I suspect I’m not the first to be in this situation –

• 2^nd November – fly out of Thailand
• 24^th November – road tax / sticker renewal date
• 26^th November – car insurance renewal date
• 9^th December – estimated return date to Thailand

- and so I am trying to work out if and how I can get the vehicle taxed before I go, or after I come back.

I know I will need at least the compulsory motor insurance for the year ahead and normally I get that with my full insurance cover. So I suppose I could organise an early insurance renewal to get the necessary bit of paper.

But I don’t know how early I can go to the DLT (in Chiang Mai) or whether there is a grace period after the due date. (And I presume I couldn't legally drive an untaxed vehicle to the DLT to renew.)

Any advice gratefully appreciated. Thanks.

Don't you have an insurance agent (full insurance) that will do the job for you?

I never visited DLT to pay tax in person.

All done by the insurance agent.

Sticker/road tax can be renewed 1 month before expiry. Insurance can also be renewed at least 1 month before expiry.

You can do it when you get back and they back-date the road tax with a small daily penalty (I delayed renewing on a motorbike for almost 1 year since it wasn't being used and I didn't declare it as being off-road and the penalty was about 200 baht).

Don't forget you'll need to have the car checked over at a testing station before you can renew the road tax if it's over 5 (?) years old.

And some testing stations will also go to collect your road tax for you for a small fee (although you need to leave your blue book with them...which could easily be copied...).

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Don't forget you'll need to have the car checked over at a testing station before you can renew the road tax if it's over 5 (?) years old.

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It's 7 years.

Sophon

The testing stations are the ones that do everything for me. If you have your insurance. A small fee is worth not having to deal with the hassle.

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Don't forget you'll need to have the car checked over at a testing station before you can renew the road tax if it's over 5 (?) years old.

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It's 7 years.

Sophon

5 years for motorbikes.

you can renew tax 3 months prior to finish, get your compulsory insurance before you get the tax

It can all be renewed 3 months before it expires.

Well to be pedantic..its 90 days not 3 months.

I was looking for how early one can pay road tax before expiry date (90 days based on this).  Thank you.

 

By the way, we also had the situation when insurance due date and road tax was on different dates.  We asked the insurance company to make our car insurance (have them handling both compulsory and comprehensive) due dates the same as the road tax date so we could reduce the number of dates we have to remember (making life a little easier). The OP has only 2 days difference so I not to worry, but we had a couple of months difference.

Pay late, pay a small fine. I paid two years in one time. No problemo.