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Thanks for that. Got nothing stapled in my passport as it is a fresh 90 day after re entry in September.

Anyone know if the airport office is open again? I need to travel down to get a reprint of my 90 day report as it seems the fools somewhere down the line have lost it again.

Last I heard the airport office was closed and everything went via the Promenada.

Any info is appreciated.

Cheers.

8 hours ago, Crossy said:

First stop should be your village head (Puyai Baan), he should have the details of the local "snake chap" who will come and remove the creatures for a nominal fee.

 

No warranty implied or inferred as to the fate of the snakes afterwards mind.

 

Indeed Crossy! They will no doubt go towards filling someone's stomach rather than being looked after at a snake sanctuary.

29 minutes ago, Basil B said:

 

Best bit of Thai Logic I have read for ages... 

 

(well for a day or two..)

 

 

 

Lt. Col. Somsak Noorod

I wonder if any of these people actually live in Thailand or even inhabit Planet Earth? Their stupidity is totally incredible, they cannot be normal functioning human beings, are they mentally deficient?

Darwin was 100% correct. It is a pity that some of the REAL contenders for the Darwin awards have hired drivers and do not have to drive themselves around in traffic. Half of them would be incapable to cross a road - Hence they need an escort of 20 vehicles with flashing lights and bullhorns blaring wherever they choose to go, along with road closures to normal traffic - to keep them safe.

18 minutes ago, chrissables said:

Drive or ride yourself, at least you have control about your own vehicle.

It still won't stop some lunatic from ramming into you! I appreciate what you mean though, at least you have a better chance than putting your life in the hands of incompetent idiots that shouldn't be allowed to take a push chair onto the streets.

5 hours ago, tracker1 said:

My observation is Mini bus driver at fault !

I wouldn't be too sure. Just take a look at some of the Thai "Big Bike" riders that are posted on YouTube mainly in Bangkok - They film themselves travelling through parts of the cities and smaller soi's at speeds well over 230KMH! How more of them don't meet a swift death is beyond me.

1 hour ago, DekDaeng said:

What rubbish, they are totally independent, on the pressure side. They do share a master cylinder reservoir, on the low pressure side. 

There is enough travel designed into the pedal movement to allow failure of one side - the pedal should just drop lower, then the good circuit pressurizes.

Diagrams from civicx.com.

The secondary assembly will do nothing when there is complete failure - NOTE THE PROPORTIONING VALVES!  IT is a combined brake, it is not INDEPENDANT!

44 minutes ago, DekDaeng said:

Actually, Raro, you need to get your master cylinder checked - it appears that the front right and the back left are one hydraulic circuit, the FL & BR the other.

 

Complete brake failure means the master cylinder is shot, too. Or at least needs rebuilding.

What rubbish, if the brake caliper drops off then it doesn't matter how much you press the brakes the fluid will just take the path of least resistance and the secondary circuit will do virtually nothing, the brakes will not be two entirely separate circuits, they will be LINKED as are most Honda setups. They are not totally independent.

And as for the stupid comment from another poster about using engine braking or using a handbrake to stop the car......I'd love to see you try when you panic when the brakes fail!

The handbrake will be lucky if it stops you in 30 yards if you are doing 60. as for engine braking, lets see you do that in a queue of traffic when the car in front stops and you are 5 yards behind.

Not sure about Honda Civics, but I own a couple of Honda motorbikes and if you look at the service manuals for many of the servicing operations Honda actually specify adding Loctite BLUE to many of their bolts during the service. (I had one of those bolts vibrate loose on an MSX a month ago, luckily I found it before it dropped out and applied some threadlock)

If like me you like to make sure things are safe and correct then you might expect Honda service to actually do what the manual says.

I was down at Niyom Panich, an authorised Honda dealer and service centre and I asked them for some Loctite BLUE threadlock - They had no idea what I was on about, they offered to sell me a two pack liquid metal epoxy!

I thought maybe it was my translation or poor Thai until I went to get two new wheel bearings installed on my sons MSX - They layed the bike wheels down on the concrete floor and then proceded to hammer the wheel bearings in using a steel hammer and a spark plug spanner! Not a sign of a bench press or drift, never even bothered to add grease! (I had to fix it later at home)

They are BUTCHERS. So do not expect the same level of education or training that you expect in a "Normal" country.

1 hour ago, cornishcarlos said:

So they can find a woman riding a horse in the dark but struggle with locating a monk in his Wat during the day :)

Strange isn't it, maybe they find some jobs less taxing than others, at least we can safely say that they nicked her on her horse with maybe a few less cops than the 2000 they have for the mad monk!

4 hours ago, Wilsonandson said:

Quote - A French woman was deported out of country yesterday after we found her while she was riding a horse at 7:30pm on Dec 21.

 

7.30 at night, immigration police are working in Phuket. After looking through Cathy's facebook page with list of influencial figures from phuket as friends of hers. I would suggest that maybe she has rubbed someone the wrong way.

 

I've heard many rumours whilst being over here that if you peev off the wrong person this very thing can happen. Oh and by the way this works both ways. If you help the right person a mistake can be overlooked.

If she is so well connected....why the hell did she overstay and not bother to follow the rules?

3 hours ago, dotpoom said:

Me too....does it cook the breakfast and do the laundry as well as being a phone? 

Guess you can "Crack one off" watching a bit of porn....still not worth 30K! Some people must be crazy.

Sorry to hear about your problem! However the entire country is in a state of denial when it comes to "Responsibility"  - That all lies in the land of Karma. Secondly, you shouldn't have bought Apple anyway, it is just overpriced, over hyped SHIT! - Like Ducati, Maserati, Ferrari....etc. you are paying for the brand, not quality.

