Driving with red plates
Driving with red plates
Does anyone know what the laws are on driving with the red plates on a new car are?What my wife is telling me the plates you get are only Phetakirikan which covers Huahin but you can pay more if going forther afield and they isue you a differant set of plate a letter from the police that covers you?
What I refered to before is what Toyota have told my wife and as we all know we only get told half the story when your getting it secend hand from a Thai with the language barrier,unfortunatly i'm stuck in Aussy and not due back till end of the month then have to drive up north.
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as afr a i know its you can drive until dark in prachuabkhirkan
i was never stopped
go out side prachuabkhirikan you can be find 400 b standard fine
so get on to you car seller demand you nornal plates asap
took toyota cham 2 months to get mine dont forget your re fund on givin red plates back
i was never stopped
go out side prachuabkhirikan you can be find 400 b standard fine
so get on to you car seller demand you nornal plates asap
took toyota cham 2 months to get mine dont forget your re fund on givin red plates back
Once you go Asian you will never go Caucasian !!
You can drive with red plates from sunrise to sunset.
I know this is correct because I got it wrong when I took my motorbike written test. I thought it was 6pm to 6am.
I pushed Toyota to get me my white plates within a month.
But they initially told me it was better to wait 3 months from October until January so that my car would officially be a year younger - which would increase the re-sale value.
I know this is correct because I got it wrong when I took my motorbike written test. I thought it was 6pm to 6am.
I pushed Toyota to get me my white plates within a month.
But they initially told me it was better to wait 3 months from October until January so that my car would officially be a year younger - which would increase the re-sale value.
I'm pretty sure I drove to Phuket on red plates when we bought our car 3 years ago. No problems at all but then we didn't meet any police looking for handouts.
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Officially between 6 am to 6 pm. However, beware of imitation red plates. When I say imitation, it means that the plates are not officially issued by the Department of Transport.
The reason this happens is twofold - first off, they are really dealership plates, meant for the convenience of the dealer to move them around, not the customer.
Each dealership is issued a certain number of plates. Sometimes these are not sufficient, so the dealer goes and makes copies. It is these copies that can get you into trouble.
The difference is that the real plates have a raised embossing that looks like a circle and some letter in the middle and is about 5 cm in diameter. If you do not have these embossed plates, you're a prime target.
The reason this happens is twofold - first off, they are really dealership plates, meant for the convenience of the dealer to move them around, not the customer.
Each dealership is issued a certain number of plates. Sometimes these are not sufficient, so the dealer goes and makes copies. It is these copies that can get you into trouble.
The difference is that the real plates have a raised embossing that looks like a circle and some letter in the middle and is about 5 cm in diameter. If you do not have these embossed plates, you're a prime target.
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imitation plates
We bought our Toyota in Bangkok. . .and were also stopped in Bangkok on a subsequent trip there by a sharp-eyed MIB.
This was three or four years ago now and I dont remember the details of the fine etc. . .but Vincent is correct. Our red plates did not have that little embossed bit in the lower right hand corner.
This was three or four years ago now and I dont remember the details of the fine etc. . .but Vincent is correct. Our red plates did not have that little embossed bit in the lower right hand corner.