went to renew my thai motorbike license today in phuket as it has been a year from when I got mine (
TR here)
after your first year is up you can renew the license for another 5 years (or a bit more, looks like they give you 5 years + the time until your next birthday, in my case i got almost 6 years until the license expires)
i read that you need to let the 1 year temporary license expire before you can renew it. as my expiration date was 4th of november i went there today the 5th
I had with me:
medical certificate (100 baht from a clinic in phuket town). took about 10mins. you need your passport or atleast a copy to get this
certificate of residence (300 baht from immigration, need copy of lease, copy of passport, copy of visa, copy of latest stamp and copy of departure card. I also thought you would need a signed copy of landlords ID but the officer returned it back to me). took about 10mins to get
more copies for the license place:
copy of passport, visa, departure card, latest stamp
original medical certificate+certificate of residence and the expired license
went in around 9am, place pretty full. went to first desk where a girl browsed through my papers and told me to sign all the copies. I did and got a number. Was called to a desk 1min later where another girl browsed through my papers and took 305 baht as payment for 3 separate things (that are in thai in the receipt so no clue)
after that i was instructed to go sit in a bench waiting my turn to be photographed for the picture (you dont need to have your own pictures for the ID). I waited maybe 5 mins to get the photo taken and another 5 for the ID to be printed out. I paid 110 baht to the photo/ID printer girl. total time at the license office under 20mins
total cost of renewing the license 815 baht