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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 .

320i is the new entry level in 3 series

http://www.bmw.co.th/th/en/general/finance_service/comparison_payment/payment_estimator.html

2.249 M THB is the cheapest now.

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you wont have much room for 250.000...

first and most, forget the exotics, SEAT, KIA, MERC....

then get realistic....apart from not buying auto gear, the rest of the post i feel is a bit away from what is available really for your bucks.

btw, if you buy for transporting thais, for them the back of a pickup is relative confort...and there you go, you might find a decent 2 door pickup for your price range

you wont have much room for 250.000...

first and most, forget the exotics, SEAT, KIA, MERC....

then get realistic....apart from not buying auto gear, the rest of the post i feel is a bit away from what is available really for your bucks.

btw, if you buy for transporting thais, for them the back of a pickup is relative confort...and there you go, you might find a decent 2 door pickup for your price range

I tend to agree with you about the "exotics" as you call them, but I don't see why you'd say that the rest of my post is unrealistic.

The options listed are based on real cars that I have seen on one2car, Taladrod or in the odd car tent that I have looked round.

For example, a 2006/2007 APV is around 260k, an Avanza from 2005 about the same.

Zafiras can be as low as 200k, but you get what you pay for!

Or do you mean that all of them will be piles of scrap for the price?

Unfortunately the car is for transporting my family and occasionally my in-laws... my last three cars at home were the E30 325i in my avatar, an E39 528i saloon, and an E39 525i Touring. My In-laws have an E60 525i and an E36 325i..... you could say that I'm loathed to leave BMW behind, but needs must when the devil vomits in your kettle....

If your in-laws usually cruise around in an BMW E60 I recommend to dismiss the idea of buying an old 2 door pickup for the weekly family trips to Tesco and the local Moo Kata Shop

I have a feeling your mother in-law does not like to crawl out of the back of a pickup with a hairdo like Don King out of the wind tunnel

Just looked at the MUX specification and its seems that we do have a Cruise control , guess my wife has not found it yet ?? as we have the top spec model , also the rear suspension is nothing like the Fortuner its not a live axle beam with coils springs ,, its a proper independent coilspring but 5 way multi link design .

Cruise control should be banned, nothing worse than these annoying people that flick on the cruise control set to 70 then stay in the right lane on the motorway absolutely refusing to move over!!!!!

MU X is a nice motor, enjoy.

Everyone is entitled to have his own opinion, but most people which want to ban cruise control or afraid to use it don't know the proper way.

The switch for CC is usually near the turn signal, very easy to reach. You can not only set the speed, but also moderate accelerate or decrease speed, turn it of or recall the last set speed.

To turn off CC you can also use brake for a millisecond.

So if I like to drive 120km/h on the highway, set CC to 120km/h and after 90 seconds or 4-5 minutes the traffic gets slower, I just hold the decrease button for a second and can adjust my speed to the car in front of me. Once the way is clear again I reset the old CC speed by hold the switch forward. Cruise control is not like in the "60 where one button is on the dashboard is for turn on or off.

I like it, because I drive a lot and I want to move around with my leg from time to time. If I have Cruise Control on, my foot rests in front of the brake.

I don't have to mind about the maximum speed, as I set that before.

All I have do to is observe the traffic.

If you ever used a car with Adaptive Cruise Control you never want to drive without again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YYeFYEAGmM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=own_VaRZ9M8

I bet in ten years from now adaptive cruise control is standard in most cars, like ESP or Airbag now.

I don't want to talk your new car down liddelljohn, I just chuckled a little bit about the hiso stuff...

The MUX is a SUV like Fortuner, Pajero, Trailblazer etc. Not more and not less. Certainly good value for the money in Thailand.

But it is as much Hiso as a Accord or a Camry.

My brother in law just bought a MUX two weeks ago, before he had a Fortuner.

About CC you may check that again, I think it is not available for now on the Thai version.

In Australia the MUX has CC, so sooner or later it will be available for the Thai market as well.

Isuzu loves to through every year a new superlative version on the market like:

Gold Edition, Platin Edition, Titanium Edition, Super Gold, Super Titanium etc. So they probably withhold some extras in Thailand for now.

I don't know the car is available with CC or not, but if you have one in front of your house, why don't you take a look?

160.000 km is a lot of work for one of those belts. I am amazed they last that long!

You can be sure a genuine belt will go waaaaay further than 150,000km. That figure is so know one with that engine will have a failure.

I had the belt changed about 1/2 year ago on my Vigo. As it is customs here, they like to dumb the old parts in the car, obviously as "proof" the really changed it.... However, the old belt looked brand new, no cracks at all.

