bkkdawg

She won't get the death penalty as long as she pleads guilty, her sentence will be comuted to life in the Hilton. I'm not sure which one I'd rather have thou to be honest. Very stupid indeed...

Good luck with it, but i cant see it making an awful lot of difference. Too little too late..

Hi All,

I had a locksmith come over yesterday afternoon, and after 2 and a half hours of filing and measuring, or whatever he was doing, I have a new key that fits every lock on the bike perfectly! Cost me 800 Baht, which is a fraction of the cost of a new key set.

So, we'll see how it goes, but so far so good. Thank you all for very helpful info...

Cheers

Thankyou everyone for your help. I think I'm going to go with the locksmith idea first as I dont fancy paying 2650 Baht for a new key set.

Cheers

a competent locksmith can make you a key without the original key....it's known as 'key' impressioning, where they look at the marks the tumbler pins make on a blank key, and can devise the the ridge heights on the missing key.

My friend also lost his CBR key and the locksmith used impressioning to make a new key.

Any chance this locksmith is in bkk? If so do u have his contact details. Thanks

a competent locksmith can make you a key without the original key....it's known as 'key' impressioning, where they look at the marks the tumbler pins make on a blank key, and can devise the the ridge heights on the missing key.

My friend also lost his CBR key and the locksmith used impressioning to make a new key.

You'v been watching to many films. The pins leave no marks on a blank and how would you know the depth measurement of each pin travel. The barrel has to be dismantalled to find the depths but a run of the mill barrel, just stick a new one in, cheaper.

BUT, a Thai might spend two days fiddling with a file to make a key your way for a nice little earner but in the real world, doesn't work like that.

OP, new barrel at Main Dealer. Cheap and "NO" future headaches.

hi

Ive just been down to the bike shop at Ratchayothin, I think it's some sort of Honda Dealership as they're all wearing Honda jackets. They just quoted me 2650 Baht for a new key set! Any ideas where I might find a better price as another poster mentioned only paying 800 Baht.

Cheers

I had my Cbr locks changed for 800b all in. Most motosi repair shops can do it. just find the closest one you can push ya bike to.

Thx

By motosi you mean any normal bike shop on the street ?

Hi all,

I lost my only key for my Honda CBR 150. I have read some other motorcycling forums, and some people are saying they've had a new key made by a locksmith. Does anyone know of a Mobile Locksmith in Bangkok who carries out this kind of work? Any info would be appreciated.

Cheers

the OP was as unprecise as possible. "2 aircons" (no size given), "run 2 a day 1 at night" how many hours is an "OP day"? hypothetically he could have run up a rather high bill with old aircons (assuming each 18,000 btu/h), 2 running 16 hours/day and 1 running 8 hours/night at lowest temperature setting day and night.

a rough calculation, worst case scenario, looks like this:

40 hours/day each hour 2kWh x 30 days x 3.8 = ~ 9,000 Baht. add other consuming electric equipment 2,000 Baht = 11,000 Baht a month but nowhere near 19,000 Baht.

No chance, more like 6-7000 maxx

Mate, you are being absolutely done.

It sounds to me that your condo building are adding about 15 baht to your price per unit. I live in Supalai Park Pahon yothin and use about the same as you;

I have a flat screen TV thats on all evening; 2 computers; and 1-3 aircons running at certain times during the day and night(trying to take it easy as the aircon is what cains the most electric). My bill has never been over 4000 Baht, and I think it's 4-6 Baht per unit.

I can remeber last year when I was looking into moving to Sathon part of town. I visited a few of the newish condo's in the area, looked at the small print and some of them were charging 15-25 Baht per unit, most of which will be going into the landlords and the building owners pocket.

I would double check what you are paying per unit, because it's impossible that your bill should be this much. It should be about a fifth of that.

Hope you get to the bottom of this.

Dawg

These are brilliant mate! Get some more up! Amazing to see what BKK used to be like.

A good start would be to introduce a congestion charge within the most congested parts of the city; i.e Silom, Sukhumvit areas, and to push on with the new BTS and MRT lines. Also, as in Singapore limit the amount of new cars allowed on the roads (easier said than done in Bangkok as we all know how much Thai's want to show off their newly aquired vehicles). 52,000 new cars on the road every month!? This just cant carry on or the whole city will be totally grid locked in a couple of years time, not that it isn't far off it now.

I hope Mr. Sukhumband can deliver at leat some of what he is proposing, as the past Mayor's have done very little if nothing at all to eleviate the traffic problems in this city.

Of course I wouldv'e taken it. But, I wouldn't of been so stupid as to go back to the U.K.

Let's hope the shit doesn't hit the fan

I don't think he'll be departing or arriving anywhere for at least 20 years. More like checking in... to the Bangkok Hilton! F&^king Idiot! Must be getting a bit crouded in there by now!

Thai's are just soo ignorant at times! No manners, whatsoever!

Excuse me? Did you say Thais are so ignorant and no manners? I'm not Thai but I call your comment foul, uncalled-for. For all I know Thais relatively polite people, wherever you go, inside the train, in the bus, everywhere, with few exceptions like this train incident where you based your inappropriate comment.

How long have you been here mate? 2 weeks?? Time will see you change your opinion on that especially in bkk.

I totally aggree with you mate! I too have to do this visa run every 3 months or so, and I also look forward to it. I live in BKK and it's a nice change for a few days... good food, nice hotels, and of course the women are nice and white skinned too!!!

Happy we have central heating.

And we have solar waterheating

woooooooooooooooooooow

I have been here since 2004 and back then I'd buy the BKK Post almost every day. It was maybe worth the 20 baht back then, but to be honest I'd rather keep the 30 baht in my pocket these days that there now asking for it. Waste of money and none of the real Thai news that is in the Thai papers (lets not let the farangs know whats really going on). Also, the classifieds section seems like it is just copied from the day before, so I'm not surprised no one is buying it.

Dawg

Two more checking in to the Bangkok Hilton.... hope they enjoy their stay! When will these f' kin idiots learn?

"produce" as they were things.

what about "train", "educate" ?

Yea, what do they do ? Plant them and wait for them to mature into teachers'?

Bangkok is big enough for 2 airports and there is nothing wrong with Don Muang. For me to take a domestic flight out of Suvhanabhumi is a pain in the a&*e when Don Muang is 80 baht up the road. Keep DM open <deleted>!

I know a really nice nursery/kindergarten on sathorn soi 1. I believe it's called Thienprasit or something like that. I worked there for 6 months and would recommmend it. They do accept that age group too. Go down soi 1 and its the first soi on the right, and all the way to the end.

Cheers

Thats not that cheap to be honest it's still 500 quid. I reckon you could get a better deal at the Indian place on ko san rd...

Something just doesn't ring true with this report...

Seconded. Sounds rather far fetched to me.