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The house itself is not particularly drafty, but it has a glass lift between floors on the back of the house and that lets a draft in, I have sealed it as much as possible but the door design could do with improvement. The house is on the large size, it's 600m2. I don't think what we have is overkill. My friends and neighbours typically have a few air purifiers screaming away when it's highly polluted, I prefer to have double or treble the quantity but running quietly. Most people seem to think you buy one small air purifier and then expect it to produce miracles. I'm a big fan of Xiaomi, but all the models except the MAX are very noisy.

We could bypass passport control/immigration today, but we won’t. We will return from Phu Quoc to Chiang Rai today. We will have tickets for PQC-DMK and DMK-CEI issued at Phu Quoc and be given CQI Fly-Through stickers to put on our shirts/blouses. We will clear immigration and customs at Chiang Rai. They will hold a sign up at the plane door on arrival to Chiang Rai and process us separately from all the other domestic passengers. We could avoid passport control by not voluntarily identifying ourselves at this point, or even booking and checking in electronically to another flight whilst waiting in DMK domestic departure lounge. The only other way I know to avoid passport control is at Chiang Kong where enterprising Laos people run a boat service between the two countries at night facilitating the underground Laos domestic and laborer traffic.

I take the same approach to air purification as I do to air conditioning. It all has to be silent and cover the whole house including corridors, the only exception is the garage which is air conditioned but there are no air purifiers there. To be silent the air purifiers have to be large, we have several Xiaomi MAX units that run very quietly. My bedroom has 2 large Toshiba units, the kitchen/diner/family room has 2 Xiaomi MAX units, the living room has 2 and the entrance foyer and corridor has 4 units, this is the center of the house, it’s very leaky keeping this purified and cool and makes a huge difference over the entire house. We are able to keep the whole house around 30ppm CD2.5 quietly on the most polluted of days. If I was starting again from scratch, I would buy nothing other than the Xiaomi MAX units. They are expensive but a far superior unit and very quiet.

he’s an oil guy.

That’s very true but the ICE market is shrinking and legacy manufacturers are very sensitive to making a loss with just a very small change in market share. Take Nissan, Honda and Mitsubishi for example, they are all struggling and the proposed merger of Honda and Nissan will end in tears. I agree with Carlos Ghosn, they don’t have any synergy for a merger, they have similar vehicles in the same spaces and both of them are way behind on electrification of their product range. it is Japanese legacy auto makers own fault because they have sleepwalked into this problem, believing Akio Toyoda, that EV’s wouldn’t take off. I am reminded of Kodak who didn’t believe digital cameras would go anywhere.

Have you gone off your postman now?

On holiday over Xmas in Phu Quoc. We took 2 grab taxis, Toyota Veloz out 20km and a Mitsubishi Xpander back to the hotel. The Toyota was a noisy piece of crap with horrible plastics, the Mitsubishi was quieter and more spacious but still a massively inferior option to any BYD model. The Japanese are a generation behind the Chinese in all variants, ICE or EV.

Who was your insurance with? And which broker? I’m sure it will be useful information for other people here.

They won’t piss test a Farang.

One of the conditions of the MG battery lifetime warranty is that you don’t fit aftermarket parts. I too have an MG4 air filter but I won’t be using it, the dealer can have their 621 baht to fit it.

I had my service yesterday, they fixed a klunking noise from front passenger suspension (I suspect a missing bolt) and said there’s a ticking noise at 30kmhr over gravel in ECO mode so I’ve just dropped the car off with them to fix (I can’t reproduce it) and I’ll pick it up when we get back from Phu Quoc. Amazingly, nobody charging their car at BYD right now while I wait for my daughters to pick me up.

How can I tell if they have done the SIM swap?

I used to be a fan of Roojai, but I'm not happy with their customer loyalty. They talk of 20%, 30% and 40% No Claims Bonuses, but they don't exist. They won't cover my daughters till they are 25 and I think they won't cover me after 70 years old too. They won't insure my BYD Seal Performance, but a Premium or Dynamic would be ok. Cars they used to cover, have disappeared from their list.

MG called me today and said they had multiple new quotes for me, the best was Viriyah, 3rd year insurance on MG4 X-model was 29,000 THB with a 1,000 THB discount so I paid 28,000 THB. 600,000 baht cover and up to 5 named drivers of any age. BTW, I got the mileage wrong, it's done almost 23,000 km. It seems all electric cars are 28-30,000 THB which I think is excessive.

I’m surprised it’s legal to do that.

I checked the UK MGEVS forum, several members are reporting similar SoH readings at around 10,000km and one year old, so I suspect our car is in the normal range.

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We hear about these crackdowns periodically, usually it's nothing. That's not to say that there won't be a real one at some point. If you're targeted then it's likely you will have to gift a very large brown envelope. Your nominee shareholders should be people you actually know and trust who won't admit to being straw men at the first question. Never use nominees suggested by your lawyer. If you have a home in a company, there are some things you need to do. For example, in your will, don't leave the house to someone. You don't own it so it's not yours to leave, instead leave the shares in your company to someone. Once your home is in a company, it's very expensive to take it out of the company and close the company. The land office will assess the value and it's going to be higher than when you put it into the company so the company has a tax liability on that profit and after that, closing costs. You probably have undated forms signed by your nominees and copies of their ID cards. ID cards are valid 7 years only, so you need to get new copies on expiry or your undated forms are useless. There are ways to own a house in a company legally. The legal test is whether your primary motive for doing it was to circumvent the foreign ownership laws.

Thanks @Pib I ordered one and pro version of car scanner too.

We just had quotes on insurance for the MG4, 11,000 THB with Roojai for me as the only driver. 28,000-30,000 for the other companies with my daughters as named drivers. I think it’s outrageous.

Thanks, I guessed that was what you were probably doing. How soon after buying the car did you do it? Have you managed to notice any degradation? I thibk I will buy one of those OBD devices, is it the "carscanner" ?

You can use 3rd party toners but I prefer the original HP ones, the last service was about 5,000 baht with new colour toners and new black toner cartridge in the box with a lot left in the existing cartridge. The transfer belt and imaging drum were the expensive items in the service. Service was done at HP's authorised service centre in Chiang Rai. It's functionally equivalent to a new one with all the parts replaced. I replaced it with a new HP black only model whilst the old one was being serviced, but the new one takes much longer to connect to my WiFi and is uglier.

You may be joking, but there's actually a lot to be said for that, be careful with those emoji's we wouldn't want you catching transamitis.

How are you determining KWH into the battery? are you allowing for charging losses? I think the MG helps you determine SoH because when fully charged, the indicated range has dropped from 425km to 405km. On my Seal the range is nearly always the same, though I did get it to indicate 585km last time which is 5 more than it's supposed to have.

I have a HP color laser printer for sale, mostly new internals belts and toners. If he’s interested, I can send details, it’s on bahtsold too.