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Can anyone recommend a good garage for service/repair for my Fortuner as due to terms of insurance contract I can no longer have the car repaired at Toyota unless I want to pay myself??

My wife was recently involved in a car accident, badly damaging our Fortuner. We made a claim to our 'local' insurance company, which boasts that it has been around since 1951, is trustworthy etc. and when we took the car to the Toyota service centre to repair, the insurance company said we had to take the car to a local garage as according to their records, the Toyota service centre was not listed on the insurance contract. The missus checked our contract and it clearly listed the Toyota service centre for any and all repairs. The dodgy insurance company then stated that one of their staff mistakenly wrote the wrong information on their database so; again we had to use a local garage. We knew this was absolute bollox so reported them to the Thai insurance consumer affairs and they quickly decided that we were in the right and ordered the insurance company to honour their contract. The car is now being repaired properly and obviously we will not renew with this company, none of our company cars will ever use this company again, and none of our fleet of trucks will use this company. What a complete joke! I expect this from a fitness organisation, but certainly not from what I understood to be a reputable insurance company with a long history. Fact is, TIT and ethics are nonexistent.

What is the procedure if one does? Are you treated then tested again or flat out kicked out of Thailand?

Our nanny has said that she has seen a brown snake, less than 1 metre in length and about 3-4cm think in our garden at our house in Bangkapi. We have contacted a local snake expert who says that it is a tree snake, and that he will trap it when he comes tomorrow. So far that is all I know and I am busy putting together pictures of brownish Thai snakes on the computer, hoping that our nanny can identify it. I know there are some amateur snake experts out there so, based on the above vague description, does anyone wanna have a go? I have 2 kids in the house so obviously very ken to be rid of the snake.

One yesterday from a Philippine girl and today from a boiler room South African guy with some hot shares, so I assume that someone at the labour dept is selling contact details. These people call me 20-30 times a year and I am sure they will never give up. I think I will agree to meet with one of them as long as they send a sexy girl!!