OK, the deed is done. My question is that I need to drive the van back home but presume I need UK insurance to tax the vehicle to drive the van to Dover. As I am not UK resident I can not get UK insurance - or can I?
No problem in acquiring temporary French insurance till I re-register it. Suggestions anyone please. (I am going to contact DVLA to ask their advice on Monday)
Thanks for that Debra, mission accomplished now! Having checked so many sites I came up the information that you have up to 15 days to organise tax, insurance etc after a change of ownership so they wont chase you in that time - providing the car is not used on a public road ;-)
I organised french insurance, it has it's MOT and I sent the export form off for the day I left so hopefully it the cameras saw me they will realise I was on my way to Dover. No one appeared to pay any interest at the Port fortunately. Mind you, i think I could have chosen a better day to drive from Yorkshire to Burgundy, some 10hrs drive, rather than yesterday. Sheet rain and flash flooding all the way down the A1 then horrendous gales through the north of France, I was exhausted when I got home. Hubby is very happy, just a bit of paperwork to organise now.
Hi Debra, I know the insurance is fine. Have spoken to our insurer at length over it. They have given me a months insurance then said I will have to go back in and renew it at the end of the month as I wont have got it re-registered by then - their words not mine. I'm stressed over the lack of tax but what can I do - what is an ANPR camera? Have not lived in the UK since 1989 so haven't a clue about the simplest things.
On the positive side, our sous prefecture have told me to bring the log book in and they will see if they can identify it, as it it so long and expensive to get a certificate of conformity, which might not be needed. Now that would be a result and I can use the saving to pay the fine for not having UK tax! Which I would willing buy but I can't.
I once wanted to get a French number plate for an English trailer to bring my motorbike to France. I couldn't get one as I didn't have an English log book & it was apparently illegal for a garage to make me one. I spent all day on the phone to various government departments explaining I was a French person with a French car which had been rear ended & I needed a new plate. Nobody could help me as the French numbers would not be possible on an English blank controlled by Big Brother's computer. I eventually found a friendly motor bike shop which made me a bike style plate which accommodated all the French bits & 12 years later I'm still using the same plate in France! What a load of old tosh!!
Nope, tried every which way etc! Bought at auction so can't get them to tax it. Have insured the van with French insurance and am going to drive it down to the port and see what happens. Am nervous but have genuinely tried to get insurance but no one will insure me without being resident. Flipping ridiculous, have spoke to DVLA Association of British Insurers, a local insurance broker who was fantastically helpful but couldn't find a solution. The van wont be driven apart from down to the port for the ferry so being a genuinely honest person I will probable get caught - happy to pay the fine but frightened they might take the van of me. Have found out that the DVLA gives you 15 days after purchase of a vehicle before they contact you to find out why it is not yet taxed and insured, so I am OK on that front - ironically it has a full MOT.
Hah - hopefully this wont be found by anyone and used to report me - so no details about when and which port! Maybe I should become a black square till after the deed is done.