We imported Flo’s Twingo to the UK from France over 10 years ago for her to use here and now we want to repatriate it back to France. It is a French built car, first registered in France and I still have the LHD headlights for it.
I guess I will still need to visit the Douane for the import paperwork but how will they handle any tax on it? we didnt buy it in the UK - it was bought by Flo many years ago in Aix second-hand - so there is no bill of sale / receipt. We are not looking to sell it on in France.
My first suggestion is that you contact Mark Rimmer who has a business of car registration and import procedures. dukwman@gmail.com. He has done two vehicles for me and for others on SF.
A suggestion based on my own experience, tho’ in reverse, is that the details of the car will still exist on the records of the vehicle registration dept. That being the case, they should provide a document declaring that no charges are due when the vehicle arrives back in FR and you declare it to Douanes.
This is what happened when I ‘reimported’ a UK vehicle back to UK. DVLA still had the records of what the vehicle was and issued a ‘no charges due’ doc for me to present to UK Customs. Customs signed it off and DVLA then issued a new V5.
I imagine a similar procedure works for FR.
Any docs you have while it was still in FR originally will help a gt deal.
My French friend did the same thing years ago and had to prepare a folder of all the documents. Being astute she put everything in a specific order and left it with the authority in Tours. When she visited a month later she said you haven’t opened this file in a month because I marked the pages. She told him to just f’king sign the paperwork and she is an opera singer with a particularly high voice so scared was the chap he did just that and she left with all paperwork done.
