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    Quote Originally Posted by toddaniels View Post
    Terry; Just how do you rate a "dam time consuming process in Bangkok"?

    I was out at the Dept of Land Transport across from Suk Soi 62 with three people the other week. All of them got their temporary one year licenses in about 2 hours..

    IF you have a valid Oz license you need;
    • b/s health certificate from ANY clinic
    • Stat Dec form from your embassy stating your address
    • current d/l
    • passport..
    The above, some common sense (as in showing up right when they open so you get into one of the first group of test takers) and you're done..

    There's NO driving part, no written test just those 4 reaction/perception tests. Sometimes they don't even make foreigners sit thru the good driver/bad driver movie 45 minute movie, even though they should.

    It is hardly by any wild stretch of the imagination a time consuming process.

    Christ you wasted more time than that on this forum asking every question known to man about how to get a yearly extension of stay based on retirement inside the country, only to go and get a year long Non-0A in Oz.
    Agreed, no big deal to get a license. I got mine to have ID, since I only carried a photo copy of my passport. It paid for its self many times over by getting the local price at national parks.

    Every DLT is different- the Chiang Mai DLT had me sit through the good/bad driver movie, but that was five years ago.

    OT but applicable- I offered to help a buddy get a retirement visa, but he was adamant that it was 'too complicated' and that foreigners simply can't do it on their own. He paid a fixer 20,000 baht and felt that it was a fair deal. I never mentioned it again until I saw him about five years later and he broached the subject: "Hey, I got my last (retirement) extension of stay myself, only 1,900 for the visa and 1,000 for the Income Letter from the US embassy!" (Letter used to be cheaper.)

    Me: "No shit? You can really do it on your own, with out depositing 800k in a Thai bank or paying bribes or having a police colonel buddy make a call?"

    He missed the irony

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    I guess I should preface ALL my posts with "My experience is ONLY in Bangkok" but what I'm sayin' works at the Department of Land Transport across from Sukhumvit Soi 62 or out at the main office in Chatuchak..

    IF you hold a valid drivers license from your country you don't do anything but the 4 b/s tests;
    • Chopsticks in a shoe box; move a joystick until both chopsticks are side by side, hold up your hand
    • Color blindness; say, red-yellow-green while the officer lights up lights on a traffic light. Beware ANY color can show at any position in the light tree, red ain't always on top.
    • Reaction time; press the gas pedal and before the needle on the speedometer gets to the red line press the brake pedal
    • Peripheral vision; while staring straight ahead, say red-yellow-green as the officer changes light colors on the side of the apparatus (and while pressing the bridge your nose against the VERY greasy nose rest everyone uses)..
    Watch the good driver/bad driver movie (which as thai movies go isn't as bad as a thai lakorn.

    DONE.

    You can either go with a Stat Dec from your embassy, a work permit, OR if you do 90 day reporting in Bangkok, Immigrations at Chaengwattana will send you proof of residence for 200 baht.. (It used to be free and done on demand, until a few years ago. It takes about a week to get your letter via EMS).

    Again, ONLY in BANGKOK...

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    Lancelot;
    In equally OFF-TOPIC News..

    I just heard a rumor that again someone got caught out issuing back door visas from an undisclosed immigrations office. They have been transferred to an inactive post (or so rumor has it)...

    Now the visa stamps and extension stamps were real, BUT they were secured under false pretenses (as in improper documentation).. All the visas & extensions that person issued via the back door channel were canceled, without notifying the people who have those visas/extensions in their passport..

    It won't come up until they either try to leave the country or try to renew an extension next year. This could be serious because having an illegally acquired extension stamp and or visa is way worse than just being on overstay!!

    Careful using "fixerz", because while some actually follow the rules, a LOT don't.. The burden of the liability is on the person whose passport has the extension in it, NOT on the person who got it for you.....

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    Just came across this thread and realized my 5 year car and bike licenses are a few months out of date.

    Bit busy, so gonna renew it next month down Sukhumvit Soi 62.

    As it was over 5 years back since I renewed, can anyone in the know please tell me what kind of tests I should encounter this time around concerning renewing a 5 year car and motorbike license?

