Andrew Dwyer

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Some years ago i asked my wife “ what do you call Indian as in Cowboys and Indians “, she replied “ India Daeng “ . I remember it well as i was surprised that it had translated literally but that is what she said !

India Daeng works perfectly well !

Practicality is reserved for the second car while exhilaration and reckless abandon is reserved for the first !

Great choice and a much nicer car than the rather strange, imho, 6 seater M6 . With 3 dogs and a young ‘un it will serve very well. Sealion 7 is certainly, again imho, the most exciting option available but loses out on practicality.

Nah, from what i have seen from the haters on here they probably won’t understand it !!

I would go straight in at 16 amp, if it gets very hot or a breaker trips then knock it down to 13 amp. If it does the same at 13 amp then you should look at upgrading some wiring or a breaker otherwise you have wasted money and could use the free granny/emergency charger ( 10 amp ) supplied with the car.

The ES 5 choice of name is going to cause some confusion, especially in Thailand where we already have an ES and a 5 !, thought they might have been a little more imaginative. https://autolifethailand.tv/mg-es5-ev-bev-zs-ev-coming-thailand/

Will give it a go ( via gbox you mean ? ) via CarPlay now has a big border top and bottom and looks kinda funky !

Been using Google Maps via CarPlay and it seems to work okay but is a bit strange .

Yes some of my sideloaded apps disappeared also, i think only Waze survived. Will take a look at Aurora as apparently it is possible to sideload again now. TBH, if I could just put Google Maps on the Home Screen to replace the Navigation i would be happy, I had it before and worked great even in portrait mode. Charge Loma and PlugShare never worked for me either ( maps never showed ) , EV Station Pluz app might be handy to have on the car screen ?

Well difficult to comment on someone else’s preferences but i would agree that the Sealion 7 is pricey for a second car and could well become the first car ! From a price point the Atto 3 would be my choice, a great car imho. If you are willing to stray from BYD then the Deepal S07 ( SUV ) would be worth a look but pricey compared to the Sealion 7. Neta X is an Atto 3 competitor and worth a look but the recent financial problems of Neta might be off putting. Geely EX5 is another mid sized SUV at a great price ( 859k + 949k ) but very new and a lack of showrooms as yet. Aion Y Plus is an extremely roomy car with some nice features but is a bit fugly imho , great price though ! Yup, I would go Atto 3 personally.

As Pib says, probably replaced . Yep, apparently they will now give a further 3 months validity ( 2 years and 3 months instead of the original 2 years) on the 2gb monthly data. They will probably add an app called Gbox and add several apps ( YouTube, Google Maps and a Thai digital radio app etc ) within Gbox will be a further list of available apps and Google Play Store within which will be numerous apps and games etc. Don’t get too excited though its a bit of a non event imho.

Due to failing Cybertruck sales Tesla branches out into other markets !

To me that makes perfect sense, no need for an ignore function when you can just scroll on by ! Obviously the topic will attract most people’s attention but more recently it is those newcomers who appear and bombard the forum with a multitude of threads about nonsensical topics that are getting the most hits. Usually these topics are best avoided but can give some puerile entertainment when you feel like being entertained in a puerile manner ! Good to pass a few minutes of childish comments or bombard those posters you loathe with sad or confused emojis …. yes, i am that guy ! Mostly the conversation will obsess on who the op was in a previous life, as if it matters, i.e. is Barboy Bob Smith’s reincarnation, how many pseudonyms has MalcolmB had and which was your favourite ( i am going with Yinn ) Or my current theory, Barboy and MalcolmB are one and the same despite their obvious differing opinions ( a cunning plan ! ) and is using a new tactic stolen from his childhood heroes Dame Edna and Les Patterson !! Yes, i am quite aware that i have dragged down the level of this topic to the level that the op despises and will have probably become the latest addition to his ignore list ….. but as he said a while ago once you get past page 2 it goes downhill quickly and he should have used that theory to put a stop to this nonsense !

Yes, Revolut have the freeze option, most do nowadays, my U.K. credit card also has that option.

Yup, interesting to see how many bought a Seal after the Expo/300k increase ?

Yes

Singtel

Thanks for that, I don’t mind a long winded post but am sure others will skip it !. Seriously it did let me try continuously to take a selfie 50 times, each time it did reject it as my face didn’t match my passport photo !, on occasion I got the green circle round the photo and a faint glimmer of hope but was not to be. Just went back to the app to start the process again and passed the passport page, the information page popped up with my passport number already in but the other info a little off. 1st time it says i have a Thai id card with 8 digits made up of my birthday, the 2nd time it has 28 digits and made up of my birth date/passport number/expiration date !! All very strange !! Then the selfie, gives me 3 tries ( unsuccessful attempts ) then goes to the page that has phone number/LINE/email which says at the bottom “ try again “ pressing this takes me back to the selfie page and round we go ( hence the 50 tries !). Never saw a “ skip “ option . Will try again tomorrow in daylight as light was fading here. Tbh, probably don’t need Elexa but now you mentioned 180 kWh chargers i would like to give that a go, my RWD Seal supposedly can charge at 150 kWh contrary to the charging curve on EVKX site.( so far have only used 120 kWh. It is definitely one of the buggiest and more intrusive app so far though !!

Apparently after more than 50 tries my face comparison does not match ……. given up 😞

Okay, am with you now, yup it’s requesting a passport photo ….. and gone into slow mode again !

Tried a few longer locations ( 600 km ) but not an Elexa charger to be seen , what am I missing ? Tried the Home Screen also which works as expected showing nearby chargers and search for chargers etc that you can then navigate to but the trip planner without any charging stops seems a bit surplus to requirements !! Also get a few Format Exception messages so something amiss .

No icon as you described. I did try the route planner with a route i use often but with no start button i wasn’t sure how to get it to “ start “ !! I guess that’s it. ?

Seal back to it’s Expo 24 price until Feb 28th : Some chatter that it is not to make way for Seal 2025 but the current version ( 2023/2024 ) will be produced in Thailand this year !