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Scary video. But I notice at the end the engine is not started only the ignition is switched on

Have been waiting for the outcome. Now 5 days and no report. What happened?

From Klang turn right onto suk road. A few hundred metres down on the right is a showroom with flash cars/jetskis and what not on display.... right next door to that is a panel beating shop. they can sort you scratches.

How did you purchase a vehicle from next year ?

The people I used and was very satisfied with were the same direction as spoonman says but "left hand " side travelling south on Sukhumvit......the sign name was in blue writing...sorry also cannot remember the name

One piece of advice....when I sold the car to the Bkk Vigo dealer, they went all around the vehicle with a paint meter and identified that the paint was not original.....even though it was a perfect match....I think that I would use the dealership in future

Paint meter ? Their nose ?

www.paintmeter.com

 

Check this out from the Custom's web page:

• • Criteria for a Permanent Import of Used/Secondhand Vehicles 

• An importer is eligible to import only ONE used/ secondhand vehicles for personal use.
• In case where the importer is a nonresident, he/she is required to stay in Thailand for at least ONE year and present a non-immigrant visa issued by the Immigration Bureau, the National Police Office together with a work permit issued by the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare at the time of importation.
• In case where an importer is a Thai resident marrying a foreigner, he/she is required to present documentary evidence of marriage and proof of changing residence to Thailand. Also the importer has to own and possess the imported vehicle for at least one and a half year while staying abroad, from the date of transferring the ownership to the date of arrival into Thailand.
• In case where an importer is a Thai resident, he/she is allowed to import a vehicle only when such vehicle is accompanied the owner on the change of residence and he/she has owned and possessed the imported vehicle together with the valid driving license for at least one and a half year while staying abroad. 

 

 

As above if you meet the requirements you will be given permission to import the vehicle. Even for Thais duty still  has to be paid. It is not duty free.
My wife has been down this road (Thai)

Budget rental carribeans in Thailand were soft tops maybe some still around. Beware the noise was terrible inside.

The roof area above the driving compartment is bolted on. The rear compartment was a carryboy product bolted on also.

There was/is a kit available in the US to change the engine to the VW Passat 2 litre. I thought about doing the conversion to my carribean. The kit required no machining only changing bell housing, flywheel and engine mounts. Retailed for 1000 dollars around 1995. For course you needed to supply the engine.

 

I have a Canon Pixma printer installed on two computers here in Thailand.

The first computer has Windoze 7 english installed. The printer CD installed in english and all menues etc in english

The same CD installed on a Windoze 7 Thai installed computer defaults to Thai. Even clicking American region still makes it install in Thai. All menues are in Thai

Seems like the CD takes info from the installed operating system

The post office is in the departure check in behind the last check in row U ? or it was last week.

There is a restriction on size and weight they accept. Don't know what they are.

Close to the PO was a private company shop that did excess baggage and animals but last week there was notice saying they had moved to the cargo area.

Arrived in 1979. Visa exempt was 15 days by land or air. Used to work in the middle east then 28/28 so always had a 12 day overstay. The overstay office at Don Muang was always a hive of activety, five desks if I remember rightly. Leaving one time I was surprised to see everyone waiting outside and going in one by one. My turn came and I got read the riot act. Overstating is an offence you will be blacklisted, prison etc etc. (so the present rules are not really new)  The fine then was 100 baht a day.

My visa run then was either train to Hat Yai then into Malasia for 15 day visa exempt or train to Penang for visa, Golden City hotel and see Michael who did everything to obtain the visa. You did not even have to leave the hotel. The best thing about Penang was that all imported food was half the price of Thailand. Always plenty of bar/restaurant owners from Thailand stocking up.

 

When the tax clearance first came in and before the loopholes were discovered you had to go in front of the revenue officer and describe your lifestyle so you could be accessed for tax due. I think the mimimum living amount for an expat was 10000 baht a month. On this amount no tax was due. So the trick was to find a friendly taxman who would assess you for this amount. If you were caught at the airport trying to leave with no certficate you went to the revenue office at the airport and get fined 1800 baht  with a big red stamp in your passport. Glad when it was scrapped as it was a bigger hassle that visas

This is a blow by blow account of my situation today.

This is my experience, Nobody elses.

I arrived in BKK today, via Penang. This was my second Visa Excempt by air on a British passport ever, I had spent 3 days in Penang so not exactly back to back.

On presenting my passport, the officer took what seemed an age to examine my passport.

