Moving to Italy
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I'm moving to Italy on Thursday and was just wondering if any PHers have got any tips or hints for a smooth move abroad. I'm taking my car over which is getting a fresh MOT tomorrow then a Cambelt and waterpump later in the day. I've recently refreshed a load of parts so its up to the task. Once there i'll be living up in the mountains, the idea is to keep this car legal in the UK for as long as possible so that I can return with minimal fuss. I might have use of a local car once there so should I tuck the UK motor up in a quiet corner or use as I would at home, I assume that whilst I am a customer of UK insurance company I will continue to earn ncb on my policy?
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I've moved to a village near Lavagna. I'm covered for 6 months with my insurers european cover and there is a local car or a scooter I can use after that. I've been told by somebody else who made the move from the uk I have a year to either register my car or take it back to the uk. My renewal is almost exactly at the 6 month mark. My main reason for wanting to keep a no claims and to run a uk car is the massive expense it takes to register even the cheapest used car here. Insurance is pretty much fixed at 1000 euro and the tax is around 800 euro for a year. It isnt worth registering a 1300 pound skoda locally, a car which i'd be unable to sell on. Most stuff worth around the same is ran to destruction, scrapped or sold to somebody who'll have it declared scrap and export it to africa. If I want my own locally registered vehicle I could get a pick up and pay far less tax or run uk registered cars for a year at a time as a secondary vehicle to the locally registered one. I'm extremely rural here so if i'm not driving my car into town nobody will ever see it parked up.
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