LHD kit for france
Discussion
Bonjour everyone,
Can I pick your experienced Caterham brains please...
I now live in the south west of France and fancy building a new LHD kit (the 270 sigma), and would like to register it here. I'd be happy to trailer it back for the IVA etc as needed, so I've contacted Caterham UK and asked about the logistics and have had the reply that it is not possible due to a lack of a 'certificate of conformity'. I would have to buy a factory built LHD car from a dealer in France, which I don't really want to do as they are silly money, and like the idea of building a kit.
- So what is different about a fully built factory LHD car that makes it ok?
- Is there a way 'around' the system?
- If I built a LHD car in the UK, and registered it in the UK, would I then be prohibited from re-registering it in France? (I think if any UK car (eg Golf/Audi) is in the EU for 6 months or longer, it should be re-registered.)
Thanks in advance for any advice...
Can I pick your experienced Caterham brains please...
I now live in the south west of France and fancy building a new LHD kit (the 270 sigma), and would like to register it here. I'd be happy to trailer it back for the IVA etc as needed, so I've contacted Caterham UK and asked about the logistics and have had the reply that it is not possible due to a lack of a 'certificate of conformity'. I would have to buy a factory built LHD car from a dealer in France, which I don't really want to do as they are silly money, and like the idea of building a kit.
- So what is different about a fully built factory LHD car that makes it ok?
- Is there a way 'around' the system?
- If I built a LHD car in the UK, and registered it in the UK, would I then be prohibited from re-registering it in France? (I think if any UK car (eg Golf/Audi) is in the EU for 6 months or longer, it should be re-registered.)
Thanks in advance for any advice...
CanAm said:
I know a couple of people in a similar situation who are careful to ensure their car doesn't remain in France for more than 6 months at a time for that very reason.
I understand their reasons for doing this, but I have an 'annual green card' for my current car, its insured all year so cannot think of a good reason to take it back to the uk apart from its annual MOT.Who's likely to care/ask how long the car has been in the country ? If plod asks, I could act dumb (not hard).
Theres another poster on here ( can't remember his name) who owns classic Jaguars, and I think he has had a car here for 15 years !
Thanks for all the replies and comments.
I'm now thinking maybe buy the kit, build in france but trailer back to Uk for IVA.
Then deal with trying to register it over here afterwards. If no go, then leave it on the UK plates with an annual green card for insurance.
Mickrick - interested to know if you specced the LHD kit recently, and if it was IVA'd ok (I assume it had 'RHD' headlights).
Cheers.
I'm now thinking maybe buy the kit, build in france but trailer back to Uk for IVA.
Then deal with trying to register it over here afterwards. If no go, then leave it on the UK plates with an annual green card for insurance.
Mickrick - interested to know if you specced the LHD kit recently, and if it was IVA'd ok (I assume it had 'RHD' headlights).
Cheers.
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