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

Blub123 · 06-05-2022 05:15PM #1

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

Marcusm · 09-05-2022 08:18PM

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.

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

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