Jesus, what sanctimonious drivel!

9 hours ago, tominbkk said:

Waiting for those old-timers of Thaivisa to come out talking about their own glory days of being whipped by the headmaster and how it did them a lot of good.

 

Hopefully the new teacher is punished with jail time and forever banned from a classroom.  

 

Maybe she can find a job as a dominatrix somewhere. 

What you and your ILK seem to forget that there is a HUGE difference in getting a couple of whacks of a cane on the hands or maybe 6 on your arse! Canings were usually done to kids that were of an age where they understood the fuXXed Up, I never ever recall any situations in the UK where a teacher would BEAT a 7 year old on his ass and back to the point that they were bleeding!

Back in the 40's, my mother had a teacher stick a pencil into her eardrum!

What I am saying is that in general a whack with a cane did no one any harm, you learned a lesson, but beating a 7 year old with 99 whips of a stick? Seriously, I would find that bitch and cut her throat! She would never do that to any kid again, she is a piece of scum!

2 hours ago, kurtcap said:

the following FB link ( https://www.facebook.com/groups/1723668091226630/) provides a day by day account of my route around the border in June this year (albeit on a motorcycle) start with posts from June 25th for this area. It advises good roads and bad ones. Also the 120, 1120, 1251 and the 1091 between chiang mai and nan are great. Regarding stopping places i would advise Chiang Kong, Mai Sai. Endless points of interest along theses routes and plenty of accommodation to suit all budgets.

 

I would also suggest you put this question in the motorcycle forum section as its a busy biking area so many people can advise. 

Nice account, looks one heck of a ride!

3 hours ago, Foexie said:

Slipped ???

 

Looking at the pic i guess the fence is about 1m high and he is about 1, 60/ 1,70 max. So how can he slip and get pinned in his leg? Or was he smoking on a ladder???

 

Would not be surpriced that for some reason he needed to climb over the fence to get the hell out of the house. Angry wife? Cheated home comming husband???

I was wondering the same! How on earth does that spike get through his leg and come out of his abdomen? Taking a dump perhaps?

Well then, in response to the massive replies, I got my answer!

Took the truck to Toyota this morning (I found what was left of some sort of plastic space that had crumbled to crap on my footwell to show them)

It took a little while before they understood my crap Thai "MUNG YING Ai Hea" - until they realised the brake switch was fine and only the spacer was gone.

20 minutes later they had found the part, took it to their service bay (fitted it for free) then presented me the bill....printed out in quadrupelate......(4 times) with some 4 sheet capable printer (not cheap), and the fantastically extortionate price for the entire job was...........wait for it.....................................wait for it.........................................17 Baht!

Eat my shorts FORD! you robbers were charging your customers almost 5 bucks for that piece of crap plastic! You have to hand it to the Japs here in Thailand, the Yanks will never get more than a foot through the door when it comes to building and selling cars here.

11 hours ago, phetphet said:

It's three years away, but something to bear in mind just in case you are planning to take some of that money (£20 notes), back to the UK sometime in the future.

 

The UK is in the process of changing their paper bank notes over to polymer ones. £10 next year and £20 in 2020.

 

Just in case you arrive in the UK with a wad of twentys, and find you can't spend them without a visit to the Bank of England.

 

Forewarned is forearmed.

 

 

Never feed a Troll!

If you open the drivers door, on the inside wall of your upright pillar you will usually have the manufacturers recommended pressure. (usually next to where your door lock engages on a Toyota)

However, this is Thailand...I once went and bought a shed load of floor tiles, before loading the truck they pumped the tyres up to 95PSI!

Go figure! We "Sailed " back from the tile shop with about 3 Tons of tiles in the back - The front of the car was pointing at the sky, I couldn't see out of the windows, but the tyre pressure I would say was rather FIRM!

Most pickups will be 32-35 PSI under normal load measured at cold - add about  3-5 PSI when your tyres are warm / hot.

Maybe this needs to go in the motoring forum wherever that is these days, but I am after a quick answer as I need to run the car to the airport tomorrow.

My Hilux Tiger developed a problem tonight, the brake lights have decided to come on ALL the time, (had to pull a fuse to get them to turn off tonight)

Does anyone know if there is some sort of adjustment, similar to a motorbike? (I can get them to turn off by really pulling the brake pedal upwards, but gravity alone turns them back on)

If there is adjustment then fine, I have half an hour or so tomorrow morning, but if it is a switch that is normally "on" and by pressing the pedal actually turns the switch off and activates the lights then maybe I need a new switch.

Cheers!

Went to Niyom in Chiang Mai today to get a tubeless tyre changed on an MSX, you would have thought a pretty straight forward job.

They changed the tyre no problem, but when they put the rear wheel back on they left about 3 inches of slack on the chain.

Then they decided to realign the gear shifter, nice of them as it was a bit out of skew, however after pulling out of their workshop it was impossible to change gear.

They had bent it so far to the right that it caught on the engine housing!

Got the bike back home and went to tighten the chain back to about 1.5" of free play - The rear axle nut was loose, the two lock nuts that take up the chain slack were locked but were not taking up any slack and had about 1mm of freeplay.

Pretty crap really, they have NO TORQUE wrenches and they do not even know what Loctite Blue Threadlock is, despite Honda specifying it in their service manual.

When I asked them if they used the threadlock they showed me two tubes of liquid metal epoxy!

2 hours ago, skorp13 said:

This happens all over the world in gang fights and drive by shootings especially in the U.S. These kids too much testosterone too little brains

No, it happens all over the world wherever third world primitive idiots reign! It happens in the USA in certain areas....you can guess which ones...inhabited by primitive 3rd World idiots!