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Hmm - thats a bummer! Maybe they have changed theyre rules?
Maybe our member Recom237 who lives in Thailand near the border to Malaysia can help?
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Dunno Mate .. I have a Thai bike. lol.
I could LINE the girl at Sadao, but its a bit of a waste of time, now.
Zurich at Sadao would have been the safest bet as you know.
The guy not only hasn't / didn't have insurance - he also had no ICP.
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Shouldn't be an issue in Malaysia (however I have friends living here who've brought their bikes in years ago and never bothered getting them registered, let alone insured)
Try a JPJ office or P&O
http://www.jpj.gov.my/hubungi-kami
http://www.pacific-orient.com/poi/location.htm
I just got a bike registered at JPJ last week and there were plenty guys selling insurance there.
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I you see the two first posts in this thread you will see its quite an issue to get insurance for a european plated bike in Malaysia. I emailed, phoned and personally went to several offices of all the recommended insurance companies in Malaysia but not a chance in the world. As I came through a small border crossing from Satun province in Thailand with no insurance possibility at the border I had - after a week of intensive hunt for insurance in KL and Penang - to go back to the main bordercrossing between Thai and Malay and I could barely get it there. As of May 2015. And as stated from TS it seems its not even possible there nowadays either.
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Just checked with a local insurance agent I know here. He said that the only place to get insurance for foreign registered bikes would be at the border. And from the experiences below, I guess the safe bet would be the main borders rather than the smaller ones.
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Malaysian insurance
Don't know if this will help now but my wife's family lives in Malaysia , my brotherinlaw told me even for them ,insurance is just a technicality, his friend was in a wreck a year previous n the insurance company told him that they could not proceed as the police report had not yet been filed?
TIM, this is Malaysia explains many things
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Yup, this is the land of the police report..nothing happens until one is lodged. But that's normal for any country.
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Don't know if this will help now but my wife's family lives in Malaysia , my brotherinlaw told me even for them ,insurance is just a technicality, his friend was in a wreck a year previous n the insurance company told him that they could not proceed as the police report had not yet been filed?
TIM, this is Malaysia explains many things
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Don't know if this will help now but my wife's family lives in Malaysia , my brotherinlaw told me even for them ,insurance is just a technicality, his friend was in a wreck a year previous n the insurance company told him that they could not proceed as the police report had not yet been filed?
TIM, this is Malaysia explains many things
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No, insurance isn't a just technicality in Malaysia.
When entering Malaysia or Laos (prolly Thailand too), you need some kind of 3rd party insurance, in the event of an accident, its not going to help you much, but it might save your ass from going to prison.
I don't know if you have ever ridden there, but you need something called an ICP, which is like a permit issued by the JPJ (the DMV of MY) and as is the way in Asia, they set up road blocks to catch not only non-domestic vehicles but locals too. Non production of a IDP will get your bike confiscated, or at the very least cause you a great deal of inconvenience by riding back to the border and sorting yourself out.
The insurance is not expensive, like $20 for a month, maybe $30 for 3 months. The rain keeps on threatening to stop and its my time to ride in Northern Malaysia, and I will quiz the insurance girl at the border about this issue of european bike when I cross next, but I'm sure its just a misunderstanding and that its still possible.
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