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i think everybody is going a bit overboard on this, unless we're all driving lamborghinis at the limit of their performance all the time and my guess is that we're not. Gasohol standard is E10, meaning 10% ethanol in the mix. from engineering perspective, you'd need to feed a bit more fuel to the engine (3%) to make sure the car wont run to lean. Most electronic ecu will handle that margin easily. I'm not mentioning carburettors for cars since that's antique. In case of stationary engines, they are per definition not performance engines and designed to run on crap, no trouble there.

Then the so called erosion; alcohol/ethanol has a cleaning and degreasing effect, so has regular fuel, no issue with that. The only problem might be that if you switch you'll loosen lots of dirt and crap in the fuel system due to the cleaning effects and that might initially cause some issues, but nothing that a good fuel filter and replacement cant handle.

that leaves the rubber hoses and some of the seals/gaskets in older vehicles (mainly before 1997 so thats 15 years old) being sensitive or not able to withstand the ethanol. you either replace these with modern materials or you just see what happens.

I honestly dont think its as big a deal as people make out of it.

Collectors cars and high performance cars; for collectors cars or classics, you can just order special fuels, 100 octane avgas with lead or 98 octane or 102 octane race fuels, yes i know more expensive but if you collect multi million baht classics, 80 baht a liter shouldn't be a problem.

For the rest, just don't bother.

Hak

I ran my 993 on gasohol 95 which is a 15 year old, no issues except initial fouling of fuel system when the ethanol cleans the the dirt out. All the later supercars in Thailand use Shell V-power gasohol 95, the ecu will adjust fuel and ignition to avoid detonation and lean running with the effect being that they will probably not be able to generate their peak power and torque figures as advertised, but you must be a big boy to notice that in 400hp over machines. It hardly affects the red light drag race. Once you're on track things change and you want to maximize performance and therefore buy the right fuels.

As with many things, if you want to extract the last bit of performance, sure it matters, if you drive your camry automatic through bangkok it really isn't relevant. Even if you cruise your Ferrari 458 you wont miss the last 25 hp.

and i do agree that technically there are disadvantages using this fuel in cars not build for it, but the same goes for lpg and ngv etc and nobody bothers about that. Just want to put the perspective....

OK so for most of us no problem but what about the quite large number of super cars that I see in Pattaya during the weekend, 99% coming from BKK, I don't think they have enough fuel onboard to go BKK-Patt-BKK and parading their cars on Beach Road as well.

Amazing Thailand.

As the US was one of the first countries to introduce a decimal currency, I cannot understand their resistance to the metric system.

Yeah, their guns are all in mm.

Like a .45 eh? Or .38 special or Ma deuce?

Wos ''gramma'' guv. ?

My wife was a prison guard that brought me my gruel twice a day, which l lapped up.

She thought, hmmmmm, this guy will be cheap to keep and feed, the rest is history. .........

Foolish assumptions, she's laying next to me in bed right now and never left me for a thai guy, I have another GF down south waiting for me so I'm trying to let this one go for one of you fellaz, I hope she isnt too heartbroken!

Plenty of men in Thailand that shouldnt have trusted in their girlfriends/wives mainly because they were naive idiots that let their small head do the thinking. You wont hear many success stories on this forum as its a place for old farts to vent their spleen. If you are 50 and marry a 22 year old chances are the relationship is not built on anything more than a sad gullible old mans last stand, and a conniving little crumpets greed. In this case buying a house in the other halfs name would not be recommended...and yet you hear the same stories again and again. They will be on here soon enough, telling all and sundry that all Thai women are money grubbing whores, that you cant trust any of them...you read it on here all the time.

Anyway on a more positive note. There are decent women in any country( along with a smaller pool of bad ones with a steady supply of idiots to prey on). I trust my wife and her family as much as I would if she were born in my own country, its no different. I choose to associate with decent people, I have a good bullshit detector. If you are a naive that goes there to find love in a bar then you reap what you sow.

Why, your attitude. You think your no.1, NOBODY, farang, is no.1

A paranoid and personal view!

People who offer to manage your money are only out to make money. They are very adept at persuading you that the process of caring for your money is very complex and reliant on concepts and principals you wouldn't understand. They offer reassurance in the form of expensive suits and Mercs and they sometimes have names like Justin St Paul. They are usually very good at explaining the factors that caused your investments to fail.

Most private sector pension schemes are a rip off and nothing more than a gravy train for an army of lawyers,auditors,investments managers and accountants.

If you want to be sure that your money is safe and won't run out, you have to learn to manage it yourself !

