Congrats! You have lived through another moment of Thailand's bureaucracy.
Why should we spend days paying registration 'fee' (doing what governments say 'public duties')?..
Shouldn't it made a easy (and pain-less) as possible to do 'public duties'?
Anyway, there is another disturbing scenario in the case like yours:
"Fake car number plates" may be used to avoid paying registration fees (and to avoid doing public duties)
--just like "fake land title deeds" that you may have heard--. ;-)
Hello you. sr [IP: 58.168.103.220]
Thank you to share and learn. And have a good idea.