Wong!

Mine's #517 so that saves a trip around the ring road.

A blue Ford tractor. I was around 16.

Why not sell it here if its as You say. Sounds like a nice buy for someone, too early to give a price.

At a future date I may well sell it here but right now I'm gathering info on how much other similar models are selling for so I can then price my CRV accordingly.

Right now it's worth around 780K, but as for future price, who knows? The used market is very unstable right now.

More like 550k.

Have you checked for mice?

The world revolves around propaganda and bullshit, north, south, east and west, it's all the same ...and so the Chinese are copying, they learned that from the Japs. They learned that if you spend you time and money developing production techniques rather than product development, you will make someone else's product better and cheaper...and as a consequence sell more and make more money.

I agree that Chinese BMW's or their bikes for that matter aren't as good as the real thing, but would add one word..."yet".

Go back a few decades and exactly the same was true about Japanese products (Jap-Crap), where at the same time Britain ruled the world in motorcycle technology and build quality.

Now we build the best racing cars, where two British guys have been responsible for most of the F1 championships over the past 20 years and now we merely assemble Japanese cars.

I have played my part in criticising Chinese bikes on this forum and it is based on what I see now, but then I swore I would never buy a Japanese bike. The reason I now have one is that I can't afford a British bike here and you have to go with the flow if you want to live in someone else's country.

By the way Nestle weren't responsible of the African baby deaths by producing sub-standard products, the babies died of malnutrition. That is still going on too and I haven't forgotten what they did to Kit-kat either!!!!

At the beginning of the 20th Century 'Made in Germany' was then the same as 'Made in China' now. China has started to get it's act together in many areas and is also starting to innovate. Give it 20 years and we'll all be wishing we could get our hands on a Lifan 250bhp 1 litre superbike.

I wouldn't touch them with a barge-pole now, though.

Motorbikes get produced in batches.

So only the batches mentioned are affected.

Check your MLHPC number, if it is not there, you are not affected.

Don't see these recalls for Europe or USA either.

I know of two bikes in the US that have had this issue.

One had lots done to fix it, the other re-tightened the bolts after spotting a small oil leak from them and appears OK now.

I use one of those tubes on my bike. It's common practice and I'm not sticking any crap to my paintwork.

I wish someone would say what the 'incorrect procedure' was. Some numpty whose sole job it is to put Hondabond on the bolt probably decided they didn't need it if you hang off the wrench and do them up really tight.

The Hondas have ageing, uneconomic engines. Their cars have stagnated somewhat over the last decade and a half.

^ That thread has the wrong bike in the title.

Have Thailand owners been told to check?

No. It's Australia only. It's not an official Honda recall.

Probably due to them being upside-down.

* edit: I should add that this is a know issue among the CB500 community and all owners should check the rocker arm bolts to see if they are still tight.

Fix Or Repair Daily,F O R D,signed Holden fan

You will both have something in common soon, Made In Thailand

Nah, Holdens are made in Korea. Daiwooooooooooooooo

No, made in Thailand.

Good to see the US has backtracked as there has been a lot of interest over there.

No CB650F it seems.

It's ok; hopefully you remember the Buell motorcycles (Blast, Lightning, Cyclone, 1125©R, Ulysses, Firebolt). Erik Buell had his ties severed with Harley Davidson and started his own company. They had a ton of success last year in AMA racing and will be racing in WSB this year.

Great! Where can we buy one of these American superbikes?

But yeah, keep on demonising Americans

I'd have to start first.

Actually I find the Thai language very difficult, so maybe Tinglish is the answer.

Just pretend you're speaking English but are 3 years old - Thai is perfectly natural then.

Comparing a supersport to these bikes is stupid.

Some in the industry are calling the CBR650F a supersport.

"Impressions were high, but based on other European-only model releases, it was highly unlikely that Honda would bring the supersport stateside. To the surprise of many, though, this changed this week when Honda reported that the CBR650F will now be offered stateside."

http://ultimatemotorcycling.com/2014-honda-cbr650f-preview-versatile-sport-arrives-usa/

Compared to American bikes, it may we ll be a supersport, but the reality is somewhat different.

Basically, any brand will do, but everyone has their favourites and hates. There are a few excellent 2nd hand websites - just find the nicest truck for your budget in the Phuket area and job's a goddun'.

