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Same as in every other country.

There have never been laws specifying the maximum tint in Thailand, there were going to be regulations introduced in 2000 but those plans were abandoned.

Police officers have the authority to use their discretion and just issue a warning for any offence at any time.

Why?

Actually, not "that simple", I haven't needed a seat belt in 71 years and I haven't died yet. I do use them, but they have never been brought into effect.

Obviously not, bikes don't have to have seat belts.

It only works until they are defrocked and arrested, being ordained doesn't prevent arrest.

I am not sure where the term Suicide doors term come from, They are not more dangerous than normal doors and I would believe normal doors has caused more motorbike and bicycle accidents than the Suicide styled. The only thing I can think of it it came out of irony if some one manage to open the door in 200km/h and hold the door handle so hard they would been thrown out of the car. I wasn't referring to the safety of the doors, by "suicide" I was referring to the lack of safety for those who choose to be passengers in an area with no safety measures whatsoever.

Is the blue book in the deceased's name? I don't know. but it's safe to presume that it is in his name in view of the thread topic. Why else would there be an issue of ownership transfer to someone else?

Seat appears to match the rest of the cab....I am pretty sure it was fitted in the factory! He's not referring to the seats, he's referring to the [absence of] seat belts in the rear area which are not supplied, nor available, from the factory or the dealer. That's because, whatever they look like, they're not intended for passenger use, if they were they'd have belts!

Having loose, unrestrained cargo piled high on that bench seat would be dangerous for the driver ! The rear seat is designed for passengers by Toyota, Isuzu etc ( after all, parcels don’t need a padded seat) and my (made in Thailand) Hilux back in Australia has seat belts fitted in the rear. Smart cabs here are sold has cargo vehicles and incur less tax than 4 door pickups or cars, that’s why there are no seat belts fitted. I wouldn’t be surprised if the mounting points are there though, just hidden under the plastic trim. Otherwise the vehicle makers would have to retool just to make a Thai version of the same car body’s, probably cheaper to just hide the mounting points. "Having loose, unrestrained cargo piled high on that bench seat would be dangerous for the driver" No more dangerous than loose, unrestrained passengers in an accident! "The rear seat is designed for passengers by Toyota, Isuzu etc ( after all, parcels don’t need a padded seat)" No, it isn't. If it was designed specifically for passengers, the manufacturer would be required by law to provide seat belts. Using the rear cab area of extended cab pickups (not double cabs) for passengers is illegal in Thailand, regardless of whether they are frequently used that way. "my (made in Thailand) Hilux back in Australia has seat belts fitted in the rear". This is Thailand, not Australia and Thai regulations apply here, not Australian regs where different specifications may be required.

By that same reasoning cars in the mountain areas should have cold/hot air-con but they don't. What? You've got an odd idea of the concept of reasoning There's no connection between the reason (not the reasoning) for there being no belts in the rear of extended cab pickups and your opinion that cars should have heaters just because some may be driven to cooler areas. (By the way, some cars sold in Thailand do have heaters).

Are you going to tell the people sitting in those seats that, or shall I? I'll tell them or you can tell them, I don't care. Just because passengers can sit there doesn't mean that it is legal to do so. There's a reason why none of those "seats" are equipped with seat belts from the factory or are dealer supplied.

I know how they work. I didn't say that those doors are dangerous, I just referred to what that that type of door is commonly called.

There are no seatbelts in the back of any extended/Smart cab.

"Oh you are a drama queen ..." Oh, you are awful. You like that term, don't you? It's the second time that you've used it in almost as many replies. You don't drag a chair mincingly behind you while you're saying that do you?! Only kidding, don't see your a_rse! It's not just me that refers to them as "suicide doors", it's a widely used term.

Trading your passengers' safety to save a bit of tax while you've got airbags and belts, good man! Those suicide rear doors providing access to that rear space are well-named from a passengers perspective.

Not on my PC, it isn't. Not on mine, either, but it always will be as far as I'm concerned.

Have you tried using the internet that you're using to post that question or calling them using the contact details that are online? Rhetorical question. You can change your account details online when you log in to your account. If you don't have a BoA account, they don't need your address to process your pension payment to a bank. Citibank is used to process my pension and they have no idea what my address is, neither do they care.

No idea, have a look at their website. The specifications section will tell you that they don't have rear seat belts while the double cabs with proper rear seats do have belts

So what is the seat for? Whatever you want to use it for. Are you suggesting that just because those vehicles are fitted with the world's most ridiculously uncomfortable thing-that-looks-a-bit-like-a-seat and next to no legroom that they are intended for rear passenger use? They have double cabs for that.

So why is there a seat/bench there then? Cargo, presumably. If it was meant for passengers they would be fitted with belts and mounting points from the factory, as required by law (as the double-cab versions are).

So your stepson doesn't have a "recent" Nissan pickup, after all!

Not a "myth" going by the posts of others above who have encountered same issue. This is Thaivisa and most posters Thai-bash with delight here; my daily experience of Bangkok taxis (not the clapped-out old ones that still struggle on) is that they do have useable rear belts and that it is a myth that they don't (as with the "belching buses" myth). There is no rational reason for taxis' passenger belts to be disabled. Maybe those who make the claim about unuseable taxi rear seat belts could post pictures of those offending taxis?

They're not designed to carry passengers there, so they don't need to be equipped with belts.