He then said "where is my visa". I explained that I was entering with a visa exempt condition. He then re-examed the passport and again said " where is the visa"

Again I explained that I was entering via a visa exempt as granted to some Nationals.

Again he re-examed the passport and stated quite clearly that a valid visa is required to enter Thailand in future.

He then asked me how long I was staying. I said 20 days so I finally got a normal 30 day visa excempt stamp.

Postponed till later date

green valley no life time memberships

good one

Contact the dealer.

Disconnecting the battery on some cars "may" generate a fault code in the engine management system preventing the engine from starting.

On certain Volvos disconnecting the battery requires a vist from the dealer to reset the fault code so that the engine will start. The radio code needs to be reinstalled and the keyless entry has to be reprogramed.

Just read this weeks Golfnutters article.

Very well written and true in all counts regarding Pattaya golf.

Not trying to be smart but some farangs have been saying the same comments for some years now.

Unless Farangs become united and speak with one voice we will be pushed out.

The article in the Business section of the xxxxxxxx on Sept 11, regarding the grievances of xxxxxxx members raises several interesting questions about the rights of club members in general. Through our involvement in that case, we have given further thought to the issues that arise, including how these rights should be protected

When you buy a club membership, whether it's a golf club or a holiday club or any leisure club membership, you often consider that you have bought yourself an "asset" that is worth something. Perhaps it is something that can be sold on to someone else or passed on to your children.

Time to think again. What is the "asset" that you are buying and what do you own? Consider what you are actually buying or getting when you become a member of a club. The short answer is that you are buying the right to use the facilities offered by the club for a fixed period of time, and in certain cases, for life.

Your rights and obligations as a member of that club are purely contractual in nature. This means that the rights and obligations that arise between you as the buyer and the club owner. as the seller are set out in the purchase contract only. At present, there are no specific laws that deal with this type of contract.

In most cases, at the launch of a project, developers will often have several packages and benefits to offer in order to attract buyers. Most people are so overwhelmed by the "attractive benefits" on offer that they forget to pay any attention to the contract itself. For example, when you buy a membership, you know that you will have to pay a maintenance fee; a transfer fee and an annual subscription fee.

You may be led to believe that some of these payments are fixed amounts or one time‑payments but the fact is that most developers) will have included a

provision in the contract that entitles it to increase the fees unilaterally at any time.. .

You may also think that the "maintenance fees" that you will pay to the club will be fore repairs arising from the normal Wear and' tear of the club. There is, however, no provision that stops the owner from using the fees to build something else and worse still to increase the fees in order to do so.

Before you buy, it is worth taking the time to consider what is actually being offered and to satisfy yourself that the club owner is likely to be able to deliver the benefits that are being promised. One of the most important issues that you should consider is "What will happen to my rights if there is a change in ownership of the club?" At present, there is no' answer to this question because the terms and conditions in club membership contracts are almost always not negotiable and if you raise this issue with the owner, you will be faced with the answer that the owner intends to operate and develop the club for a long time and it has every intention of providing you with the best service.

As we all know, things change and the reality is that the owner is entitled to sell the club and the land to a third party who may not then be under any .obligation to honour the terms and conditions of your contract. Your only recourse would be a claim for damages against the original owner and this will not help you to regain the membership rights that you thought you had acquired or the asset you thought you had bought.

After you have bought the membership, it is advisable to keep all of the promotional and marketing material such as announcements made or leaflets and

brochures distributed by the developer. This information may become useful as evidence in court if a dispute arises with the club owner at a later date and it becomes necessary to prove what offers were actually made by the developer at the time of purchase.

Obviously the most effective way to protect , a member's rights in a club would' Be through the enactment of appropriate consumer‑protection legislation. It is necessary for the government to consider passing legislation that requires club owners to provide their members with some measure of control over the club and its activities.

For example, the enactment of regulations requiring club owners to reach an agreement with its members over the permitted amount of increase in the maintenance fees and transfer fees would assist in placing some restrictions on the freedom of owners to increase fee amounts as they see fit.

Going one step further, the position of a club member should be similar to that of a minority shareholder of a public listed company. The protection offered to a minority shareholder should also be offered to a club member. For example, the law should allow members to have some ability to decide whether or not a proposed sale of the club to a third party should proceed. This could be done by providing that the sale of the club would require the votes of a certain agreed percentage of the members of the club.

This type of protection will make investing in club memberships more attractive because consumers will be more certain of what they are getting and this will, in the long run also be beneficial to developers.

Looked through PSC and IPGC but fees are not very special...hm....

