Imported used cars will be banned next month, here’s what you need to know

[ChipButty]

5 minutes ago, ezzra said:

I can think of a 100 ways to improve the air quality in BKK other than stopping the importation of used cars, but here in this country everything is done backward and with no real knowledge of what they do...

I wonder how many imported cars per year? and who is importing them

[Don Mega]

4 minutes ago, Rookiescot said:

MotoGP is going to be pretty dull next year.

Why ?

[Just Weird]

1 hour ago, zhounan said:

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The import of specialised used vehicles such as tractors, cranes and vehicles donated to government, state enterprises, charity organisations e.g. ambulances and fire trucks will be allowed under Ministry of Commerce’s guidelines.

Are they sending a message to Japan and China?

Give us your used public transport!!!

How could they be doing that when public transport vehicles were not mentioned?

[Just Weird]

12 minutes ago, Rookiescot said:

MotoGP is going to be pretty dull next year.

Cars are used in MotoGP races now, are they?

[worgeordie]

It says 2nd hand cars cannot be imported for "Personal  use",

so does that mean you can import one for someone else,maybe

a loophole.

regards Worgeordie

[Rookiescot]

47 minutes ago, Just Weird said:

Cars are used in MotoGP races now, are they?

Safety car.

[Misterwhisper]

And once again I am just shaking my head in utter disbelief.

 

What is the owner of an imported second-hand vehicle supposed to do now? He or she cannot sell it because there won't be any buyers. Just scrap it then?

 

How about vintage cars? A lot of them once upon a time were imported as used vehicles from countries like the UK. I just recently saw a 1946 Armstrong limousine undergoing painstaking restoration in a garage in my neighborhood, which specializes in this type of work and in fact is well-known Thailand-wide among car collectors. Will that marvelous vehicle now have to be destroyed just because it was imported in the early 1950's as a second-hand car?

 

I also have to seriously question that a driver behind the wheel of a 10-year old, souped-up Nissan pick-up truck will make Thailand's roads safer and cause less air pollution than the driver of a 10-year-old imported second-hand Mercedes, BMW or Volvo.   

[nong38]

You must be punished!! Only the ministers allowed to do, you must be punished with big fines.

If we take imported cars off the roads then no more accidents and deaths.

[ThomasThBKK]

1 minute ago, Misterwhisper said:

And once again I am just shaking my head in utter disbelief.

 

What is the owner of an imported second-hand vehicle supposed to do now? He or she cannot sell it because there won't be any buyers. Just scrap it then?

 

How about vintage cars? A lot of them once upon a time were imported as used vehicles from countries like the UK. I just recently saw a 1946 Armstrong limousine undergoing painstaking restoration in a garage in my neighborhood, which specializes in this type of work and in fact is well-known Thailand-wide among car collectors. Will that marvelous vehicle now have to be destroyed just because it was imported in the early 1950's as a second-hand car?

 

I also have to seriously question that a driver behind the wheel of a 10-year old, souped-up Nissan pick-up truck will make Thailand's roads safer and cause less air pollution than the driver of a 10-year-old imported second-hand Mercedes, BMW or Volvo.   

Yeah they completely killed out that market including jobs in the vintage car scene, absolutely brilliantly stupid. I can't even find words...

[Don Mega]

5 minutes ago, Rookiescot said:

Safety car.

They should be able to get a few years out of the BMW before they switch to a locally built vehicle.

[Don Mega]

5 minutes ago, Misterwhisper said:

And once again I am just shaking my head in utter disbelief.

 

What is the owner of an imported second-hand vehicle supposed to do now? He or she cannot sell it because there won't be any buyers. Just scrap it then?

 

 

 

 

Why would there be no buyers, if anything something already imported would become more desirable.

[Don Mega]

7 minutes ago, Misterwhisper said:

 

How about vintage cars? A lot of them once upon a time were imported as used vehicles from countries like the UK. I just recently saw a 1946 Armstrong limousine undergoing painstaking restoration in a garage in my neighborhood, which specializes in this type of work and in fact is well-known Thailand-wide among car collectors. Will that marvelous vehicle now have to be destroyed just because it was imported in the early 1950's as a second-hand car?

 

 

Did actually read the article ?

