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Just now, Anon999 said:
Easy answer is don't by the base models the choice is yours to choose the spec that you want
My 2006 Lancer was the Ralliart version and that had a big hit from a Isuzu pick up with a roo bar that jumped traffic lights. It was hit just behind the drivers side passenger door and spun round so the same place on the opposite side into a stationary Toyota pick up. Extensive damage but was restored back original. My current model is the Lancer Ex GT that gets 8/10 for safety
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26 minutes ago, vinny41 said:
I would ignore any manufacturer that thinks its acceptable to supply only 2 airbags in 2021 or only supplies the top of the range models with more than 2 airbags
Easy answer is don't by the base models the choice is yours to choose the spec that you want
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On 8/31/2021 at 11:27 AM, pedro01 said:
Something big would be my choice, like a Fortuner.
The amount if <deleted> you have to lug around when you have a baby is considerable.
Good luck!
Don't forget the stepladder!
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21 hours ago, TheRascal said:
Thanks for everyone who's replied so far, a lot to take into consideration.
I'm not hugely into cars so European brands seem overpriced, if you're into them for the love of cars then that makes sense but there doesn't seem to be a big benefit otherwise.
Reviewing most of the European, American, Aussie and Asian safety sites it seems like the Mazda MX-5/MX-30 are very similar from a safety perspective to Volvos and Mercedes of a similar size or the Range Rover Evoque which was also suggested. Subarus also seem to perform well in safety tests as does the CRV (although not quite up there with the Mazdas).
If the only option for a safe car was a European brand then I'd go for that but from research it doesn't seem like that's the case.
There is also Mitsubishi, they have the Xpander, Pajero and Outlander in various options. My first Lancer from 2006 was sold to another expat and has done nearly 200,000 kms. On my second Lancer that dates from May 2014, and both have been ultra reliable. We have also have an Xpander and same applies.
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On 8/31/2021 at 12:25 PM, Liverpool Lou said:
You know that children's buggies are collapsible and will fit into any car, including the smallest of your choices?
Depends on the buggy some are quite big when folded.
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I have been making bread , 2lb loaves, since the early 90's and continued to do so here, have always kept them in a Big C sealable plastic bag that is kept in the fridge it is still fine after 4-5 days.
Have had problems since my the old bread maker I brought with me expired, the first from Robinson had a penchant to make a load bang 45 mins through the program and after returning it to Cuizimate they said that was normal! It lasted a few years until the drive from the motor broke, as a result and they are no longer available in Thailand. Then I tried a HOM 264401 from Verasu that initially created a strong disgusting smell that permeated everywhere and the bread too, yuk, and it did not rise as much as expected. Verasu replaced the baking tin which cured the stench but it still didn't rise as it should have. Then after a couple of months the bread only came halfway up the tin on one occasion then next time it wasn't fully baked with one half angled down at 45 degrees! Still trying to get Verasu to honour their warranty but getting nowhere fast!
Asked the owner of a local supplier of kitchen appliances about them and he said if you buy it from us it will come from Lazada!!
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Try Finder.com, you can ask the question to find out if it is possible and how to.
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Try an International bank there are a few in Thailand. UBS has a branch in BKK.
Alternatively Skybanking in the UK do offshore accounts so they may be able to assist or know how to.
The other option is a FCD (Foreign Currency Deposit) account with say BKK in GBP but you have to go to head office to open one and make a small deposit to activate it. The funds can stay there and then could be transferred to an offshore account in GBP leaving enough about £5,200 to transfer to a Savings Account in baht. I've had GBP sat in my FCD account for some years.
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On 4/7/2010 at 1:13 AM, Richb2004v2 said:
If someone can just give me an explanation of how acupuncture works I will reconsider my opinion. I have not been able to find one on the internet so far. I also contacted the British Council of Acupuncture who also so far have been unable to give me a scientific explanation. If I were to do the same for accepted medicine I would have no such trouble. Blood pressure medicine, Asthma drugs, chemotherapy, antihistamines etc all have explanations. The same can not be said of acupuncture. The next time you are in some way actually ill or are hit by a car why not forget these 'western medicines' and stick with your 'alternative' medicine. When next your child is sick just employ the services of a reflexologist or some such and go make another tye-die T-shirt.
