Spoonman

Work socks, nice thick woolly ones.

If you drive too long in deep water there is a chance that you ECU (engine control unit) gets wet and will short out. If this happens, you need a new ECU. This is expensive.

Considering the ECU is cabin mounted on 99% of cars if it gets wet thats the least of your problems.

Last week the EPZ 2 @ Laem Chabang was well flooded, water would have been atleast 2 foot deep, my Honda city made it thru although i was driving in 1st gear with the foot on the brake pedal and the accelerator buried to the floor.

So im gunna say 2 foot is too deep, 1 foot maybe for a small sedan but defo not 2.

If your in a new age Mini, 6 inches is the maximum as the air intake will get flooded in water deeper than this.

Assuming the local place can carry out any necessary repairs and servicing, is there any benefit to buying from a main dealer? Price is the same.

You will probably get better service at the "local place", I Took my 1 yr old Click into Mityon (pattaya) for its 1000km service, al seemed fine and off i went, parked it up for the night at home only to come out the next morning to find a massive pool of oil on the ground, seems they forgot to tighten the sump plug, happy days riding along with oil dripping onto the ground in front of the rear wheel, NOT.

It now gets serviced at "the local place".

I presume you mean the annual road tax? You need the car registration book, the old tax, your compulsory insurance certificate and that is it, I believe (but cannot confirm) that there is a fine for any unpaid tax that was due.

Road tax ??? nah, drivers licence.

I assume due to the length of time since it expired i will need to jump though all the hoops to renew, whats actually involved, i dont have an International Driving Permit but my Aus licence is still valid.

Paperwork, medical cert, copy of visa, copy of work permit, what else is required, do i need a residency cert from Immigration or does my work permit cover this one.

2) Man, its hot. 2 hours hard work and you will realise why thai builders work so slowly. Westerners find it difficult to do manual labour in thailand, leave it to the locals.

You work an office job dont ya......Im a "farang" i do manual labour every day, 10hrs a day 5 days a week, i pull a "western" salary though.

My subscription is due for renewal ( i prepaid 6 months) they just rock up to the door expecting me to hand over cash, they wont leave me a bill so that i can go into the office and pay, whats the go with that shit.

easily purchased in Pattaya, i have more than a dozen in various different forms.

Hard to see on what grounds he'd be "booted out" of Thailand.

Rumour mill and all..............

care to elaborate?

well if bittmaker dude who was on the production team i would also assume is friends with howard says the rumour is false then the answer has been givin and there is no need for elaboration on my behalf, hel_l all these wanna be journo's/plastic police etc etc, they dont tell fibs now do they.

Hard to see on what grounds he'd be "booted out" of Thailand.

Rumour mill and all..............

Howard get booted out of Thailand ??

Whats there, want something semi decent for a week in December, done the village 6 times now, this time nah, i want AC and internet and hot showers and no bugs in bed and and farang food and and and and and well yeah, lol

Anyone got any recommendations. not staying in the Village again)....

Gold shop in Soi Rungland Pattaya always seems to give a better rate than banks.

Yeah i pass that billboard daily, i chuckle.

last time i was there i blew 72,000 in 3 days, prolly didnt help on the 3rd day i woke up in my hotel, naked on the floor at 10am with zero recollection of how i got there, would like to meet up with the lady from Orchard towers who obviously brought me home and had the for thought to place my phones sim card on the desk, she must have grabbed it out when my phone was being stolen, god bless her.

And if your Phone does not have blue tooth use the cable it was supplied with to conect to your laptop.

you are gunna lap the cpu aint ya..... as for 100% cleaning alcohol, most pharmacies sell it dont they, if your stuck i have some acetone, it works well.

Whilst laptop HDD's are relatively easy to swap out, i cant imagine there would be one available that would be so drastically cheaper to warrant this practice to sell the laptop cheaper, surely there could not be more than a couple of hundred baht difference in OEM HDD's could there.

Is it possible to find out what brand this supposed "new" HDD is, most acers ive opened up all had Hitachi Hdd's installed.

Was in Tukom today to buy* a CM V8, they had them in 775 and 1366 but not the 1156, i did spy a thermalrite Ultra 120 for the 1156 though.

*ended up with a thermaltake PW850i pro water instead lol.

How about a Suzuki Hayate, 125cc automatic, goes real real well (carries my 120kg along suk road @100km/h comfortably), gets decent fuel economy and has huge under seat storage.

my reporting gets done in BKK (i think) and ive never been asked to supply any additional paperwork, i simply fill out the tm47 and off she goes with my passport with the little lady from the HR dept.

You landed @ swampy on the 6th sept ??

True are now offering decnt internet packages arent they ??

need to head down to grab some gear not available in Pattaya, whats the easiest route from Pattaya, prefer using the motorway as i get lost once in BKK using any other route.