If you just mean a bit of a scratch rather than bending panels or anything structural, you'll be pleased to know that this is a simple 'fixer upper' in the Kingdom of Wonder, perhaps a mere $25-50 a pop. Mrs Jeb will be most pleased!Jep wrote:Mrs Jeb is good driver going forward,but reversing out the driveway scraping the fence post at 0.1 km's ph has caused $1,000 damage. Annoys me very much
Driving in Cambodia-Rules
Meum est propositum in taberna mori,
ut sint Guinness proxima morientis ori.
tunc cantabunt letius angelorum chori:
"Sit Deus propitius huic potatori."
ut sint Guinness proxima morientis ori.
tunc cantabunt letius angelorum chori:
"Sit Deus propitius huic potatori."
Spigzy bro its a scratch with an indentation as long as your alm. BMW 525 2008. Panelbeater quoted 1000 bucks-Spigzy wrote:If you just mean a bit of a scratch rather than bending panels or anything structural, you'll be pleased to know that this is a simple 'fixer upper' in the Kingdom of Wonder, perhaps a mere $25-50 a pop. Mrs Jeb will be most pleased!Jep wrote:Mrs Jeb is good driver going forward,but reversing out the driveway scraping the fence post at 0.1 km's ph has caused $1,000 damage. Annoys me very much
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I believe that to be covered by travel insurance you need a local motorbike license from home if you live in Aus, NZ or the EU.Mèo Đen wrote:Don't forget you will need a Cambodian drivers license, assuming you haven't got one already. As long as you have a valid drivers license, its pretty easy to convert. Any travel agent can do it for a fee. I think around $30 to $40. You do need four passport photos as well.
So you need a Cambodian license and a home-country motorbike license to ride anything over 50cc usually.
Edit: This is very definitely true since the change in policy with motorbike licenses within Cambodia - travel insurers won't cover you for bikes over 50cc unless you have a valid motorbike license from home AND an IDP, before considering whether you were truly licensed to ride in Cambodia.
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As far as I'm aware, there are only two rules for road use in Cambodia. 1. Don't get stopped by the police. 2. Don't get your vehicle nicked.
loy division wrote:I believe that to be covered by travel insurance you need a local motorbike license from home if you live in Aus, NZ or the EU.Mèo Đen wrote:Don't forget you will need a Cambodian drivers license, assuming you haven't got one already. As long as you have a valid drivers license, its pretty easy to convert. Any travel agent can do it for a fee. I think around $30 to $40. You do need four passport photos as well.
So you need a Cambodian license and a home-country motorbike license to ride anything over 50cc usually.
A1 licenses for motorcycles 125cc and below have now been discontinued. An A2 license is required for a motorcycle over 125 cc. A "B" license is required for a car and allows you to drive a car with seating capacity of nine and below.
Your national licence is not directly recognised as a visitor to Cambodia, and an International Driving Permit (although it appears to indicate otherwise) is also not currently recognised in Cambodia. If you are stopped by the police and you do not have the correct license its going to cost you.
If you have an accident in your car and don't have a license that is potentially going to cost big bucks. I think that your travel insurance is likely to become invalid if its discovered that you were driving illegally ie no license.
As I mentioned getting a Cambodian license is fairly simple and not expensive and can save you a whole lot of problems.
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The local license is in addition to your home license, which is necessary for most if not all travel insurance policies from those countries. The local 125cc license has been discontinued but it doesn't change the fact that most if not all insurers will expect you to hold a home country motorbike license and the IDP. I'm not sure what conditions the insurers put on a local license for 125cc bikes now, but the safe bet is that you need all 3 to be completely coveredMèo Đen wrote:loy division wrote:I believe that to be covered by travel insurance you need a local motorbike license from home if you live in Aus, NZ or the EU.Mèo Đen wrote:Don't forget you will need a Cambodian drivers license, assuming you haven't got one already. As long as you have a valid drivers license, its pretty easy to convert. Any travel agent can do it for a fee. I think around $30 to $40. You do need four passport photos as well.
So you need a Cambodian license and a home-country motorbike license to ride anything over 50cc usually.
A1 licenses for motorcycles 125cc and below have now been discontinued. An A2 license is required for a motorcycle over 125 cc. A "B" license is required for a car and allows you to drive a car with seating capacity of nine and below.
Your national licence is not directly recognised as a visitor to Cambodia, and an International Driving Permit (although it appears to indicate otherwise) is also not currently recognised in Cambodia. If you are stopped by the police and you do not have the correct license its going to cost you.
If you have an accident in your car and don't have a license that is potentially going to cost big bucks. I think that your travel insurance is likely to become invalid if its discovered that you were driving illegally ie no license.
As I mentioned getting a Cambodian license is fairly simple and not expensive and can save you a whole lot of problems.
Agreed, the OP said he was being loaned a vehicle to transport the family which I presume is a car, and so he needs a B license and valid license from his own country for his insurance to be valid. Also with the tightening of road rules here you don't want to have an accident while DUI or that will invalidate the insurance also.loy division wrote: The local license is in addition to your home license, which is necessary for most if not all travel insurance policies from those countries. The local 125cc license has been discontinued but it doesn't change the fact that most if not all insurers will expect you to hold a home country motorbike license and the IDP. I'm not sure what conditions the insurers put on a local license for 125cc bikes now, but the safe bet is that you need all 3 to be completely covered
As an aside, years ago an health insurance provided by my employer stipulated that if I had a motorcycle accident on a motorcycle driven by someone without an Australian driving license, my cover would be invalid. So motordops were right out.
I haven't gone into the fine print, but world nomads state you must be legal when driving a vehicle to be covered. As an IDP or driving licence from home is not legal here, I'd say being in possession of an appropriate Cambodian licence would suffice.
Re motodops, I know people that have had accidents and muggings on the back of them, and their insurance covered everything, even without any name or details of the motodop.
Each insurer has their own rules though.
Re motodops, I know people that have had accidents and muggings on the back of them, and their insurance covered everything, even without any name or details of the motodop.
Each insurer has their own rules though.
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I spotted this on Facebook earlier.
Anyone who has tried to get around Independence Monument will appreciate it.
Anyone who has tried to get around Independence Monument will appreciate it.
I know I'm unloveable. You don't have to tell me. I don't have much in my life, but take it - it's yours.
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Liking this Twitter site for fucked up stuff on the roads. This lucky scrape is almost religious or something ;
"I don't care what the people are thinking, i ain't drunk i'm just drinking"
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