Importing for breaking

Flesh Gorden

Has anyone here ever privately brought in a car from the uk for the sole purpose of breaking it and managed to avoid VRT?

Car wouldn't see an Irish road again once i get it home and it's €700 I could do with saving

I need a very specific engine , and it will work out a lot cheaper to buy the car in the uk for a couple hundred pounds,
drive it home take the engine myself, break the rest for parts and scrap the shell

The ones I've been looking at have low mileage, full history
and in one case a full RAC inspection, so a lot better then the over priced slim pickings here in Ireland

unkel

I can't see a problem with that - you're bringing in parts rather than a car, aren't you?

The only issue is that technically speaking (from a VRT point of view), you can't drive the car home - you'd have to transport it.

Midnight_EG

Nah unkel, I think he means he's going to take a car into Ireland from the UK, and rather than VRT and drive it over here, he's going to take out the engine and lump it into whatever he has over here. All for the small sum of €700.

Flesh Gorden

I'd better explain it better

buy the car in the uk, drive it back here to Ireland

but as soon as its here in Ireland it will be off the road forever as I need the larger engine for my own current car,

the rest of the smaller parts being broken and sold privately, even the original alloys sell for a couple hundred
so it is a worthwhile thing to do and safer then taking a chance with an engine from the few breakers who have the engine I need


the €700 was the VRT quote to have it reg'd, I'd prefer to put that money towards the uprated clutch I'd need and maybe getting the flywheel lightened


Would be a waste to get it registered and pay the €700 when it will only be driven on Irish roads for less then a day


I know of a scrap yard that have nearly all uk reg viechels, but with me not being in the trade I'm trying to find out if anyone else has done this and either escaped or got stung for VRT despite the car being broken and scrapped

Midnight_EG

If you don't intend on driving it, or even registering it, you shouldn't worry about VRT'ing it.

Declare it off the road or even scrapped the day you bring it over.

What is it btw?

Tropheus

I would assume that as long as you're not going to reregister it and drive it on public roads that there is no need to pay VRT. Save as importing an engine from the UK; you wouldn't expect to pay VRT or any other type of tax.

Flesh Gorden

Midnight_EG wrote: »

What is it btw?

It's an old silver top Ford Zetec engine, the 2 litre one, has to be one made between 93' and 97'
as newer ones would need custom mounts, and the earlier engine is a straight swap with only a few minor mods

I might try to match it up to a Fiesta or Puma IB5 gearbox as they'd very close final ratio, 4:25:1 I think
and if I can find one at a decent price a Quaife LSD aswell

Should be fun consdering it's going into a mk6 Escort that weighs less then 1100kg

long term plan too would be adding a proper set of throttle bodies from a ZXR750 motorbike
piper cams, ported and polished head, and a better spec exhaust manifold
A few more options too, but those are the main ones


so It will be an old mk1 early mk2 mondeo I'll be harvesting,
impossible to find one with decent mileage over here and the prices are farily silly compared to uk
where you can pick one up with under 80k and a well maintained FSH for 300-500

corktina

technically you need to declare it on entry and pay the VRT.

Practically, noones even going to stop you so just do it. If you get the Customs knocking on your door subsequently, tell them it broke down before you could re-register it and you have broken it for parts.

gofaster_s13

Flesh Gorden wrote: »

It's an old silver top Ford Zetec engine, the 2 litre one, has to be one made between 93' and 97'
as newer ones would need custom mounts, and the earlier engine is a straight swap with only a few minor mods

I might try to match it up to a Fiesta or Puma IB5 gearbox as they'd very close final ratio, 4:25:1 I think
and if I can find one at a decent price a Quaife LSD aswell

Should be fun consdering it's going into a mk6 Escort that weighs less then 1100kg

long term plan too would be adding a proper set of throttle bodies from a ZXR750 motorbike
piper cams, ported and polished head, and a better spec exhaust manifold
A few more options too, but those are the main ones


so It will be an old mk1 early mk2 mondeo I'll be harvesting,
impossible to find one with decent mileage over here and the prices are farily silly compared to uk
where you can pick one up with under 80k and a well maintained FSH for 300-500

I bought a complete Mondeo 2.0 silvertop with fsh and 83,000 miles here for 300 euro, loads of them about going to the UK for an old Mondeo is a bit of a waste of money.