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Aug 26, 2013 10:47:36 GMT
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Okay so fair enough, you can drive over to eastern europe and pick up a lada or go to germany for a nice opel, and drag it back on a trailer and you have no real problems. But what if I wanted to drive it back home, presuming it's roadworthy - how do you sort that as regards insurance etc? Also a guy driving a foreign registered car with an english passport, license, fluent english and about five words of french? Any of you chaps done it before?
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"A Pierburg carb? It would be more economical to replace it with a funnel..."
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thebaron
Europe
Over the river, heading out of town
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Aug 26, 2013 11:01:33 GMT
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I have bought and driven back the following before:
English reg. car to Ireland on Irish license * 2 English reg. car to Poland on Irish license Polish reg. car to Ireland on Irish license Irish reg. car to Switzerland on Swiss license
In all circumstances I transferred the insurance from another one of my cars to the vehicle in question.
I am pretty sure that this arrangement would not 100% protect me should an accident occur (as you are dealing with the grey area of what is actually fully road legal across a number of countries) but this was the approach I chose to take.
If I am happy that the car is road legal (i.e. not going to get pulled in the country of origin) and that I have notified my insurance company to temporarily cover the vehicle I will take a trip on.
However, Do note that I am not suggesting this is foolproof and you won't get any issues. Only that this is my approach and it has worked for me to date.
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berendd
Europe
why do I need 3 keys for one car?
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Aug 26, 2013 11:19:03 GMT
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in a couple of european countries you can get temporary licence plates that include insurance
for instance if you buy a car in the Netherlands and put it on export plates, you will be perfectly legal to drive it home, as long as it has MOT on it.
Same sort of temp plates are available in Germany and Austria.
In some countries the plate belongs to the vehicle and can be kept, cheapest way is then to insure it on chassis number in the UK. in other countries the licence plate belongs to the owner (for instance Belgium) and thus you have to get a temporary plate to fit the car.
Where are you planning to buy a car?
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valman
Part of things
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Aug 26, 2013 18:50:26 GMT
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this is relevant to my interests! would love to fly out to russia and buy a moskvich and drive back! folks are still there so i would only need money for flights and fuel (and car but that will be cheap as chips) my grandad had one when i lived there and i really NEED one. but having a google its still unclear to me. anyone done this?
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Aug 27, 2013 21:43:27 GMT
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Berendd! As valman's just posted, fancied going out to cezch republic, lithuania, somewhere out there (possibly not russia as scared of mafia) and return with a wartburg, volga, moskvitch, lada etc. ^.^
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"A Pierburg carb? It would be more economical to replace it with a funnel..."
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