There is a special sticker in the belt box, after they changed the belt they put the silver sticker on the cover. So everyone can read at what km and date the belt was changed.

Some shops recommend to change the water pump at the same time as the belt.

I paid about 10,000 THB for the timing belt kit, new water pump and 150000km service at Toyota.

Looks great. Is cruise control availible on the top models? If so I’ll by one tomorrow...

Cruise Control is standard on the Gold Plated Platinium Issan Hiso Avantgarde Series:

The thai must then be an idiot. That he believes that one can purchase a genuine Rolex watch 110000 baht.

A genuine Rolex watch in Denmark can easily be sold for more than 1 million Danish kroner.

More than 5 million baht. And it's not just because it's Denmark, but a genuine rolex watch has roughly the same price worldwide.

110000 baht so you know that it is fake watch

If you look on ebay you'll find used Submariner starts in the price range around of 3-4k USD, something like 20000 Kroner.

It is very likely that the watch sold by the Swede was an extreme good fake!

There are fakes available for 10.000 Baht and more, these copies are so good even a watchmaker or staff in a pawn shop has to open the watch to check it. Weight, feel and look is identical to the real thing, with box and since color lasers are so cheap, even with an invoice and matching serial number.

The price of 110000 THB for a mint steal submariner was very good but not insanely cheap for a "emergency sale".

A light case of greed eats brains. If you want to buy a used Rolex, take it to a watchmaker and pay after the inspection.

If the buyer said, lets meet in Central Beach 5th floor for the payment, the seller never showed up...

I like the new MUX, if I would buy a new SUV now, that car would be on top of my list. Good value for the money.

However, for a Hiso Thai with a jumping horse one would think a Benz ML or better GL is more appropriate .

double post

http://www.ocpb.go.th/ewtadmin/ewt/ocpb_web/main.php?filename=index

Thai's 100 baht farang 300 baht

Exactly ! It is very sneaky to write the price in Thai without any numbers "คนไทยร้อยบาท", THAI PERSON HUNDRED BAHT

If they want to triple charge the "Farang" why they don't have the balls to write it on the flyer in plain English?

By distributing such an advertising flyer openly even the most upstanding and fair คนไท must get the impression that is absolutely normal to triple charge every foreigner as they are known for being rich (and stupid).

I'm waiting for the day that Big C and Tesco starts to write the prices in Thai on the shelve, at 33% of the "usual sticker price for the uneducated class that can't read Thai".

And please no answers à la: Disney Land in Florida gives also 5% discount and a free softdrink to elderly or residents of Florida.

A place like Pattaya should have a baby hatch somewhere.

I don't want to know how many babies are killed or abandoned and never discovered by anyone.

Constant use of the brakes when going down hill can lead to Brake Fade (No Brake) in europe mountain roads have run off areas (a sand or gravel pit) in the event of brake fade.Nearly all buses and lorries are fitted with aTelma braking system to illiminate brake fade.

Do you really think the trucks or buses in Thailand have a retarder brake? Do you have any idea how many headlights you can buy for the cost of a retarder brake?

I've seen 5 Ford Ecosport last Thursday around 13:00 between Sattahip and Pattaya. They drove pretty fast with extreme short distance between. I was suprised to see that they splitted up in Pattaya, one stopped on Sukhumvit others drove straight on, one turned into Theparasit etc. These little Ecosports are quit fast!

In the area Rayong - Sattahip they testing the Ecosport since more then a year already, in the beginning they only drove at night (same style - 100kmh to 130 kmh and maybe 7-15m distance to each other) ususally 4-6 cars in a row.

Ecosport looks like a nice little runner, pitty most Ford dealers are overwhelmed with the requirements to service the cars in case of a problem. Good Luck.

Just be aware that DTG printers whilst cheap to use and set up (expensive to buy) are not mostly very permanent after a few washes a significant amount of ink washes out.Very good for promotion work or one off use.I have a friend in Uk who set up a DTG T shirt printing business and most machines and ink supplied failed his testing.Only one company was able to supply decent ink and was able to print other than white T's successfully.

That is not always the case, there are DTG inks available which are exremely durable. A Kornit Printer for example starts in Thailand for about 2.3 Million Baht. Do you think people spend that kind of money, if you could not see the print after 20-50 washes?

If you buy a chinese printer for 20000 THB, use some cheap ink and not apply the correct finish chemical to the product - then it will fade.

DTG is not good for large runs because of the high production cost.

2 Litre Dupont ink cost about 15000 THB, 2 kg Plastisol ink in Thailand maybe 500 THB.

If you want promo wear with qty of 50-100 pieces up, it is a lot cheaper to make the old fashion screenprint.