If you can stretch to new, the Mitsus look pretty good value, but they're one of the oldest trucks on the market. They have loaded them up with loads of gadgets though. 631k and up.

Yup....the Aveo is a gm deawoo lol. The sonic is a new model and its built here in Thailand. My Aveo was assembled here. I'm pretty sure that the Fords are rebadged Mazda's as well....pretty sure.

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I think you'll find that the Mazdas are rebadged Fords.

You'll also find that if you have driven a Fiesta then drive a Sonic, you'll never buy the Chevy. Same goes for the Jazz or any other small car available here.

Shame Ford's aftersales service is crap.

Well you are right it is cheap which raises the question why? One option would be to have it inspected.

It does seem that it is the perception in Thailand that Audi are expensive to maintain. True or not.......I don't know?

I few weeks ago I was looking for an old S4 or S6 circa late 90's and was given the same information that an Audi is expensive to maintain (not just an old one) . This came from someone in Bangkok who is in the motor trade. I was told much better to look for a BMW 5 series. This is the exact opposite to Europe where Audi maintenance costs are lower than BMW or Benz although not significantly. I can only suppose that this is something peculiar to Thailand?

More a case of Thai 'experts' knowing bugger all about anything.

as it is nigh on impossible to find anything here unless you're prepared to trawl through thousands of inane posts on panthip or sanook.

But you will be surprised what one can find if one steps out from behind a keyboard and actually goes looking.

I spent ages enquiring at body shops a couple of years ago before I had my old bike resprayed. I eventually found a shop that said they could do it and guess what? They just used normal car paint on the parts they said they would powdercoat. When I questioned them, they said, 'no can do'. Yet another case of dealing with retarded Thais. Mai bpen rai...

The only thing that has changed in the village is that the clubhouse (which was rarely used and poorly maintained anyway) has been lost until someone decides to make a go of it.

The security rarely stopped anyone from coming or going and dogs have always been allowed to roam by negligent owners.

I take umbrage with the village being 'upscale' too. Sub 3million baht homes are hardly 'upscale'.

The reality is, that very little has changed for the majority of people who live there.

I appreciate your feedback Wong, but are you sure we live in the same village? With all due respect your first two sentences with regard to the clubhouse and security just don't equate with my experience and observations. I will admit that sub 3 M baht homes are not necessarily upscale homes compared to those which are available in the marketplace today, but at the time of my purchase they were some of the finer tract homes in Udon and the maintenance in the village was impeccable compared to most that I have toured.

I will have to agree with you with respect to your comment that very little has changed for the majority of people who live here, but only in the sense that they were complacent and apathetic before the vote and they are the same today in that they just don't care. After all, we needed a majority of residents to attend the voting process, and in as much as that didn't happen in the last three voting events, the village was turned over to the Tessaban by default. Therefore I would surmise that the majority of residents are not happy with the outcome and the direction in which this village is headed. I personally don't know of any resident who doesn't feel betrayed, but then again I don't speak with those on my soi of whom I am certain failed to vote for the establishment of the HOA. I could look in their yards and tell you which way they would go even before the votes were cast. One can tell a lot about a person by the way he maintains his own residence.

Of course, I am in no way lambasting you since you have only made some personal observations; however, I would like to know how you feel about the way things have turned out in the village if in fact we are talking about one and the same village. My guess would be that you preferred that we remain a private village.

The voting issue was primarily due to a large number of homes not being lived in by the owners but tenants who have no voting rights. The biggest issue I heard about the meetings was a farang who kept asking questions about stuff that had already been dealt with because he didn't take along someone who could translate properly. Despite the said person disrupting the meetings, the Thais still did their best to go back and answer his queries, even though he doesn't actually have a voting right. Very accommodating of them, I thought. If it was in an English village the foreigner would've been told to shut up.

The last meeting was not an open meeting for all villagers but an effort to get the money collection sorted better.

Form my perspective, things seem to be moving (slowly) in the right direction and nothing untoward has happened. Fees are collected, bins are emptied, security grins inanely and the street lights are on.

Might it be that only one importer is allowed to import one specific product, whether it's a Hardley, a keg of beer or a tin of peas?

I know for alcoholic beverages that was the case, maybe it's the same for all products?