by Totoro » Thu May 18, 2017 8:21 pm
Thanks a lot to all of you.
First I need to check here in Italy, IF I can get a car "road registered", that is with an Italian Plate just with an IVA, or if I need a full COC (EU). As much as I know I need a full COC. Maybe it could work with a "national COC" from other EU countries
First; the car I am looking after is NOT built in the UK.
Thus I could try to import it in the UK and get it somehow road registered as a LHD car, a "kit car", or "scratch built"... this means it should adhere to IVA. That means proper lights, emissions and all the matter. Most things should be not to difficult to reach. Probably the main difficult thing is the emissions.
Before IVA I will need VIN (since I think it has no number on the chassy)
As I understand IVA means NO COC, in the UK. This kind of cars has no hope to get a COC, but should be able to get a IVA.
I also know that most of the "odd imports" (that is USA cars, Kit Cars and low volume) in Italy generally have to "pass through" Germany. That is, Germans seem to be much more prone to "road register strange/odd cars". Being inside the EU, the Italians are obliged to register a car that has already been registered in Germany, even if it's a car that they would NOT register directly. Sounds strange, BUT here it works this way.
Also; as much as I know in Germany there's NO IVA...they should have eventually a sort of "German COC" (valid only inside Germany). It's just a matter of "name of the papers". In the UK it's called IVA, in Germany it becomes "German Coc, which should be issued by the authority proofing the car. Thus when receiving a car from the UK road registered with an IVA, they have to substitute it with a local/German COC (That is they withhold the UK IVA and give you a German/national COC in change).
At this point the most is done. First option... I take papers to Italy... show them and just say "It's ok for the Germans, so you have to accept those papers and issue italian papers"; in the worst option they will ask for small modifications. Second option, "leave the car in Germany", that is register the car with a German leasing company and personally lease and use it (pretty diffused in Italy, mostly to avoid speed fines)
@ Monza. Could you please explain me the way you get Ariels road registered/street legal in France?
Thanks a lot to all of you.
First I need to check here in Italy, IF I can get a car "road registered", that is with an Italian Plate just with an IVA, or if I need a full COC (EU). As much as I know I need a full COC. Maybe it could work with a "national COC" from other EU countries
First; the car I am looking after is NOT built in the UK.
Thus I could try to import it in the UK and get it somehow road registered as a LHD car, a "kit car", or "scratch built"... this means it should adhere to IVA. That means proper lights, emissions and all the matter. Most things should be not to difficult to reach. Probably the main difficult thing is the emissions.
Before IVA I will need VIN (since I think it has no number on the chassy)
As I understand IVA means NO COC, in the UK. This kind of cars has no hope to get a COC, but should be able to get a IVA.
I also know that most of the "odd imports" (that is USA cars, Kit Cars and low volume) in Italy generally have to "pass through" Germany. That is, Germans seem to be much more prone to "road register strange/odd cars". Being inside the EU, the Italians are obliged to register a car that has already been registered in Germany, even if it's a car that they would NOT register directly. Sounds strange, BUT here it works this way.
Also; as much as I know in Germany there's NO IVA...they should have eventually a sort of "German COC" (valid only inside Germany). It's just a matter of "name of the papers". In the UK it's called IVA, in Germany it becomes "German Coc, which should be issued by the authority proofing the car. Thus when receiving a car from the UK road registered with an IVA, they have to substitute it with a local/German COC (That is they withhold the UK IVA and give you a German/national COC in change).
At this point the most is done. First option... I take papers to Italy... show them and just say "It's ok for the Germans, so you have to accept those papers and issue italian papers"; in the worst option they will ask for small modifications. Second option, "leave the car in Germany", that is register the car with a German leasing company and personally lease and use it (pretty diffused in Italy, mostly to avoid speed fines)
@ Monza. Could you please explain me the way you get Ariels road registered/street legal in France?