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Wed 13 May 2020 18:09
Buying car for export - Libbso

Hello,

I need some information regarding buying and exporting a car outside the UK. I am a EU driver license holder living in Northern Ireland and I need to travel back to my home but with the whole Covid-19 situation I try to avoid flying so I came up with the idea to buy a car and just drive back to my home country which is in the EU but since I've never owned a car in the UK I am not quite familiar with the legal matters and decided to seek for advice/information here.

Could you please walk me through the procedure briefly, apparently I will need to fill in some export form and send them to the DVA and get an insurance, what is the deal with MOT and road taxes, also could you elaborate on the documents needed for permanent export. Lastly, could you recommend any car insurance company with good deals for temporary insurance I need one just for a couple of days to get the car to my destination country but so far by checking online quotes i will need 700-800 pound to insure a car for just a month which /pardon me here/ just seems wrong to me, I have a full EU issues driving license with clear history and I've been holding it for almost 7 years now. What options do I have when it comes to insurance ?

P.S The car I want to buy is a really cheap Peugeot 407 2.0 Hdi manufactured in 2008 if that matters - I will just drive it back to my home country and probably send it for scrap or sell it for parts since we drive in the opposite side of the road back home...

Thank you and have a great day !

Edited by Libbso on 13/05/2020 at 18:12

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Wed 13 May 2020 18:44
Buying car for export - focussed

The whole deal on exporting a vehicle from the UK to the EU is here.

https://www.gov.uk/taking-vehicles-out-of-uk

The vehicle will have to be MOT'd taxed and insured for you to drive it to the ferry to escape from the UK.

The problem with you getting insurance in the UK may be that you are not the holder of a UK licence. You could try to do what I did when buying a car in the UK to drive it back to France.

Before I flew to the UK to buy the car I got the dealer to email me a copy of the V5 and took that to my French insurance agent who insured the car for one month to enable me to get it back to france and registered in france.

So try to get insurance from your EU country first.

Don't forget - you have to get the whole V5 from the seller not just the new owner's slip - if you don't you may have a problem registering it in your EU country.

Edited by focussed on 13/05/2020 at 18:46

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