josephbloggs

Still banging on about that? Did your boyfriend run away with someone who drives an MG? Did you lose a drag race to one in your crappy Transam? Something triggers you about MGs specifically. Have you spoken to anyone about this? There is help available. #prayfortransam

What an odd question. People sell ICEVs too to trade up for a new model. Does that mean ICEVS aren't any good?

Oh my word, there is so much wrong in this post I don't know where to start, EVs are more expensive than ICEVs? Really? And EVs are more expensive and complicated to maintain? Really? Do you understand what an EV is and how it works? COnversely do you understand what an ICEV is an how it works and how often they need servicing?

JB has already beat me to it, but it is an EV, hence it drives like an EV, hence people loving them. EVs are fantastic to drive - I believe that might have been mentioned once or twice. If all CS suddenly closed EV owners would be a bit screwed but not really. They can still charge at home giving them a range of 400-500kms depending. They can also plug their car into any domestic power socket anywhere for what they call granny charging. In short they can still get around. How many people have Hydrogen filling stations at home?

Just a friendly tip - your posts would be much easier to read if you used paragraphs / line breaks. They are just walls of texts which makes them hard to read.

Just reporting back that my TM30 submission is confirmed. Once I got over the initial registration process problem that drove me to post here for help (not giving the documents a name in the boxes) the rest was surprisingly easy. Easy to complete the registration of the house owner (my wife), and then easy to submit a TM30. I didn't receive a confirmation by email as others say they did, but easy to extract a PDF from the site that I can print and bring along when I do my extension. Well done Thai immigration, it works pretty well.

Elon Musk posted this on Twitter / X this morning. Absolutely shockingly misleading! They are close to $40k - you can't include petrol savings in the list price (with small print)!! And the petrol savings are over what timespan? I generally like Elon for his achievements and vision, although dislike his ring wing nonsense. But this just seems desperate and is really shady. Imagine a train company saying London to Liverpool is £40 (rather than the £100 it actually is) because you are saving the £60 you'd have to spend on petrol if you were to drive. Tesla must be seriously hurting, and stunts like this diminish their credibility.

Your last sentence is nonsense. EV owners prefer them over ICEs because they are far superior in nearly every respect: performance, comfort, technology, simplicity and running costs. That is the only reason they prefer them. If something better came along (like what?) I don't see any EV owner sticking with EVs. But what else is coming along that can compete? It's certainly not hydrogen. I came across this article today, Oh dear. Class action lawsuits pending against Toyota by people sucked in by their hydrogen misinformation. https://insideevs.com/news/708375/toyota-mirai-hydrogen-stations-close/#:~:text=Several owners have gone as,50 miles just to refuel.

Just converted the 2023 version to a jpeg so it'll show in the thread.

https://sea.mashable.com/transportation/32197/the-cybertrucks-failure-is-now-complete

No problem buying American products? American / Western propaganda works, you are a walking talking example. Sad really.

Not surprising really, they are now up against serious competition from manufactures offering much better products. Whenever I get round to buying my next car it will definitely be an EV but I wouldn't consider a Tesla for a minute - they are just not as good as their rivals.

No, PDFs are fine. Hou'll see from my follow ups I found where I was going wrong and it worked.

As I have just done this for our house in my wife's name, we just needed ID card and blue book (tabien bahn). So I imagine it would be the same for you. You need to upload these during the initial registration stage (see my posts above). Once your property is registered to be somewhere that can receive foreign "guests" you can then move on to the actual filing of a TM30 for yourself.

That I don't know about but I am sure you have examples? However you were specifically talking about food and drink, I should have quoted your full post: "She couldn't believe the prices charged for even basic Thai meals and water! I hesitate to think what the "farang" prices are!"

They're exactly the same.

Do you think Gabriel Brindusescu decided to research and do an article on solid state technology, he independently contacted Toyota for information, dug in on their research, weighed it up and wrote an article? Or did Toyota release a PR piece which he lapped up and reworded? You do know how the press works, right? Most of these publications are fed press releases. Oh, and by the way, Autoevolution gives his bio: "When it comes to car preferences, he will tell you that classic cars are the best, especially old American muscle. There are few modern day cars that get him really excited, and don’t ever dare to ask him about hybrids or EVs if you don’t want to see him mad excited." It's not you is it??

Thanks. Actually that didn't work but you did steer my attention in the right direction. I needed to give both documents a name by typing in these boxes. Seems to have worked now. Woo hoo!! Thanks for the help!

I am registering my wife (Thai) as the owner of the house. I assumed my documents will go in the next stage when she does the actual TM30 - this is just registering an account on the system. Unless I'm wrong?

Thanks, but yeah, all are below 2mb.

Ok, thanks, so a glimer of hope is out there. Otherwise it is a trip to CW on Monday which I'd rather avoid.

Thanks. So that means you did somehow get it working eventually?

Hi all, I have searched the forums and read many TM30 threads but am stuck. I arrived in Thailand on a 90 day non O and plan to do a 12 month extension of stay at CW in a couple of months. I live in Bangkok with my wife and kids in a house in my wife's name. I am trying to register her on here - https://tm30.immigration.go.th/tm30/#/external/security/register/reg-web - so she can file a TM30. I fill it out, I've uploaded her ID and tabien bahn but get an error that says "no data or insufficient data" when I try to register. Maybe it needs more documents as it looks like they expect three but I don't understand exactly what they mean. What should there be? There is no business license or lease agreement as this is our house. Any suggestions? Many thanks.

Yeah, I don't understand it either, but it is credit cards only, no debit cards. They also accept True Money, Ali Pay and a couple of others, but no Thai QR code scans, no debit cards. It's the only annoying thing about 7.

Thai 7-Elevens are fantastic. The product lines keep expanding and you can get some seriously nice stuff in there these days. The stores are all clean, well stocked, and the staff must be the best trained in Thailand. Viva la 7!! They have come such a long way in the last 15 years or so. My only gripe is the lack of payment options: no debit cards, no banking app QR scan payments; 7-Elevens are the only reason I carry cash these days and it is a bit annoying.