uwe_rayong

That accident was in phuket news...  You were very lucky...

Joachim Löws brother, also one of those cheesy Schlager singers already made a nice heart warming song for our friendz in Argentina:

Yes it is not easy to find. Above I had included a link to google maps along with the GPS Data:

http://tinyurl.com/PipoPonyPattaya

GPS Data: 12°57'10.4"N 100°56'17.8"E

It starts 22:00.

You may check this link: http://www.caravansthailand.com/

Somewhere in Chonburi is a guy who imports caravans from Europe. Couple of years ago shop was on Highway 36 left side, from Rayong to Pattaya behind the old Esso station.

Now there is only one caravan left in front of that building, but the guy must still be in business as I saw him on TV couple of month ago promoting his business.

You want to build something like this, right?

Why not, thats a eyecatcher in Thailand. But I would check carryboy as well they have pick up kiosks and trailers too.

http://www.carryboytrailer.com/special/

Last year on bahtsold, 8 month old - 150.000 THB:

http://www.bahtsold.com/view/mobile-food-kiosk-trailer-125944

If you have young children I would recommend a visit to the Pipo Pony Club.

I was there yesterday afternoon with my daughter. Until 10th July entry is free.

The place is spotless clean. The large gentlemen toilettes have two 24000 BTU AC running, and for the Ladies it is the same.
Don't know how much they will sale the tickets after the soft opening , but it doesn't look cheap.
There is a coffee and a restaurant, both are open already.
A round piece of chocolate cake with two layers and about 10cm diameter is 150 THB.
My daughter really enjoyed it because of the mini ponies.

The place is near the Million Stone Park, directly opposite Norway Viking Village.

GPS Data: 12°57'10.4"N 100°56'17.8"E

Cant remember the exact price, between 350-400 b, great value.

I dont see how that could possibly be described as "good value".

If imported from NZ and a big portion 350-400 THB is not expensive, it would be very, very cheap.

But if you look at the first picture it looks not like imported from NZ.

How much is 1/2 kg of the Thai stuff on the night market? One bag about 20-30 THB, cooked already. Most times overcooked, big shell, very small dark colored mussel with a large hairy beard.

But with the spicy seafood sauce ok to eat, without tthe sauce no fun to eat.

Sometimes I do buy NZ mussel in Makro. 1kg box frozen is about 200 THB, Because of the reduced shipping weight, they pack the mussels most times only with half shell.

So if a restaurant serves something small, with a big beard full shell I doubt it is imported.

Now I'm hoping, although not holding my breath, that the Father of this young lady will be investigated to whether he had legal means to own this weapon.

Police contacted the woman via Facebook and arranged to meet her to purchase the firearm, a 9mm Glock semi-automatic handgun. As the suspect arrived at the meeting point, on the railroad between Soi Kao Noi and Soi Kao Talo in East Pattaya, Police ambushed the pair and recovered the licensed firearm.

I heard from another bakery that friendship charges a whooping 20% commission on the sale price, so I'm sure Rick or any other bakery would be glad if you buy the stuff from them directly.
I also buy some stuff sometimes at friendship but what I really dislike is when they rub off the "best to use date" from the dairy products and put a "special sale " sticker on or over it.

If UHT whipping cream is 2-3 weeks over the date it is usually still good, but I do like to know how many weeks it is over the best before date...

Similar accident with a driver reacting to the situation:

Sammitr have many canopy to choose, can find service center near where you live.

Stop spamming Mr. Sammitr.

FYI, I work in the accessories industry for pick-up vehcles and it is believed by the vast majority of accessory dealers and manufacturers that Sammitr the canopy is not even in the top 10 of the best canopies.

There are many quality problems, design problems and a massive after sales service problem (due to the yearly change of the senior managers).

Independant12, as I say I am in this trade and it would be neither ethical nor fair to tell you which canopy I believe to be the best, as my view is biased.

Honestly, if I were to buy a canopy I would stick with the bigger firms but i would definately avoid Sammitr.

Now Mr. Sammitr,

If you continue to make new accounts to spam our board, I will tell all of the nice members here of your dirty unethical practices and the quality problems that plague your canopy.

I agree with the comment of tonytigerbkk regarding the spamming issue, it is obvious as all "1 post users" are registered within the last 2-3 days, always two users within a couple of minutes.

