An update to my sale of vehicle when leaving Hong Kong:
I had a Tesla Model S that I have been financing with Orix. Since I left HK over a year ago, I had left my vehicle with a trusted friend who kept it charged up and utilized. Originally I was not going to sell it until I'm 100% sure I will not return to Hong Kong. Previous year, I had my mail forwarded to my friend by HK Post so he received the annual road license renewal paperwork from Orix and submitted payments and documentations on my behalf without advising Orix that I'm actually not in the country anymore. I had added my friend as a named driver to my insurance policy. But this year since my 6 months mail fowarding service expired (HK Post will no longer do mail forwarding for more than 6 months when I asked), I emailed Orix and told them the full situation that I'm not in HK but they can mail the renewal paperwork to my friend's address. LOL I was immediately forwarded to a new team at Orix who told me "based on my situation", the remaining 1 year of financing amount is due immediately and once I paid they will release the Vehicle Registration Document to my friend (with a signed pick up authorisation letter from me). I guess they were scared I'd just abandon the car payments, which made no sense since I've been paying them out of my HK bank account for the past year anyway and was intending to keep doing it, and wouldn't have contacted them.
So I sent funds for the balance amount to them, a BOC account, and they had the VRD released to my friend at their office. I had asked around a few dealerships, including Hybrid Pro in Kwun Tong that I highly recommend for hybrids/EVs servicing, to put my car on consignment with them. But in the meantime, my friend had found me a buyer. The process we went through was the buyer had a viewing of my car in HK with my friend, confirmed on the price, I couriered my remaining key to my friend and handled the payment as well as transfer of ownership at Transport Dept with him. The documents I had to provide were an address proof, a signed HKID photocopy/scan, and the transfer of ownership document signed by me (also couriered to HK as it needed to be an original).
Just info for thought.