insurance for polish car
Discussion
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!
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!
This suggests that you may be wrong - http://expatriates.stackexchange.com/questions/50/...
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.
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 Certain exemptions apply. This isn't one of them.
Please read this and then understand it
https://www.gov.uk/importing-vehicles-into-the-uk/...
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....
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....
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