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Has any of the above changed in the last 3 years? Can you use TRUE more than 7kms out of the city? Does anyone know the procedure for 3BB - I've been in to the office and they said there aren't any 'connections' near my house but I could pay for it to be installed....obviously, this being Thailand there was no idea of cost or time frames involved.

I'm gonna refuse to pay this month's TOT bill as I'm paying for a service I'm simply not getting.

[sent from a cafe nearby]...............

Thanks for the reply Moon River. I'll try and get over to the SuperHighway then that sounds good!

Sorry to drag this up from the depths, but is the Aikido class still going on? I hold a green belt in Aikido but have missed a few years and am dying to get back into it. Prices, times and dates would be great? Also, where exactly is the uni, I live out in the sticks so I'm not too familiar with the city center.

It can be anywhere in Thailand, I have some contacts dotted around the whole country which could collect and send on.

I'm after a D17 crank from a Honda Civic/City 2001-2005, does anyone know where I could get one? As far as I can see (here in CM) there aren't really any breakers yards and if there are, they just rebuild totalled cars/trucks and (scarily) put them back on the road.

I'm not going to Honda direct as I want to keep both kidneys, any ideas?

I imagine C/C is cruise control, so you can nod off to sleep on those long journeys.

(Transam - what is it with these newbies coming on here and spouting some 'tosh' about 4x4s !!! )

The black car is a Peugeot 106.

The red one is the notoriously brittle Ford Escort Mk5 Similar to this :

The swage line, the 4 stud wheels and whole there the fuel cap used to be gives it away.

My 2 cents

Nice post Andreas84!! I found some goat's whey yesterday at Rimping so I'm gonna start stocking up.

Haven't tried this yet but.... http://www.ehow.com/how_5390718_make-wifi-booster.html

I'm not sure how helpful this is to anyone, but I have a SoildWorks program which I could copy if needs be.

KRS1 - could you report back with your findings ? This could be a handy place in CM

Hi John - Actually I meant I have a motorbike, not a push bike

I also have two dogs, one sits on the back of the bike and the other on the front. Obviously I don't take them far or go 'flatout'. Shopping is a cinch on a bike, going out is easier than taking the car. I can park it almost anywhere, I shave my hair off so no helmet hair to worry about.

My point was that people who have pick ups don't need them. If I was an environmental geek (which I'm not) they are a problem. Fair enough the guy who has large dogs uses the back of his truck to some good use. I just don't like them, they are (in my opinion...!!!) a waste of space. Like I said, if you use one for picking up huge items every week/month, run a business which needs lots of stock or have an enormous extended family they are great. But, in Thailand (and everywhere else) the owners very rarely use them for what they are designed for. People even see them as being a status symbol, yet all I see is people struggling to park, nearly collect all of the motorbike users on the roads and have to do 32 point turns in a street.

Anyway, enough of that.

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TransAm - heehee yes I'm a plonker too AND I've just helped some people on another thread

I've just set one up for my neighbour today, using the above method. It's best to have Internet banking for your Thai account, so you can keep an eye on your statement unless you live close to an ATM I suppose. Just before you sign up go on paypal.com/th then change the language to English.

4-6 days it takes to wait for the deposited amounts, I'm guessing they are 31 and 33bt each which lulls you into a false sense of security thinking that PayPal is actually your friend. They aren't.

Glad to be of service

MMmm, two separate threads champ, but I get what ya mean

The other thread was about some VW abomination, this one is about emissions testing in CM.

btw - I'm an easy going (Mai pen rai ) type, but I think my TV posts aren't really showing that plus I like to see your posts about muscle cars so I didn't mean to get on the wrong side of anyone

Sooooo, everyone that has a pickup is a farmer now?

My point exactly....

It's best to set up a whole new PayPal rather than try and add a Thai bank to an existing 'foreign' bank.

Sign up and put your country as Thailand, but change the language to English obviously. Do the normal procedure ie. wait a week and receive two deposits in your thai bank, fill in the details on PayPal and verify your phone number.