The difference is less then it used to be but it depends if you are looking at specific courses as otherwise -

Crystal Bay normal weekday 2000, PSC price 750

Eastern Star - weekday 1500, PSC 800

Mountain Shadow weekday 2000, PSC 750

AS GBHK said check the PSC list for sports days etc and there are some better reductions - http://www.pattayasports.org/golf-rates/

As scubascuba says you are not going to find much better. Some of the societies used to get a slightly better rate on some courses due to the numbers they took but I think that this no longer the norm these days.

If you want to keep costs down and do not have your own transport going with a "group" will save you a lot on taxis.

Crystal Bay last week, 1000 am tee time, walked in no PSC card, paid 750 baht green fee.

Eastern Star last week 500 baht green fee. This week 700 baht. 900 baht normal walk in price. Just ask.

Emerald 750 baht green fee. I just asked for discount.

Nowhere did I show or was asked for any Thai related docs

Its the low season

Obviously a newbie to Thailand.

There are NO farang policemen that are authourised to issue fines or any other type of warnings to ANYBODY. They are jobsworths. Was a Thai Policeman present?

Agreed

Well said

Update:

To date 208 sets of members documents have been forwarded to both the CPB and Phoenix management. The CPB have called the Phoenix GM for an informative meeting on either the 12th or 13th February to be followed by a further meeting by the 20th February between all parties and their legal advisors.

What was the percentage of Farang, Japanese, Korean and Thai and other membership docs that were submitted from a membership of 1300 aprox?

I recentley played in an amateur competion

The group in front consisted of two farangs plus their two female partners

One female putted every ball under their umberella held by their caddie

That female won an all expenses trip to Chaing Mai.

Would any of you fellow golfers raised the matter with the organisers at the prize giving?

I did not and I feel bad being a stickler for the rules of golf

To avoid dirty looks and being called nasty names, go with b. 300

having a decent round of golf in Thailand now days is an expensive

form of exercise..

eh ???

ive just come back from a 23 day tour of Pattaya, and played 6 times, I joined Pattaya sports club and then played

mainly out of 'The Golf Club' in Lk metro, the golf was tremendous value for money (and im a budget traveller who stayed in a 550 baht night room)

I paid between 1500 to 2200 per round, that included transport, Green fee, Buggy and Caddy.

The most pricy was the fantastic St Andrews course which was top class +caddy tip (300) approx. £50 sterling

In the Uk to play a comparable standard course, have a buggy and caddy and you would be paying well over £100,

compare Thai prices to Spain and Portugal !!!

all in all my 6 games cost about £250, awesome value with virtually guaranteed good weather and fantastic courses and after golf facilities,

and you can even arrange to bang the caddy later oi oi!!

a golfing paradise

ps I always tipped 300 as that was what the regulars said to give them

At least you have the right nickname

Trying to keep that nonsense post "How much do you tip your caddie" off the number one spot so posting again. If I am boring you please click ignore.

A prevous post mentions quality verses quanity. I will relate the following in the hope that it offends someone.

A couple of weeks ago at the club I play, entertained 20 Japanees golfers. They all ate breakfast. Each had a cart even though two per cart is allowed. After finishing their round they showered had their presentation eat lunch stacks of beer enjojed themselves in the clubhouse. Paid FULL green fee.

Right behind them was a falang bar group. First thing they bitched about playing behind Asians. It will be a six hour round. 11 players 2 carts.

No food straight to first tee. Finished, showered left for Pattaya. Probably a heavily discounted green fee or they would not be there.

Now lets be honest. If you were a golfclub manager or owner which group would you want to cater to?

I am not a member of Phoenix but I am following this thread because the outcome may impact every person who plays golf in Thailand

There has been some very knowledgable threads, and as someone close to the workings of golf in Thailand very accurate. I thank you.

I only thing I would say is that if the Thais form some sort of action committee the farangs should give their full support but not get involved as this will lead on to the us Thais verses foreiners. This is in no way giving advice to you members. Just my opinion.

I presume if you do not pay the annual fee you will be in breach of contract.

As a prevous poster stated if only the farangs could stick together instead of their "i'm all right jack" attitude things could change. Don't hold your breath.

Its more important to discuss how much do you tip your caddie than show some support for people trying to better the situation for all.

No golf no caddie no tip problem gone

Have you ever been to the Honey hotel on soi 19

Every time the Federal was full they always send me there. Maybe same owners ? Not sure if it has a pool or not.

It is the same standard as the Federal

just watched it at home on channel 7 tv