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[ToddinChonburi]

400 baht ticket if you get stopped at check point and book not filled out.  Talked my way out of the ticket the first time.  No one explain brown book at dealer.

[JAS21]

1 hour ago, ToddinChonburi said:

400 baht ticket if you get stopped at check point and book not filled out.  Talked my way out of the ticket the first time.  No one explain brown book at dealer.

You were done ...we paid 200thb ...there again 400thb for getting caught twice suppose is the ssme ... are you a local...

[Cyclone88]

8 hours ago, gandalf12 said:

And most times you do not get the proper plate within 30 days. It is stupid to have to get temporary plates when the car showroom could make then while you wait.

Not stupid at all. The dealers nor anyone else can make plates.

The only plates on any vehicle are issued by the government and are embossed with a governent stamp. Any other plate you get made is illegal.

[gandalf12]

23 minutes ago, Cyclone88 said:

Not stupid at all. The dealers nor anyone else can make plates.

The only plates on any vehicle are issued by the government and are embossed with a governent stamp. Any other plate you get made is illegal.

Of course it is stupid. There is no necessity for the government to make the plate they can issue a registration number and have the showroom make up the plates. That is what happens in the UK. You don't wait for weeks to get the plate from the government

[HHTel]

4 hours ago, gandalf12 said:

Of course it is stupid. There is no necessity for the government to make the plate they can issue a registration number and have the showroom make up the plates. That is what happens in the UK. You don't wait for weeks to get the plate from the government

I think you forget that you're in Thailand.  Giving permission for private companies to make up licence plates is a recipe for disaster.

[gandalf12]

8 hours ago, HHTel said:

I think you forget that you're in Thailand.  Giving permission for private companies to make up licence plates is a recipe for disaster.

We are talking about the main dealers here not a a second hand wheeler dealer.

[transam]

57 minutes ago, gandalf12 said:

We are talking about the main dealers here not a a second hand wheeler dealer.

The guv issued plates have Guv seal logo pressed into the corner of the plate so naughty folk can't fabricate their own for naughty purposes. A plate without the logo is illegal.

A main agent has employees that "could" fabricate dodgy plates on the side...

[gandalf12]

7 minutes ago, transam said:

The guv issued plates have Guv seal logo pressed into the corner of the plate so naughty folk can't fabricate their own for naughty purposes. A plate without the logo is illegal.

A main agent has employees that "could" fabricate dodgy plates on the side...

Yes that us always possible but so is the fabrication of a new number by anyone who has the facilities to do it. In your home country who makes the number plates? The number comes from the authorities but the actual making of the plate come from where?

[transam]

4 minutes ago, gandalf12 said:

Yes that us always possible but so is the fabrication of a new number by anyone who has the facilities to do it. In your home country who makes the number plates? The number comes from the authorities but the actual making of the plate come from where?

It doesn't matter what other countries do, it matters what the LOS Guv does to prevent dodgy plates. As I said, plates without the Guv stamp are illegal and will have a prob with the BiB..

[gandalf12]

7 minutes ago, transam said:

It doesn't matter what other countries do, it matters what the LOS Guv does to prevent dodgy plates. As I said, plates without the Guv stamp are illegal and will have a prob with the BiB..

What they do does not necessarily make it sensible.