Many years ago I had a problem with one of my knees and was treated with all but one of the options open to the NHS hospital without success. The nurse eventually said the only thing we haven't tried is acupuncture which caused raised eyebrows. Having had the treatment explained to me I decided to give it a try because there was nothing to lose. After the first session there was an improvement much to my surprise and I think that 3 or 4 short sessions resolved the problem never to return. Did I need a scientific explanation of course not, any more than for any other physiotherapy treatment. Have had it a couple of times since also treated by a chiropractor for back proplem.
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On 1/7/2019 at 8:14 PM, Sheryl said:
65k in and then straight out again, all of it, would surely raise questions.
In my mind as well (what do you live on?)
But a portion of it out each month with various draw downs on the rest should be fine.
You can transfer I think up to 15K USD via Dee Money.
You could alternate the 65k bi-monthly with no problem via TorFX.
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On 1/7/2019 at 6:40 PM, DrTuner said:
Is that as in 65k back to outside Thailand? Remitting in that direction needs extra arrangements with a bank, one of the multitude of reasons I never transfer any more $ here than I immediately need.
You do not have to use your bank as TorFX will do it for less cost.
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On 1/7/2019 at 5:50 PM, bdenner said:
Been using Baht Smart for some time now for my AUD transfers. My KBank statements shows these funds coming from a variety of sources. eg.
DUMMY BRANCH
Chang Mia Branch
Head Office
Etc
Nothing actually showing an international transfer.
So what now???
KBank say they are unable to show a transfer as International due to the local processing procedure prior to it being credited to your account. Only solution appears to be change to BKB as they are the only one, I think, that does.
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For confirmed bachelors getting married is nearer to doing a pole vault, sans pole, than a hurdle and that makes it an incredibly difficult thing for them so you have to have sympathy for those guys. Nigh impossible for the very old while quietly living out their days and then being confronted by this problem, that may be when arriving at immigration to renew their retirement extension. It may cause some to choose the ultimate solution, very sad!! :-( Another problem created by Thai immigration and the BE with no thought given to the elderly bachelor!
Maybe this topic will be raised with the relevant authority and hopefully given serious consideration as I'm sure nobody wants even a single person to commit suicide as a result of the proposed change.
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4 hours ago, DILLIGAD said:
If it’s £142 after tax, they (BKK UK Embassy) allow you to use the sum before tax is deducted, BUT unlike some other countries, proof is required to back-up this figure.
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On that level of income he shouldn't be paying tax and will have no need to complete a tax return. Not to mention that the State Pension is always paid gross.
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Gave it a try and had the message to "check with your local immigration office"! So the system must check your details then responds accordingly.
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On 2017-5-11 at 10:06 AM, MiKT said:
Aha, Sherlock, the question is: "Is it legally wrong in Thailand to be using the old passport when you don't have the new one"?
If there is no world-wide database, why should they care and what would they charge you with? Your old passport would be the one which is in the Thai immigration database; and that cannot be updated until you present them with the new one to transfer your chops.
You can't really pop into immigration and say "Oh I have just applied for a new UK passport, please remove me from being legally resident in Thailand until I get the new one".
This is exactly why Trendy don't clip you old one until you get the new one; you can still legally use it "for identification purposes".............. so you use it to identify yourself to Thai immigration when you go in and out, until you get the new one. That's got to be legal.
What about people who have applied for a new passport say from Malaysia and then travel to Thailand for 3 months holiday using their old passport. Nobody will know or stop them entering or leaving Thailand, and when they get back to KL they will still be admitted as KL immigration won't know they have a new one waiting at the Malaysian equivalent of Trendy.
