Is there anyway on God's Earth I can import my car from the UK? It's 6 moths old and registered in my name.

You can, but the cost may be prohibitive.

 

Shipping and import duty etc. I would suggest you talk directly with Customs and get it from the horses mouth so to speak.

 

Thai Customs dept.

http://www.customs.go.th

Lots of useful info on the website

Telephone: Customs Care : 1164 

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For more information, please contact:

 

Customs Service Center

Chalermprakiat 7 Building, 1st floor, 
Customs Department,

Soonthornkosa Road,

Khlong Toei Subdistrict,

Khlong Toei District,

Bangkok 10110, 
Phone: 1164 
Email: [email protected]

 

 

10 minutes ago, CharlieH said:

You can, but the cost may be prohibitive.

 

Shipping and import duty etc. I would suggest you talk directly with Customs and get it from the horses mouth so to speak.

 

Thai Customs dept.

http://www.customs.go.th

Lots of useful info on the website

Telephone: Customs Care : 1164 

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For more information, please contact:

 

Customs Service Center

Chalermprakiat 7 Building, 1st floor, 
Customs Department,

Soonthornkosa Road,

Khlong Toei Subdistrict,

Khlong Toei District,

Bangkok 10110, 
Phone: 1164 
Email: [email protected]

 

 

Thanks for making the effort to respond. I'll get she who must be obeyed to give them a call.

Just now, Surelynot said:

Thanks for making the effort to respond. I'll get she who must be obeyed to give them a call.

They speak excellent English, I would speak to them yurself. Ask what you need, nothing gets lost in translation that way.

6 minutes ago, CharlieH said:

They speak excellent English, I would speak to them yurself. Ask what you need, nothing gets lost in translation that way.

Oh! Even better. Will do Cheers.

1 hour ago, Surelynot said:

Is there anyway on God's Earth I can import my car from the UK? It's 6 moths old and registered in my name.

Forget it, sell it and buy one here.

Mmmm. Tax looks horrendous. You might be right.

I thought that all imports of used cars had been banned since last year.

https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30378880

 

I also read it on Thaivisa - so it must be true ...

 

4 hours ago, Surelynot said:

Is there anyway on God's Earth I can import my car from the UK? It's 6 moths old and registered in my name.

as a California car person and ex Range Rover person I can tell you it is crazy expensive.

not worth bringing anything in.

Thailand is the land of plain Jane vanilla cars for just this reason. 

nothing creative nothing unusual or just a plain old Porsche or Vet or anything is allowed to be imported unless you pay big money and anyone with big money just buys their car in Bangkok.

for 2 to 3 times what it cost in Los Angeles.

 

the classic car shows in Thailand are full of junk.

the Friday night local classic car show at Bob's Big Boy Hamburger parking lot near NBC in Burbank Ca has more cool cars than all of Thailand.  

 

 

CharlieH being particularly devious with his reply..., brilliant ! 

 

we’re two days early though... 

Sell it on.......Very few agents to fix the thing...

Think I am doomed. Going to (try to) sell it when I go back this summer. Cheers