19-08-13, 04:46 PM
1. You can tax and insure it but it will have to come back to the UK every year for an MoT. You may also have a problem with the insurance as a UK insurance company won't usually cover you for more than 30 days use outside the UK.
2. If the country you choose is anything like the ones I'm familiar with (UK and France) you must have a local address to register it to. DVLA won't accept a non-UK address or a UK PO Box number but some countries might.
3. Doubt it if you are talking EU countries, regulations are getting pretty much the same everywhere these days.
4. A mate lives in France and runs UK registered cars and bikes over there. For them to be UK registered he has to have a UK address for them to be registered to (he uses his mother's address) but he insures them with a French insurance company who use the VIN rather than the number on the number plates. MoT and tax are treated the same as speeding tickets and parking fines, they are ignored (although he does put them through the Controle Technique, the French equivalent to the MoT so he can show them to be roadworthy but they are shown as SORN with DVLA).
However, there was a case recently when a UK registered car belonging to an ex-Pat that had been over there for some time was involved in an accident. There was an argument over who was at fault so a loss adjuster was called in. He checked and found that for a car to be legal for use in one country it must be legal for use in it's country of registration. So, as a UK registered car he asked for the MoT certificate and tax disc. As it had neither, the claim was rejected. So, although he had insurance it was pretty much worthless.
Strictly speaking, if you permanently export a vehicle to another EU country you must register it in that country within 6 months unless you can show that it returns to it's country of registration regularly so is classed as temporarily and not permanently exported.
2. If the country you choose is anything like the ones I'm familiar with (UK and France) you must have a local address to register it to. DVLA won't accept a non-UK address or a UK PO Box number but some countries might.
3. Doubt it if you are talking EU countries, regulations are getting pretty much the same everywhere these days.
4. A mate lives in France and runs UK registered cars and bikes over there. For them to be UK registered he has to have a UK address for them to be registered to (he uses his mother's address) but he insures them with a French insurance company who use the VIN rather than the number on the number plates. MoT and tax are treated the same as speeding tickets and parking fines, they are ignored (although he does put them through the Controle Technique, the French equivalent to the MoT so he can show them to be roadworthy but they are shown as SORN with DVLA).
However, there was a case recently when a UK registered car belonging to an ex-Pat that had been over there for some time was involved in an accident. There was an argument over who was at fault so a loss adjuster was called in. He checked and found that for a car to be legal for use in one country it must be legal for use in it's country of registration. So, as a UK registered car he asked for the MoT certificate and tax disc. As it had neither, the claim was rejected. So, although he had insurance it was pretty much worthless.
Strictly speaking, if you permanently export a vehicle to another EU country you must register it in that country within 6 months unless you can show that it returns to it's country of registration regularly so is classed as temporarily and not permanently exported.