Carnet de Passage, how they valuate the bike?
Hello all,
I have been browsing through this website for a few months now (great site by the way, lots of info all in one place) and I see a lot of you guys are experienced travellers so I thought I'd ask for advice:
I am planning a trip to southeast Asia that possibly stretches to Australia (trying to touch AU soil by Xmas), I will be travelling solo with my XTZ660 (3YF) 1995 registered in the UK (no offroad adventure, I will stick on roads) and leaving at the beginning of Sept this year.
The question: I checked the RAC website and I understand that in order to travel through Iran, Pakistan, India etc they require a deposit equal to 500 percent of the value of the bike. My question is: how they valuate my 1995 XTZ? Is there an official chart somewhere or can they calculate this from the original receipt I still keep from when I bought my bike? And if so considering I paid £1100 for it I will have to leave behind more than 5K just to leave the country? (not mentioning the other paperwork, of course), I think this is a bit too much.
My other question is: if I were to produce a receipt of £450, will I have to pay "only" £2500??? And how about one for £100? Would they drink this? And if (hypothetically) I got the bike for free – I know this is a bit too much now...???
This is a bit confusing for me and it is one of my major concern because I may not come back with the bike (have someone in AU who may keep it) so I may not be able to return the carnet properly filled in to RAC, I may actually not come back to the UK ever (I am originally from Italy, been living in London for a few years now and I have been feeling like doing this trip and I am not sure whether I will b back to the UK or not – will be leaving my job, flat and everything else, so time-wise I will have total freedom) so I am considering the money spent for the carnet "lost" already and of course, I am trying to minimise this loss, I am about to send the request form for the carnet next week but I don’t know what to expect. Does anyone have any experience on this?
Many thanks in advance.
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