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  1. BMW manufacture their engines in a variety of states of tune depending on the sales area, particular model variant and date of manufacture - hence you need to check in the supplied handbook and/or fuel flap sticker, as others have said. However all BMWs produced in the last 5 years or so will run perfectly well on 91RON. The engines are fitted with knock sensors which detect detonation and back off the ignition advance if its detected. Some models are fitted with wideband 02 sensors and Flex sensors and they would run a bit better on 95 under high load conditions.
  2. No. 'Detonation' by definition means an explosive combustion ('knock') rather than a smoothly propagating flame front. So there is no such thing as 'slow detonation'. Lower octane fuels are more prone to detonation. Higher octane fuels have the unstable HC compounds refined out. Adding ethanol (E10/E20) increases the octane so Thai gasohol fuels actually have a real-world octane rating somewhat above their quoted RON.
  3. Not all codes cause the MIL to illuminate. There are literally hundreds of possible faults - not all of them are costly to fix. This Honda (K series engine) is quite prone to faults due to split/perished vacuum pipes.
  4. In reply to the OP.... Those screen captures you have posted are command codes from the ELM interface. In other words you are interrogating the firmware of the interface and NOT the vehicle's ECU. My guess is that you are using the wrong software with your ELM interface. That output looks like its from 'ELM Identifier' (software to identify whi่ch type/version of ELM chip that you have). To get codes and live data from the car I suggest using 'Torque Pro'.
  5. Plenty of sprinkler systems around the world, often with recessed heads. My wife's condo in Pattaya has sprinklers.
  6. Mat Armstrong - repairs cars. Known his dad Tony for about 30 years. Tony worked as a mechanic at our garage 20-some years ago and my son is a couple of years older than Mat and always kept in touch with him. Mat's YouTube channel is very popular.
  7. Its reckoned around 67 million defective Takata airbags were made. Its actually the Takata PSAN inflator unit that's the problem. The chemicals inside (ammonium nitrate) degrade and the inflator can detonate abruptly rather than combust and inflate smoothly. This can throw parts of the inflator and shroud into the face of the occupant. The degradation is worse in hot climates. I part-own a sales/service car dealership in the UK and we always ensure recalls are done on used cars we offer for sale. We have to take cars to the franchise dealer - very inconvenient because there have been long delays on supply of some of these airbag units and we are reluctant to sell a car with an outstanding airbag recall. Honda, Mazda, Ford are worst affected but pretty much all manufacturers seem to have installed them at some time or other.
  8. Not sure why its not believable. Over the years a lot of things have happened to me in Thailand that you just couldn't make up.... Many in connection with my wife and her 'interesting' friends and family and various 'business dealings'. We are back in the UK for a couple of months and last week she was on the phone to a cop she knows in Udon negotiating the price to arrest a guy who'd shot out the windows of a house she owns. 7k was agreed on and she transferred the money to his account. The guy is now locked up apparently (I'm told he didn't go quietly and they had to taser him).
  9. When my wife was setting up a restaurant about seven or so years ago I remember us both flying to UK on Emirates BC with Skywards Gold and we had the best part of 100kg checked luggage most of which was Thai foodstuffs of every type you can imagine. Probably illegal but my wife is not one to pay heed to the law. We struggled to move it. Many times travelled with combined 70kg. Was only ever stopped once - I was alone and had few kilogram dried fish and was waved through.
  10. That Aussie is of Indonesian ethnicity. 'Australian' seems to cover a multitude of sins these days....
  11. I used to travel a great deal and after several years of using 'mid range' luggage brands I decided to buy myself a nice quality Samsonite wheeled suitcase. On the VERY FIRST TRIP it arrived in Dubai with a couple of wheels smashed off and the handle damaged. Basically it was unusable. Bad luck probably... Anyway, Emirates wouldn't compensate me (wheels not covered apparently). I took lots of photos of the damage and got a copy of the damage report from Emirates but Samsonite knocked it back - 'not covered by guarantee'. I was bitterly disappointed and out of pocket. I bought a cheap replacement ('Tripp' - a UK brand I think) still using it today although its very knocked about and on its last legs.
  12. 20-30 years ago it was rare to find a chubby Thai woman of any age. Now they are everywhere. Its the abundant availability of sugary and ultra-processed foods. My wife doesn't like anything sugary and eats a very healthy traditional diet with lots of green leafy salad and vegetables. Her 14 year old niece eats masses of snack foods from 7-11, likes KFC and pizza - she is very slim at the moment, but that won't last.
  13. The new BA route is LGW-BKK, not LHR, and only three times per week using older aircraft. BA have almost no domestic connections to LGW either so its very unattractive to those of us north of Watford. BKK is mainly a leisure destination hence at the moment less interest from carriers and less capacity.
  14. I think there are somewhat fewer seats on this route than prior to Covid. A friend travelled LHR-BKK on TG at end of Feb and is returning end of March - booked a few months ago. Was just over £1000 I believe - quite pricey for low season. I think the era of cheap long-haul is over - although you do ocassionally see limited promotional offers on indirect flights, but usually only available for a few days and checked baggage an expensive extra.
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