Swiss German translator needed please
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I've found my folks old car for sale near Zurich and I want to buy it and bring it back to the uk where I now live.
Only problem is that the garage doesn't speak anything but Swiss German. I've been using google translate, but it doesn't handle Swiss German well at all. Anyone willing to do a bit of basic translating for me please?
Cheers,
Martin
Only problem is that the garage doesn't speak anything but Swiss German. I've been using google translate, but it doesn't handle Swiss German well at all. Anyone willing to do a bit of basic translating for me please?
Cheers,
Martin
Interesting and helpful. Thanks.
I've been using google translate to go from English to German and then using it to translate their response. Some of the translations have been odd. A friend of mine that speaks and reads German has had problems understanding what they have written down. Here's their latest email. Can you tell I it's bad grammar or just poor written German?
Thanks for your thoughts/help.
Cheers,
Martin
Guten morgen Martin,
Sorry dass wir uns so lange nicht gemeldet haben. Wir verkaufen das Fahrzeug für eine Drittperson und mussten zuerst
Diverse Abklärungen treffen.
Wie im Inserat zu sehen, hat das Fahrzeug seit 1988 den gleichen Besitzer.
Das Fahrzeug stammt tatsächlich aus der Region Genf aber nicht aus Genthod.
Folgende Neuteile hat das Fahrzeug
Antriebswellenmanchetten
Bremsklötze vorne
Auspuffanlage
Batterie und Reifen
Zudem wurde ein Service gemacht.
Betreff dem Export nach UK können Sie sich an einen Profi oder eine Speditionsforma wenden.
Falls Sie Kopien es Ausweises benötigen, melden Sie sich bei uns.
Sobald das Geld bei uns ist. Werden wir Ihnen die Papiere aushändigen
Mit freundlichen grüssen
AUTO LÜTHI GELTERKINDEN
I've been using google translate to go from English to German and then using it to translate their response. Some of the translations have been odd. A friend of mine that speaks and reads German has had problems understanding what they have written down. Here's their latest email. Can you tell I it's bad grammar or just poor written German?
Thanks for your thoughts/help.
Cheers,
Martin
Guten morgen Martin,
Sorry dass wir uns so lange nicht gemeldet haben. Wir verkaufen das Fahrzeug für eine Drittperson und mussten zuerst
Diverse Abklärungen treffen.
Wie im Inserat zu sehen, hat das Fahrzeug seit 1988 den gleichen Besitzer.
Das Fahrzeug stammt tatsächlich aus der Region Genf aber nicht aus Genthod.
Folgende Neuteile hat das Fahrzeug
Antriebswellenmanchetten
Bremsklötze vorne
Auspuffanlage
Batterie und Reifen
Zudem wurde ein Service gemacht.
Betreff dem Export nach UK können Sie sich an einen Profi oder eine Speditionsforma wenden.
Falls Sie Kopien es Ausweises benötigen, melden Sie sich bei uns.
Sobald das Geld bei uns ist. Werden wir Ihnen die Papiere aushändigen
Mit freundlichen grüssen
AUTO LÜTHI GELTERKINDEN
So following on from that email, a question to my fellow Swiss PH'ers.
If I buy a car in Switzerland and want to export it to the UK, if there a typically Swiss bureaucratic process that needs to be undertaken. In the UK, you simply tick a box to say the car is exported on the vehicle's log book/paper work and sent it into the DVLA. The buyer can then simply drive off, cross the channel and do as they please with the car.
I'm waiting for the paperwork from the DVLA to find out how much tax I need to pay for a 1988 car and if I need to do a Single Vehicle Approval test.
Any advice or experience on the matter would be greatly appreciated.
Martin Pett
If I buy a car in Switzerland and want to export it to the UK, if there a typically Swiss bureaucratic process that needs to be undertaken. In the UK, you simply tick a box to say the car is exported on the vehicle's log book/paper work and sent it into the DVLA. The buyer can then simply drive off, cross the channel and do as they please with the car.
I'm waiting for the paperwork from the DVLA to find out how much tax I need to pay for a 1988 car and if I need to do a Single Vehicle Approval test.
Any advice or experience on the matter would be greatly appreciated.
Martin Pett
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