Driving car from port
Discussion
Slightly off the topic but anyway...
Does anyone know anything about insuring an un-registered imported car.
I want to pic up a car from Southampton and have heard that you can insure the car using the chassis number. Apparently this covers you for two journeys, the drive from the port to home and then from home to the test centre where the alterations will take place.
Anyone ever done this or know of cost etc.....?
Does anyone know anything about insuring an un-registered imported car.
I want to pic up a car from Southampton and have heard that you can insure the car using the chassis number. Apparently this covers you for two journeys, the drive from the port to home and then from home to the test centre where the alterations will take place.
Anyone ever done this or know of cost etc.....?
I'm not convinced its legal to drive from the port to your house, it seems a bit of a grey area and I decided not to risk it and got the car transported from Liverpool docks instead. If you do, take something to remove the paint from the windscreen where they'll have written all over it... Mine had various different coloured writing on it, some of which came off with just glass cleaner and some I had to resort to scraping. Tyre inflator and jump start kit are a bit more obvious, fuel might be a good idea too as it'll be on fumes.
It definitely is legal to drive it to an MOT / SVA (as required), to a place that's carrying out prep work for those tests and to the local DVLA office if they decide they want to inspect it. Insurance can be done on the chassis number, I took out a policy with A-Plan and they said it'd be fine for the first few (can't remember how many) weeks but to let them have the reg number as soon as possible.
I got followed by a panda car while driving across town with no number plates to get an MOT, can't believe they didn't pull me...
It definitely is legal to drive it to an MOT / SVA (as required), to a place that's carrying out prep work for those tests and to the local DVLA office if they decide they want to inspect it. Insurance can be done on the chassis number, I took out a policy with A-Plan and they said it'd be fine for the first few (can't remember how many) weeks but to let them have the reg number as soon as possible.
I got followed by a panda car while driving across town with no number plates to get an MOT, can't believe they didn't pull me...
As d-man says, you are only legal to drive unregistered and without trade plates to and from MOT/SVA/DVLA and place of conversion. You are likely to be given a note from the shippers clarifying this. Driving home from the port is not legal and believe me from experience the s'ton police (especially the motorway cops) are not there to be pleasant.
Dave
Dave
It's much easier where I live. 
My wedge should arrive at the dock in Halifax Nova Scotia soon enough.
I emailed the Nova Scotia motor vehicles ministry and they told me
all that's required is that I buy some private insurance to cover the
trip home and also buy a trip permit for $10.
I've got 3000 miles to go however to get home with it. Inland shipping
would be $1800 dock to driveway. It's cheaper buy riskier to drive that
far in an unknown car. I'm still debating that part.
My wedge should arrive at the dock in Halifax Nova Scotia soon enough.
I emailed the Nova Scotia motor vehicles ministry and they told me
all that's required is that I buy some private insurance to cover the
trip home and also buy a trip permit for $10.
I've got 3000 miles to go however to get home with it. Inland shipping
would be $1800 dock to driveway. It's cheaper buy riskier to drive that
far in an unknown car. I'm still debating that part.
D_G said:
As d-man says, you are only legal to drive unregistered and without trade plates to and from MOT/SVA/DVLA and place of conversion. You are likely to be given a note from the shippers clarifying this. Driving home from the port is not legal and believe me from experience the s'ton police (especially the motorway cops) are not there to be pleasant.
Dave
Dave
How can anyone tell the difference if your driving home or to the MOT centre. If your MOT centre is near where you live?
elster said:
How can anyone tell the difference if your driving home or to the MOT centre. If your MOT centre is near where you live?
You have to have a pre-booked appointment with the place you're driving to too. Of course you could book a test and then not go there, plod would probably still take a dim view if you were taking the piss and MOT'ing it hundreds of miles from where you were stopped
As for insurance, any of the brokers that deal with imports should be able to sort it. I took out an annual policy and had cover just on the chassis number for the first few weeks until the car was registered, there was no charge for this. No idea how much a short term policy just to cover the car before it's registered would cost though.
I was told that it is possible by a forwarding agent at the port.
Anyway I will give MCE a call. Just to cofirm is this the right compnay?
www.insuremce.com/insurance/index.asp
Anyway I will give MCE a call. Just to cofirm is this the right compnay?
www.insuremce.com/insurance/index.asp
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