Taking car temporarily to NI

-Chris-

Quick hypothetical question:


If you were to move to the North with your job for 6 months and wanted to take your car (06D BMW 316i ES), what's the process?

You'd need a certificate of conformity and the VLC, you'd need to pay £X for your NI registration plate (afaik it's £55stg).


If you're only there for 6 months, and only have the car there for 6 months, do you need to do the Single Vehicle Approval test/inspection? Do you need to switch your speedo to MPH? What else does it entail?



I'm talking about doing this properly/legally btw - please don't suggest "work-arounds"...

Bogger77

-Chris- wrote: »

Quick hypothetical question:


If you were to move to the North with your job for 6 months and wanted to take your car (06D BMW 316i ES), what's the process?

You'd need a certificate of conformity and the VLC, you'd need to pay £X for your NI registration plate (afaik it's £55stg).


If you're only there for 6 months, and only have the car there for 6 months, do you need to do the Single Vehicle Approval test/inspection? Do you need to switch your speedo to MPH? What else does it entail?



I'm talking about doing this properly/legally btw - please don't suggest "work-arounds"...

Do you have to "import" it, I though you had 6month in the UK before that began an issue

c4cat

-Chris- wrote: »

Quick hypothetical question:


If you were to move to the North with your job for 6 months and wanted to take your car (06D BMW 316i ES), what's the process?

You'd need a certificate of conformity and the VLC, you'd need to pay £X for your NI registration plate (afaik it's £55stg).


If you're only there for 6 months, and only have the car there for 6 months, do you need to do the Single Vehicle Approval test/inspection? Do you need to switch your speedo to MPH? What else does it entail?



I'm talking about doing this properly/legally btw - please don't suggest "work-arounds"...

AS far as I understand it, if you are going to be there less then 6 mths you can keep it on ROI plates more then six mths

Then book an MOT (NCT) test, pass the test, Get insurance, proof of ID plus NI address, Insurance Cert, Log book, Mot Cert, go to DVLANI and register and pay road tax for yr car, buy new number plates and yr car is a nordie one,

alias no.9

I'm pretty sure the SVA is only for cars from outside the EU, other than that you've got it covered.

-Chris-

Will the non-MPH clocks not cause an issue?

Atomic Pineapple

-Chris- wrote: »

Will the non-MPH clocks not cause an issue?

they shouldn't i dont think so, theres plenty of jap imports that say they have mot and are still on kmh clocks if you look around the various jap car forums

galwaytt

Why are you re-reg'ing it ? No need to, iirc.

Lots of ESB and Eircom vans spend a lot longer than that tootling around the UK with no issues.