[Just Weird]

11 minutes ago, Rookiescot said:

1 hour ago, Just Weird said:

Cars are used in MotoGP races now, are they?

Safety car.

That would be the safety car that is brought into Thailand just for the race by the organisers?  That is not "importing a used car for personal use"!

[metempsychotic]

5 minutes ago, Don Mega said:

Did actually read the article ?

why should that be a prerequisite to posting here? it most certainly never has been before.

commenting solely on the headline is sufficient surely?

[Isaanbiker]

2 hours ago, darksidedog said:

And what will happen to the vehicles that are en route already and began their journey before this ban was announced? Such a piece of legislation should really have had a much more lengthy warning before coming into effect. Don't know what caused it, but as is so often the case, seems to be an ill thought through knee jerk reaction, with protection for the domestic industry probably figuring more highly than emissions..

But you can still "donate" a luxury car for Pinocchio.

Or some watches for his left hand.

The country and its laws are gettin' in_ane. 

[Deli]

Looks like Pyongyang is more flexible now there here.

[Chazar]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

aims to reduce air pollution and improve safety on the roads.

claptrap

[Chazar]

2 hours ago, Vacuum said:

Who the heck will import a vehicle and then donate it to the government?

anyone who wants to get the contract????

[Chazar]

2 hours ago, thequietman said:

Import your Lambo, list it on documents as a tractor

They did actually make tractors once

[Myran]

I think the headline of the article is downright wrong and the quote taken out of context. I very much doubt that "imported used vehicles" will be banned from the date in question – meaning all vehicles imported in the past will be scrapped.

 

Instead, it must be a case of "the import of used vehicles" being banned at that date, meaning you can't legally import these vehicles after this date, which is very different. Cars already imported legally would therefore not be affected.

[Samuel Smith]

3 minutes ago, Chazar said:

They did actually make tractors once

Still do

 

https://www.lamborghini-tractors.com/en-ea/tractors/full-range

[ThomasThBKK]

41 minutes ago, Don Mega said:

They should be able to get a few years out of the BMW before they switch to a locally built vehicle.

https://www.bmwgroup-werke.com/rayong/en.html

 

BMW manufactures in Rayong, most models here you see are local.

[tracker1]

I think it is becoming a new fitness regime come up with a stupid statement then start doing backflips ! Uncle Tu started this !!!

[DefaultName]

No one is going to pay the high cost and fees to import a rusty, polluting, old banger.  The vast majority of imports are high-end and well maintained.

 

Say what you want, but this will not help road safety or air quality.  The Thai car manufacturers must be rubbing their hands though.

[Don Mega]

1 minute ago, ThomasThBKK said:

https://www.bmwgroup-werke.com/rayong/en.html

 

BMW manufactures in Rayong, most models here you see are local.

Yeah, nice one.

 

The person I replied to was talking about the safety vehicle used at the motoGP... it was an M8 and it aint made here.

[josephbloggs]

2 hours ago, J Town said:

ANOTHER reason to give Thailand a "Pass - no thank you, I'll try another country."

You would not visit a country because they don't allow people to import used cars?  Really????

 

And people on here complain about knee jerk reactions/decisions from Thais.

[overherebc]

27 minutes ago, Samuel Smith said:

Still do

 

https://www.lamborghini-tractors.com/en-ea/tractors/full-range

And, in UK the DB initials stands for David Brown who made tractors in UK and supplied engines to Aston Martin

[MRToMRT]

I think everyone is misreading this. It says for personal use, that does not include an importer that can verify the goods meet all Thai standards. In that way its a good move because it get rid of all those grey market modified hi-so wagons that were imported as spares and rebuilt by somchai.

Its simply about a) ensuring compliance and b) taxation. 

 

 

[a10ams]

No big deal. It was a hugely expensive and time consuming exercise anyway.

 

Very very few cases where it was done legally and cost effective.

 

Cheaper to restore something that is already here.

[Moonlover]

3 hours ago, Vacuum said:

3 hours ago, webfact said:

The import of specialised used vehicles such as tractors, cranes and vehicles donated to government, state enterprises, charity organisations e.g. ambulances and fire trucks will be allowed

 

3 hours ago, Vacuum said:

Who the heck will import a vehicle and then donate it to the government?

Probably a translation slip. 'dedicated' or destined' are the more likely words. It happens.