Foreign plated cars in uk

[sierraman]

Over past few years I've seen more and more east European registered cars, mostly chod like old meganes vectras etc, driving around presumably for longer than the 6 months they are allowed. Does anyone else see this in their town?

[twosmoke300]

Who else is gonna cut all the cauliflower?

[AlabamaShrimp]

Is this supposed to be a joke??

[twosmoke300]

Not really

[richardmorris]

See lots of foreign registered lorries - my neighbouring company in Chobham imports "construction accessories". Lots of containers from the ports and LT, DE, RO, PO, etc numberplates.

Most people with cars are going to be working too.

One of my neighbours have diplomatic plates ...X... which is technically consular and not diplomatic I suppose, but they pay no taxes either way.

[Mr Livered]

No Eastern European cars round here. Now that it's summer half the cars seem to be German or Dutch, with the occasional French one, but that's it.

 

I had heard that there are loads of Eastern Europeans in some parts of the country - presumably the cars you're talking about belong to new arrivals?

[Wackeldackel]

Used to get lots of vectras (similar to the bald tyred green one featured elsewhere on here) early audi a4s, mondeo estates, bmw 325 and 328 with flashy wheels, big bore exhausts and lots of dents driving about east kent during the summer months. Mostly driven by shaven headed fruit pickers and their nubile blonde girlfriends. In my experience they tend to leave a trail of lech, baikal, tyskie or special brew cans behind them, often with missing headlamps, blowing exhaust and cable ties/silver tape repairs. Usually sporting some gaudy seat covers or body graphics too. I don't know about the 6 month deadline for registering the car in the uk, most of the ones I used to see didn't look as if they'd last 6 weeks.

 

To the stocky polish gent in flip flops and a vest who dented the passenger door of my 406 in September 2012 whilst heaving himself out of his shitty blue bmw, who then proceeded to spit at me when I remonstrated with him about the dent in my door, yes it was me who came back later and put your windscreen through with a 7lb hammer. Saw him driving about sans windscreen for about 2 weeks afterwards too.

 

And in case anybody accuses me of casual racism, I would like to point out that I'm wearing a tie, nothing casual about that.

[Dave_Q]

See a fair few near me.

 

A lad I currently work with rocks up in his Estonian registered C class, apparently because he's a student he's allowed it here for a year.

 

Still makes me chuckle watching him get out of the car to operate the barrier every morning.

[SambaS]

Lots round here, all pretty good folk, often got fed and watered by the Slovaks in town after work, the English chavs here often started trouble with them though, but they could look after themselves. I take people as I find them. Its the English I'm wary of.

[saucedoctor]

Some local chavs in my town started giving a Hungarian chap a bit of a hard time, one Friday night in the town centre. The mono-browed European knocked fuck out of the lot of them, and took their carryout. Just walked off, calm and casual as you like. I thought it was brilliant. We were in Wetherspoons and saw the whole thing through the window. Some of the punters seemed to know him, and we heard them talking.

[Bobthebeard]

Point of thread lost on me now..... Am thickie

[AlabamaShrimp]

I asked if it's a joke as there are loads here. Big Polish influx and some from Lithuania. All in various states of repair. Nobody seams to care that they are here for longer than 6 months and I know the police don't care.

 

Saying that it's nothing I wouldn't do if I was working in another country, if you can get away with it why not. There's tons of UK registered stuff in southern Spain, something tells me they don't all have an itv

[UmBongo]

Used to get lots of vectras (similar to the bald tyred green one featured elsewhere on here) early audi a4s, mondeo estates, bmw 325 and 328 with flashy wheels, big bore exhausts and lots of dents driving about east kent during the summer months. Mostly driven by shaven headed fruit pickers and their nubile blonde girlfriends. In my experience they tend to leave a trail of lech, baikal, tyskie or special brew cans behind them, often with missing headlamps, blowing exhaust and cable ties/silver tape repairs. Usually sporting some gaudy seat covers or body graphics too. I don't know about the 6 month deadline for registering the car in the uk, most of the ones I used to see didn't look as if they'd last 6 weeks.

 

To the stocky polish gent in flip flops and a vest who dented the passenger door of my 406 in September 2012 whilst heaving himself out of his shitty blue bmw, who then proceeded to spit at me when I remonstrated with him about the dent in my door, yes it was me who came back later and put your windscreen through with a 7lb hammer. Saw him driving about sans windscreen for about 2 weeks afterwards too.

 

And in case anybody accuses me of casual racism, I would like to point out that I'm wearing a tie, nothing casual about that.

Well played.

[bogeyhead]

I live in Herne Bay where Eastern European vehicles are rare as hen's teeth, but on the occasional foray a few miles away into thanet for a greasy spoon breakfast fry up and in particular Cliftonville, there is much Polish and Lithuanian registered chod around. I expect most of them have been around more than 6 months, but the police there have much more to occupy them by way of home grown deadbeats, wasters and winos. Clfftonville is a great place to spoke British chod and I shall try to get a few pics the next time I venture that way

[Wackeldackel]

Hit the nail on the (Bogey) head.

 

Even better make a detour at the end of the thanet way to some of the villages between sandwich and Ramsgate, have a breakfast at the Dalby caff for me!

