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We are into this too, our monthly consumtion is in the 500-700 kwh range. Say average 20 kwh per 24 hours. I checked the daytime usage from 6 am to 6 pm, 12 hours of mainly fridges and fans, no AC use during daytime. We average about 6 kwh daytime use, so 6x30=180 kwh a month. Worth it to install solar panels for us? Initial cost, maintenance, replacement of faulty things and so on, hm maybe I give it a try

Re the labor component, some tires/dimensions are way harder to come on and off the rims than others, and some rims are easily scratched during the process so action must be taken. Can easily take twice the time so not pretty much identical.

Wife and I spent a year looking for a good house in the 1,5-2,5 mill range. That price range means a fixer-upper, and we didn’t want some ”renovated” house where everything is poorly done just for to sell. I drove around looking almost every day for some three months. Many times there was something wrong with the surroundings or the house itself. If a house dont sell after say six months there is something wrong, or its simply not priced for to sell. Many houses we looked at had been on the market for 1-2 years or more. The ghost thing is for real, among some thais. But the biggest obstacle is to get a mortgage on a old house, way easier on a new one. Thai buyers seems happy to buy off plan, and dont think too much about what happens in the backyard or the surroundings. But, reasonable priced old houses found buyers quite fast, even during the darkest covid times in august last year. It takes time to learn the local market thats for sure

Sad thing is in my home country they dilute it too, shell state it could be ”up to 5% ethanol” ????

Thats something to bring to thailand, a few bottles of fuel stabilizer. Different brands different names, but small 2-3 dl bottles, I think most boat shops stocks them. I mix 2 dl two-stroke oil, 2 dl ATF, 2 dl fuel stab to 50 liters of petrol for my old cars, just last week I woke one up from 6 years sleep no problems! Filled with E5 petrol 6 years ago. But normal petrol in thailand is E10, so gets stale quicker. Or even worse the E20, if filled with that 20% ethanol blend that would pose problems for sure

No the PCX is definitely quicker. But I understand what you are thinking haha The old retired farang fiddle with rollers and plates to make the little scooter faster, that will be the day

At least on the 150 cc models the click version is slightly detuned, about 1,5-2 hp lower, acc to specs. In real life too it feels a tad slower. Unthinkable for Honda to let the less expensive Click be faster than the PCX haha

Haha they have FB groups for that! Some years ago, a lady I dated showed me a conversation about how to get the husband into paying off her debts mode. Quite a few women there have had success about that. Paying off 20 years of racked up living expenses from her previous life...

Excellent advice obove but really it is not an exclusive sports car... If tank holds only a quarter just fill it up with fresh fuel, check oil level if raised /diluted with fuel from all those carport starts. If ok just start and drive it a few days to see if some brakes drags, can easily feel by hand if too hot. Good chance they will be okay, no salty roads there as in our home coutries. Same with the bike, but siphon out the few liters of old fuel before filling up. Then a new battery and try to start it, thats how the repair shop will do it anyway. The Michelins will be okay, except if air escaped and now flat

To turn the neighbors into enemies should be avoided at any cost if you plan to live there, I would say. At our previous house we had a noicy neighbor, that could not handle my wife`s complaints in a civilzed way... Turned up at 2 am trying to get inside, wife had only an iron bar as defense. It is simply not worth it, it takes up way to much of your mind to have people like that as neighbors. Before, he was about as normal as any thai I would say, but not anymore.

I think I have bought books in about every used-book store in CM, although 2 years since last time. I always wonder how they can make a living of it. After paying rent and salary how much can they actually pay for the inventory books?? I guess it must be close to nothing, except something really special?

Haha yes basically correct! She took out a mortgage on half the price, I paid the other half. Money probably lost if we fall out in the future.

Splitting all fees is the sugar-on-top money for the seller! We recently bought a house and the sellers friend tried to make us split everything, even the taxes! But we agreed to split the 2% transfer fee only. (2% of registered value, not sales value)

It simply may be corrosion on the metal contact strips under the buttons. I have had that on a few fans with the button set on the foot. From dog pee haha. Easy to dismantle and fix

My last IDP expired 3 years ago. I had to show my license for the Police at roadside about 5 times in those 3 years, and they never asked for an IDP... My home country license clearly shows picturewise it`s valid for big bikes, if that makes the police more friendly I don’t know but I think so! I drive only various bikes here. And 2 years ago I was hit by a car, the car`s insurance guy come and wrote a report, studied my license and took pic of it too. The bike, they would take care of it he said when I headed for to be patched up a little bit. Two months later they paid the bike in full, no talk about lack of IDP. All my encounters with them was in BKK area I may add.

A very good read. That explains the stopping of our big inverter fridge, we sometimes found it quiet and not working. Must to unplug it, wait a few minutes, press the reset button inside, replug it and then it will start again. It took a few months until I realized it was because I sometimes use my small stick welder… Now the interresting thing: We are quite new to the house, and first months I just used an existing socket outlet at back of house. No fridge problems despite welding a fewtimes per week. Later I found out the feeding cable was only 1 sq.mm, and about 15 m long snaking around from various sockets inside house. So I changed the outside socket to get fed from another circuit of 1,5 sq.mm cable instead, unfortunately the fridge circuit. Now the fridge stopping probems arised. Well after a few weeks I realised why, and bought 20 m 2,5 sqmm cable, and rerouted it directly all the way to the fusebox upstairs. Put it on a the separate ac fuse. But to my surprise, the fridge still stops although not as easy. But it still cut out sometimes. At this step is where I am of today. Next step, I think check more carefully inside fusebox for wire thicknesses and routing. Or go back to weld via long 1 sqmm wire. Or try to remember to unplug/replug the fridge every time. House voltage about 210-220 volts every time I check. Maybe get an analog meter and let wife check when I weld. Maybe someone have suggestions?

Ok good thanks I feel better now????

Hi everybody, first post here for me but I have read from time to time since I first come to Thailand 5 year ago. In Pathum Thani yesterday jan 20th I applied for the 60-day covid extension, same as in this thread. But I got a “under consideration stamp” and must come back feb 4th. Everything went smooth like when I got my 30-day extension last month (i come on 60-day tourist visa in early nov) no questions asked about my paperwork. But now must to come back feb 4th exactly????