We nearly had to export our bike when we crossed chile to bolivia. You have 2 options on leaving Chile to Bolivia at the Arica crossing, either have an Agent in Arica draw up you papers allowing to export the bike, or get a 180 permit to cross into bolivia. In order to obtain this permit we were told by the guards that we needed a residents RUT number, we only had a temp one as we got it to purchase the bike. After some hour or 2 and some kind help from the bossman we managed to get this 180 day permit and crossed into bolivia no problem.
I dont expect to have any problems leaving the country with my bike, as if you enter a country with your bike, they usually want you to leave with it too...
I plan to take my chillean bike back to the UK and have contact the DVLA about it. They say I need a ´certificate of conformity´or to take a kind of advanced MOT test and then they will give me a registration plate. I expect I will have to also pay some VAT on bringing the bike into the country, this may be about 17.5% of its value... Hope that helps a bit!
ALso interested if anyone else has any experience in this?
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