Could I register my car to my second home.
Discussion
Suppose you have one car and one home if you registered your car to another address it could be seen as PCJ but, If you owned a house in France could you legally register the car in your name but with the French address so that if you went through a camera they might not bother pursuing it( because you are a forienger).
What do you think?.
What do you think?.
This is used to great effect by many, especially the rich.
You will indeed need a bona-fide address in France, and then keep the French plates and have the car insured through a French company.
You can then 100% legally drive here. If you are gatsoed, you MAY get a NIP sent to France....but as trying to get you done ( they must take you to court, cannot issue a penalty charge ) costs time and money, it is highly unlikely.
The only problem with this guise is that if you ( hopefully not ) are ever involved in a serious accident, a thorough investigation will be made to prove your country of normal residence...and unless you can prove that is France ( wage slips, bills etc for 180 days at least in a year ) then you could go down for a long stretch, as you will be done for fraud, tax avoidance etc.
The above is the official scare line. Go to London and you will see loads and loads of foreign plates...we all know it is to avoid the congestion charge, parking tickets, speeding fines.....yet the police do little.
In typical British fashion, rather than police the roads with real cars and cops, our authorities are pushing like made to get the French et al to open their records to the DVLA, and that points CAN be put on foreign licenses...all to make the gatso method work as it does here.
You will indeed need a bona-fide address in France, and then keep the French plates and have the car insured through a French company.
You can then 100% legally drive here. If you are gatsoed, you MAY get a NIP sent to France....but as trying to get you done ( they must take you to court, cannot issue a penalty charge ) costs time and money, it is highly unlikely.
The only problem with this guise is that if you ( hopefully not ) are ever involved in a serious accident, a thorough investigation will be made to prove your country of normal residence...and unless you can prove that is France ( wage slips, bills etc for 180 days at least in a year ) then you could go down for a long stretch, as you will be done for fraud, tax avoidance etc.
The above is the official scare line. Go to London and you will see loads and loads of foreign plates...we all know it is to avoid the congestion charge, parking tickets, speeding fines.....yet the police do little.
In typical British fashion, rather than police the roads with real cars and cops, our authorities are pushing like made to get the French et al to open their records to the DVLA, and that points CAN be put on foreign licenses...all to make the gatso method work as it does here.
Absolutely you can do this. My uncle does, though he does live part time in France.
If you've got a reasonable command of French it's not too hard to register your car, you do a Control Technique (basically an MoT) and some forms to register your car to your address. I think the first MoT is a stiffer one, a bit like an SVA for a kit car, but absolutely no problem for a standard production car. All in it cost him about 250 pounds and two weeks to register it from what he told me.
You will need to change the headlights, again very easy for normal production cars, just go to a scrap yard, or order them from a parts place. My uncle was very lucky and found an abandoned LHD car, same model as his, in a local scrappy.
Insurance is about 180 Euros for a 61 year old man, I think he has 3 points, UK licence and RHD car, a 1997 Volvo 940 if memory serves. No road tax and he's perfectly legal to drive in the UK.
I also knew a couple of students at university from other EU countries who kept their cars here for 3 years. No problems at all, and no worries about parking tickets or speed cameras.
If you've got a reasonable command of French it's not too hard to register your car, you do a Control Technique (basically an MoT) and some forms to register your car to your address. I think the first MoT is a stiffer one, a bit like an SVA for a kit car, but absolutely no problem for a standard production car. All in it cost him about 250 pounds and two weeks to register it from what he told me.
You will need to change the headlights, again very easy for normal production cars, just go to a scrap yard, or order them from a parts place. My uncle was very lucky and found an abandoned LHD car, same model as his, in a local scrappy.
Insurance is about 180 Euros for a 61 year old man, I think he has 3 points, UK licence and RHD car, a 1997 Volvo 940 if memory serves. No road tax and he's perfectly legal to drive in the UK.
I also knew a couple of students at university from other EU countries who kept their cars here for 3 years. No problems at all, and no worries about parking tickets or speed cameras.
Edited by AJS- on Sunday 11th November 14:41
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