Re: Exporting car to holiday home

Travelling to/from France

Exporting car to holiday home

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Trevor 07/05/2008, 7:44
I'm thinking of taking our 25 yr old  Peugeot 205down to the S of France to live from October onwards. I shall have to insure it shortly just to make the journey and be available if needed here in the meantime. It's value is about £100. Any thoughts on the best way to go about this? (e.g. a day return on the ferry seems cheaper than a single - also is it poissible to get a single back with Ryanair or do I have to buy a return?)

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Cendrillon 07/05/2008, 8:05

"................ also is it poissible to get a single back with Ryanair or do I have to buy a return?) "

This is certainly possible, booking a one-way airline ticket  is not a problem.

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Sunday Driver 07/05/2008, 10:52

You also need to factor in the costs of registering the car over here:

French type approval certificate - 120€,  CT certificate - 56€,  LHD headlamps - £££?,  prefecture registration fee - 66€, new number plates - 20€. .....

More than the car is worth, so unless it has plenty of life left in it, you might be better off selling it/scrapping it in the UK and buying a little runabout locally.

 

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Trevor 12/05/2008, 14:50
Its only got 45,000 mls on the clock so has years of use in it, especially at the less than 1000 a year we would use it.

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Trevor 12/05/2008, 14:51

Sunday Driver wrote:

You also need to factor in the costs of registering the car over here: French type approval certificate - 120€,  CT certificate - 56€,  LHD headlamps - £££?,  prefecture registration fee - 66€, new number plates - 20€. ..... More than the car is worth, so unless it has plenty of life left in it, you might be better off selling it/scrapping it in the UK and buying a little runabout locally.

 

What sort of figure would you estimate for insurance?

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Sunday Driver 13/05/2008, 7:45

Difficult to say - not much, I would have thought.

Try this price comparison website:  http://www.assurland.com

 

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