Went to transfer my recently purchased bike into my name,  done it plenty of times before,  produced my yellow book which is from phetchaubun and was told I wouldn't be able to use it to transfer my bike in Chiang Mai.  Had to go to phetchaubun to do it or get a letter from immigration for my address verification (trip to Bangkok for Australian?) 

 

Bit of a bummer,  they just said "new rule".  I noticed it's been getting progressively harder to register vehicles last few years,  the last time I did this was in April and they said the same thing but let it slide. I did buy a condo in June with same yellow book no problem.  

 

Any ideas around this? I'm not too worried,  I can put it in my son's name easy enough. 

Just get a Certificate of Residence from your embassy or consulate, or the immigration office that you do your 90 day reports. 

I don't do 90 day reports and my embassy is in Bkk.... Annoying that I have had a yellow book for 15 years no problem but now.... 

They should mail you the Cert by EMS. It's a very common document. Everybody needs one when they get a Thai driving license, or buy a car, motorbike or condo if they don't have a yellow book or get extensions at immigration. 

 

 

It makes perfect sense actually, the bike should be registered where you live.

Silly thing isn't it, this law they have.

Did you try and change the documents out of chiang mai?  When i purchased a second hand bikein chiang mai with my yellow book everything stayed the same except my chonburi address was added to the green book. It takes a day or two then they mailed it to me. Basically i had the original CM plate and book with my name in thai and chonburi address