Kimera

I bought my 2005 Phantom 9 months ago and had a very strange fault which cost me an engine rebuild. The tappets began to get noisy and the engine hot, even though I checked the oil level before every trip, so after the repair, I sprayed the dipstick white, so that the level would show up better.

After we filled up with 1 litre, the level measured 2cm above maximum (bike upright, not screwed in), so it appears that some dipstick has fitted the wrong dipstick. Resulting in my running with virtually no oil in the sump. I have recalibrated now, but the repairs cost 13,000baht.

Would someone kindly confirm the length of their Phantom dipstick, mine is (end of threads to end of dipstick) 11.5cm?

Mine seems to be designed to measure with the bike on it's side stand??? Never heard of that.

I have a 2006 from new it has been trouble free (usual plate problems I am on an Island) and runs well I will check the stick and report back..

11.5 is correct with the bike upright

Halifax will transfer to a Thai bank cost £7.50 from their current account, open one.

I bought my 2005 Phantom 9 months ago and had a very strange fault which cost me an engine rebuild. The tappets began to get noisy and the engine hot, even though I checked the oil level before every trip, so after the repair, I sprayed the dipstick white, so that the level would show up better.

After we filled up with 1 litre, the level measured 2cm above maximum (bike upright, not screwed in), so it appears that some dipstick has fitted the wrong dipstick. Resulting in my running with virtually no oil in the sump. I have recalibrated now, but the repairs cost 13,000baht.

Would someone kindly confirm the length of their Phantom dipstick, mine is (end of threads to end of dipstick) 11.5cm?

Mine seems to be designed to measure with the bike on it's side stand??? Never heard of that.

I have a 2006 from new it has been trouble free (usual plate problems I am on an Island) and runs well I will check the stick and report back..

Sorry I got my sums wrong a little. It's actually (if you take into account the 7% tax refund) £400 cheaper than the UK price which means the actual laptop is the same price as everywhere else in the world but I'd be saving myself the 20% VAT I'd be paying if I bought it in the UK. (assuming I wasn't stopped in customs)

Just take it back with you. UK customs wont bother you, think about it, they would be asking for proof of purchase for every laptop, piece of gold, rolex watch.. etc etc they will not be interested,

Thats it then Tesco Thalang, Super Cheap at Two Sisters and now Villa at Cherng Talay, no more bypass

Usually the birth parent will want their kids to be raised in the household with the greatest resources, so their nutrition and education will be taken care of properly.

I can completely agree with this.

Thai society has no expectation that a child needs to be raised by either of it's birth parents.

In our extended family there is a husband and wife who are school teachers and unable to have children. Many mothers just pass their offspring along to the teachers who are more than happy to bring them up, no contributions required. Western people often are shocked or fail to understand this basic difference between our two societies. I personally see nothing wrong with it.

Ah well now what you are describing is good, now lets look at the other more common side, the child left with the grandparents in Issan ends with the girl pregnant at thirteen with little education and no future, and the boy a lazy dreamer, its happened in my family more than once

Colonized influence I dont think so.. Thats..Would you like a taxi sir? here its TAXI and a refusal its (N----he)

My partner is a Thai. the advise is that your proplem is your wife, as she has brought this problem to your house and without doubt she needs to remove the problem, if not then she loves the sister more than you.. understand!!

So, Mr. LondonPete

How is it going with you turning Japanese these days?

Anyone have any inside tip if i want to bet about what nationality LondonPete will go for next?

Its London I worry about, Pete Can't be from there they have education there

Many thanks for all the replies.

A few are a bit technical for me but everything’s bursting with lots of good experience. Fortunately I can use the cloud and don’t need to clone the hard drive.

I was actually wondering whether wi-fi in Starbucks might not be even more compromised than an internet café. But whatever – in the past I used Explorer cafe on Beach Rd. in Pattaya and never had any kind of security problem, perhaps because they can’t access TANs?. But it’s also fairly upmarket as far as Internet cafes are concerned. I do appreciate the risks, but since a hacker in a cafe didn’t have access to my TAN lists then, or my Chip-Tan generator now, then there’s not much anyone can do with the banking info I input except view (not much money there anyway!). I also have very tight parameters on my security settings for bank and credit cards. Maybe someone can spot an error in my thinking - I'd be grateful if so!

