Description
In this video I try to renew the Por Ror Bor / compulsory insurance and road tax for my two motorcycles here in Thailand — my Honda ADV and my electric scooter. I need to add that because the e-scooter wasn't registered in Surin and no one else has one, the office we ended up visiting was the 'new model' registration office so they could add it to the system.
Next year, it will be the normal process.
The Honda ADV should have been simple enough, but the electric scooter turned into a proper Thai paperwork adventure. We went from the licence and tax centre, to another tax place, to Lotus, to a random motorcycle dealer, to a Deco electric scooter dealer, then phone calls to Bangkok, then finally a hidden electric vehicle registration office that nobody seemed to know about.
By the end of it, we had visited around seven different places just to renew the yearly tax and compulsory insurance on an electric scooter.
This isn’t meant to be an official guide. It’s just my real experience trying to get Por Ror Bor and road tax sorted in Thailand as a foreigner — with Bud doing most of the translating and me getting more confused by the minute.
If you are thinking about buying an electric motorcycle or electric scooter in Thailand, this video might be worth watching first.
CHAPTERS:
00:00 Another fantastic day on planet earth
00:08 Renewing Por Ror Bor and road tax
00:26 The electric scooter has expired
00:48 Why this feels stressful in Thailand
01:25 Arriving at the first place
02:13 The electric scooter is not in the system
02:38 Off to Lotus… apparently
03:23 Confusing Thai roads and nearly getting it wrong
04:17 A random motorcycle dealer
04:49 Searching for the electric vehicle office
05:19 At the local Deco dealer
05:56 Even the dealer doesn’t know
06:20 Phone call to Bangkok
06:50 Food stop and more paperwork
07:36 Someone finally knows where to go
08:39 Six places later
09:11 Finally done… sort of
10:00 Warning if you buy an EV in Thailand
10:39 British or English?
11:10 What it cost for the scooter and ADV
11:35 Seven places in total
12:02 Why having a Thai partner helps
12:39 Tomorrow, tomorrow, always tomorrow
13:08 Final thoughts
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