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Mar 12, 2016 17:36:13 GMT
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I've been offered a cheap 2003 audi a4 avant,left hand drive and in good nick.sadly there's no paperwork for it
Does anyone know how/if it's possible to get this regd in the UK?
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Mar 12, 2016 19:08:52 GMT
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If already in this country walk away .It should have been registered as having arrived as a permanent import via the NOVA system. Failure to do this within 14 days is a £10 a day thereafter fine.
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Mar 12, 2016 19:31:12 GMT
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If already in this country walk away .It should have been registered as having arrived as a permanent import via the NOVA system. Failure to do this within 14 days is a £10 a day thereafter fine. In a related, but not kinda situation, what happens when someone from another country brings their car over for their own use for < the 6 month time limit allowed, and then decides to sell it in the UK. Up until that point it wasn't an import, so would you just declare it imported from the date it goes up for sale, or would the owner have to physically take it out of the country and re-enter, declaring NOVA at that point? |
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Mar 12, 2016 19:31:41 GMT
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If it was to leave the country and them return a few days later could you do the NOVA bit them?
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Mar 12, 2016 21:25:57 GMT
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Both very good questions to which I have no answer as not really my field of expertise . I do know that without a clear NOVA declaration you won't get a British reg from DVLA.
HMRC DO like the idea of £10 a day fine though ...A LOT.
I've only dealt with one that was a personal import( from France if I remember correctly ) , wasn't declared when it arrived , and the fine was more than the cars worth.
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Mar 12, 2016 22:44:38 GMT
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I had to export my French Seat ( and prove it, by giving boat details) thrn keep it out for a promised 3 months, in the very early days of NOVA.
I needed my MP to get the fine quashed.
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Mar 12, 2016 22:56:58 GMT
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We have just nova'd a motorbike, bought at an autojumble in uk, god knows how long in the country. We did it online. We just said we bought it last week and don't have the name or address of the person we bought it from We just put 'not known' in most of the boxes. don't say you brought it over! We had no paperwork, it had never been registered even in france. Got confirmation through that no vat is due and all is good  Turned out nova is super easy. I really expected to get a letter and LOTS of questions and confusion. |
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Mar 13, 2016 12:05:10 GMT
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Thanks for the replys I've since found out the number plates have also gone awol aswell  Can't see this being straight forward now? |
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Mar 13, 2016 13:08:28 GMT
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If it was a uk car that would be screaming stolen or outstanding finance to me
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Mar 13, 2016 13:11:31 GMT
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We did nova off the frame number.
We now have a dating certificate and nova verfification so just need a mot and we can apply for registration.
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Mar 14, 2016 16:19:20 GMT
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Thanks for the replys I've since found out the number plates have also gone awol aswell Can't see this being straight forward now? Personally I'd stay as far away from it as possible. |
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If it was a uk car that would be screaming stolen or outstanding finance to me I know it's legit,just the bloke doesn't live there anymore and can't be bothered with all the faff it's probably going to be, don't think I can either.shame though as I dare say it would be worth £2500 upwards in lhd world |
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Mar 17, 2016 10:09:50 GMT
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A friend of mine bought an American pick up off ebay last year, the seller claimed he would sort out the paper work but then disappeared and it became clear he hadn't even tried to sort out the nova for it. My mate had heard all the horror stories of £10 a day fines ect and expected to be bent over for it as it had been here a while. After a fair few phone calls to DVLA and HMRC (the later being very helpful and the former being useless apparently), it's now sorted and all it cost him was around £70.
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Mar 17, 2016 13:03:54 GMT
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Unlike a friend who bought a car without paperwork. What he was give wasn't correct . He then discovered ( via me) all about NOVA etc and traced it back to the original importer. The importer promptly dealt with the paperwork and then asked for £1500 to supply it to the owner !!
Having been shafted with bent paperwork , not correctly owned cars etc in the past paperwork is king. I wouldn't dream of buying a non registered Yank import for so many different reasons.
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