However, I disagree about the quality of the SUV Plus cab. I have that cab on a vigo since 5-6 years. The only problem I have are the faded brake lights. The color faded a lot in the sun, which gives the whole canopy a very used look. Otherwise no rust, or any other problems.

On the last motorshow in BKK I was a the Sammitr booth to take a look around... I told them that in general I'm satisfied with the canopy, but the faded lights problem etc....

There were aware of the problem and offered free exchange of the plastic parts. Since most times I have not much time when I'm in BKK I wasn't there yet, but I'll go in a couple of weeks.

Before the Sammitr I had a Carryboy. Carryboy was not bad either, in 5 years once a broken lock and the door got a bit flimsy. Well, it's a canopy and not a door on a S-Class...

the logo is blocking the eyes and for what? for some copyright thingie that seems more important than to be able to identify the pedo

The logo is pasted into the picture with a macro, it is always and in every picture at the same place. Not nice, but I have a feeling if someone knows the guy, they will recognize him.

If Police release a photo they must be 100% confident that he is guilty. If the old guy is clever enough he searchs for a rope and a tree now or surrender to police.

If friends of the parents find him first, the last hours in his live will be painful. I wish him the latter.

Sandman77 if you have a Paypal account that is linked to a Thai Bank you can only withdraw THB to that account. It does not matter you have USD, GBP, EUR or whatever in the Paypal account. IE if you decide to withdraw 100 USD Paypal convert it to 3100 THB something...

The exchange rate is always lower compared to the bank. The paypal deposit to your account takes 4-7 days and it is not from a foreign account. Paypal sends the money from within Thailand.

So I don't understand your question.

To get a driving license most people go to the immigration for a letter of residence.

Then you come to the 90 days report and the accept a copy of the driver license to confirm the address. Where is the logic in that?

Quite simple in my opinion. Since you hold a driver license mean that immigration have verified the address earlier, otherwise you would not be able to have a driver license.

So immigration have verified the address earlier... How did they do that?

Couple of years ago it was like this:

Go to immigration with two photos and a utility bill (as you wrote, doesn't have to be in your name), next day your certificate is ready.

If you was willing to pay 100 THB (the old times) you got it within 2 hours...

Now price is more something like 300 THB but the extensive verification procedure is still the same.

Szenario 2, applied for the driving license with the resident certificate from your own embassy ( which is usually a lot more $$).

That is even more senseless, as the embassy will write down whatever address you provide them. They don't even need the utility bill...

So in the end, the immigration is sure that you actually live at the reported address, because every 90 days you confirm that information, that you gave to them in the first place.

I'm sure 99.80% or more of all the foreigner, which do the 90 days report, do it truthfully (and unnecessary every 90 days) but the 0.20% which have bad intentions or maybe suspect that a visit from the BIB or Interpol in the future could be possible, will of course not provide the correct address.

So the 90 days report is as helpful to security in Thailand as this bucket is for transporting water:

I did the 90 days report at Jomtien Immigration after Songkran, my one year extension ends 5 or 6 June.

The (90 days - 2 stamps) Officer, that often looks TV or Youtube on his phone during his hard work, told me two times that the 90 days report is:

No same same Visa, you come back for make new Visa. You visa finish next month, ok? Not forget!

He also wrote a note on the 90 days slip regarding the permit ends in June.

In my opinion the whole 90 days report is a total waste of time. It is good for nothing.

Also the whole application process for extension of stay for married couples is stupid. I'm married 26 years to the same woman, yet I have to supply the 3 photos every year and copy every single document two times as in the year before.

The immigration in BKK must have more pictures from me in front of my sofa then I do. If they would streamline and organize the process, there wouldn't be so many people waiting.

To get a driving license most people go to the immigration for a letter of residence.

Then you come to the 90 days report and the accept a copy of the driver license to confirm the address. Where is the logic in that?

Those mirrors are used when you're actually doing serious off-road driving. You can see what your offside front wheel is biting into and also see how close to the edge of the bluff you might be on a narrow mountain track.

I hadn't considered them as being a "parking aid".

OK. Then I am glad that I helped you see their broader use potential.

