msg362

it's definitely 10,000KM for CR-V in Thailand.

Many factors effect this - cost and inconvenience of servicing as noted by kartman, the quality of fuel available, the environmnental conditions the car is operated in, and the duration/coverage of the warranty offered - all of which differ market to market.

In Thailand, servicing is relatively cheap, so 10,000/6 Month intervals really only comes with the downside of some inconvenience.

I believe all LOS car suppliers have chosen 10k km. Inexpensive labour costs, the customers feel well taken care of by servicing often, and the land of silent recalls. Most markets have public recalls. In LOS its all quiet, and thus car checked every 6 months/10k km.

In addition the total lack of roadside assistance, yeah I know some offer 24hour roadside but it takes them 3-10 hours to arrive.

as its free for 60-100k km, why not?

I understand! but the physics/ engineering do not require it I think, it's more to do with marketing? My guess is the engine and transmission would not be damaged by going over the 10k mark, since I'm assuming the car is the same in the UK/ europe as in the LOS?

any comments/

( BTW when I buy one, I'll do the 10k Km thing, because as you say , not expensive)

In 2001 VW Scandinavia changed from 20k km servicing to Long Life 30k km servicing. It required a unique oil, especially for diesels and turbo petrols, only available from Mobil/Esso and VW.

Cars have different specs for different markets. I would think 20-30k km is no problem for LOS spec with good quality engine oil, but I prefere to pay 1.100 baht every 10k km.

Understand,and will do the same. Now all I have to do is find someone willing to sell me one ( see my other post!!)

I can't edit it!! I should have said 'buy' not 'but' There is no simple edit avaialble

I want to but a Honda CRV in Chiang Mai; there are several dealers. Cost around 1.2 million Baht ( cash!) There is a 3 month waiting list!

Having looked extensively on the web I've worked out that this should do the job- mostly town driving but with regular trips to Mae Hong Son, Pangmapha etc and a little off road in dry weather. OK So I ask for a test drive but it seems the whole of the north only has one test car which was in Lampang but seems now to be in Chiang Rai!!

OK I say so get it here- i want to drive it up Doi Suthep which locally is simliar to the 1095 road, I say I am 90% sure I will buy one and will pay cash if I am happy.

Sorry, you can only drive it around the town on the flat and- WAIT FOR IT!!!!!!

the manager does not like selling to farangs, they give him too much trouble!

I'm a Brit, imagine in the UK saying 'I don't want to sell to you because you are muslim/indian/ whatever' what might happen?

Is this why Thailand can't move on and up?

I'll not name the dealer, but just don't go towards Mae Rim! ( there were two farangs in that day- he's lost 2 sales!)

I'm going to try other dealers, but if necessary will go to BKK. If anyone has better thoughts let me know

TIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

it's definitely 10,000KM for CR-V in Thailand.

Many factors effect this - cost and inconvenience of servicing as noted by kartman, the quality of fuel available, the environmnental conditions the car is operated in, and the duration/coverage of the warranty offered - all of which differ market to market.

In Thailand, servicing is relatively cheap, so 10,000/6 Month intervals really only comes with the downside of some inconvenience.

I believe all LOS car suppliers have chosen 10k km. Inexpensive labour costs, the customers feel well taken care of by servicing often, and the land of silent recalls. Most markets have public recalls. In LOS its all quiet, and thus car checked every 6 months/10k km.

In addition the total lack of roadside assistance, yeah I know some offer 24hour roadside but it takes them 3-10 hours to arrive.

as its free for 60-100k km, why not?

I understand! but the physics/ engineering do not require it I think, it's more to do with marketing? My guess is the engine and transmission would not be damaged by going over the 10k mark, since I'm assuming the car is the same in the UK/ europe as in the LOS?

any comments/

( BTW when I buy one, I'll do the 10k Km thing, because as you say , not expensive)

One of our members just sold his 2005, same truck, less mileage for 530,000 bht in a week.

Thanks, very helpful

I would think with only 80,000 on the clock you will get 500,000 no problem, put it up for 550,000

I put an ad on Thaivisa on this site and messed up on detail price but told people over the phone it was 550, I got more than 9 calls there was a guy from Yorkshire looking for one in Phuket who was the second viewer but I have not kept his details.

If yours is top of the range as you say you should stick out for a good price there is very few for sale with low mileage, I would say yours is low mileage.

Regards K

Thanks, very helpful

I'm thinking of buying a Honda CRV 2.0 litre. I'm told the service interval ( here in CM) is 10K km. Yet the same car in the UK says 12.5k MILES- about 19k Km. They say too there is a service indicator.

The Canadian site says -12k Km!!!

What is the postion? is there a service indicator on Thai CRVs? what is the reasonable service interva?l. Why should it be different from country to country?

