She who must be obeyed announced the need to re-tax her car and, as it is now very old, obtain the Thai equivalent of an MOT certificate.
Why don’t you re-tax your car at the same time, she suggested?
No need, I will wait until it is due.
Why wait if we are driving all the way out there, you might as well get it done.
With much grumbling, I agreed, and went to fetch my log book; only to find that my tax expired three months ago…..
Humble pie duly eaten, we headed off to the office, missed the turning and ended up doing a massive detour back into Pattaya. Finally at the vehicle testing station where the test was a rolling-road confirmation that the brakes mainly worked and that we had not changed the chassis or engine number for some reason. Twenty minutes and two hundred baht, and then off to the tax office where the new tax disks were issued almost immediately.
An easy process, although I resented the massive fine of 27 baht for being late; but that is a lot less than it would have cost me had the boys in brown stopped me on the road and discovered my transgression.
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2011-05-12| spacefruit saysI am visiting the UK, and my cars. So far I have spent £800 taxing some of them. Wish I could pay 27 baht for being late. Here they crush the car. So you can then buy another I suppose and stimulate the economy.
2011-05-12| Spike saysPerhaps reduce the number of cars? I’ll take one off you if you like; anything in British Racing Green with an Aston badge will suffice.