If you want to order motorcycle parts from Thailand and you do not live here, the hard part is almost never the postage. It is that most of the places a component physically sits in this country cannot sell to a foreign buyer at all.
What is actually in Thailand, and what is not
Thailand is not a discount version of Japan. It is where a whole class of machine was built and sold: the Wave 125, the Sonic 125, the Zoomer, the KSR110 and the Thai-market CBR150R. For those bikes this country is the origin rather than the cheaper option.
The reverse holds too. Where the machine is a Japanese-market model the components usually remain in Japan, and which kind of seller to approach is answered on our guide to ordering motorcycle parts from Japan. This page begins where that one stops.
The commercial terms sit on our order policy. What follows is the geography underneath, and it decides whether an order is possible.
Where a motorcycle part in Thailand actually sits
There is no single Thai parts market but several disconnected ones, and they differ far less in price than in whether they can put a box on an aeroplane to you. Read the third column first.
| Where the part is | What it holds | Will it ship to you? | What you supply | Where it falls down |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Franchised dealer counter | Genuine items for Thai-market models | No, domestic trade only | Frame number, or the genuine number | Dealer sign-on catalogue, no export desk |
| Thai consumer marketplaces | A vast aftermarket range, some genuine | No option at the checkout | A Thai address and Thai payment | Listings in Thai, no cross-border recourse |
| Facebook groups and LINE sellers | Used, old stock, specialist 4Mini | Case by case, informally | Negotiation in Thai | No invoice, no packing list |
| Thai aftermarket brands | That one brand’s own range | Yes | The product code | One catalogue, nothing genuine |
| A machinist or fabricator | Things with no catalogue entry left | Only through an agent | A drawing, sample or old component | Needs somebody here to inspect it |
| An English-speaking sourcing shop | All of the above, plus Japan | Yes, priced CIF | Number, frame number or photograph | Quoted by email, not from a cart |
Only the last two rows involve somebody acting for you. We have been the last row since 2002, from a shop in Ladprao; the about page has the detail.
Why a Thai marketplace cannot sell to you
The checkout has no export option
The large Thai consumer platforms are domestic by construction. They present no international shipping at the checkout, so a foreign address cannot be entered even where the seller would gladly post it. That is why a proxy-buying trade exists here, and a proxy solves the address problem and none of the others.
Language, payment and recourse
Listings are written in Thai, by sellers who answer in Thai, and payment runs on domestic rails. A component described in Thai with no diagram is not something an owner abroad can match to their machine.
If the wrong thing arrives there is no cross-border recourse either. Our note on identifying a motorcycle part from photographs exists because “the black bracket behind the left side cover” is a description we can work with and a marketplace cannot.
Genuine, and how you can tell
The channel makes a part genuine, not the box
Honda, Yamaha, Suzuki and Kawasaki all contract manufacture in this region, so a genuine component for a Thai-market machine is very often made here. Riders who open a carton stamped with a Thai factory sometimes assume they have been sold a copy. Bought through the dealer channel, they have not.
The risk runs the other way. Marque packaging is easy to reproduce, and what separates a genuine component from an imitation is the supply chain it travelled down.
What the frame number buys you
A Thai-market machine’s genuine numbers live in the Thai distributor’s own electronic catalogue rather than the public global one, and those catalogues are built for dealers. You cannot open one from another country and look your own component up.
So the frame number does more work here than anywhere else. Identifying a part by frame number shows where yours is stamped, and if you hold a number already then searching by the number itself is quicker.
When there is no number left
Some things have simply stopped. For those we act as a buying agent, and where an item can be made rather than found it can be fabricated locally to a sample or a drawing. Our own Honda Monkey and Honda Dax ranges exist for that reason.
What it takes to order motorcycle parts from Thailand, step by step
The enquiry and the price
Send the number if you have one, or the part name with your frame number if you do not, plus the quantity and the destination country. Nothing is sold from a live catalogue here, so the enquiry is the transaction beginning rather than a question about one.
We check the supply source and reply by email with a figure in Thai Baht, quoted CIF: the goods FOB with carriage added. An item sourced here also skips a step, because no yen conversion is involved. Goods bought in Japan are priced in yen and converted at the bank’s rate on the day the account is debited.
Payment, despatch and what we will not promise
Payment is by bank transfer, secure card link, or PayPal. Genuine items drawn from Japan are normally available in about four working days if not on back order, postal EMS runs four to seven days, and air parcel about two weeks. Those are the only timings we publish and none is a guarantee.
Read the returns position before you commit. Once a shipment has left we cannot take goods back except for a manufacturer’s fault, and nothing can be returned to Thailand at all.
Getting the box out of the country
An export from Thailand is a documented event rather than a trip to the post office. The Thailand National Trade Repository sets out what it involves: an invoice and a packing list, an export licence for restricted goods, and a declaration streamed green line for release or red line for inspection.
You do none of that; we do. At your end duty and tax are assessed by your own customs authority on the declared value.
Frequently asked questions
Can I just have your price list?
There is not one. Prices depend on the source, the current cost from the supplier and the weight and destination of the finished parcel, so every order is quoted individually by email.
Will you post to my country?
Coverage is checked when we quote rather than promised in advance, because postal services differ by destination and change. Give us the country and postcode and we will price what is running to it.
Do I have to order a whole container?
Only for complete motorcycles. Spares go out as parcels of any size, while whole machines are a separate service with a one-container minimum, described on our motorcycle export page.
Sending us the enquiry
Tell us the number, or the part name with your frame number, the quantity and the destination country. Attach a photograph if there is doubt about the variant. Say whether cost or speed matters more, because that decides post or courier, and those routes are on our EMS shipping page and DHL shipping page.
Send it through the quote request form, or the genuine parts enquiry if that is what you want. The model index lists the machines we cover, the parts hub the categories, and our dealers page the shops abroad already receiving these parcels.