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Importing a car into Ireland from the UK - insurance

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  • 10-01-2019 2:48pm
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    Niallo28
    Registered Users Posts: 2 ✭


    I would be grateful if anyone could guide me.

    I’ve just committed to buying a car in London and have organised for the car to be transported to my door in Dublin.

    I’ve everything sorted apart from the insurance end of things.

    The car is insured until it reaches my door. I’ve been on a fleet policy for 18 years with work and have recently left the organisation so I’ve no insurance policy in Ireland that I can do a temporary transfer.

    Is there an insurance company that will insure the car on an English reg in Ireland while I get the VRT situation sorted which I believe can take 30 days and then continue on with the Irish reg once VRT is paid.

    There are insurance companies that will insure you for 30 days but you have to be a UK resident which doesn’t work obviously.

    This is all completely new to me so any advice would be greatly appreciated.

    Thanks
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    CJhaughey
    Registered Users Posts: 14,906 ✭✭✭✭CJhaughey


    I would say a Broker would be your first point of call. They can arrange things that may be problematic when dealing directly with insurance companies.


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    Niallo28
    Registered Users Posts: 2 ✭Niallo28


    I've tried a number of them any they dont seem to have a solution to the issue. The sticking point seems to be that i've never had my own policy before.

    It's fairly straight forward if you have your own policy here as you can transfer it across for 30 days.


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    galwaytt
    Registered Users Posts: 12,761 ✭✭✭✭galwaytt


    Silly question, maybe: but without a record, irrespective of the UK reg, how have you determined you can get insurance here at all ??

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