Thread: Thai Driving Licence

Does the five year car licence need to be changed everytime I get a new passport number?
I fill them up faster than the licences

Originally Posted by david44

Does the five year car licence need to be changed everytime I get a new passport number?
I fill them up faster than the licences

Get pages added to your passport?

Mai kho jai your situation? Most passports these days are good for 10 years.

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Get pages added to your passport?

Brits can't do that. No pages added anymore.

I don't know all the details but I'm in the same situation. You're driving license has your passport number printed on it and I'd assume that they should match. (legally) I'm sure that it will never be checked but the driving license place is near my house so when my new passport shows up I'll pop down and change my 5 year.

Just show your old passport if it is queried

Originally Posted by deathstardan

why do British Passport numbers change every time a new passport is issued?

Because sane people like us don't work for them!

Thanks for the rapid response .
I guess asking immigration is ahands up no brainer so will travel with both.

Originally Posted by david44

so will travel with both.

Or just one of these.

Having lived in several countries where everyone has a number from birth and having been asked for my 'number' on many occasions from trying to hire a car trailer in Sweden to getting a Boots Advantage card here on Phuket my reply has always been the same..... 'Because I have a name and am not just a number'..... Cue some strange looks but more often a smile and a nod.

When I renewed my DL last year I was not questioned about the new passport number, I did not even think about it to you the truth.

i was refused car hire in the uk last year, as well as my uk driving licence the hire company wanted a utility bill and a bank statement with addresses that matched that on the licence. obviously i couldnt provide that paperwork.

a thai licence and uk passport was accepted without question though.

^
Hence they protected you from liability (and themselves from a hassle). Your UK licence is not valid unless you live there most of the year. Thus it is not valid to rent a car or insure that car. Try getting a photo licence renewed unless you're there to do it.

Originally Posted by Tom Sawyer

Your UK licence is not valid unless you live there most of the year.

where do you get your "facts" from?

link please

if you are residing at the address on the licence whilst you are visiting the uk then i cant see the problem.

although i cant hire a car in the uk on my uk licence, at least not from 2 companies that operate out of manchester airport, i can get temporary insurance to drive a family members car whilst in the uk on that licence.

Originally Posted by taxexile

although i cant hire a car in the uk on my uk licence, at least not from 2 companies that operate out of manchester airport,

Are you still on a 1 year?

I emailed 2 companies to try and hire a car last time I was in the uk and they said that I could hire a car on a thai license but it had to have been valid for more than 12 months.

my thai licence is a 5 year photocard licence.

they asked for my uk licence, i showed it to them, both the uk photo card and the paper bit, then they asked for the bills / bank statements with a corresponding address on, i couldnt provide those, so they made a phone call and then told me they couldnt accept this licence. i asked why, they said that my name was not on the voting register and that therefore i could not prove that i lived at the address on the licence.

no problem using a thai licence and paying with a uk credit card though.

this proving who you are, where you live is becoming an increasingly annoying part of life these days. its bad enough having to go through it all at thai immigration, but when it happens in the uk it is even more annoying.

Originally Posted by taxexile

they said that my name was not on the voting register

How could they possibly know this?

^
Electoral roll - accessible to all.

Originally Posted by DrAndy

Originally Posted by Tom Sawyer

Your UK licence is not valid unless you live there most of the year.

where do you get your "facts" from?

link please

Google it - u must be a uk resident for your licence to be VALID. Is your licence VALID?

^Its a bit lazy giving out some fact and then saying google when someone queries it.

Residency in the uk is quite complex, ritually when you are discussing issues like domicile and normally resident. being in the uk for over 90 days a year over a rolling 3 year average would be enough to get you residency status.

all dvl a seem to have to say is that they will not put a forien address on the licence and that if you have 'permanently moved' without explaining exactly what that means. But to be honest residency and licence is probably a moot point given that most insurance companies have T&C's about what they regard as a uk resident for the purposes of their business.

http://www.direct.gov.uk/prod_consum.../dg_067673.pdf

Scroll down to page 13.

so no link

The UK licence is valid wherever you happen to be

you may have to have a UK address to get one

Originally Posted by Thetyim

http://www.direct.gov.uk/prod_consum.../dg_067673.pdf

Scroll down to page 13.

I can't see the relevance on that page, Thet

Originally Posted by david44

Does the five year car licence need to be changed everytime I get a new passport number?

I was at the British Embassy yesterday to order a new passport and to get a proof of residence letter so that I can renew my Thai driving license.

Without me asking the above question, the girl behind the counter said that when my new passport arrives I will have to return to the Thai DMV to change my license so that the number matches the one in my new passport.