Bought a used bike about a year ago, transferred into girlfriends name to save time. Normally all vehicles I religiously put in my name as I have been burnt before. Anyway, got the ridiculous residents letter from Imm, 1 hour of my life I will never get back....GF takes the bike and all the paperwork to our local transport office. She is transferring the bike to me, the bike is registered in my province. They sent her away because her ID / bluebook is in a neighboring province (2 hours away) and they say she needs to go to her office to do the transfer. I have never heard something so ridiculous in my life as when we bought the bike it was from a different province and we transferred without any problems. They told her you can transfer anywhere but only to the second owner after the bike is new. Transfers after the 2nd owner need to be done in the SELLERS home province....even though I will be the new owner, the bike is already registered in this province and the new owner (ME) reside in this province. Sounds like a total load of buck shifting claptrap to me. Has anyone experienced the same thing or know if this is correct? May be more understandable if they wanted the new owner to transfer it from their residing province, but the seller?

 

Any advice appreciated

23 minutes ago, Kenny202 said:

Bought a used bike about a year ago, transferred into girlfriends name to save time. Normally all vehicles I religiously put in my name as I have been burnt before. Anyway, got the ridiculous residents letter from Imm, 1 hour of my life I will never get back....GF takes the bike and all the paperwork to our local transport office. She is transferring the bike to me, the bike is registered in my province. They sent her away because her ID / bluebook is in a neighboring province (2 hours away) and they say she needs to go to her office to do the transfer. I have never heard something so ridiculous in my life as when we bought the bike it was from a different province and we transferred without any problems. They told her you can transfer anywhere but only to the second owner after the bike is new. Transfers after the 2nd owner need to be done in the SELLERS home province....even though I will be the new owner, the bike is already registered in this province and the new owner (ME) reside in this province. Sounds like a total load of buck shifting claptrap to me. Has anyone experienced the same thing or know if this is correct? May be more understandable if they wanted the new owner to transfer it from their residing province, but the seller?

 

Any advice appreciated

Can't help you, but we transfered a 3. Owner bike origin in Chiang Mai, 2. Owner Khonkaen and us Chaiyaphum.

 

So bullock, if not something else they just want a donation for the coffee found. Ask at motorcycle foreigner at Facebook. They useally knows and you get quick reliable answers 

Never heard of that, in Phuket they don't even want a proof of address from the seller at all, only buyer, just copy of ID and signed forms ..., but I heard some offices want that, but the scenario you are describing doesn't make sense..., if I'm a bit cynical I would say girlfriend doesn't want to transfer to your name with this excuse...!!!😜

 

Two options, use an agent to do it, some dealer shops or testing stations do it for about a couple of thou baht..., or get a power of attorney form and ask your girlfriend to sign it, then take all docs yourself to the office without her and try..., they are super helpful in Phuket office, and speak English...

Thanks for the replies. We had to do the 4 hour round trip yesterday but got it done. The woman at the country office was actually super helpful, even said no reason to wait, will call you when everything signed...so we went to the mall had a coffee and she actually DID call. Just about 3 full days to transfer an effing motorbike, I assume due to monumental laziness. Mrs did offer them some hurry up money and they said no go. GF wasn't difficult or trying to avoid transferring, if anything dumb in her dealings with our city office here. I'm up in Isaan and people here almost scared of govt officials and they play on it re go away and take your problems elsewhere. I seen them try and send an old farmer away one day because he had shorts on, disrespecting them they said 5555 (as if you could have any more contempt!) He'd just spent 2 hours on a bus and calmly turned around and was going to go back home again until a high ranking teacher also waiting in the queue intervened and put them in their place. BTW, I stated in my opening post that her ID was in a neighboring province.....her town is actually in the same province as us, albeit some distance away, which make the whole farce even more unbelievable.

did  you go with her, if so did you here her being  told this information

 

4 hours ago, steve187 said:

did  you go with her, if so did you here her being  told this information

 

Firstly "here" is spelt hear. You sound like Miss Marples trying to solve the Scooby Doo case, digging for dirt. For reasons that are besides the point, trivial and not worth explaining here (no conspiracy) it is 100% not in her interest to try and block the transfer, in fact it's 100% in her interest to transfer the bike to me. I been here over 12 years so this not my first rodeo.  

1 hour ago, Kenny202 said:

Firstly "here" is spelt hear. You sound like Miss Marples trying to solve the Scooby Doo case, digging for dirt. For reasons that are besides the point, trivial and not worth explaining here (no conspiracy) it is 100% not in her interest to try and block the transfer, in fact it's 100% in her interest to transfer the bike to me. I been here over 12 years so this not my first rodeo.  

soory teacher, never heard such utter lubish, have you ever fort English is not my thurst langwich

On 12/2/2025 at 11:29 AM, Kenny202 said:

Bought a used bike about a year ago, transferred into girlfriends name to save time. Normally all vehicles I religiously put in my name as I have been burnt before. Anyway, got the ridiculous residents letter from Imm, 1 hour of my life I will never get back....GF takes the bike and all the paperwork to our local transport office. She is transferring the bike to me, the bike is registered in my province. They sent her away because her ID / bluebook is in a neighboring province (2 hours away) and they say she needs to go to her office to do the transfer. I have never heard something so ridiculous in my life as when we bought the bike it was from a different province and we transferred without any problems. They told her you can transfer anywhere but only to the second owner after the bike is new. Transfers after the 2nd owner need to be done in the SELLERS home province....even though I will be the new owner, the bike is already registered in this province and the new owner (ME) reside in this province. Sounds like a total load of buck shifting claptrap to me. Has anyone experienced the same thing or know if this is correct? May be more understandable if they wanted the new owner to transfer it from their residing province, but the seller?

 

Any advice appreciated

 

How did you get a blue book for a bike anyway? 😉

 

 

The problem might have been that you didn't make the transfer yourself. As far as I'm aware, normally the buyer does the transfer.

 

I transferred a motorbike from a seller in another province about a year ago. I bought the bike here at a local dealer, but the motorbike was still in the seller's name.

 

I went to my local transport office with the certificate of residence, the sales contract, a power of attorney signed by the seller, a copy of the ID of the seller and the transfer forms. They first transferred the bike to my province. That took about a week. Then I had to come back to transfer it to my name. Everything went quite smoothly, except the waiting times 😉 

On 12/2/2025 at 9:51 PM, Agusts said:

Never heard of that, in Phuket they don't even want a proof of address from the seller at all, only buyer, just copy of ID and signed forms ..., but I heard some offices want that, but the scenario you are describing doesn't make sense..., if I'm a bit cynical I would say girlfriend doesn't want to transfer to your name with this excuse...!!!😜

 

Two options, use an agent to do it, some dealer shops or testing stations do it for about a couple of thou baht..., or get a power of attorney form and ask your girlfriend to sign it, then take all docs yourself to the office without her and try..., they are super helpful in Phuket office, and speak English...

My experience is that the seller never needs a PoR, only the buyer needs one.