From the internet:

"TOYOTA GENUINE FJ CRUISER FRONT PARKING FENDER MIRROR RHD JDM"

"I think it's called a Parking or Sport Mirror. You can put this in your search on Ebay and see what it comes up with. Walt"

I would seriously doubt that more then 1/10 of 1% of these mirrors are sold to people intending to use them for "serious off-road driving", as they are very small and the visibility at any speed would be poor at best, so you would likely be over "the edge of the bluff" before you saw it in the mirror. Parking may actually be their best, perhaps only, real use. So, if you have one on your vehicle, be very careful how you use it! Next............

Yes exactly, the fisheye effect is extreme it is difficult to judge if your fender or tire is 5cm or 15cm from the other car or stone. There are people using them for off-road driving, I've seen it.

Anyway once you get used to the dimensions of the car, the driver has usually a better feeling about the distance then the little fisheye mirror is able to reproduce.

Costs something like 1000 THB and if you don't mind the looks it helps in the first weeks or month.

I wonder when the first thai made cars are available with a surrond camera system like Range Rover:

New Honda Accord now has a blind spot camera in the left rear mirror integrated.

A couple of years ago I had that mirror on my first Vigo, as I was a little bit uncomfortable parking. However, you don't see much in that mirrors (fisheye). On the next Vigo I gave it a miss.
In my experience you need 2-3 month to get used to the dimension of the new car (in case it is a lot bigger then your last ride) and then thats it...

Although on the rear sensors I don't want to drive without. 10 years ago only a few percentage of the cars had rear sensors installed..

Now almost every car has sensors or camera, some cars have a lot more cameras...

Couple of weeks ago I had to change the rear bumper of my car, because someone hit me on a traffic light.

I had to drive 4-5 days without the bloody sensors and felt sometimes uncomfortable parking without any "beeping help"...

It's funny, one parks cars 20 years or so without sensors and without any problems, then drives a car with sensors for 5-7 years and gets insecure if the sensors not there doing the beeping job...

Same goes for mobile phones and memorizing phone numbers from other people...

I even have a problem to remember the mobile no. from my wife, and I'm married 26 years and she did not change the number in the last 11 years...

On the other hand, because of security reasons I never save the telephone number of the gik in my phone but I remember her number always when needed

The item that you have posted was not EMS but regular registered airmail.

You have dispatched it on 4. April in Jomtien. It was delivered on 26. April in Porter / TX.

That is a normal transit time for priority airmail to US.

If you had sent it EMS it would

a.) a lot faster

b.) the tracking number starts with E instead of R.

Ps: you can track it on usps.com

What would have happened if the child would have some how, got the car into gear? I guess the child wasnt worth more to him, than the trash! Just love the way parents here are so responsible.

For a two years old child it is not possible to put the car in gear accidently, as you have to press the brake at the same time you move the gear lever.

If you not press the foot brake, it is not possible to move the gear lever.

At 10pm probably the girl was sleeping and father wanted to buy something in 7eleven, he didn't want to lock the car from the outside because of the running A/C...

Daughter wakes up, daddy not there and accidently pressed the door lock button....

You live and learn. Happened to me before, but im my case it was a french bulldog who locked the car with a running engine at 7eleven.

Spare key at home, a phone call and 10 minutes later I could open the car...

Now I have a turbo timer, so I can leave the car and lock it a with a running engine.

Running motor + Air Conditioning = snoring bulldog in the backseat...

Last year you lost some money on an old motorbike :

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/653037-how-to-get-an-airblade-for-under-20k/#entry6603047

and gave advice to a soon to be father how to piss off best:

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/640628-my-gf-is-actually-pregnant-very-bad/page-5#entry6602993

and now your farang husband gives you a headache....

Maybe this one:

http://www.cwc.co.th/cwc/index.php

Extreme low or high temperatures are not good for batteries. In very cold environment people often uses some sort of insulation or electric heating, but there is also a Thermo barrier available for hot zones:

What I've experienced is, that in extreme hot climate the battery often dies without any warning at all, usually within 3-5 years.

One day it pulls the starter through like always, next day starter is not moving at all.

That's the kind of input I was looking for. I guess the Fortuner cab must be several hundred k heavier than the Vigo's then. I'll just have to be the hick farmer around Bangers then . Dunno about the nature of the shocks Transam

When Toyota weighted the car, the ego of the driver is not taking into account - otherwise most Fortuner drivers had to drive always alone (and still being massive overloaded)...

A 4 door vigo with the load mostly in the back is not much fun to drive neither, as it hangs and you have no weight on the front axle. On the plus side, steering is a little easier .