I want to move a number plate from a car we own to another car that we own that is on a red plate. It appears that this is not possible.

 

Apparently  the car on the red plate need to be registered and allocated a number plate first and then do a swap.  Does anyone know if this is correct please.

 

YES of course it is a 'lucky' number on the plate!!. If we have to wait for that number to  be available again at the LTO it could be many months which is basically a no no.  

1 hour ago, JAS21 said:

I want to move a number plate from a car we own to another car that we own that is on a red plate. It appears that this is not possible.

 

Apparently  the car on the red plate need to be registered and allocated a number plate first and then do a swap.  Does anyone know if this is correct please.

Yep, if you've got a new car with a red plate it needs registering.

 

The dealer who sold you the new car should sort the registration. Our Revo took 8 weeks from purchase to final registration.

 

I brought my Lanny over from the UK and went to register it. The temporary red plate number was '999'

 

How pissed-off was I that I got my 'proper' plate before a red plate was issued!

 

1 hour ago, JAS21 said:

 

YES of course it is a 'lucky' number on the plate!!. If we have to wait for that number to  be available again at the LTO it could be many months which is basically a no no.

Keep the old car with personalised plate till your new car registration arrives. 8 weeks from purchase, red plate to final registration. You are going to have to wait.

14 minutes ago, grollies said:

Yep, if you've got a new car with a red plate it needs registering.

 

The dealer who sold you the new car should sort the registration. Our Revo took 8 weeks from purchase to final registration.

 

I brought my Lanny over from the UK and went to register it. The temporary red plate number was '999'

 

How pissed-off was I that I got my 'proper' plate before a red plate was issued!

 

Keep the old car with personalised plate till your new car registration arrives. 8 weeks from purchase, red plate to final registration. You are going to have to wait.

Yes and No ... thanks.  My wife will register the new car, same as she did the last one. It's very easy to do and I don't see why others don't do it. The required pieces of paper  will be ready, from the dealer, within the next two weeks. So can register it any time after then.

 

Honda wanted 4500thb to do the registration. And they are the most expensive Red Plates that we have ever had, 5000thb deposit, of course returned when we return them back to the dealer.

 

This time am determined to avoid even one fine for forgetting to complete the Brown Book. Last time just one fine ... 200thb... from a smiley smiley Mr BIB

16 hours ago, grollies said:

 

I brought my Lanny over from the UK and went to register it. The temporary red plate number was '999'

 

How pissed-off was I that I got my 'proper' plate before a red plate was issued!

 

 

Did you successfully privately import a car from UK?  Can you detail how that went, a lot of us would be very interested in view of the general Thaivisa notion that importing is as near as damn it impossible?

 

"How pissed-off was I that I got my 'proper' plate before a red plate was issued!"

Red plates are normally dealer-issued temporary plates, aren't they, but you say that your import had one ('999') issued after the LTD issued the permanent plate?  Why did the LTD do that?