Yes I agree.

I think you are wrong and the immigration official is correct. After 12th May you cannot enter the country with that visa. Looks like it was valid for 60 day stays and use within 6 months.

When were you last in the UK? 1964? There are no 'old ladies' hanging around parks any more. Its done on line. Adultwork, Vivastreet etc. Most of the providers (of which there are now HUGE numbers) are young East Europeans along with a surprising number of Thai girls who manage to get a 6 month tourist visa and move from town to town. They can easily go home with ฿1-2M...

I hope this initiative is shortlived. Never had a problem with any of the girls on Beach Road. Over the years my wife and I have taken girls for threesomes (after a 'vetting'). STDs and the possibility of theft are a problem with any girl you take back to the room - you need to take precautions. A few of the girls we've taken multiple times and we stop and have a chat with them if we're out for an evening stroll. If anyone should be banned from BR its the groups of Indians who encircle the girls and the boozed-up broken-down Westerners who congregate at various locations.

On all Hondas made within about the last 25 years the windscreen is bonded into the body aperture using a hybrid polymer adhesive. The windscreen is therefore structural and stiffens the bodyshell. The rubber 'seals' are just trim. To do a proper job the windscreen should be cut out with a cheese wire cutter, cleaned up, resealed and new trims fitted. ฿3000 would be a very reasonable price. On the other hand if they just intend pulling out the old trim and replacing with new then its a bit pricey. As others have said, best to go to a screen replacement specialist for a second opinion.

I spent most of my life in the motor industry - both in our family dealership (established by my grandfather back in 1921) and also as a professional engineer working for various automotive companies and as a consultant. Fitted my first tyre at about 12 years old. Have repaired many tyres. Was a VOSA MoT tester (UK roadworthiness test) until 2018. Believe me that most advice from tyre companies is sound. They are not just trying to scare you into buying a new tyre. Tyres deteriorate with age. The rubber oxidises, UV breaks down bonds in the rubber and the rubber hardens. Less grip, more noise and greater chance of a blowout. An 8 year old tyre is pretty much at end of life no matter how much tread is left. Unfortunately dealing with the general public is very difficult when it comes to cars maintenance. Most want cheapest and think you are trying to rip them off. Its amazing how many customers will come in with a fault - they don't know what the fault is but they 'know its not going to cost much to fix'. Sometimes in the retail motor industry you just have to refuse to deal with some customers, they are not worth the bother - 'you can't fix stupid' - send them somewhere else. In my early years in the motor industry a colleague was killed testing a car. He was driving at high speed and the tyre burst. The car flipped and he was killed. He was a young guy, not long married with a baby. Because it was an accident at work the Health and Safety Executive investigated. It turned out the tyre was virtually unworn but was 'new old stock'. It had come from Dunlop in Birmingham but had been in store for 10 years. No one had checked the date code. Your car stays on the road thanks to four areas of rubber about the size of your hand. Its really not something to compromise on.

Mostly they can be changed by the customer themselves - usually under the passenger side of the glovebox. On one or two cars it may be more involved - e.g. Ford Focus are a pig - have to loosen fusebox assembly.. If you drive with A/C on Recirc they don't get too dirty - change every couple of years. If you are switched to outside air intake then change every year/10k km. Put the new filter in the correct way around (air flow direction will be marked on the side of the filter).