Liverpool Lou

"...just wanted to know if it was a minor or major problem". Faulty brakes are a major problem, obviously. So what are you going to do? You say that you don't know anything mechanical so after you've read about all the different possibilities here you're just going to take it to a mechanic anyway who'll give you an opinion after actually examining the car. Are you going to dispute what the dealer/shop tells you is actually wrong based on a number of possibilities proffered here? Can't see the sense in that. Hope you get it fixed before the brakes pedal just sinks to the floor in the emergency that will require them to work properly.

Then, after all that, take it to a dealer/mechanic and ask them to fix what's actually wrong and hope that his brakes don't fail while he's wasting time reading Thaivisa.

But the members here are not going to be fixing his brakes. In the meantime, while he's digesting the internet's opinion, he's driving around with faulty, dangerous brakes. Whatever advice he gets here will be disregarded when he goes to a mechanic so probably best for him to just get them fixed.

Government restrictions, not PayPal's. Anyone with a PayPal Thailand account who cannot produce a Thai ID card number for PP's records can wave goodbye to their account. No point in whinging about it any longer, this has been on the cards for a long time and is not being forced on any PP customers unannounced.

Seized counterfeit goods are destroyed, not distributed. Distribution of illegal, counterfeit goods would be just as illegal as selling them and the holders of the trademark could sue. Unfortunate but true.

You obviously don't know the pharmacies in my neighborhood I know the pharmacies in the area that I and the OP was referring to which is the area that the OP was asking about. If that's not your neighbourhood, you're right.

not so sure .... I think it was worded and written as 'we' when it was suppose to be 'he' ... You know how Thai's mess up english ! but let's look into it further shall we .... Yes, look further by reading news reports other than those you see here. Try the Bangkok Post, for example. His wife was with him in Germany.

Wrong assumption. Read the Bangkok Post.

His wife was with him in Germany.

Only if you only read Thaivisa! She was with him.

His wife had been in Germany with him.

No, it isn't, It's Asean Now and has international sub-forums that have no relation to Thailand.

Who said it was important? It was just a description of recent events that involved him.

That's quite a wallet. "His sky blue bag was on a metal grate in an area for recycling plastic bottles. Inside was a brown wallet containing 280 baht, a phone and two packets of cigarettes".

How is that "obvious"?

I don't dispute that, it's a great response to a question no one asked.

Your link said English and Thai only. No, the links only referred to English and Thai because they were the subject of the question, they did not say that other languages could not be translated to Thai for probate. Thai courts require the probate documentation to be in Thai, that's why they have to be translated, the language that they were written in originally is irrelevant as the Thai translation is the one that would be used.

So a lawyer said that? A lawyer would say that, yes. As long as it is translated into Thai for probate there would be no problem. Non-Thai does not invalidate a will here.

Very good, have a gold star, but, so what?

Can you write in German? No, I'm English, I cannot write German, why do you ask? If you're referring to wills in Thailand, yes, they could be written in German but would have to be translated into Thai for probate.

That wasn't the subject of the OP's question.

For which country? For the country that you were referring to in your comment, obviously, Thailand.

Says it's not 100% sound. Could be questioned. The lawyer says do both. So your advice is therefore weak. A will should be 100% sound. The OP asked if wills in Thailand can be written in English (and be valid), that's all. My answer was 100% correct, they can be.

Do you have a link to prove that "wills have to be written in the official local language"?

Both those links, from different lawyers' firms, also stated that valid wills can be written in English. That was all that the OP was asking about. Wills written in Thai can be challenged also!