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Originally Posted by alexpezzi
3) RAC “refundable” deposit: £350 (but refundable “when” exactly?)
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Check with whoever issues your carnet, e.g. the RAC. You might not necessarily have to return the bike to your starting point to reclaim your deposit.
Since the point of the carnet (other than to identify your bike) is to deter you from selling it illegally in countries which have very high government import duties and to guarantee payment of those duties should you do so, it could be enough to have both entry and exit stamps from those specific countries.
For example, if you take a bike from the UAE to the UK, you can recover your deposit by just returning the correctly stamped carnet for countries along the route (normally in this example, stamped both “in” and “out” of Iran).
Stephan
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