Importing salvaged/written off car to Thailand

[Jonesy99]

Anybody have any experience of importing a salvaged/written off car to Thailand?

 

Also interested in how the re-registration process works?

 

btw I have been here a while, I know the deal with customs and car import duties etc for new/used cars. This post is specifically about salvaged/written-off vehicles.

 

Thanks!

[canthai55]

Complete front clips are sold in Chinatown BKK

If that ain't a write-off I do not know what is.

Check there

[Just Weird]

A salvaged/written-off car is just a used car and subject to the same regulations that you know about, why would it be anything else.?

[Enoon]

 

While you are waiting for replies you could have read of this:

 

How Would Thai Customs Value A Badly Accident Damaged Car Import ...

 

 

[canthai55]

47 minutes ago, Just Weird said:

A salvaged/written-off car is just a used car and subject to the same regulations that you know about, why would it be anything else.?

As said above - complete front clips sold in BKK. Most from Japan where their is an age limit on vehicles - 10 years ? Can't remember.

Purchased here to replace engine or transmission if damaged, and come complete. Base of windshield to front of radiator. You will get a bill of sale listing serial numbers, swap your old engine for the new one, down to DLT, inspect the engine number, amend blue book.

Got a Lexus 4-cam V8 this way, put it into a 1963 Chevy pickup.

Good to go.

[Just Weird]

5 hours ago, canthai55 said:

As said above - complete front clips sold in BKK. 

Yes, I know that, had an JDM H22A myself that way but what's that got to do with how whole write-offs are treated for personal imports?

[Just Weird]

6 hours ago, Enoon said:

 

While you are waiting for replies you could have read of this:

 

How Would Thai Customs Value A Badly Accident Damaged Car Import …

That's a 5-tear old thread with no answers to this OP.

[NanLaew]

13 hours ago, Just Weird said:

That's a 5-tear old thread with no answers to this OP.

OK, maybe come back in another 5 years and see how THIS thread has fared?

[KittenKong]

Surely there are enough wrecks on the road in Thailand already? No need to import more.

[mike324]

you can't re-register a imported salvage car period. They have closed the loop hole of re-registering a car from imported parts couple years ago too. If you are trying to get a registration, folks have been using salvage cars in Thailand with a blue book, cutting out the chassis number and rewelding it on the donor car. 

 

Importing a salvage car is basically just paying the tax for car parts which is around 30% if I remember correctly. Salvage cars needs to be cut in half, you will not be able to import a whole salvage car.