I am in the process of buying a 2cv which has only a short remaining time on the CT , I am extremely competent around 2cvs having had many over the years and I am confident all is well , what I am not sure about is I have read it is the sellers responsibility to put a car through the CT test before selling , is this correct ? Is it the law or just courtesy.
The situation in France is somewhat different from the UK. Unless you state that you are selling the car as scrap or for parts the car must have a CT that is less than 6 months old at the time of sale. If the car does not have a valid CT then it is considered to be being sold "en l'état" or as we would say in the UK, "Sold as seen".
I sold my old tow car about three years ago with a CT and a full dealer service history. Unfortunately for me on the same day that I sold the car the alternator expired and I had to agree with the buyer that I would pay 75% of the cost of a new one via the local dealer. He wanted €1.000! I did not go along with this, lent the buyer my own car and bought a new alternator from my usual contact in the UK. The price for the alternator (Bosch) delivered was £140 and I fitted it + new belts and pulley bearing in about two hours. Total cost without my time was £200.
That which Mark has stated is (absolutely) correct.
On the subject of 2CVs, you can buy a kit out of the UK to turn it into something akin to a Morgan 3 wheeler as long as original 2CV's chassis plate and its surrounding area is incorporated into the build! I may have been lucky in doing this as I was quite friendly with the local DRIRE that was!
Meanwhile I shall have to contact Mark to see if he will accept my offer of 4.96 million € as I know someone who'd buy it for a fair bit more. Mind you it depends how much he is prepared to offer for my Type 33 Alfa Stradale in part-ex ;-)).
Yeah, sorry Mark, misread the info. You are right:)
Ralph, you are talking to a garagiste who has been here for 14 years.
Please get a French speaker to translate the information for you.
This is from http://vosdroits.service-public.fr/particuliers/F1050.xhtml which is the official Government website:-
Si le véhicule a plus de 4 ans et n'est pas dispensé du contrôle technique, la preuve du contrôle technique datant de moins de 6 mois ou de moins de 2 mois si une contre-visite a été prescrite
It says that the test must have been dated less than 6 months before the date of sale...this means that, on a 2 year test, there would have to be 18 months or more left on the validity.
Please do not believe everything which appears on some ex-pat websites as there are a lot of muppets willing to pass on duff information as fact. Also there is no law about selling a car with a CT (at least that I can find) but there is an admin requirement, which is not the same thing.
Cheers, Mark
If you Google controle technique when selling a car 4 years old or more, you will find a lot of information about this fact. Minimum of 6 months or 2 months if retest being undertaken. Cheers Ralph
WRONG! At least 18 months. Or a failure certificate within its 2 month validity.
Where did you get 6 months validity from, Ralph?
When selling a French registered car in France, it must have at least 6 months CT on it by law.
You may buy the car "as is" if you like but the carte grise should be marked "Vendu en etat" dated & signed by the seller. You would have no recourse if the thing was a death trap. You could not use it on the road or re register it until it has had another CT.
If you insist on having it tested before you buy it will list the faults on items which are subject to test. It does not matter whether it passes or fails (except to you) as you can still re register the car in your name using either. The difference is that the registation must be carried out within the 2 month failure window or within 6 months of a pass.
It is more of a courtesy. If I found a 1933 Bugatti type 41 in my barn which had been there for 50 years I would be extremely annoyed if the law meant I could not accept the offer of 5.6 million euros for it as I could not get the thing down to the CT station!