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    My flat battery on the hire car.

    So I fire up the Motor in Mukdahan and blast out of town heading to Roi-et. On start up the battery was sluggish so I knew that it was only a matter of time before it fails.

    Batteries do this, one second they are cranking away like a winner and the next minute they die, usually 2-3 years is the life span under normal operating conditions.

    I had rented a Toyota Yaris for this trip, had 60K on the clock so just about spot on ready for battery failure. We get about an hour down the road when the Hand Bag wants to stop and grab some stuff for her Mum so I pull over.

    When I go to start the motor the battery is foked, dead as a door nail, over and out job done. No big deal, just get Somchai to find a pair of jumper leads, fire it up, blast into Roi-et, get a Hotel, ring the hire company and get them to replace the Battery.

    Easy innit ? Well it is very easy if one is not a foking retarded waste of space trying to tell me I've fuked the battery because I've been charging a smart phone in the car. Anyway, here is the car parked up at the " Roi-et City Hotel " the next morning with the foked battery still in place.


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    the thai will always twist things around so that they can avoid having to take responsibility.

    do you often run out of juice terry?

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    So, when we reached Roi-et I get on the blower to Budget Rent a Car at Khon kan Airport and speak to the lady who I rented the car from.

    Budget is one of the largest companies in Thailand so I am not dealing with a Micky mouse company.

    I have rented plenty of cars from Budget and they have been very good but one can never over look the fact that sometimes we get stuck with a fokin complete and utter fool who does not know shit from sticky pudding.

    On this occasion it is a female who is a champ at answering phones, doing book work and other shit but should never be trying to give unwanted opinions to a farang who knows what the fuk he is talking about.

    To be fair she was being very polite but making me steaming fokin crazy by offering up complete bolliks.

    Excuse me Sir, Your hire car is an Eco car, the engine is only 1200 CC so you cannot charge your Tablet or Smart phone in the car because it will flatten the Battery.

    Fok me, all I want is for her to send the man out and put a new battery in because it's foked but she is continuing on with this shite and telling me to just jump it and drive it around for a hour till it charges up and all will be good.

    After 10 minutes of telling her the Battery is foked I pass the phone to the Hand bag because I can feel an anurism coming on. Usually I'm very cool when dealing with Thais but I was starting to lose it with Mrs Somchai.

    So the Hand bag hung up and the car is still there with the foked battery.

    I told the Handbag that the next day the battery will still be foked but she believed Mrs Somchai instead of me and tomorrow the battery will be fine.

    So I took her down the Pub and banged down some Dark Lao whilst she had a Noodle soup.

    Here we are the next morning.


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    That's exactly what happens when you get a battery free of charge.

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    Your handbag looks very masculine.

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    So the next morning I get back on to Mrs Somchai in khon Kan airport and told her I'm in the car park and cannot start the car because the battery is totally foked and needs replacing.

    Excuse me Sir, the battery is fine, you have flattened it because you have charged your smart phone and you must now jump start it and drive around for an hour. Also for your trouble I will refund you 1 hire voucher you have used to rent this car.

    So this went back and forth again for another 10 minutes with me getting increasingly hostile and ending with me blowing my load and telling her she was fucking stupid and should just shut TFU.

    She was still being very polite but had gotten the message that the nasty Farang was not a happy punter.

    The Hand bag is sitting there watching me implode saying fuk all. She worked out that I was indeed right concerning the battery.

    So, Mrs Somchai tells me she will contact the hotel to Jump start the car; I can then drive back to the Airport and drop it off. It was due back that day anyway.

    So I get back to Khon Kan airport and Mr Somchai bolts out with the free Voucher whilst Mrs Somchai is hiding under her chair.

    Can't remember the last time I lost the plot in Thailand but this Bint really bought out my mad side.

    The continual shite about not being able to charge the Smart phone because the engine was only 1200 CC had done me in.

    Anyway as a final photo have a gander at the size of the cabling on the Jumper leads.

    Gota laugh eh.


