Possible UK move

whomitconcerns

Quick one hopefully. I may be moving to uk soon. As regards car I guess options are a)bring it and drive as is as long as I can
B)export, get some vrt rebate and register in uk
C) sell in Ireland and buy in uk?

Would welcome thoughts on advantages our disadvantages? Tks. It's a 2012 a6.

Atlantic Dawn

You could only drive it on your Irish insurance for 30 days. If you export it you would need to get the speedo changed as your current one will be kmh only, this could cost €500 to €1000, the VRT rebate should more thsn cover this though. If it was me I would sell it here and buy another in the UK of higher spec, could take time with it being worth a bit.

Clearlier

whomitconcerns wrote: »

Quick one hopefully. I may be moving to uk soon. As regards car I guess options are a)bring it and drive as is as long as I can
B)export, get some vrt rebate and register in uk
C) sell in Ireland and buy in uk?

Would welcome thoughts on advantages our disadvantages? Tks. It's a 2012 a6.

I can't really comment on the financial side of things. I did import my car to the UK about 6 years ago and the process was incredibly bureaucratic. It would need to be worth at least 1k to me to do it again. I warned the Mother in law who ignored me and admitted afterwards deeply regretting it.

Theanswers

1/ Buy a replacement dash on eBay/ breakers and put the dials in yourself.
- Much Cheaper.
2/ You need to get your car MOT'd on the chassis Number
3/ Need UK Insurance.
4/ Register the import online - HMRC
5/ Send all away!

Your Done.

whomitconcerns

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

You could only drive it on your Irish insurance for 30 days. If you export it you would need to get the speedo changed as your current one will be kmh only, this could cost €500 to €1000, the VRT rebate should more thsn cover this though. If it was me I would sell it here and buy another in the UK of higher spec, could take time with it being worth a bit.

I dont think that drive on irish insurance thing for 30 days is valid..pretty sure I am covered in UK and Ireland for as long as I am "irish resident"

But I hadnt thought of the latter point, thats important. Thanks.

As regards the selling its the least favourite idea from my pov, hassle of selling and buying again..when I know the car I have..maybe in longer term (6-12 months). Really trying to decide what would be best for now. And maybe that does still mean sell and buy....

CiniO

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

You could only drive it on your Irish insurance for 30 days..

Where did you get this bit from?

Atlantic Dawn

CiniO wrote: »

Where did you get this bit from?

Always assumed that was standard, seems to be 31 days though but same idea...

http://www.aviva.ie/online/driving/car-insurance/faq/

CiniO

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Always assumed that was standard, seems to be 31 days though but same idea...

http://www.aviva.ie/online/driving/car-insurance/faq/

Well that's just a little information you extracted, and what you are saying is misleading when you look at whole picture.
Few facts:
1. They provide full cover without any time limits in Ireland and UK. Its clearly written in their policy document (page 5 or 6 if I remember right) - so this is all op could be interested in really - but let's go further.
2. Full cover abroad in the EU is indeed limited to 31 days as you say but its enough to ask them and they will extend it 90 days free of charge. If you want to extend it further, they will still do that, but for a fee. (I found out all the details from them earlier this year).
3. All above is irrelevant to vehicle legality on the road, as all those time limits apply only to extra cover. Third party cover is valid all over EU and much further (all countries with green card system) without any time restrictions as this is a requirement for every car insurance policy issued in the EU.
So in other words, if you ignore them, don't tell them anything, and take your car to Serbia or Ukraine or even further for 5 months your third party cover will be still valid and therefore car fully legal on the road.

Only case if you go for longer, then insurer might try to escape from paying by trying to prove that you are not resident in Ireland anymore and based on that cancel your policy. But my understand ing is that it would be up to them to prove it.

theteal

Yeah I drove my Irish car over here for 3 months waiting for the insurance contract term to expire before I brought it back to Ireland to sell. It only dawned on me afterwards that I most likely wasn't insured.

I was looking at getting UK plates on it but it seemed like a lot of effort and there are so many better specced cars over here for less money - I also thought I'd have trouble selling a 1.4 focus here as I'm fairly sure such a monstrosity doesn't exist.