    Cheers in advance.
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    @Toddaniels,

    No problema and yes, all DLTs have their own 'interpretations' of the rules, same as Immigration.

    Yeah fixers can be rogues and if they are caught, then their 'clients' are also in trouble as well.

    I voted with my feet and left Thailand, so if some guys wana proclaim that the only way to extend one's retirement stay is to deposit 800k in the bank or use a fixer, its fine by me

    @Bogon The last time I renewed my car and bike license in Chiang Mai, I waited until they expired and it was no problem at all- I received five years and 11 months until the next renewal, TIT

    Just telling you my experience and remember that for one's insurance to be in order, one must have a 'valid' Thai DL.

    Good luck

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lancelot View Post
    @Toddaniels,

    No problema and yes, all DLTs have their own 'interpretations' of the rules, same as Immigration.
    My local DLT lets me use a LoR from my local Tambon office in lieu of a LoR from the local Immigration Office....a saving of 500 Baht

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    ^ Nice, learn the system and work it to your advantage

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    ^^^

    Cheers for the info Lancelot.

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    Here's one I found out yesterday.

    At the Dept of Land Transport across from Suk Soi 62 there's a motor bike guy sitting there who will take a copy of your passport and go get you a medical certificate without you! He said it takes 10 minutes, I didn't ask about the price, just had him ask me if I needed one..

    Go figure, amazing thailand...

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    Quote Originally Posted by toddaniels
    Go figure, amazing thailand...
    And some people want to return to the over .......... western world. Truly amazing.

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    HoHo you must be one of those "gone native" foreigners I see shambling around here from time to time, spouting how they live like a thai in a shack up in a one buffalo village in Nakhon Nowhere..

    To a person they have lost the plot.. Have you?

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    Quote Originally Posted by toddaniels View Post
    HoHo you must be one of those "gone native" foreigners I see shambling around here from time to time, spouting how they live like a thai in a shack up in a one buffalo village in Nakhon Nowhere..

    To a person they have lost the plot.. Have you?
    There's a number of those 'gone native' living on Little Koh Chang.

    Like a time-warp thing!

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    Quote Originally Posted by toddaniels View Post

    To a person they have lost the plot.. Have you?
    Apparently you know the plot....care to illuminate the masses?

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    Fuckin Iam coming to BKK to get me bike licence.

    Cunts here in Pattaya make you do the theory test and riding test and all that other eye test shit and the video....

    It is a whole day ordeal as long as you get there atleast 1 hour before opening time....

    If not then you gotta come back the next day to finish up.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fondles View Post
    Fuckin Iam coming to BKK to get me bike licence.

    Cunts here in Pattaya make you do the theory test and riding test and all that other eye test shit and the video....

    It is a whole day ordeal as long as you get there atleast 1 hour before opening time....

    If not then you gotta come back the next day to finish up.
    You only need to take the full test if you don't have a FULL licence for your home Country .

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    I have a car licence from Oz.

    I had to do the whole shebang to get a Thai licence.

    I do not have an Oz motorbike licence, I will not put myself up for that ordeal once again to get the Thai bike licence.... easier to sling the pig a bung when I get pulled.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fondles View Post
    I have a car licence from Oz.

    I had to do the whole shebang to get a Thai licence.
    Everyone I know that has a UK Licence that lives here ,then all that is required is to watch the video and do the colour and reaction tests.

    How to get a Thai drivers license

    Edit...... unless the rules have changed ???
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    Quote Originally Posted by Fondles View Post
    I have a car licence from Oz.

    I had to do the whole shebang to get a Thai licence.
    I didn't need to at the Pattaya drivers license joint out by The Regents School. That was about 3 or 4 years ago though. Just did the eye and reaction tests and bingo, a 1 year license. Then a year after that, the same again and they dished out a 5 year license. This is just a car license though, no idea about a bike license because I don't ride any more due to a reasonable fear of some fuckwit running me over.

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    Yeah I have heard all the fuckin stories.

    Iam only relaying how it went down for me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Headworx View Post

    This is just a car license though, no idea about a bike license because I don't ride any more due to a reasonable fear of some fuckwit running me over.
    So true!

