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But there are things called newspapers. And there is a thing called the EPL. ... can’t fix stupid !!! ???? And then double down on the stupidity..... believing the newspapers !!!....???? So you think the England team are horrible, especially Pickford, Foden, Grealish, Trippier because you read it in a newspaper... thats some priceless grade A1 dumbfluckery right there !!! Quite right, can’t fix stupid !!!.... The funny thing about dumb people... Its like being dead... they don’t know they are dead, its only painful for everyone else !!!! ????

Nothing outs a poster as being so outrageously halfwitted as posts such as this... ... passing judgement on people they admit to not watching !!!.. ... can’t fix stupid !!! ????

Mileage varies... At Immigration in Bangkok, you need to have submitted a 90 day report to get a Certificate of Residence. According to reports on here, in Chiang Mai, they’ll just give you one (no matter if you have done your 90 day report or not). Also.. The British Embassy will only give you an Affirmation of Address If you are on a ‘long term visa’ (i.e. resident Visa - Non Imm visa or Thai Elite etc).... But, other Embassies are not so picky and will give you an Affirmation of Address even if you are on visa exempt.... Thus: Experiences vary...

Is it something exotic... or just a Honda or Toyota etc ? If the latter, then its just a car, keep it clean and don’t worry too much about it... As Gsxrnz mentioned... after the first stone chip it won’t matter to you so much. I look after our cars... but I don’t want to be ‘owned by the things I own’.... At a shopping mall get it cleaned... if you fancy it, get them to wax it while you shop... no need to over think it...

Brilliant story.... I recall arranging to get picked up by my Wife.... She was driving along Sukhumvit Rd.... Grey Car... we were on the phone, she said she was close... I saw her car as it stopped in traffic in front of me, I stepped to the car, opened the passenger door to get in..... ..... The poor girl in the passenger seat was horrified, it wasn’t my Wife... Just another girl in the same car !!!!

No I’m not sure... I’ve had plenty of cars and motorcycles of many years... but the ’specifics of ownership vs registration’ are not something I’ve looked into... hence why I asked the question... Is registration the same as ownership ??? - You seem very confident in your answer so it seems that the Blue Book does state ‘owner of the vehicle’ or ‘registered owner of the vehicle’ rather than 'vehicle registered to.....' So, I think we can close that question - you’ve answered it quite clearly. Name in blue book = owner.

I don’t know about that... We get speeding ticket & don’t pay them... nothing is ever done about it. This is one of those things where Thailand can excel one way or another. a) DLT deals with it very efficient and simply cancels the fine. b) Op ends up on a wild circular goose-chase. ------ Thailand is incredible how some simple things can become extremely convoluted and what we think may be convoluted, to our surprise are extremely efficient... such is the enigma that is Thailand.

Simple - Turn left when ‘safe to do so’... The oncoming traffic, turning to their right has ‘right of way’. *IF signage permits so, turn left when clear. *Not all junctions permit turning left at a red light, some junctions have signs which state ‘left turn on red prohibited’... Not really a big deal - If its clear, just turn left unless there is an obvious sign.

Seems they weren’t so bothered about you having your UK DL at a PO box !!!... and here we are discussing the issue in great detail, perhaps more detailed or bothered about it than the DVLA are !!! But, for the purposes of the discussion... there are unanswered questions. I'm still wondering... If I live at that UK address for 6 months a year is the UK DL Legal ? If I live at that UK address for 4 months a year is the UK DL Legal ? If I live at that UK address for 2 months a year is the UK DL Legal ? If I live at that UK address for 7 weeks a year is the UK DL Legal ? Is there a cut off ??? at which point the DVLA classify a person as ’not living at an address’ thus voiding their driving licence ????

Are you sure of that ??... He has receipts and can prove he purchase the car. The car is ‘registered' in the exGF’s name... Is registration the same as ownership ??? Do you know that ??? or are you assuming that ? He has receipts of purchase. You are making statements as if they are facts... Do you know this for certain, or are you guessing what my happen ? - which may or may not. IF the Op can prove ownership with receipts - would a court definitely rule in favour of who is in registration document ? Its always so easy for others to tell others to walk away from money... never so easy when its your own money.

Last year was worth 189k. Now it is worth even less. If old gf does not want to give you the register book, forget about it. This cheap car is not worth the trouble and money. Easiest solution, buy a new car in your name. You'd walk way from 189k baht ???... they probably see you coming !!... If the Op is buying a car for 189,000 baht, it's already because money is tight, otherwise he’d have bought something newer / better. So easy of you to tell someone else to walk away from over $5000.... outstanding advice. That amount of money maybe insignificant to a keyboard millionaire as yourself... to others, it matters.

I get that... but it also seems there is a ‘large grey area’... which may not even be a grey area. There is no mention of ’duration’ made by the DVLA as far as I can tell. Thus: for the purposes of the DVLA and holding a UK Driving Licence I have not yet seen anything which provides clarity and suggests that its incorrect or illegal to use our UK address if we stay at that same address intermittently throughout the year (i.e. twice per year, a few weeks in winter and a few weeks in summer).

I'm not sure the DVLA applies any relevance to ‘resident status’... Additionally - IF true and the UK DVLA were to stipulate that a person has to be a UK resident for a minimum of 183 days per year, then that would prevent all rotational workers from being able to get a UK licence.... (i.e. those working a month on and month off - i.e. O&G workers, those working on ships etc) This is obviously not the case.

