Foreign plated cars in uk

[castros_bro]

Any resident in Britain is not permitted to drive a foreign registered vehicle, there are some exceptions and the 183 day rule does not apply to residents only visitors. Resident is if you pay rent (not living in a holiday home) or work or claim benefit or kids go to school etc.

 

I have yet to find which organisation in the UK is tasked with this as the Police do not seem to be interested. Any ideas?

 

 

 

Sent from Ariques Portugal where I am not a resident so still drive my tax and tested UK reg moped.

[Chas4545]

Last two posts sum it up.

Car has to be registered where you live for more than 6 months of the year.

 

You can only insure a european car for another country in europe for 6 months max.

 

Hence Insurance is often void on a foreign reg car so give them a wide berth..

European law, not uk law.

Silly really cos there are countless people in each others european countries driving around uninsured and blissfully unaware.

 

Or don't care.

[Largactil]

Over in Eire, they apparently have road check points set up by the revenue where they specifically look out for foreign-plated cars - This is mainly down to Vehicle Registration Tax (VRT) & Road Tax avoidance.

 

(i.e. to register a vehicle in Ireland you need to cough up 23% of the open market selling price as VRT to the government, get it MOT'd / NCT'd, then pay the ludicrous road tax...So on a £4k car, you could end up paying 40% of the purchase price to be legal).

 

If the revenue think you're up to any nonsense they can seize your car there & then.

[steve_earwig]

Loads of forrin registered vehicles here, mostly German that are missing those stickers on their numberplates which I think means they're obviously illegal (but then the police here don't get paid much...). Also, I've occasionally been seeing an old boy driving an old orange swb Transit with British plates on it for the ten years I've been here. It's a left-hooker, he speaks Croat...

 

Most of the time the coppers here leave forrin drivers alone because very few of them speak any language than other Croat, and many of them can't even do that very well. I got stopped on my bike once, one copper walked around the back of the bike, clocked the plate and they just waived me on.

[Junkman]

Over in Eire, they apparently have road check points set up by the revenue where they specifically look out for foreign-plated cars - This is mainly down to Vehicle Registration Tax (VRT) & Road Tax avoidance.

 

They did this already back in 1998 when I lived there.

 

Loads of forrin registered vehicles here, mostly German that are missing those stickers on their numberplates.

 

Yep. Croatians don't even bother to swap the plates after they nicked a car in Germany.

[DS20]

There're tons of long-stay overseas-registered cars here in Lincolnshire. Most are first-generation Audi A6s or first-generation BMW X5s, with the odd Merc Sprinter in the mix, most originally from somewhere east of Berlin. Lincolnshire's economy wouldn't be the same without workers from overseas - working in the fields and on the fishing fleet isn't hugely appealing, it seems.