After the most recent financial recent financial crash, how many experts crawled out of the woodwork to offer their expert and learned opinion on why it occurred !

If there was all that wisdom around why did it happen ? Because the only thing most of them know about is looking good in a suit and cheating people out of their money !

My little rave is over!

So true. Luckily, I came to that conclusion many years ago. Don't have a personal pension, but have plenty of investments doing much better that other people's pension funds. Plus I have access to the cash if I want it. What the point of a large retirement pot if you can't access most of the money. Another plus - no-one is taking commission from my investments. On the downside, I didn't get tax relief. But I still prefer it my way.

Thailands dumbest criminals

Whats ''roving''. ?

To me, writing RIP is really just

Post count +1

No sentiment expressed or effort expended. Quite similar to if you just post "lol", or "Happy Birthday"

Posts like this have no sincerity and are just automated replies, with neither the brain or heart even activating, let alone contributing to the thread

Personally, I think that it's almost verging on insulting that someone offers such little effort when someone has just died. Better to post a full sentence or nothing at all imo.

Do you know what many floral tributes at a funeral have written on them.

R.I.P......... which you probably don't know means ''Rest In Piece''.

This is for you stepaholics, but the ''off spring'' won't be there.

Just another populist policy to get car sales up, and choke up the rest of the roads.

We have been shopping around for a new vehicle but have been informed that there is a 12 month delivery time. Order your vehicle, pay the deposit and by the time you get it in 12 months time, it's last years model. We have decided to wait until all this is over. Hey I think there will be a hell of a lot of repossession vehicles floating around in 12 months time and used cars might go for a bargain.

Costs me nothing now, I had a Stifferectamy procedure done. ...........................

seriously a lot of you blokes that are posting here really need to have a long hard look at yourselves, The complete insensitivity and lack of empathy displayed by many symbolises a complete disconnect with the real world. I doubt many of you have any tangible real world relationships with family or friends. Oswald was a much loved man and you are tarnishing his reputation. I suggest you set up your own thread somewhere and compare how empty your lives are.

Hey, all of us are sorry about Oswald. I'm sure he was a lovely bloke.

Don't be offended, though, if the discussion moves beyond memorializing and into an examination of violence in Thailand in general. This is, after all, a discussion board.

I am still pissed off at the photo.

Your lucky. Some of the cricket fraternity & a work colleague had to identify the body.

I'll ask my grandfather.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaH, yes, hmmmmmmmmmm, fond memories for me about two life times ago.

Didn't know that stuff went on in discos before the War.

Learn something new every day.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaH, yes, hmmmmmmmmmm, fond memories for me about two life times ago.

"people driving on the wrong side of the road, without lights, without drivers license, without helmet, police collecting money like buying eggs at the market from the above motorbike drivers."

These are the reasons I love Thailand; the fact you can pretty much do what you want. Many people are tired of the 'Nanny State', I'm a libertarian, it's innate within me. Try living in Europe for 365 days!!

I look over, point at her bottom, then wave my hand under my nose for the internationally understood language of 'smelly'.

What a charmer you are. Such a way with words and suave as well.

Thanks.

I always did do well on the dance floor.

A lesson for all reading here. Switch OFF the main breaker before doing ANY electrical stuff here, no matter how small or big the appliance.

RIP brother. Trans

You are right, of course. But doing that is not foolproof. Not here. The main switch may have been overridden by one of the qualified technicians claiming to be electricians. I have seen it.

Hmmmm, drag racer, nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

Girly racer yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees.

Firefox. USA spell check . BUT, l have to fix USA English spelling on some stuff.

You mean, re-learn the correct spelling from the USA English?

A lesson for all reading here. Switch OFF the main breaker before doing ANY electrical stuff here, no matter how small or big the appliance.

RIP brother. Trans

A lesson from the OP, is to

He was warned by his wife not to enter and wait for a qualified technician to arrive.

Rest in Peace Mr. Timothy Jackson

Win

This isn't shocking news with the quality of some of the electrics in these places.

RIP.

Well, it is "shocking" in the sense that this poor man was electrocuted to death. Working with electricity without the proper knowledge or safety equipment can have deadly consequences! Most of the "electricians" here lack proper training, or simply don't care enough to do a safe and proper job. You can't be too cautious when dealing with electricity!

How to you know that MOST electricians here lack proper training or don't care. Are you making this up or do you have real evidence. If you have real evidence, then please share. Otherwise, don't make comments that you can't back up. I've used electricians twice here and they both knew what they were doing. Both very professional.

Many farang do not understand the ins and outs of electricity so please don't slag off others for lack of knowledge of a trade.

So you lot, DON'T mess with us eh.