insurance for polish car

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captainwood

Original Poster:

6 posts

115 months

Wednesday 1st October 2014
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Hi!

Right here goes,
Planning on buying a car from poland, Fiat 126, and want to drive it back to the uk. The car is all legal in poland, MOT etc so thats all fine. Insurance wise I want to get insured for 1 week to get the car from poland to the uk. Im after some advice as to what type of insurance I would need, and more importantly were I could get it from. I understand the car will be a parallel import so in theory its ok for uk roads, except for being lhd.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!


spikeyhead

17,225 posts

196 months

Wednesday 1st October 2014
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dacouch

1,172 posts

128 months

Wednesday 1st October 2014
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Are you planning on reregistering the car with a UK plate?

nickwilcock

1,522 posts

246 months

Wednesday 1st October 2014
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You're going to drive all the way from Poland to the UK in a Fiat 126?

Best of luck....

Migx

791 posts

178 months

Wednesday 1st October 2014
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nickwilcock said:
You're going to drive all the way from Poland to the UK in a Fiat 126?

Best of luck....
i believe it will be a fiat polska.
what can go wrong? he will be fine.

rallycross

12,747 posts

236 months

Wednesday 1st October 2014
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Hire a little 2 wheel trailer for the weekend and tow it back with a diesel of some sort, hire a van if you dont have access to a tow car.

captainwood

Original Poster:

6 posts

115 months

Wednesday 1st October 2014
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Im not going to be trailering it, im just looking for someone to insure it for a few days. hoping theres someone on here who has done something similar and can share how they did it!

Roo

11,503 posts

206 months

Wednesday 1st October 2014
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Not forgetting, of course, that it's illegal for a UK resident with a UK licence to drive a foreign registered car in the UK.

Certain exemptions apply. This isn't one of them.

captainwood

Original Poster:

6 posts

115 months

Wednesday 1st October 2014
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were did you get that info from? pretty sure thats not true.

Roo

11,503 posts

206 months

Wednesday 1st October 2014
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It's been done to death on here.

Red Devil

13,055 posts

207 months

Wednesday 1st October 2014
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This suggests that you may be wrong - http://expatriates.stackexchange.com/questions/50/...

Roo

11,503 posts

206 months

Wednesday 1st October 2014
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Who may be wrong?

Nigel Worc's

8,121 posts

187 months

Wednesday 1st October 2014
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Can you insure a car outside of its Country of registration ?

The Polish (& other nationalities) I know that use cars from their home Country whilst living and working here have them all insured, moted, whatever in their home Country.

captainwood

Original Poster:

6 posts

115 months

Wednesday 1st October 2014
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me i believe! So what exception would there be to drive the car to my house from the ferry, to then register it in this country?

Nigel Worc's

8,121 posts

187 months

Wednesday 1st October 2014
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To register it here you're going to have to change some lights, and possibly fit some it doesn't have, rear foglight(s) and side repeaters are the most common to not have, headlights will of course need to be changed.

robwilk

818 posts

179 months

Thursday 2nd October 2014
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When I imported my dodge ram from Canada i insured it with Adrian Flux on the vin number and drove it around for a while on the canadian registration , after a while the insurance said it had to be UK registered not sure on the actual time scale but it was longer that 3 months so its possible. No sure if coming from europe has any effect.

jamoor

14,506 posts

214 months

Thursday 2nd October 2014
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captainwood

Original Poster:

6 posts

115 months

Thursday 2nd October 2014
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Having spoken to the dvla I can drive the car as long as its uk insured and is booked in for an MOT and I am driving straight to the MOT station.

leyorkie

1,636 posts

175 months

Thursday 2nd October 2014
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Roo said:
Not forgetting, of course, that it's illegal for a UK resident with a UK licence to drive a foreign registered car in the UK.

Certain exemptions apply. This isn't one of them.
Complete rubbish again
Please read this and then understand it

https://www.gov.uk/importing-vehicles-into-the-uk/...

NigelAllen

104 posts

186 months

Thursday 2nd October 2014
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In Poland, its the car thats insured, not the driver. Its pretty common to buy the existing insurance wih the cat, simply renewing in your name, when due.

Nearly every polish insurer covers the vehicle throughout the EU,( under EU legislation) so his existing insurance, if you buy it off him, at the time of purchase; will cover youre journey home.

However, its just not that easy to explain to your average Uk plod....