NanLaew

Just for info, there's a a lot of bogus 'Xiaomei' and '70mai' branded stuff out there, especially on lazada so as always, caveat emptor.

Just heard on the radio how the UK's Covid infection (R rate) has just gone back over 1.0 again. 24 June 2022 The R range for England is 1.1 to 1.4 and the growth rate range for England is +2% to +5% per day as of 24 June 2022. 27 May 2022 The R range for England is 0.7 to 0.9 and the growth rate range for England is -4% to -2% per day as of 27 May 2022. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-r-value-and-growth-rate I blame Glastonbury!

Oh spare us, please. Kids gang up on kids everywhere. Back in Scotland, I almost had my ass handed to me by the class bully when I was about 14 years old. He had two or three buddies who rode along in thrall of his power although they were wimps themselves. He was expelled a couple of years later and earned a reputation on the street as a "hard man" and was locked up a few times. After I started dating his cousin, I suddenly became his best friend but he still remained a total <deleted> of a human being.

Good point well made. I noticed my 1000 baht dashcam was turning itself off during the normal 5 second shut down (with screen logo and tune abruptly cut off). I check my SD card weekly to make sure that it's recording stuff OK and found that the recordings for some days were completely missing. I also noted that some recordings would jump from the front camera view to the rear camera view on the same file. I opened it up and checked the 3.7v Ni-Mh battery used for g-shock events and found it was no longer charging. I ordered a replacement battery on lazada, replaced the dud one (soldered in on fly leads) and Bob's your uncle. Battery costs between 35 baht and 70 baht so well worth it to resurrect a cheap dashcam.

If you keep the speed down and not necessarily within posted speed limits, you don't need to worry about it, no? Do you have any amulets?

These can be useful if the truck has been off road, a muddy area. They often throw up stones and mud, these large flaps stop the debris flying up at vehicles traveling behind. Another rock fan? These mudflaps are an aberration based on a nonsense. The only Thai truckies add-on I see that works here is the small bundle of tire inner tube strips hanging from the outer edge of a truck wheel arch that flail in the slipstream and brush the tires outer sidewalls so they always look shiny and clean (without legal tread depth).

Not if you don't claim. What's your deductible (if any)? My bro-in-law clipped his gatepost in his brand new, financed to the hilt Revo. Mostly paint gouges that would buff out, minor metal deformation and a partly torn plastic mud flap. He was dead set on getting it repaired and claiming on insurance. My rule of thumb is if a fender bender repair is under 10,000 baht, just pay for it yourself. Too many Thai owners use their insurance to get all the annual dings, dents and scrapes all sorted "for free".

That's the third member talking about all these rocks on the road. Where do you guys live?

I doubt that truck is 4m wide. Correct. It isn't. I'm talking about the 'mudflap' though.

See a lot of things on Thai roads that frankly wouldn't bother me it's an exaggeration and I was referring to and answering about a motorbike wing mirror. Yes, the motorbike mirror that nobody else including the OP, was talking about. PS: It's OK, I saw your subsequent 'old habits die hard' comment.

I hear the sound of papers being shuffled.

That Red Bull kid does get around eh?

If you need to ask.

Does your early middle-age need to be so precisely defined? If you think you are too old, chances are you probably are. A lack of confidence can make it seem much worse though. What was comical? Were you hitting on them?

A lot easier just to read the terms and conditions you agreed to when you accepted and started using your contactless payment card.

I've never been "inside' so I'll take your word for it.

Like in most countries, rear view or wing mirrors are probably a legal requirement whereas a 1 m by 4 m heavy vulcanized rubber 'mudlflap' is...

You're making that up. The bit about "any cop anywhere" checking for any skin ink first I mean. It sounds like you are projecting your use of it as an "automatic classifier of the persons socio-economic stratum."

Due to the venturi effect, the wet road spray comes mostly off the sides of speeding trucks and buses and not a lot sprays straight out the back. I think they are a dust restrictor for when the trucks are racing around on their worksites, be it cement, grain or whatever the dusty environment. This keeps the dust down so the driver has a clearer view in his wing mirrors. Oh, wait...

Also lower than wing mirrors. The road was decribed as 'congested and narrow' so we can assume narrow lanes. The picture in the OP indicates that a Toyota pickup wing mirror is higher than the obstruction. How about the mirrors on a Yaris or an Accord or an Attrage?

Let me guess, the ones with tattoos are the wrong 'uns?

They probably aren't too bothered about fuddy duddy old farangs labeling them as skanks either.

I used to live near the Crocodile Farm and frequently did the trip to/from Suvarnabhumi via Highway 7 in 60-65 minutes. I also once got from the office at Asoke@Sukhumvit to Suvarnabhumi in 25 minutes going the 'southern' route past Klong Toei on the Chalerm Maha Nakhon elevated. The OP's 'scenic route' will have been the old Highway 3 (aka Sukhumvit) via Samut Prakan, Bang Pakong, Chonburi and Sri Racha. The newer, elevated part is called the Bang Na - Chonburi Expressway but before that was built it was all dual-carriageway at sea-level with awful hump-back bridges. A few years back, I decided to come back from Bangkok 'the old way' just for a change. That was nigh on 5 hours of my life I'll never get back.

I think the act of 'changing your car with your underwear' may be one of the facets of the good old days that this renewables craze is factoring to eliminate in their earth-saving mantra. I would imagine that they would aim for the same average churn of EV cars as in ICE world (say 8 years and/or 400,000 km) and then as prices align, ICE's are phased out and EV reliability and sustainability issues become known and manageable, people will be incentivized to keep an otherwise perfectly good 'motor' for longer. Anyone wishing to jump on this years model after maybe 3 years of current ownership may have some financial penalty added or maybe a half-sized battery so they don't tootle about so much and have to think more about their vehicle usage. Otherwise, it's still all hypothetical right now. Whatever MG, Toyota or Haval are quoting in the current EV market cannot realistically be taken as a point of reference moving forward.