[willswitchengage]

I see plenty of "diplomatic" cars around here doing diplomatic things such as going to Tesco and dropping the kids off at school. Knobs

[forddeliveryboy]

 

often with missing headlamps, blowing exhaust and cable ties/silver tape repairs. Usually sporting some gaudy seat covers or body graphics too

 

Do we need to coin a turn of phrase for cars which even Autoshiters turn their noses up at?

[Ghosty]

The thing is, a lot of those diplomatic cars don't actually belong to embassies or anything, just people that work there, or random international organisations like the 'International Coffee Organisation'. Why do they need special plates at all? 

I think the whole system is stupid - there's enough information on Wikipedia to decode the plates, and as such it's just a stupidly easy way of identifying diplomats of certain countries. Why give them their own system at all?  Surely anonymous (or apparently anonymous) ones would be better?

 

On topic: I regularly see a dark blue Golf cabriolet, Polish plates and LHD, shopping list on doors, and a purple pre-EU Swedish registered Kangoo as well. Never seen the latter move though.  I just accept these as the norm, they don't do any harm.

[Lankytim]

Hey everyone, that bald tyred shitheap opel vectra is back! Its now got a set of partworn odd sized tyres on, plus one random small steel wheel. How the feds have allowed or to live this long I have no idea.

[Lord Sterling]

I used to see the occasional Eastern European registered cars around in Birmingham, one lad I used to work with had a Polish registered E46 Coupe.

 

I see a fair few cars foreign-registered cars here in Brussels, for some reason I'm seeing a lot of French-registered ones.

 

Some local chavs in my town got beaten up by a mono-browed Hungarian

Used to see this a lot, it's funny even now.

[forddeliveryboy]

 

How the feds have allowed or to live this long I have no idea

 

 

Who the hell are 'the feds'? I not know where I is living.

[Pillock]

 

 

There's tons of UK registered stuff in southern Spain, something tells me they don't all have an itv

That's outrageous. How do they catch up on The Only Way Is Essex and Gino's Italian Escape?

 

I'm a bit peeved that they get away with foreign registered cars here for so long meaning no tax or mot to shell out for. I thought the 6 month thing was void as soon as they had a permanent address or were working here, it's intended for tourists. But it's a bit of a first world problem I suppose, they're not costing me anything or putting me out, I'm just being very British and being annoyed that they have a loophole I don't.

[laser wheels]

Who the hell are 'the feds'? I not know where I is living.

 

It's that new federal criminal investigation body we have now. Have you not heard? Everyone's been talking about it lately!

[daveb47]

Do we need to coin a turn of phrase for cars which even Autoshiters turn their noses up at?

 

 

I thought we  already had

...Vauxhall...

[New POD]

My friend's German wife, who has been working for a British Jet Engine manufacturer in the East Midlands for 6 years, since she transferred from the Berlin Site, still has a German Registered MX5 mk2 which is insured at her parents house in Berlin, which means that they have to drive it to Germany once a year for the TuV test.

He is bemused, perhaps a bit erm irritated by her refusal to get it registered in the UK.

[willswitchengage]

It's probably worth saying, for balance purposes, how irritated the French are with British expats driving around in cars with no MOTs or tax

[Asimo]

I see a Bulgarian plated Seat most commute mornings. Have done for at least 3 years. Good luck to him. 

 

Shame it is a Seat and not one of these:

 

It works both ways though; when  my sis. moved to France, it was years before they got around to locally registering their motors. I think we should all be driving on Euro plates that have no local identifier anyway, especially if they could be really classy like this

 

 

or better still, this (more digits as required)

 

[forddeliveryboy]

It's probably worth saying, for balance purposes, how irritated the French are with British expats driving around in cars with no MOTs or tax

 

You could delete the last seven words and retain the accuracy. What various parts of England are experiencing with European workers is possibly similar to the experiences some resorts on the Med/Black Sea have with English holiday makers.

[willswitchengage]

You could delete the last seven words and retain the accuracy. What various parts of England are experiencing with European workers is possibly similar to the experiences some resorts on the Med/Black Sea have with English holiday makers.

 

[Junkman]

I'm a bit peeved that they get away with foreign registered cars here for so long meaning no tax or mot to shell out for. I thought the 6 month thing was void as soon as they had a permanent address or were working here, it's intended for tourists. But it's a bit of a first world problem I suppose, they're not costing me anything or putting me out, I'm just being very British and being annoyed that they have a loophole I don't.

 

^^

That.

 

Within the EU, the 183 day rule applies, i.e. a car must be registered, where it spends 183 or more days of the year.

But it doesn't mean, it can be run on foreign plates for half a year. This neither becomes true by repeating it over and over again,

nor by some blokes claiming it down the local.

A car must be registered in the country where half a year is going to be spent immediately upon arrival.

There is no grace period whatsoever.

 

And I don't see this as lax as some people here, because those pillocks, who don't obey the rules, cast a shadow on all other foreigners.

I think it is not too much to ask that someone respects and obeys the laws of his host country, is it?

 

Furthermore, there is no way to control, whether those foreign registrations haven't lapsed meanwhile, whether the cars have

a valid roadworthiness test, and whether they are insured. I want to see the faces of the ones who think this is a trivial thing,

after they were hit by a car with expired foreign plates, and are stranded with no way to claim for any compensation.

This will be particularly interesting, if there is bodily harm involved.