Licence Swap Info
Discussion
Hi All,
I've moved back to the UK after spending 13 years in South Ireland. I am thinking if changing my full licence to a UK one.
My question is: If i do this, will i lose my driving experience. ie. i've been driving over 10 years on a full Irish, but will changing to UK bring me back to 0 years for insurance purposes when they ask how long have you held licence for? or do your years transfer over?
The reason i am thinking of changing is insurance is slightly higher on the EU licence.
If anyone has done this before, info would be greatly accepted.
Cheers.
I've moved back to the UK after spending 13 years in South Ireland. I am thinking if changing my full licence to a UK one.
My question is: If i do this, will i lose my driving experience. ie. i've been driving over 10 years on a full Irish, but will changing to UK bring me back to 0 years for insurance purposes when they ask how long have you held licence for? or do your years transfer over?
The reason i am thinking of changing is insurance is slightly higher on the EU licence.
If anyone has done this before, info would be greatly accepted.
Cheers.
I know that on the new licence under the 'valid from' column, the date will be the date your Irish licence was issued. Presumably this means you keep your experience for insurance purposes.
However, there is no legal requirement for you to change the licence to a UK one and there are some benefits to keeping it. i.e. no penalty points
However, there is no legal requirement for you to change the licence to a UK one and there are some benefits to keeping it. i.e. no penalty points
but was wondering would it really be worth it. Apocalypto said:
I know that on the new licence under the 'valid from' column, the date will be the date your Irish licence was issued. Presumably this means you keep your experience for insurance purposes.
However, there is no legal requirement for you to change the licence to a UK one and there are some benefits to keeping it. i.e. no penalty points
'no penalty points' is a myth and with increasingly integrated systems the risk that a ban in one nation will be communicated to others is more and more likely However, there is no legal requirement for you to change the licence to a UK one and there are some benefits to keeping it. i.e. no penalty points
ch33zyf33t said:
I heard there is some sort of "ghost" licence, that if you ever do change your licence, then the points you would of had would be instantly issued to the new licence???
Anyone know if there is any truth to this??
anyone with a none UK licence who gets points i nthe UK gets allocated a DVLA driver no and the points are there should plod or other legit users check with the DVLA computersAnyone know if there is any truth to this??
Personally I found it was cheaper to have an EEC licence rather than a UK one with 3 points. In fact I can't even remember a price difference between UK and EEC on the insurance quotes I did, if it was as much as £150 I definitely would have remembered. However that was a while ago and may have changed.
It is most definitely not a myth that you cannot have points from one state added to a licence from another state. That may change in the future thanks to the United States of Europe that we seem to have joined but currently there is no provision for it.
It is most definitely not a myth that you cannot have points from one state added to a licence from another state. That may change in the future thanks to the United States of Europe that we seem to have joined but currently there is no provision for it.
Apocalypto said:
It is most definitely not a myth that you cannot have points from one state added to a licence from another state.
Not added to their licence no, but non-GB licence holders will have a virtual driver's record created for them by DVLA.Penalty points can and will be accumulated on this record and, if the driver amasses 12 or more points in any three years, they will be liable for a 6 month totting ban - same as if they held a GB licence.
Apocalypto said:
Personally I found it was cheaper to have an EEC licence rather than a UK one with 3 points. In fact I can't even remember a price difference between UK and EEC on the insurance quotes I did, if it was as much as £150 I definitely would have remembered. However that was a while ago and may have changed.
It was in November that i took out the policy. first i said it was a UK licence and they gave me a quote. when i went to take out the policy, i said i forgot to add its actually an EEC and the policy went up 150quid, they said its because of the EEC licence. They also said if i got a UK licence then the price would go down. Cheers for all your comments.
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