Another point which may be relevant is as word we are throwing around... ‘Resident’... Does the DVLA state we must have resident status in the UK to hold a UK licence. OR, do we just have to have a UK address ? (i.e. are some people making up their own statements and presenting them as fact ?). The two separate terms ‘UK address' and 'Resident status’ have different implications.

Well, it appears you have a two UK licences... The Green&Pink Paper Licence (registered at your parents house) is no longer valid. It would be superseded by the Pink Licence which is registered at your ‘rental property’. Thus: I your case, I’d agree that no, you are not living at that property. IF your Pink Card Licence was registered at your parents property, you could claim that is your UK address (If my comments below are not incorrect). I’m not sure the payment of council tax has any relevance to the DVLA and licensing. Paying council tax also depends on your ‘earning status’ thus... IF not earning in the UK and living with your parents when in the UK - I don’t believe there is any requirement to pay council tax.

Is Japan really that expensive ??? - I don’t think its crazy expensive, or very very expensive. Its as affordable as decent resort in Thailand (i.e. SoSofite / Marriott etc...) 3 nights in Ginza - ¥56,700 / 14,700 Baht - not so expensive, thats a pretty average hotel though. Comparing like for like - Marriott in BKK is 7,600 Baht per night / Tokyo is 7,500 baht for the same nights. A Ski resort hotel is 42,000 baht for 7 nights (pretty average lodgings). Food is also reasonable... beer too... Of course, not as cheap as street food and you can’t find 500 baht a night rooms above a go-go bar (or at least I don’t think so)... but its not crazy expensive.

At one point this year I held legal residency in 3 separate countries outside of the UK. Example: Someone who works on Rotation in Dubai, has UAE residency, and can still live in the UK - thus the ‘work permit’ angle is not right. I could be work permitted in Thailand and travel back and forth to the UK, still living in the UK. Thus, our UK licence is not voided just because we have legal residency in another country. On this thread is seems some are ‘digging’ really hard to try and find a reason how someones UK Driving Licence may not be valid. So far, the only reason a UK driving license may not be valid is if someone doesn’t have, or no longer has a UK address at which to register the licence.

Does the DVLA give any mention of ‘permanent address’ ?? or is that ’your take on it’ ??? The DL has to be registered at a UK address.... I haven’t seen anything yet which would suggest having a UK driving licence registered to an address we live at ’sometimes’ (whenever in the UK) is illegal. There is no ’time stipulation’ which suggest we have to be living at that address for 6 months per year (or whatever) for the licence to be valid. Can the Inland Revenue use ’driving licence status' to decide your tax residency?... especially when you can prove you are not in the UK for more than 91 days per-year.

So? So.... It doesn’t seem that its illegal for those those who have a UK address and still have ties to it to have a UK licence. The tax resident part was simply to clarify that tax residency is not the same as having an address.

If your parents have joint names on their utility bills then you are not classified as living there if no utility bills have your name on them. So you can't keep your UK license registered to that address. Don't be silly... Plenty of people over the age of 18 still live with their parents. Using your logic any adult living at an address where the utility bills are in someone else’s name cannot have a driving licence.... I agree with your comment below... Don’t feed the troll... but that troll is you with the dumb flawed assumptions are peddling as fact...

I think we need to be clear on ‘resident’ and having an Address at which we sometimes live. i.e. I’m not a Tax resident in the UK... I’m not there for more than 91 days per year. But, I have a (UK) Bank Account and Driving Licence registered to my Parents UK address which I live at whenever I visit the UK. I know we are discussing the finer idiosyncrasies of the law and for the bigger picture it doesn't really matter too much, nevertheless, the discussion is somewhat interesting. So... I am wondering if my UK Driving License is in fact ‘legal’ as I do live at the address registered on my Driving Licence... Just not all year round. I suspect many of us fall within this a ‘grey area’..... where there is no specific answer.

Oh no... I'm beside myself...

do you really imagine that the police can not do their jobs? One of the prime jobs of the police is checking addresses. Now it is quite likely that if there is no serious need to check that it maybe such a low priority that they don’t spend the time , but they absolutely have the ability. Its a valid question... At a traffic stop, how can the police actually check if you reside at that address or not ??? I reside at my UK address for about 7 weeks per year - is there a time limit whereby its decided we ‘don’t’ reside there ????

Firstly, its mouth.... if you are going to fire a childish insult the best you can do is try to get it right... Also, I don’t use my ‘mouth’ to type, open or closed... !!! ???? Now... can’t you just accept the discussion like an adult without the emotional drama... ...some people are so far out there on the spectrum they can’t handle a simple discussion... Your original comments lacked clarity, hence the response you received - thats all... ... you were not clear that you had a UK Green & Pink Paper DL issued before 1998... You only mentioned that you had a Pink DL which led to the misunderstanding that yours was a Pink Card DL.... .. You have got angry, which you could have avoided if your comments in the first place were clear and unambiguous....

Done with you. Join that special list. Hilarious... you reply with something completely irrelevant, then get bent out of shape when the irrelevance is highlighted !!!..... and to top it off... “Ooooh... you go on my ignore list” as if lacking the emotional tools to handle a discussion is a win !!!... Now... Orinoco... if you take a step back from yourself... Kwilco may actually have helped you... The validity of a the Pink Driving Licence (card with photo) in the UK is 10 years.... ... Thus, what is the Expiry date on your UK Driving Licence (if you have had it for 20 years), have you renewed it every 10 years ? Mine was renewed in 2015 and will require another renewal in 2025.