Any thoughts welcome

One of our members just sold his 2005, same truck, less mileage for 530,000 bht in a week.

Thanks, very helpful

How did you work out 900thou. 4 year's ago a 3L 4d 4x4 was 800thou 2.5L 735thou that's what is was when I got mine. Sorry that was for manual but still not 900thou

Not 2.5, 3.0 and I really can't remember the exact price (and auto not manual)

2 door or 4 door? How many clicks on the clock?

Dependant on these things, and the condition, i'd say anywhere from 550 to 650k.

4 door, 80,000 Km

I'm thinking of selling my black Toyota 3 litre automatic 4 WD Vigo. 5 years old, serviced always in Nyompanich Toyota in Chiang Mai, some 1st class insurance left. Cost ? 900,000. works fine but too big in the city,I don't go up to the mountains as much so don't need it and am thinking of changing to a CRV. would consider a swap.

But please advise on a fair price.

If you are looking for laser engraving there is a trophy shop on the Chiangmai-Lamphun Road between the Sheraton and the Foreign Cemetery that does it. They call themselves A Prime Awards and the address is on their website. Have had some trophies done there and it has been of good quality, maybe helpful to take a Thai speaker with you if the work you want done is a bit intricate though.

Great, Thanks,

I only want my name engraved so I'll cope I think . I know where you mean

Cheers

Hi,

does anyone know where i might get engraving done? ( I live in Sankamphaeng)

In town there are many places to get stamps made but none seem to do engraving. My Thai is not good enough to get much further although i've been sent to many shops by local traders

any help appreciated

Perhaps i was not clear enough, a bird can be contaminated with the H5N1 virus, when you touch the bird you can be contaminated by inhale the virus, not by eating it.

but if your hands are contaminated from the bird poo there is a serious risk that you will transfer it to your mouth. The airborne route is the most obvious,and inhalation of dried faeces particles is possible, but hand to mouth contamination exists to, do not dismiss it

I do not dismiss anything. Hand to mouth contamination has only to do with inhaling. You cannot get H5N1 by eating. There is so much panic about this but the people who died from this disease had very intensive contact with birds. One people cannot even contaminate another.

Not suggesting you get it from eating, but how do you know for sure? but by transfer to your nose!/ onto a handkerchief

moral, don't pick your nose after handling chickens

Apologies, I should have said more in the first post, mouth/ nose handkerchief, I agree, ingestion is not the normal route of infection for human 'flu, but since it appears in chickens in the gut in chicken 'flu how do we know that it can't infect that way in humans. No studies yet?

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Perhaps i was not clear enough, a bird can be contaminated with the H5N1 virus, when you touch the bird you can be contaminated by inhale the virus, not by eating it.

Not really - no one is sure about how it is transfered between birds and human (blood spray is most likely - or eating with faeces covered hands) - if it was an air-bourne transfer there certainly would be a greater infection rate than there was (infact I don't think there were any cases of transfer in H5N1 - though there were in H1N1).

Most scientists seem to think it is very rare and would take a weak immune system for initial transfer - or an awful lot of contact. AFIK there have been no cvonfirmed repoerts of it spreading person to person follwing and infection - it was by and large a huge world panic over something less dangerous than walking to the shops or visit a hospital as an out-patient or visitor, as it turned out.

Don't mean to be arguementative, but panic is often far worse than the threat - and the internet is full of guess work and BS that cause such panic m(especially when the gutter press get their hands on it!)

I agree,

Form what I now the few cases a while ago involved people sitting down and plucking and cleaning infected chickens. In those circumstances very high doses of every sort and every route of infection were possible. As you say, person to person infectionihas not yet been seen I think and unless you have a compromised immune system, the risk is low. In any event, the mortality is around 4%, not really different from 'normal' flu.

Moral: stay away from wobbly looking chickens!, be careful crossing the street and wear a crash helmet when riding your motorbike.

Perhaps i was not clear enough, a bird can be contaminated with the H5N1 virus, when you touch the bird you can be contaminated by inhale the virus, not by eating it.

but if your hands are contaminated from the bird poo there is a serious risk that you will transfer it to your mouth. The airborne route is the most obvious,and inhalation of dried faeces particles is possible, but hand to mouth contamination exists to, do not dismiss it

if bought thru a regulated commercial outlet like Tops etc then probably minimal low risk.

it's the little mom and pop operations out in the country that might have evaded regulation.

In general Thailand is pretty good at monitoring and responding to food safety issues.

The outbreak that has occurred near BKK is nowhere close to CM and I doubt there is a lot of chance of it traveling a 1000 km's and getting into your eggs before the alarm is sounded here and that probability would be pretty slim at best.

