Exporting a car to UK

ryanbarrett02

Hiya

Moving to UK within the next few months and want to bring my car with me. I got the certificate of conformity for the car and want to know if I need to bother with the whole NCTS malarkey to get the car examined or if I can just bring the car with me and get it registered in the UK? Would save me€150 if I didn't have to do it.

Thanks

CiniO

Only reason for bringing your Irish registered car to NCTS for export examination is for the purpose of obtaining VRT refund.
I you don't want to bother with it, there's no reason for bringing it to NCTS.
You can just bring the car with you, and get it registered in the UK.

However I don't get what you mean that it would save you €150 if you didn't have to do it.

What kind of car is it?

bazz26

Doesn't the car need to have the speedo changed to mph when it's being registered in the UK?

mopi

ryanbarrett02 wrote: »

Hiya

Moving to UK within the next few months and want to bring my car with me. I got the certificate of conformity for the car and want to know if I need to bother with the whole NCTS malarkey to get the car examined or if I can just bring the car with me and get it registered in the UK? Would save me€150 if I didn't have to do it.

Thanks

You can claim unused road tax. I did well on an old S320 a few years back

ryanbarrett02

CiniO wrote: »

Only reason for bringing your Irish registered car to NCTS for export examination is for the purpose of obtaining VRT refund.
I you don't want to bother with it, there's no reason for bringing it to NCTS.
You can just bring the car with you, and get it registered in the UK.

However I don't get what you mean that it would save you €150 if you didn't have to do it.

What kind of car is it?

2000 VW Golf, NCTS website said that it was €100 admin fee which was deductible from any VRT and then a €38 fee payable to the people that run the NCTS. So roughly €150. That's good to know that wouldn't have to take it.

ryanbarrett02

bazz26 wrote: »

Doesn't the car need to have the speedo changed to mph when it's being registered in the UK?

It has both mph and kph on the speedo, mph are in the big numbers and kph are in the small numbers. Guessing that would be acceptable? Odometer also in miles already.

bazz26

MPH with KPH should be fine. What year is the car? Was it an original UK car?

CiniO

ryanbarrett02 wrote: »

2000 VW Golf, NCTS website said that it was €100 admin fee which was deductible from any VRT and then a €38 fee payable to the people that run the NCTS. So roughly €150. That's good to know that wouldn't have to take it.

Ahh I see.

You were bit mislead by that.
It's all about vrt refund on export.

So say if your car has residual vrt value of say 3000 euro, and you're exporting it, then you can present it for inspection which costs 38 quid and then claim the vrt back minut admin fee of 100.
So you'd get 2900 euro back in such case.
It's not obligatory obviously but surely worth it if your car had such high vrt residual value.

However your car has very low residual vrt value, and besides they don't do refunds for cars worth less than 2000 euro, you don't need to worry about it at all. You don't need to do anything in Ireland prior to export.

ryanbarrett02

CiniO wrote: »

Ahh I see.

You were bit mislead by that.
It's all about vrt refund on export.

So say if your car has residual vrt value of say 3000 euro, and you're exporting it, then you can present it for inspection which costs 38 quid and then claim the vrt back minut admin fee of 100.
So you'd get 2900 euro back in such case.
It's not obligatory obviously but surely worth it if your car had such high vrt residual value.

However your car has very low residual vrt value, and besides they don't do refunds for cars worth less than 2000 euro, you don't need to worry about it at all. You don't need to do anything in Ireland prior to export.

Brilliant to hear, saves me a lot of worry trying to get appointments set up Ireland-side anyway. Cheers