VW T Cross - Exporting a family car from NL to the UK

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Thu 7 Jan 2021 08:45
VW T Cross - Exporting a family car from NL to the UK - Jonathan Dennis

Hi there, hope someone can help me with this as I am struggling to find clear info.


Currently in the Netherlands with a NL register car. Moving back to the UK at the end of Jan and wish to drive home in the car, which is LHD.


Eventually I want to sell the car but that's for another day.


There is a process here whereby I am required to de-register the car and get approval for export from the Dutch. Then I get temporary plates and can drive it on Dutch roads for 14 days. Or I can do this, deregister online from the UK later - but they wont give me this certificate. God knows what the implications of that are.


What worries me is whether I can drive it through France and the UK. Obviously it isn't registered in the UK currently.


If anyone has any experience of this situation some advice would be wonderful.


Jonathan

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Thu 7 Jan 2021 09:11
VW T Cross - Exporting a family car from NL to the UK - RT

If you drive the car to the UK before you take up residency in the UK, if only by one day, then you can drive it here as a visitor with no more formalities than a Dutch holidaymaker.

Once you have the car here and become resident, you'll need to park it off the highway until it's been re-registered at DVLA and insured with a UK company.

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Fri 8 Jan 2021 17:51
VW T Cross - Exporting a family car from NL to the UK - Brit_in_Germany

You will need to check whether, post-Brexit, import duties and/or VAT are payable.

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Sat 9 Jan 2021 00:12
VW T Cross - Exporting a family car from NL to the UK - Avant

Given all the likely hassle and the low price you can expect to get if you try to sell a LHD car in the UK, it may be worth doing the sums comparing your suggested course of action with selling it in NL and hiring a car over here when you come.

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