A lot more risk riding your motor bike or crossing the street in CM.

but the risks are additive!!! ride your bike, risk 1, eat bird flu infected eggs ( small) risk 2 hoot at another motorist and get shot at, risk 3 They all add up!!!!!!!!

Moral- don't drive your bike, hoot and eat eggs from infected chickens!!!!!!!!

just press F6 and type it ... the Search WILL find it .. unless you have changed settings (settings you not even have on windows)

if you search it in the finder ... the search can be limited to the area where you are at the moment (stis is indicated by extra buttons along the search bar)

btw. why you not browse to the location the Virus scanner tell you the file is ?

Why have you bothered to install a virus scanner?

Isn't there a thread in the Thailand news section on Bird Flu making a comeback here? I would avoid eating them raw at the moment.

Why/how would bird flu transfer to an egg? It's flu, remember.

I may well be wrong, but I think I recall that a virologist friend of mine told me that bird flu in chickens is found in faeces. This would mean that the shell of the egg might well be contaminated. Transmitted to your hand then whatever. Not sure of the survival time of flu virus in a dry state, but there is a possible risk I think

Hi- thanks for the reply. You are right that a good photography setup would probably deliver the best images. However, we are looking for a semi-permanent solution, since the fabric output and patterns do change constantly. Also want it as simple as possible for "factory employees" who are not photographers! If they could slide a bolt of cloth into the scanner and get consistent good images easily would be ideal.

Simple, You can't possibly expect 'factory employees' who are not photographers to do this. I imagine there is a lot invested in this project. If you really want to represent your silks properly you simply have to pay for a competent photographer. I suspect there are lots of really good farang photographers living here who would do it at a reasonable price

It would be illegal for an expat to earn money from photography.

Sorry ,really meant to say 'Thai'

Hi- thanks for the reply. You are right that a good photography setup would probably deliver the best images. However, we are looking for a semi-permanent solution, since the fabric output and patterns do change constantly. Also want it as simple as possible for "factory employees" who are not photographers! If they could slide a bolt of cloth into the scanner and get consistent good images easily would be ideal.

Simple, You can't possibly expect 'factory employees' who are not photographers to do this. I imagine there is a lot invested in this project. If you really want to represent your silks properly you simply have to pay for a competent photographer. I suspect there are lots of really good farang photographers living here who would do it at a reasonable price

The 6Mb Jetpack package is only 512kb upload. Starting at 9Mb the upload goes to 1Mb. See TOT link: http://www.tot.co.th...id=1067〈=en. If you are getting a faster upload modem sync speed TOT probably set it up wrong (I wouldn't say anything) or you are getting an inaccurate upload reading.

Regarding the variations in speed, it's probably just bandwidth bottlenecks/overload at certain points along the way from Thailand to the YouTube server and it can vary throughout the day and week. Expect most of the bandwidth bottlenecks/overload are in Thailand and some of them could be your "local area" circuits where the next guy on the same 6Mb plan not to far away may be on different local circuits (DSLAM bank, central office, etc) and have good download or upload speeds. This applies to all Thailand ISPs, although some are better than others. I'm on the TOT 6Mb plan here in western Bangkok and see speed variations all the time...morning is usually the fastest time and the late evening/early night the slowest time for me...but the download and upload speeds are still fairly good....more than adequate for general browsing, emailing, and using a download manager for file downloads I usually get in the 3 to 4Mb range. But with video streaming I get a lot of pausing. Good/fast internet in Thailand is very territorial....Location, Location, Location.

I'm paying extra for the 1 Mb to upload video, Here in San Kampheng I get 6 Mb down and 1 Mb up for 890 Baht ( Nominal!!). Like you, I try to work early in the morning, but last night it was really very bad.

I have a 6 Mb down/ 1 Mb up NOMINAL from TOT, no choice where I live to use other providers.

I was uploading a 178 Mb file to You Tube at 5.10 pm. The first 47% went up in about 14 minutes, manageable , and it indicated that it would take about 15 minutes to upload the rest. At about 5.30 everything ground to a halt and You Tube indicated 35 minutes. Then it stopped for a while, no activity from the modem internet light. At about 5.55 pm it all speeded up again and the remainder ( about 50%) downloaded in about 10 minutes

I've no idea what is going on, does anyone?

The mighty Toyota

http://www.dailymail...leak-fault.html

What does this have to do with Fortuners and Vigos? I'm sure we all read about the Toyota recalls in the States, old news.

This also happens with cheap 'Kingston' SD cards, I bought 2 on Ebay, 32GB class 6 for £12 each , a 'bargain'. They were not recognised by my two Panasonic cameras ( for video) but seemed to work as SD cards on the iMac to start with. NO!!!!!!! they corrupted large files and I've thrown them away! Not again. For me Transcend 16GB from Amazon work just fine.