Please help- question about motorbike licences in Chile and Argentina
 

Hello,

I am from the UK and have recently arrived in Chile. I plan on buying a bike soon with view to taking a motorbike trip and the end of this year south round Patagonia, up through Argentina, and into Bolivia.

The problem is that I do not have a motorcycle licence. I was planning to take the test in Buenos Aires later on, but I have heard that Argentinian licences may not be valid in Chile. Does anyone have any information on this?

I am really worried as I was so excited about taking the trip, confident that I would be able to resolve all the licence issues out here, but I now fear that it might not be possible.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

Seems like you have some bad luck. Although I dont think it is impossible, there is a lot of paper work to be done etc, and it will take some time. Most likely there is a lot of documents needed since you are a foreigner, so make sure you get them checked!
I had to get a temporary Uruguayan id-card to get my Uruguayan motorbike license, but it only permits me driving bikes with less than 200CC. But the chilean I hear has no such limit.
Get to work! ;) And good luck!!

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Thanks for the reply. Do you mean you don't think it is impossible to do it in Chile?- because from what I've read it looks like it is impossible for foreigners. Might try and go to Buenos Aries to do it but I think it would only be valid for 3 months so I would have to keep going back to BsAs to renew it

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I have lived in Chile 15 yrs and made 3 unsuccesful attempts to get a Chilean mcycle license. Very complicated.

Did 120,000 km around Chile on my Cdn license on my BMW mind you, but I doubt this is legal.

But forget about getting a license without permanent residency!

You dont need a liscence in Chile
 

all my overland buddies dont have a liscence and i dont have one either. You dont get stopped here by the police like in the USA and no one checks liscneces at the borders. Only passport and bike registration/title

No problem driving with your home drivers license even if it's not valid for bikes.

I drove all over Bolivia, Peru and bit of Chile with laminated color photocopy of European car driver's license without problems.

There will be problems if you hit someone.


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Hi Dmwbmw, I thought I would just post a quick update on this situation. Over the last few months I managed to get myself a work visa with temporary residency of one year and yesterday I passed my motorbike test for the full licence. What was the problem the three times you tried?

All I needed was my RUT (as in the proper Cedula), a certificate of education above grade 8 which has been legalized in the foreign office in your own country and then in the foreign office in Chile (I used my university degree), and a piece of paper from a public notary saying in lived in the specific communa of Santiago (and you don't need to show anything that get that, you just walk in, give and address and they make you an official document).

Let me know if I can help with anything.
Cheers

hahahha, my record in Chile is: 9 times in 3 weeks.
it looks as if you have never been to Chile.

I am also wondering what Dmwbmw was doing for his 15 years in Chile.
I got mine without doing a test without a problem in Concepción a few years ago.

Groschi

Just did a licence in Bariloche. I have said that in my country as I have licence for a car I have also for a bike but it doesn't say in my licence officialy so I need Argentinian one. No test, no problem, just medical tests. Anyway few weeks before I bought a bike in Santiago without a licence and was asked twice for international driving licence for a bike. If you have chilean bike take off front plate as eneter to argentina :)