Exporting an Irish car to the UK

ambro25

Anyone here know the form details and/or procedure to get a "Certificate of Export" (from Shannon or wherever), for an Irish-reg'd car to be registered in the UK?

Unsurprisingly, neither the VRO (Tallaght) nor Dublin City Council (Motor Tax Office) had any clue (what a surprise) and, in Shannon, they don't seem to understand that you're supposed to pick the phone up for it to work...

Any help greatly appreciated.

rebel.ranter

Where are you exporting the car to? This might help for this thread. I'd say there are slightly different procedures for different countries.

ambro25

Edited Thread title & OP.

Ferris

I exported a car to the UK and all they wanted was the logbook and a Certificate of conformity.

ambro25

Ferris, much thanks for your post.

Odd... I've got the Irish Vehicle Reg Cert, I even (still) have the original UK V5 (all docs in our name).

One person @ DVLA told me I need the Cert of Conformity (which Mazda will send me against £65 payment, greedy bastids),

Another person @ DVLA told me I need an Export Cert from Shannon (which, I thought, only applied for UK cars going to Ireland, not the other around: DVLA issues the Export Cert, VRO checks it).

Both confirmed the original V5 (before it was IE-reg'd) will be useless to the procedure.



An now Shannon -bless them, they do reply quick to email enquiries- tells me they'll gladly send me an 'extract' to allow me to re-reg in the UK. An extract of... dunno - presumably from the Vehicle Reg Cert.

Never f*cking straightforward, of course :mad:

Ferris

ambro25 wrote: »

Ferris, much thanks for your post.

Odd... I've got the Irish Vehicle Reg Cert, I even (still) have the original UK V5 (all docs in our name).

One person @ DVLA told me I need the Cert of Conformity (which Mazda will send me against £65 payment, greedy bastids),

Another person @ DVLA told me I need an Export Cert from Shannon (which, I thought, only applied for UK cars going to Ireland, not the other around: DVLA issues the Export Cert, VRO checks it).

Both confirmed the original V5 (before it was IE-reg'd) will be useless to the procedure.



An now Shannon -bless them, they do reply quick to email enquiries- tells me they'll gladly send me an 'extract' to allow me to re-reg in the UK. An extract of... dunno - presumably from the Vehicle Reg Cert.

Never f*cking straightforward, of course :mad:

The cert of conformity is to say that the car is fit to be used in the UK. In that it complies to UK regulations for safety etc. If your car was already reg'd there than you shouldn't need to provide proof of this.

My car was originally eng reg'd and they accepted that I didn't need a CoC for it, all I needed to supply was the original registration no. Can't remember what else they needed but it was straightforward enough. I was using DVLNI tho so maybe they're not as strict.

Tomas2007

Hello, as I think new thread is not needed, I'd like to ask here:

When I export the car from Ireland, do I need to
- Get some temporary plates replacing the normal ones? (Or do I keep them and then just throw them out it my home country?)
- Inform the Irish insurance / tax authority that the insurance and tax won't be renewed and ask to remove the car from evidence? (Or do I simply stop paying?)

(I know other steps need to be taken in my home country, but I'm curious about the "Irish side".)

Thank you!