Exporting a car to Tenerife

StereoSound

Friend of mine in Tenerife is interested in buying my old car off me. Any ideas how much it would cost to ship a car there? He is a skool dayz pal of mine so I'm happy to do it but where do I start with this? He will need the log book to hand into Spanish authorities or do I send it off myself somewhere?

What shipping companies in Dublin would I be dealing with?

Thanks

Atlantic Dawn

He takes the log book with him, you should though photocopy it and notify Shannon that it has been exported outside the state, there's no official process in place for exports. Not sure of best route, might be Dublin to Rotterdam, there on to a ship going to Cadiz and there to Las Palmas and from there Santa Cruz in Tenerife, should be plenty of freight companies that will accommodate you in Dublin, I would think could be the guts of €1000 plus because it will be multi drops and not direct on the one ship.

Depending on the value of the car it could be worth you reclaiming the VRT on it, more info here...
https://www.revenue.ie/en/importing-vehicles-duty-free-allowances/guide-to-vrt/export-repayment-scheme/what-is-the-vrt-export-repayment-scheme.aspx

VRT export calculator here...
https://www.ros.ie/evrt-enquiry/vrtenquiry.html?execution=e1s2

StereoSound

Its an old Honda Civic worth about 1k..... Up to 1k to ship it? Ouch!! He doesn't seem to mind the costs though he just wants the car.

biko

The steering wheel will be on the wrong side of the car but I suppose he understands that and don't mind the hassle at drive-throughs, parking garages etc.

pablo128

Road trip. Ferry to France, drive to Cadiz in Spain, and get the ferry from there to Tenerife.

freddieot

You should check if there could be complications with Customs ? Tenerife and the rest of the Canary Islands are not in the EU although it is under Spanish control. There is no free movement of goods. A bit like the Jersey situation I think where you have to do full Customs Declaration (incl. taxes) for all exports \ imports.

Maybe someone has more understanding of this (freight company) but I'd check it through before spending anything.

LirW

My parents imported their car into Fuerteventura last year, granted it was a car with some value, a 2015 VW caddy.
Was bought in another EU country but the process is the same. Do the road trip down with ferry, it's the easiest.
Down there your friend needs to find someone who has experience of the paperwork. My folks found a local lad that took care of it, they do the inspection and you need every single detail of paperwork possible for the car. Then it's a bit of a wait and a few Euros to pay (can't remember how much) and you get the Spanish numberplate. And yes, they paid around 1k in import tax.

It's a bit of money involved and dealing with the authorities. Best thing is to find someone who can do it for your friend.

Dravokivich

Just reading through this, what are his options in Tenerife and why is getting you do organise it?

Just sell it to him or a family member in Ireland and get him to do the leg work.

andrewfaulk

Dravokivich wrote: »

Just reading through this, what are his options in Tenerife and why is getting you do organise it?

Just sell it to him or a family member in Ireland and get him to do the leg work.

If the cars only worth 1k I would think shipping it to the Canaries isn’t worth the hassle.. I ship containers in this route regularly and I can tell you the freight would most likely be well north of 1k, when you take into account customs clearances and local charges/haulage at either end.. In addition, loading a car into a container isn’t as simple as just driving it in.. strictly speaking it should be emptied of fuel and purged so it is no longer flammable.. on top of that it needs to be strapped and secured in the container.. on the high seas cargo can be bounced around a lot more than people would expect.. If OP still wants to go ahead, I can give him the name of a good company who serve the canaries.. PM me for details

bonky2018

Welcome to rip of republic
Just to send a car across to France on ferry with no driver for collection by my cousin living in France last quote i got was 600 euros .
So it was cheaper for cousin to get Ryan air flight from France back to rip of republic Ireland and drive car onto ferry cost 150 euros to go on ship with driver in low season and if he had booked it several weeks before that he could have done it for 70 euros both car and one driver .
It was a rush job he needed the car in France ASAP

Been there done that solved it for me and exported several of my own Irish cars to Spain and Portugal over several decades going back and forwards to Spain and Portugal

So if you want to PM and I might be able to rig up solutions some time middle February maybe early march but not sooner as it requires passing the car from many carriers across the Continent who do these things
The costs are higher than UK to content euopre costs .
Example I exported my UK van from Spain to Uk for 600 door to door full of furniture to sell which was cheapest way to ship the furniture which normally costs 1000 plus for the furniture shipping and had van to move the furniture to sellers place .
I sold the van as well so made afew quid from that


Van arrived perfect not a scratch and furniture was ultra fragile but well protected in the van was better than using the container solutions where risks exist for water damage if the container has leaks in it

The same project to send a van with furniture to send to Republic of Ireland would have been easy double minim as basicaly nobody wants to deal with obscure island like Ireland without big mark ups in costs

Trying to ship out of the ROI is often the largest rip off compared to trans Continental European shipping and getting past the expensive costs is often not easy and the faster you want it the higher the price seems to be the formula they use