Automobile Registration Responsibility

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Automobile Registration Responsibility

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Does anyone know how to do the transfer of ownership for a car?
Where?
Documentation needed?
Price?
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cepheo wrote:Does anyone know how to do the transfer of ownership for a car?
Where?
Documentation needed?
Price?
Depends on the engine size, technically for me it should have cost $105, I have a 2005 4l Tacoma. Take your proof of residence (get from the Sangkat), your bill of sale and your copy of the ID of the person whose name is on your owner card down to the Department of Transportation. In SHV this is next door to the road worthiness testing centre, so presumably it'll be the same elsewhere. Be prepared to be billed extra for not bringing the seller with you, as they need a thumb-print off of them. You get a choice of keeping the plate or getting a new one if it's a different province.
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So it can still be done without the previous owner? Anyone knows of this also applies to motorcycles?
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I've bought a couple of vehicles here and never registered any anywhere, this was because the vehicle ID follows the car and there is no national registration law or requirement.
The only thing is for the yearly road tax.
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save your moolah, do not need to do transfer at all, just need to have the vehicle tax registration paper and bill of sale from last owner, as for vehicle tax, if i do not remember wrongly the taxing period starts from april, if you missed it just need to pay couple of bucks for fine, no worries. cheers
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CJM555 wrote:I've bought a couple of vehicles here and never registered any anywhere, this was because the vehicle ID follows the car and there is no national registration law or requirement.
The only thing is for the yearly road tax.
There is now, new traffic law says your vehicle needs to be registered in your name. If not, officially it gets impounded until you show up with an owner card with your name on it. One of the complaints on HE's Facebook was about the need to carry the original owner card with you but I believe that copies will be acceptable.
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cptrelentless wrote:
CJM555 wrote:I've bought a couple of vehicles here and never registered any anywhere, this was because the vehicle ID follows the car and there is no national registration law or requirement.
The only thing is for the yearly road tax.
There is now, new traffic law says your vehicle needs to be registered in your name. If not, officially it gets impounded until you show up with an owner card with your name on it. One of the complaints on HE's Facebook was about the need to carry the original owner card with you but I believe that copies will be acceptable.

I don't doubt what you heard or been told through the medium of bookface but there is no process and/or procedure for this.
There is no 'owner card' of a vehicle, specifically because there is no database of ownership nor will there ever be - similar to any other country.
Hence, UK ownership and paperwork standards are as the 'Keeper' of a vehicle because nobody wants to get in the middle of dodgy fuck-wits selling cars with liability.
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got a new contact in shv department of transportation, got all my 3 registrations done for car, tuk tuk, motorbike in less than 2 months, where as in PP previously i had to wait for more 6months. :facepalm:
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cool

how much did it cost and what did you need to show?
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Would be interested also! I thought you had to take the previous owner of vehicle with you to the office? One moto I bought, the previous owner who was a friend, passed away before I changed card, and the other moto's, I haven't a clue how to contact the old owners.
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