Most VN plated bikes around here are barely worth more than a few tenners...hope he doesn't get caught too often!

^^You're not far off.

I was talking to my Viet cousin and asked him how much it would be to rebuild a Viet bike with new Viet junk parts. He told me "about 1.000.000 VND" or, $50 USD. Those parts are so ridiculously cheap and bad, I'm surprised those bikes make it any distance at all.

AE86 wrote:It's not quite $350-400 for a used bike, but for a new Wave that's about right. (125 that is, family has imported one before).

A used bike (we brought one CD125 over) was $200 something, but the price varies between who you deal with. I don't know the time frame on how long you have.

Be great if you could explain the whole process from start to finish for the board.

Let's say I have a Viet plated bike with reg doc, but in somebody else's name (as per usual in Vietnam) What do I need/ have to do to get the tax payed and the bike re-registered in Cambodia? Be great to know what offices to go to in PP and rough location etc.

^^I would like to, but being Cambodia, nothing is straight forward.

Last bike we brought simply needed it's Vietnamese blue book to prove ownership, then we paid import tax on it and got a Cambodian plate. Took a month, no problems.

However, the last bike we tried to bring over the price changed 3 times, then we were given the "wrong" documents and needed to talk to someone else, and then someone else, and then someone else...then finally the guy supposedly in charge of import tax said "I don't know, just buy Cambodian bike." We sold the bike as is without having a plate.

I could tell you the process, but the same process never seems to happen twice without some pig trying to stick his finger in and getting some pie money.

AE86 wrote:^^I would like to, but being Cambodia, nothing is straight forward.

Last bike we brought simply needed it's Vietnamese blue book to prove ownership, then we paid import tax on it and got a Cambodian plate. Took a month, no problems.

However, the last bike we tried to bring over the price changed 3 times, then we were given the "wrong" documents and needed to talk to someone else, and then someone else, and then someone else...then finally the guy supposedly in charge of import tax said "I don't know, just buy Cambodian bike." We sold the bike as is without having a plate.

I could tell you the process, but the same process never seems to happen twice without some pig trying to stick his finger in and getting some pie money.

Yep, sounds about right. Honda still haven't got prices on their website in Cambodia. Lol.
BTW what's a blue book? I just have the green? reg card with name, bike make and model, engine size, YOM and reg no. on it.

Re: Blue book, that was a slip, I am so used to saying "blue book" (used car value guide in the U.S.) that I typed it without thinking. I was thinking the ownership booklet (sometimes it's just a card), and it might be green, not blue.

Good luck if you try, sometimes you get lucky, sometimes not.

Have been riding two VN plated motos around SKV. No problems to date. Prolly a fiver will fix most if any arise.

Still, I wonder what the real skinny is. If there is a real skinny.