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    Shame there's no sky train up there, tel. You could have claimed a resounding victory by ranting at random passengers until they demonstrated their agreement with your cause by moving to another carriage.

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    ^

    I must tell you Cyril,

    If i had had a frozen bag of sausages i would of entered Khon Kan Airport and beaten that Mad bint to death with em.

    After she was dead I would of placed the Dead battery in her back bottom.

    Bit of a laugh now innit.

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    Terry if you were ridding a bicycle you wouldn't be having these little annoyances.

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    ^

    You may be right Earl,

    But we cranked out 3000 KLM in two weeks on this trip and I'd still be riding next year.

    Besides that, bicycle seats give the Handbag piles.

    Ha fokin Ha.

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    Sounds like you made a mountain out of a molehill mate


    Quote Originally Posted by terry57
    on this occasion it is a female who is a champ at answering phones, doing book work and other shit but should never be trying to give unwanted opinions to a farang who knows what the fuk he is talking about
    Sounds like she did know what she was talking about, as she did, with the aid of Somchai get the car back to the airport, without having to wake up one of her co workers.

    Buy the handbag some running shoes and hire a manual next time mate

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    Quote Originally Posted by terry57
    he continual shite about not being able to charge the Smart phone because the engine was only 1200 CC had done me in.
    Are you sure something wasn't lost in translation here Terry

    Ie...she was trying to tell you not to charge your sat nav, tablet and mobile phone so the fukked battery had a chance to get a bit of charge

    I'm just trying to see things from the eye of a Thai, as you like to so often on here bud

    Sum nam
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    ^ That's a thought....and it wouldn't be the first time something like that has happened.

    Love those Hello Kitty jumper cables. Never in my entire life have I seen such girly low-amperage ones.

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    So, how was Mukdahan?

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    Suprised they made such a big deal out of a battery .... wonder they didnt tell you to turn the aircon off ... what has the engine size got to do with it ..... surely all things are relevant ?

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    Lesson to be learned when renting a car in Thailand - don't be a cheapskate and rent a 1200 CC motor. Splash out on at least a 1300 CC engine.



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    Thank you for contributing another quality picture thread to this dying forum, Tewwy my mate.

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    I am assuming this car has a manual gear box if so stick the lady in the drivers seat and bump start it.

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    ^Might be safer to get her to do the pushing.

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    So Terry lost his rag with some poor Thai lady, again...

    Nowse, I suspect Terry was right though, but the guy he is, knowing so much about Thailand and Thai culture it seems surprising he'd embarrass his handbag and make the polite woman at Budget lose face.

    Just a quick question, Tezza: were you charging your devices while travelling along or while the engine was switched off? I presume it was while driving along, but did you make this clear to the nice polite lady at Budget?

    Just wondering, how do you plan to apologize to the nice polite lady at Budget and your handbag for acting so unThaily, in Thailand. You know, and you've said it many times yourself, if you don't like the Thai ways you can always fuk orf back to Convictland and enjoy Convict norms...
    Cycling should be banned!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by chassamui
    Might be safer to get her to do the pushing
    knowing our tweery , he is used to her doing the pushing

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    Na, fok that shit Betsy, some times ya just need to tell em and saving face goes to the back of the line.

    The cars an auto so can't push start it. Anyway i recon the hand bag would spit the dummy if i had her doing that.

    And no, we did not charge shit when the car was not running and finally i do give the Bint points for making me get her shitty car back to the Airport .

    I did not think of that point.

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    Quote Originally Posted by terry57
    And no, we did not charge shit when the car was not running
    Thought not. Did you explain the concept of an alternator to the nice and polite Budget lady?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bettyboo
    Did you explain the concept of an alternator
    and tell her what its output voltage was when running ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Neverna View Post
    Lesson to be learned when renting a car in Thailand - don't be a cheapskate and rent a 1200 CC motor. Splash out on at least a 1300 CC engine.

    Nope won't be doing that, cost way to much for fuel.

    We swaped into a mitsubishi mirage that got 19 Klm to 1 litre of fuel.

    Cranked out 3 k road trip for 15 baht.

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