Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Hi there,
There is an issue with role permissions that is being worked on at the moment.
If you are having trouble with access or permissions on regional forums please post here to get access: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058365403/you-do-not-have-permission-for-that#latest

Use of Irish Registered Car for Holidays over a Long Term in France

  • 06-05-2022 4:15pm
    #1
    Blub123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166 ✭✭


    Hi

    Asking for a friend.

    Over the past 10 years or so I have had a car in France which was kept on Irish number plates.

    The French insurer, Axa was happy to insure same on the condition that it was used rarely / holiday visits only and I would have sent them the current odometer reading at each renewal to show the low use.

    I was going to bring over a different car to France with the intention of replacing the existing car under the same conditions etc.

    I rang Axa in France with the intention of doing a change of vehicle and they have told me that due to Brexit they cant allow the Irish registration.

    Has anyone else come across this or is she as I suspect confused and thinking english native speaker = british citizen and thinking its a British registered vehicle and therefore subject to Brexit triggered ramifications.?

    thanks



Comments

  • #2
    Marcusm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,633 ✭✭✭✭Marcusm


    Brexit should have nothing to do with it, as you have identified.


    I am surprised, however, that a French insurer was willing to cover a foreign registered car for such a long period. Ultimately I fail to see how it can be Road legal as it will not have been subject to the NCT nor, I assume, the French equivalent. These are required under EU law and it is difficult to see how, conceptually, the insurer could ever have been comfortable that it was an appropriate policy to write.



Advertisement