Yellowtail

Is that the same yellow book that's cheap and easy to get and everyone claims is useless?

After a service I always check before I leave. Most/all of the time they walk me out and check it in front of me.

The OP was not having the car serviced, and if the oil was drained and not refilled it would not have run ten-minutes.

And this would only make sense if the OP were having it serviced/oil change

Not per your definition.

There is one really good reason to own a car, and that's because you want one. If you want one, buy one. If you don't want one, don't buy one. I could get along without a car, just like I can get along without air conditioning and without hot water for shaving and without and any number of other things I enjoy. I like having a for me. car, and that's reason enough Having a car is a cost, but it's not in any way a bother. It stays exactly where I leave it until I want to use it again. It does not get lonely if it just sits for a week, and it doesn't get jealous if go for a walk or take a taxi someplace. It does not seem to care at all either way.

And the OP never said if they fixed the problem or not, or that there was a charge. And given the OP knew the car needed service, why did the OP not have it done at the same time he had it diagnosed? I guessing the OP just took it in to get a free diagnosis, Like trans says, it does not add up.

You seem to "know" a lot of things that aren't true....

It was not serviced

I do not think this is true in Thailand.

Dude does not have the vehicle serviced until the oil turns to tar and then blames someone else when engine blows. The dealer should do what you ask them to do.

That's how responds when he can't answer.

How am I being nonsensical? Asking "what law" seems nonsensical to me. Who is being cheated? Are you lying to make your point or just being careless? I did not say that. There are any number of things that are legal that I have a problem with. If it is illegal the people trading should be prosecuted. And were the OP selling Amway he would be going on about how great Amway is. How many kids burn themselves on the stove after being told a hundred times not to touch it?

He never sau-sage bad jokes

Guess it went over your head. In any event, I don't blame you for using it as an excuse to "appropriately ignore" the rest of the post, all, gun to a knife-fight and whatnot....

Given vehicles require batteries, and heating one's home does not, should that not be the other way around? Just sayin'

I think Boonthavorn reps them, I know they sell and use the products.

Was that you?

No, they only want the rich to own their own cars, they'll still want the poor to drive for them.

As Woody says, MIG is much easier to learn than stick, but the equipment is more expensive and more complex. If you do a bit of welding you will go through the consumables which is not an issue, as long as you can get them. The problem with many cheap MIG units is that you cannot get consumables for the guns, so if you go the MIG route route, be sure to buy something popular that you can get parts for. The upside to MIG is that you can watch a YouTube video and doing a decent job welding horizontal in an hour. The problem with cheap stick units is not really that they are more difficult to use (they are actually easier) but that they take a lot more practice to become proficient. The upside is that they use no consumables and that they are generally much more versatile than MIG welders. Additionally, once you learn how to weld stick, you can also weld MIG. A simple comparison might be learning to drive "stick", and learning to drive automatic. If you learn to drive an automatic, your dead in the water if the car has a stick. A young person, or anyone that really wants to learn how to weld should learn with a stick unit. Someone that does not care that much about learning how to weld, but just wants to build/fix a few things might do better with MIG. You will get better bang-for-your-buck with stick. I would stay away from the cheap inverter units unless portability is a very big issue. When buying an auto-darkening helmet make sure you can get consumables for it as well. If you can't get a new lens cover for it, once the cover gets burned up the helmet is trash. The response time is critical as well, otherwise when you are doing a lot of tacking you can get flash-burns. Have fun!

When you have it recharged, how long does it last? How do you know it's the evaporator? It is a big job to change them on most vehicles, as often most of the dash needs to be removed. Toyota should be able to give you a quote for parts and labor, if you can't save 50% going with someone else that's using aftermarket parts, or 25% using OEM parts, I'd go with them.

Indeed

So copper is up 500% in ten years because people are buying and holding it?

Yes, and if my aunt would have had balls she'd have been my uncle. No more than the bank does when they claim 1.5% APR on a fixed deposit. Yes. Come on, you mean it's not going to go up every day I own it? I did not get the safe-deposit box to store gold, but it is a good way to store it. I don't have a home safe and I carry little case. Someone robs me, all they get is practice. It always amuses me that people actually use the hotel room safes. I mean, if I'm burglarizing rooms, where's the first place I look?

To be clear, I did not mean to imply I though gold was a good vehicle for preserving one's capital, I was only saying that all investments were about gaining profits.