You left Chile on a Chilean Plated bike & did not receive a single bit of paperwork? I guess it does not matter, they will have your info in the cptr. At least they did when I I arrived at the arica-puno border.

hi guys,
anyone in Santiago who could give the details of a Kawa dealer and give me an indication of the price of a new KLR650 please ?

You could try these folks. You may need to find a Spanish speaker to help out though.

MOTOVERDE - KAWASAKI

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kawasaki masterbike offer klr 650, you can bargain paying cash. ask for diego, he speaks english reasonably well. basic bike at approx 9700 U$ + extras.

I assume that the circulation permit is what I have been calling a Temp export permit (TEP)? If so, as indicated, I would not worry about it. I showed up at Arica w/o one and it was no problem, I just got an infraction. I have no idea what your "technical whatever" is, so I can't speak to it, but I got back into the country with only my POA and the next time w/only my padron, both times I had an expired TEP. I have never been asked for insurance anywhere in Chile, I have never been stopped by police. I have entered Chile on my Chilean bike at least 6 times.

I you don't bring your bike back to Chile, someone may eventually be held responsible for the export fees. I do not know when or how this may manifest itself (when buying a new vehicle?, paying taxes?, getting pulled over), but if I bought a moto for a freind of mine, gave him a POA to leave Chile on my bike and then he went off and sold it, leaving me holding the bag on several thousand dollars in export taxes, I'd be very upset. You should at least contact your "friend" and announce your intention. You may be able to get a police report saying the bike was totalled or stolen and this may help, I do not know.

You told me before that you had not received any paerwork when you left Chile, but now you say you have several papers. Why wouldn't you simply call aduanas & try to extend your papers then? I do not know how to further help you, but would suggest you contact your "friend" and inform him of your intent.

Top post Lachy!!

One thing I was told here yesterday was to make sure the Permiso de Circulacion is current, like said before it’s an annual doc that needs updating, if not up to date then the new owner will be liable for back payments and possible fines. This info should not put you off, it is only something to look for!

Meet a great guy here yesterday called Francisco who has just opened up a Yamaha dealership at Mall Sport in Santiago a few months ago (fulladventure, link below), he speaks English (helps because my Spanish has still mucho improving to do). They have different bikes and not only Yamaha, was showing me a 640 Adventure. He’s a friendly guy who loves bikes, organises trips up to the desert and to the forests in the south. Bikes are expensive in Chile but if you have the money and the time before you arrive maybe he could help you line something up. They service/repair bikes there also, I’ve never tried them but would give them a go.

Some more sources for those looking to buy a bike here:
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This is a not easy to find this link on the KTM page that was recommended, lots of enduros but there is Adventure bikes, clicking on “dealer & service” “servicio”, “motos usadas”
Ver Usadas

MOTOS USADAS

BYW: All Chilean vehicles Permiso de Circulacion all get updated at the one time, now in March at local municipalities which place container offices in local public places to make it easy. We’ve just done the car and the mandatory bike insurance is still 35,000CLP.

BTW: RUTs that you get as a tourist is directly linked to your passport so once you have one it will be for ever more linked to that passport # and impossible to get a different RUT, unless you use a different passport. I had no problem getting mine and for tourists it starts with 48… If you open a company in Chile the company gets a RUT # linked to it and not the people who open the company. So RUTs are a way of keeping track of people and companies alike. Heard that building company’s open a new RUT for each floor they build which limits claims that may get filed. Unless info for bikers in the last bit but that’s the way RUTs work.

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Me and a few friends all bought Honda XR250's in Santiago. A bit of messing around but very doable and pretty fun.

Our bikes are now in Peru, but as the registration (permiso de circulation) and the insurance (seguro obligatorio) expire this month we are unsure if we can continue. I am trying to get someone in Chile to renew them for us but it hasn't happened yet.

Do they need renewing if riding north into Ecuador and Colombia???

BTW: Would gladly help people if they need advice on taking a similar route. We also got turned around at the Arica, Chile border and had to travel to Bolivia and then into Peru. We had trouble getting into Peru because of our insurance (seguro obligatorio) but managed to get in!

I'm in chile, just bought a bike.. I want to ride into bolivia,
Peru, and north.
Does anyone know, is there any good places to get maps? And do I need anything else apart from padron and seguro obligatorio to leave/cross borders?
Thanks!

In chile...
Yesterday, i was turned around at the chile/Bolivia border from colchane.
I have all the documents stated here in everyone's post.
I've spent so much time, blood tears guts and of course money trying to get it all sorted. Padron didn't work properly first time so I had to pay another notorio more money to help fast track it in iquique because there was a mistake that was out of my control.
Now I have

Padron
Rut
Seguro
Tecnico
Circulation etc
All documents fine...

Officially day from hell yesterday. After being told no at the border because I don't have residency.....
The service station had no gasolina. I spent three hours pleading locals for a couple of liters to be able to ride back to iquique and my tank didn't have enough left.. I knew it was a race against time as the weather in the Andes not to accomodating to motorcyclists at night.

Finally, a girl who lived across the road helped me, and I bought a few liters from her out of petrol can she had at her house.

Finally, time to go.. But no, my gloves had been stolen from my helmet.
I knew some older folk had seen it, and so I confronted them.. Half an hour of pleading my case and attracting a crowd, and finally a guy came back with my gloves.

Sped back trough the Andes, only to run out of petrol 50ks from iquique. Hid my bike and hitch hiked to iquique with all my gear, and my spare container. When a nice man took me back to my bike, it was pitch black, and so it took us half an hour of driving back and forth until finally I saw my bike, who had also become my current best friend alone in the darkness.

How can I ride out of chile!? Is the border from Arica to Bolivia better... Help. Has anyone done it with the papers I have? A person who is not from chile...

Hey Natchill,

Check your PMs

I have left Chile with my Chilean plated bike at many borders with nothing more than a RUT, PP, a Padron or POA (power of attourney). More specifically, I have entered Bolivia at SP de Atacama and Peru at Arica w/no problemas. Others have had this citizenship issue come up, look for posts by pockethead and at least one other. Mostly at Arica to Peru.

If I were you, I would proceed to Arica and try there. The aduanas in Arica is seldom busy and were very helpful to me. They will do whatever they can to help you.

good luck

Thanks glasswave...

Whats a pp???

So you have left successfully with a padron alone?

Also glasswave,

Do you mean to try Arica Peru border??

PP is a common abreviation for passport. And yes, I have exited Chile several times on just a pp & padron.

I was suggesting Arica, CL to Tacna, PE. I have crossed there several times with the aforementioned docs.