I have also cultivated a whole variety of passwords, (literally dozens) each different for even the most mundane log-in, each encoded on a list which no one could possibly understand except myself.

Vale Tudo – great post, thanks, that’s exactly some of the info I was after – I’ll touch base with AIS when I get there.

It looks like the 3G/mobile phone route is the best. I AM very cagey about wi-fi nets.

Thanks Smokie, that's also the kind of experienced tip I was hoping for - helps enormously.

Nietzche thanks for the chuckle - but it's great for my digital needs, and the weight is right too.

I’ll keep an eye on the thread as long as it’s on the front page, but with work commitments that may not be every day.

Once again, many thanks to all - gives me a flying start.

I see you are coming here for a Month or so, is it a holiday? I'm sorry but with all the problems you feel you my have with the Mac. why not leave it at home and enjoy yourself

Rats and horny cats are the biggest culprits for cables being bad between the demarcation point and above the ceiling areas. Change the cables from demarc to your jack. World of difference.

Same goes for cable tv.

Also, never heard of TOT not fixing cables upto the jack in the house. You may have to pay them a couple hundred baht, but why not?

TOT engineers will normaly sort it for 1000 baht ish that seems to be the going rate in Thalang, had the same problem it was the internal cable cheap rubbish just degraded very quickly in the heat of the roof space and shorted out

Which direction should we take this thread?? Save Thailand by giving your inlaws petty allowances OR the more traditional approach: Bashing anything female in Thailand??

Lets go for the last one, please explain bashing

I'm confused is it a EU motorcycle license or not ?

No, it's a driver's license - it doesn't give me the right to ride a motorbike in any country. But it used to satisfy the BIB at Karon checkpoint, perhaps because they couldn't tell the difference between bike and car licenses. I have no complaints about the incident. If I have to pay the occasional 500 baht fine because I don't want to take the (extremely easy, takes an entire day) Thai motorbike license test, so be it.

Thats it then you have the answer and of course when you have your accident you will be insured as well !

I'm confused is it a EU motorcycle license or not ?

The volunteer police in Phuket Immigration are stars nothing is too much trouble...

... The ugliest. nastiest and the greatest nation in the world.

Few would argue on the first two points, but the last is debatable.

Your not from the colonies then?

This has happened to me on rare occasions.

Each time I was not aware that a street party was going to take place until I heard the sounds of speakers and vehicles pulling up during the early hours of the morning. Then I would ask my wife was what happening and she replied, they`re having a house warming party or a party for some other event on that day.

Easy peasy. I just packed my bag, got on my motorbike and went to stay at a hotel during that day and for the night. As a matter of fact, I found this as a good excuse to get away and have a good night out somewhere. Then when I arrived home the following day, all was quite and back to normal again.

Thats it then! excellent I want some do you think your wife could talk to mine ? think I would need a better excuse than a street party..

First double check the pump, turn the stop valve at the pump, then any exposed pipe fit a stop valve to isolate the leak, one by one, if no joy start digging along the pipe runs, they prob. won't be deep. I had to do this found the usual rubber inner tube repair

Of course its acceptable. beats the hell out of the old peoples home! and its cheaper AND more entertaining.

Exactly right there, loneliness is a killer and laughter is a tonic!

Yeah loneliness is a killer but seeking a remedy in a girl 37 years his junior who can't even speak his lingo ??!!

He deserves everything he's evidently not getting.

So whats your remedy? is it the 37 years thats too much for you?

Of course its acceptable. beats the hell out of the old peoples home! and its cheaper AND more entertaining.

Thanks for the input, Went today for my first Retirement extention on non em. O, correct no residence paper needed and also the information and help from the two English immigration police was first class, and no sign of (tea money) expected.. all completed with mutiple entry visa in less than one hour

I would think that the first step would be to get a Thai Court to accept that you are the father, a DNA test would be required..

I have obtained an O visa in the UK with the birth cert. and mothers letter etc however I understand this is now not allowed, you will need a Thai Court order, requires DNA test that you are indeed the father. Is Spain the same?

No residence paper is required ( Phuket Immigration ) when applying the retirement extension.

It will be the first time I have used Phuket for retirement extension, im suprised they dont want an address. Good thats one less thing to do.

Is there any day thats quiter that the rest.. Thanks for the input.

Has anyone used the Yellow house book for application for a retirement extension as opposed to the letter of residence at Phuket Immigration, is the book excepted ? Thanks