Their exchange rates are crap but let's say you sold something on eBay and got $, you exchange the $ into THB and get around 31.6 at the moment, but what can you do? Another bad thing is it takes 7 days to reach the Thai bank rather than 3 or 4 to US banks.

There's a better write-up than ^^ this somewhere on the forum, have a search for it. Very straightforward though, but much easier if you have internet banking with your Thai bank to check the balance for those two deposits.

Bino - sending THB to a THB account (say a Thai paid you by PayPal) wouldn't get any exchange rates involved, but you'd still get the 4% charge as you receive the money (which they handily hide from you now) AND...deep breath, if you withdraw less than 5,000bt you get another charge of 50bt applied. Again 7 days to hit you account.

Hope this helps - I know it might answer the merchant bit fully but you never know

Thanks for the answers guys, my memory just completely went blank.

Transam - I love cars - not jeeps or offroad things which never see any hint of mud or dirt in their lives. In the UK I had a Mini with an MG Turbo engine (still going strong today) but sold it, but my mk2 escort I still kept for sideways duties. Maybe I'm just 'old-skool' but I don't find new cars or tanks very interesting, I say again - it was just an opinion and I thought you being a fountain of V8/muscle car knowledge would have been on a similar playing field

Just looks like any other sack of sh*t pick up. Unless you use it for business/carrying loads of stuff/move house every week then I honestly cannot see the point in them.

The ride terribly (springs or leaves), need stupidly large odd sized tyres, are as basic as a Lada Samara, have a high centre of gravity which is just plain old dangerous,drink faster than Anthony Worrell Thompson and look ghastly.

Don't get me started on SUVs (Stupid Useless Vehicles).

I wonder what you drive Dave !!!!!! Probably nothing eh. Not needed, only a short stroll to the bar mmmmmm. Now Dave, pray don't tell us

you really do have a car cos l wont believe you for one, . .

Ah Mr Trans-am, it's a disappointment that you have a grunty V8 in your avatar and are (I suppose) defending these behemoths.

The only way to get around Thailand is on a bike, so I have a bike. (I do have a car but I'm selling it as it's a waste of time here)

I'm not a troll (or a Dave) just expressing my views on the VW bandwagon as pictured at the top. No harm in having an opinion, or is that against the TV clique laws?

all friendly

Yep, just got mugged this morning too from Ayudhya. Apparently TMB ATMs are OK, but I've yet to try them.

Just looks like any other sack of sh*t pick up. Unless you use it for business/carrying loads of stuff/move house every week then I honestly cannot see the point in them.

The ride terribly (springs or leaves), need stupidly large odd sized tyres, are as basic as a Lada Samara, have a high centre of gravity which is just plain old dangerous,drink faster than Anthony Worrell Thompson and look ghastly.

Don't get me started on SUVs (Stupid Useless Vehicles).

Yep, I'm not going until late but will be over that way on Monday too, so I'll check in. Just it's quite a drive for me, so I thought I'd check on here first

Are your tax and insurance numbers the wrong way round? Just my insurance is far more than that (8k)

Excellent thanks for the reply. I just couldn't remember and you know how quick they'll be to make up some prices

Need to take the car to get its yearly check over by the transport people. Emissions, etc are checked. Can someone tell me how much this is, I've completely forgotten.

At Chiang Mai near big Tescos, that transport place.

Thanks in advance

Nice one eek - had a look at that link and looks nice bike. I've posted on there too about Fino-weenos

I've been on a Fino with my 120kg friend on the back (I'm 83kg) and it was OK.....ish. The rear shock was already on its way out anyway .

The chrome work is bound to rust with all of this rain. I've had many chrome things, bike/car parts and you need to constantly keep on at them. As soon as you don't dry it after washing or a rainstorm, bubbles of surface rust appear. Metal polish helps protect the parts for a little longer.

One thing that really made the difference was regular oil changes (ie. 3000km - only 100bt).