registering uk car in italy

[cayman-black]

Hi does any one know what has to be done to register a uk, plated car over to italian plates and what costs are involved? TIA.

[andy_roe]

This is something I'm wanting to do too, so also interested! It's typically quite complicated from what I can understand. YOu have to get the italian equivalent to the MOT and take that along with proof of residency and a certificate showing the type of the car (you can get this from Porsche) along to your local Ministero Dei Trasporti Motorizzazione Civile. If the car is over 20 years old you can apply for ASI certification which will reduce your insurance and bollo drastically.

Where about's are you located? I'm in Bologna.

[matsoc]

If you have familiarity with Italian language I suggest to refer to the ACI (Automobile Club Italia) site, at this link:

http://www.aci.it/i-servizi/guide-utili/guida-prat...

On the site you will also find for download in PDF the modules you need to fill,

The exact costs vary according where in Italy you are going to register the car, some certain costs are:

- ACI 27 EUR
- PRA 32 EUR
- DTT 32 EUR
- DTT rights 9 EUR
- plate (about 45 EUR)
- Provincial tax (vary a lot from a provincia to another but it is heavy, consider at least 200 EUR)

The costs are not so high but the bureaucracy involved leads many to go to some private agency of "Partiche Auto" which will do all for you but for an increased price.

Otherwise to do it by yourself the place in Italy you have to go is the "ufficio provinciale della Motorizzazione Civile" (UMC) where you will have to take all the stamps, documents, receipts, etc.

[matsoc]

andy_roe said:

If the car is over 20 years old you can apply for ASI certification which will reduce your insurance and bollo drastically.

Yes, true. You also have other great advantages because if the car is ASI certified you can drive it even if the car is not EU4+ compliant, a restriction now active in a lot of city centres during workdays (Turin where I live for instance) If you join a historic cars club they will help you to get the ASI certification, my dad is now applying for his 1993 W124 estate he bought new and after 3 years of daily use he "retired" in the country house instead of trading it. It now has 125k miles but 80k of them covered from 1993 to 1996. It looks like brand new!

[andy_roe]

Grazie Matteo! My wife is Italian so hopefully she'll be able to help with the language on this!!

Andrew

[andy_roe]

matsoc said:

Yes, true. You also have other great advantages because if the car is ASI certified you can drive it even if the car is not EU4+ compliant, a restriction now active in a lot of city centres during workdays (Turin where I live for instance) If you join a historic cars club they will help you to get the ASI certification, my dad is now applying for his 1993 W124 estate he bought new and after 3 years of daily use he "retired" in the country house instead of trading it. It now has 125k miles but 80k of them covered from 1993 to 1996. It looks like brand new!

Yep - I'm about to join one of the clubs and start the ASI process - it can aparently take a long time. I'd like to do that first to try and avoid the bollo and excessive insurance! (The car is currently on French plates).

Here's a couple of images of my car!

[matsoc]

Beautiful!

964 is one of my favorite 911s, and it looks great in this colour!

I owned a 993 and later a 997.1 cab, now that 964s are turning 20 years old they make an ideal ASI registered sports car. Last year I was thinking to buy a ASI reg. 3.2.
Since this spring though I had to cut expenses for my weekend car and I went back to an Elise, which is good for Italian running costs because the road tax is low thank to low power and insurance too thank to low displacement!