All theoretical I know, but how else can it work? Its not just in LOS, but also applies to any other country in the world; except perhaps those whose immigration might be directly linked to UK immigration (if there are any like that) Northern Ireland maybe, but then they would also know that you had been issued a new passport and were just using the old one "for identification purposes" so it would all be legal.
The British Passport office cannot stop people from travelling around the rest of the world, whilst they bugger about issuing you with a new passport. I don't even think they could stop you leaving and returning to the UK with your old passport.
Get Watson to mull over that for a while.
All very 555.
It was explicitly stated by the UK VFS that the old passport was only good for use as a form of ID and could not to be used for travel. That was on 26th April. My application was received in the UK (Newport) on 1st May with the new one issued on 3rd May it was received by VFS at 09:11 on Monday 8th May. Are you saying that until such time that it is collected you have two passports listed on the UK database as valid?
That raises the question that once the new one is signed to validate it and the old one has a corner clipped when is the old one cancelled on the UK database? As an aside I was asked by the VFS officer if I wanted the corner to be clipped!! Had I replied no then what, as it did not expire until February 2018. My guess is that had I used it to exit Thailand then arrival at LHR it would have been instantly picked up as CANCELLED.
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8 minutes ago, Upnotover said:
Whilst the passport is cancelled in the UK the database this is not shared with the whole world. So despite it being no longer valid it could still be used to cross borders. But as it takes only 2 or 3 weeks to replace you would have to be pretty badly organised to need to use the old one.
Just because the corner is not clipped doesn't mean you could cross borders as the application is entered into the VFS system in Thailand so should be available to immigration and passport control.
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3 minutes ago, MiKT said:
Aha, maybe you are right, but I don't think it gets canceled until they issue the new one in the UK, after they have cashed your money, not when you apply at Trendy.
Also I don't think that worldwide databases actually exist, some of the countries I have worked in have stone age immigration systems. Plus I don't actually believe that LOS has a great system; after all, if your name is Boss you can come and go as you please.
But its all a bit academic really, if you actually have to travel when waiting for your new passport you can get an emergency document from the Embassy.
Remember this is the UK passport office for UK citizens, not Thai or other nationalities and that a debit or credit card payment takes just seconds to execute. With the turn round so fast now, in my case 12 days including 2 weekends and MayDay, just 7 working days and I believe that is was received in Newport on 1st May. It would have to be a sudden emergency it needing to travel out of Thailand. Yes correct an emergency travel doc if need be but very expensive too!
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On 20/03/2017 at 1:39 PM, MiKT said:
Just 5 minutes ago I was checking the UK Gov site for passport renewal and your statement "You can’t wear sunglasses or tinted glasses. You can wear reading glasses but your eyes must show fully through clear lenses without glare or reflections" is quite correct. This is fully corroborated by the illustrations that show acceptable and non-acceptable photographs.
The Visa company must be misreading the site.
But since (unlike a driving licence) it does not matter much you can send photo's of you not wearing specs if that makes it easier.
MPR
The best strategy is to ignore the passport renewal companies. They are only interested in how much the next sucker can be relieved of. Their knowledge of the regulations is not good, to put it politely.
Renewing a passport is easy unless you are unfortunately dyslexic. The forms are straightforward and everything is clearly spelt out. What you need to provide is also well covered and easy to follow. And the credit/debit card form is easy to complete as well and clearly states the payment will be taken in GBP and as most will have a UK bank account that should not be difficult.
Submitted my renewal application at 15:20 on 26th April and it was back at Suvarnabhumi by midnight on Saturday 6th May with the VFS signing as received at 08:13 on Monday 8th. With the total cost £106.01 it is not expensive, however, the cost of two flights plus taxis at least doubles that amount even using the promo flights. However, quick and efficient with good service by pleasant staff.
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On 03/05/2017 at 8:03 PM, MiKT said:
Took mine in to Trendy this morning and only 15 mins with no problem, although I printed out the application form and filled it in in black before I went, I did not download the payment form; but they just gave me a new one with no fuss.
