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19 Dec 2014
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Malaysian insurance requirements
Hey everyone. I've ridden through Malaysia last year on my Australian registered bike and will be shipping back into there at the end of January.
Can anyone fill me in as to whether there is a mandatory Insurance requirements like Thailand for the motorcycle. I never came across it last time and rode fine but I have heard someone having trouble recently and that he had to purchase insurance. Can anyone shed some light. I tried to email the Malaysian motoring association but have not heard back.
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We came over land from Thailand and bought our insurance at the border, some bucks for (of cause) one year... took 5 min...
I heard it is not worth the paper... but if it´s not much, and you have to have it (we at least with a German registered bike) we didn’t bother to get one... (Actually they told us when we got our Carnet stamped...). They are pretty easy the border, 90 days visa for free and the whole Xing was easy...
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yeah thanks for your response. the motoring association came back to me and advised that officially yes you do have to. It's just weird that i entered and rode twice before and never heard of or was never asked whether i had it... must have been lucky.
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I've lived in Malaysia for over 2 years and never been asked for it, but as you say its cheap enough and at least you have 3rd party cover. Your shipping agent will likely be able to get it for you too.
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Coming in by land borders doesn't seem to be a problem, but shipping the bike into malaysia is a different story. I shipped from Australia to KL, and to clear my carnet with customs I had to get an ICP (international circulation permit), and to obtain this they required Malaysian Insurance. I spent a week and a half in Kuala Lumpur trying to buy insurance and nobody would sell it to me because the bike wasn't registered in Malaysia. Even the Malaysian Motoring Association couldn't get it for me. They had ICP's, but wouldn't sell me one without insurance. Finally I went to the JPJ headquarters (agency that issues the icp) and I used my Australian insurance (green slip), which got me one in 5 minutes. Everyone including the motoring association told me this would be impossible. It was free.
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Coming in by land borders doesn't seem to be a problem, but shipping the bike into malaysia is a different story. I shipped from Australia to KL, and to clear my carnet with customs I had to get an ICP (international circulation permit), and to obtain this they required Malaysian Insurance. I spent a week and a half in Kuala Lumpur trying to buy insurance and nobody would sell it to me because the bike wasn't registered in Malaysia. Even the Malaysian Motoring Association couldn't get it for me. They had ICP's, but wouldn't sell me one without insurance. Finally I went to the JPJ headquarters (agency that issues the icp) and I used my Australian insurance (green slip), which got me one in 5 minutes. Everyone including the motoring association told me this would be impossible. It was free.
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interesting Ryan... I've been going back and forth with emails to someone at the motoring association. They said the icp would cost 150 ringgits and then gave me a quote for insurance which was massive, it was all wrong as it included contents insurance as well, which was weird, the quote was all over the place. I'm waiting to hear back from him again.
But i will look into what you did, as this sounds much better.
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Vehicle insurance in another country would be a third party insurance only.
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