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Originally Posted by Greenkiwi
Any updates on this thread? I’m flying my NZ registered bike into Santiago Chile and wonder why I should be paying registration to be riding NZ roads when I’ll be riding South American roads and paying for a Temporary Import license in each country I visit.
In reality, do any of the South American countries care less that my NZ registration is no longer current and that my Warrant of fitness is likely expired?
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International law obliges you to keep the bare legal minimum coverage (third party liability) active at all times, so your registration is valid.
If you decide to evade this, any insurance you will buy along the way in form of a third party liability will be invalid.
We had clients (shipping their motorcycles) who ended in prison as they thought they are smarter then everyone else and didn't keep insurance active back at home. Sometimes a routine police check will be enough to teach you that you are not so smart as it seems, or worse case is to have an accident. In that case things can go very very bad and very fast for you as many countries consider riding uninsured and unregistered motorcycle as a heavy felony and basically they can charge you with attempt to harm someone on purpose and possibly even cause more than harm in worst case.
BR
Dooby
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