However, anybody thinking of going should check their local photo copying facilities before they go.
You have to make a colour copy every page of your old passport and I got ripped of for 15Baht a copy in the photo shop on the ground floor as I could not do it before. But some other nationalities were getting charged 20 Baht per copy in the same shop, so not so bad. Although they did take a good photo of me to the regulation grey background colour for a reasonable price.
Also I am curious about my existing passport, they did not clip the corner and said they will only do this when the new one is returned in 4 weeks(ish). But I don't suppose they actually inform the Thai immigration that your passport is no longer valid, so any reason why you could not go out to another country and then return before your new passport is ready to pick-up?
As all passport data is now online it is accessible worldwide. There is a note that I cannot immediately find that says clearly that your old passport is now only good for ID purposes and you cannot use it to travel out of the country as GOV.UK cancel the old one online when creating a new passport. When scanned at the border it will show up as invalid/cancelled.
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On 20/03/2017 at 2:53 PM, Upnotover said:
Well they must have slipped up last June when they issued me a new passport (actually Liverpool issued it, Trendy just handle the application).......just follow you own link but also read what it tells you....
It is unbelievable the amount of dross on this topic provided by numerous uninformed experts.
To renew a passport your documents have to be PERSONALLY delivered to the VFS offices, including one for payment by Debit or Credit card unless another payment method has been previously agreed. Once everything has been checked your passport will be returned to you for ID purposes but it cannot be used for travel. If you complete the 'Renewal' application form online it will be rejected because it says Black BIRO in a little box. They kindly got another set of forms and copied all the details across for me to sign, including the Payment Form! That is despite the fact that all forms are now electronically scanned. You will also have to get the new Passport collected from the VFS. However, you can nominate someone to both take and collect your passport to the VFS but they must show their ID. Your old passport will be cancelled on collection of the new one by clipping the corner as is normal practise.
I had to travel from Roi Et and it's a far longer drive than from Korat not to mention the cost of fuel for the return journey is more than for an airline ticket and it takes five times longer. A taxi meter to the Trendy Building costs about 200 baht on top. All done in one day and home again by 21:00.
My 15:30 appointment took 15 minutes from the time I arrived until the time I left.
Lastly why many people use visa companies, at an extortionate cost, is beyond me but there again more money than sense and/or too lazy must come into it.
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On 18/03/2017 at 5:59 PM, English Engineer said:
She must get the Schengen visa in Bangkok. The only exception is if she has UK settlement visa.
Correct. Checked up about this a couple of years ago.
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In the space of over a decade I have had half a dozen different Immigration offices as they opened up nearer to where I live and I had cause to visit three others. Apart from a 'discussion' on one occasion, when obtaining my EoS, and the officer completing the paperwork apologised for the attitude of his boss. So they have been straightforward and pleasant experiences. However, my visit to the old Bangkok offices to obtain my first retirement extension were met with an aggressive 'no' by a female officer on the reception desk, She told me my visa had to expire first but Pattaya had no such qualms. The other negative response was at the new Bangkok complex, again at the hands of a female, who was also unpleasant for no apparent reason, after having first, closely, examined all my documents.
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On 31/12/2016 at 6:40 PM, sanemax said:
Nope, that is per person .
If you have a partner, add 65 % to the cost
Adding 65% to 36,000/mth works out at about 60k/mth at the current exchange rate that's nearly £1,400. No idea where you get your figures from but in a city in Isaan we have a large house run two cars take on average a months holiday to the UK every other year and also to Germany on little more than that. As for the poster who used an exchange rate of 50/£ let me know where he gets that?
The big issue is health cover and it escalates dramatically with age and bearing in mind most stop by age 80 at the latest. Then what? Some years ago an expat acquaintance needed double balloon surgery but didn't have the 1 million baht for it so ................
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Unless you have side impact bars extra air bags are not going to be much help. Ultra high tensile steel from the front to rear wheel arches on the floorpan and the bodyshell designed to rise in front of the windscreen are more important factors.
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