    About the most dangerous things I did in Thailand were crossing the street and riding my motor bike.

    Its the small stuff that eventually gets you

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    Quote Originally Posted by toddaniels View Post
    Here's one I found out yesterday.

    At the Dept of Land Transport across from Suk Soi 62 there's a motor bike guy sitting there who will take a copy of your passport and go get you a medical certificate without you! He said it takes 10 minutes, I didn't ask about the price, just had him ask me if I needed one..

    Go figure, amazing thailand...
    I applied for my first license in BKK.

    My then GF took me to a neighborhood 'Weight Loss Clinic' and the medical report cost me 30 baht- I never even met the doc.

    When I renewed in Chiang Mai, I went to McCormick Hospital and they actually gave me a rudimentary physical, cost me 50 baht.

    OT, but I was talking to a guy and he told me he went for a DL physical in BKK. He walks in the office and the doc immediately starts writing the report.

    Guy: "Aren't you going to examine me?"

    Doc: "Not necessary, I can tell from your appearance and how you walked in that you are in perfect health"

    Amazing Thailand

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    Quote Originally Posted by toddaniels
    HoHo you must be one of those "gone native" foreigners I see shambling around here from time to time, spouting how they live like a thai in a shack up in a one buffalo village in Nakhon Nowhere..
    You must have me confused.

    I don't live in a High So village. A one buffalo village indeed.




    My wife dreams of a buffalo, she says a prayer every day for a buffallo. One day, she tells me, she will come home from the market with one. Like the one above, she has a 2m poster stuck above our bed. She says it for good luck.

    Grandma pulls the plough, when she drops in her traces we have Aunty Si lined up. Grandma will lay in state in the fields, as she has always wanted, for seven days and then it's on with the planting.

    Aunty Si already has her eye on Grandma's beetle leaf store.

    It's a dog eat dog society here, literally. BTS we only dream of such things, Centre World we show pictures to the kids from old newspapers. Some kids take off for the big city the next day - it saves on the Private School tuition fees you see.
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    Quote Originally Posted by OhOh
    My wife dreams of a buffalo, she says a prayer every day for a buffallo. One day, she tells me, she will come home from the market with one. Like the one above, she has a 2m poster stuck above our bed. She says it for good luck. Grandma pulls the plough, when she drops in her traces we have Aunty Si lined up. Grandma will lay in state in the fields, as she has always wanted, for seven days and then it's on with the planting. Aunty Si already has her eye on Grandma's beetle leaf store. It's a dog eat dog society here, literally. BTS we only dream of such things, Centre World we show pictures to the kids from old newspapers. Some kids take off for the big city the next day - it saves on the Private School tuition fees you see.
    Some may think this is satire but the same rules apply down south as well.

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    My experience of the DLT in Chonburi was similar to Fondles.

    Farangs were grouped together on the pretence that it meant they would only have to explain the tests in english once. They didn't explain anything, but didn't need to either.

    We didn't get to go upstairs to do the tests until afternoon, and we arrived first thing in the morning.

    Took a good half a day but i didn't have to do a driving test, just the physical tests, as i had a UK car and bike licence.

    Hence my reluctance to go back when my licence expired. I know i will have to get it done but i am not in a rush to waste a day there.

    2 hours would be amazing but its not going to happen.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Neep View Post
    My experience of the DLT in Chonburi was similar to Fondles.

    Farangs were grouped together on the pretence that it meant they would only have to explain the tests in english once. They didn't explain anything, but didn't need to either.

    We didn't get to go upstairs to do the tests until afternoon, and we arrived first thing in the morning.

    Took a good half a day but i didn't have to do a driving test, just the physical tests, as i had a UK car and bike licence.

    Hence my reluctance to go back when my licence expired. I know i will have to get it done but i am not in a rush to waste a day there.

    2 hours would be amazing but its not going to happen.
    Cant you use the DLT in Maptuphut/Rayong ?, renewed my 5 year Thai DL there last year in an out in just over an hour, which included "watching" a safety video and a quick eye test

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