Running a foreign registered car in the UK

[welshsurferdude]

I was wondering if it was possible to run a car registered abroad if you had an address in that country and also lived in the UK too and assuming the insurnace people know and are cool about it. Can I just run it here without worrying about tax mot or minor traffice offences?

[TheEnd]

You'd need to get some insurance, and UK brokers won't touch it, so you'd need something from the home country, and that'd need it's usual tax and MOT equivalents.

Think of it as if you went abroad and brought your UK car, it'd need Valid insurance, and roadworthyness tests.
Tax you could probably avoid though.

[Nickyboy]

IIRC you can only run a foreign registered car for 6 months before having to register it here.

[ewenm]

Nickyboy said:

IIRC you can only run a foreign registered car for 6 months before having to register it here.

although I'd be surprised if you ever get caught for that. A german friend of mine used her german-reg car for years with no bother.

[Nickyboy]

Ditto, i dont think there is any way of actually keeping track other than getting stopped reguarly and having the car inputted on ANPR