Alez
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| posted on 13/5/05 at 09:48 AM |
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I'm becoming legal!
Hi All,
Just a quick note to tell everyone I've just been granted the import of my Locost Blade in Spain. It will be getting Spanish plates in the
following days, maybe even today! I'm very happy about this news. The approval guys (friends of someone I hired for doing the paperwork for me,
which was essential) turned a blind eye on a couple of things, the most noticeable is probably the reverse which is mandatory here, I installed a
light and engaged 1st gear while switching on this light when asked for reverse by the guy checking the lights, and that made everyone happy.
My conclusion is that importing these cars as a business is probably not worth it for BECs. Reason is that if you don't want a full windscreen
plus wipers and heavy stuff like that you are asking for trouble unfortunately because they are just clueless. CECs are worth a try in my opinion,
althogh it's to be checked what people here may be actually interested in buying, if anything. Also it may be expensive if you need to fit CE
belts and maybe even seats? That's some food for thought.
I'm now wondering if I could declare my car off the road in the UK (SORN) in order to keep the registration just in case I want to sell it in
the UK in the future, or in case I move to the UK again. What I'm supposed to do is declare it as "permanently exported". Both
declarations can be done by filling in a section of the V5. Then if I wanted it to be road legal in the UK again I would need to pay for a new
registration I think. What do you think? The safe option is certainly to declare it has been exported, because that way I don't need to live in
the UK (be a resident) anymore. Otherwise, I could get in trouble if they send any letter and can't reach me!
Cheers,
Alex
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 13/5/05 at 09:53 AM |
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The trouble with SORN is that it's not a one-off declaration - you have to renew it every time you would normally pay road tax.
If you don't re-declare SORN, or pay tax, then you get fined.
David
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ned
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| posted on 13/5/05 at 10:16 AM |
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alex, sorn would be most flexible option imho, but as david says it needs to be renewed anually, so ideally yo need someone in the uk that you can
register yourself/the car with to dvla so when they send out the sorn declaration it is picked up by your friend int he uk and then you can arrange
the paperwork accordingly 
presumably if it wa permanently exported you'd have to re-sva if it was ever re-imported? otherwise (heaven forbid the legalities) i'm
sure someone would be willing to purchase the uk registration from you to avoid sva here!
Ned.
beware, I've got yellow skin
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mangogrooveworkshop
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| posted on 13/5/05 at 10:20 AM |
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What a load of hassel you have had to endure. What suprises me is that Spain was the place that allowed quadbikes to drive on the roads. This allowed
the EU to make it mandatory for all states to allow the same rule. Sometime in the future USE they would go all the same for homebuilt/small
production cars. 
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Alez
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| posted on 13/5/05 at 10:58 AM |
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Thanks guys! In view of your posts I'll be declaring it as permanently exported to Spain, as I don't want to bother anyone in the UK with
this and I can still sell the car in the UK to someone who is interested in passing SVA again in the future, anyway. Even that is only in case I
cannot find a buyer here, which is only in case I want to sell the car in the future, go figure!
Cheers,
Alex
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ned
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| posted on 13/5/05 at 11:25 AM |
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Alex,
I agree with your comments for simplicity etc, though in such an unlikely event that you do want to sell teh car in the uk, the car will be worth
less in the uk if it's not registered, sure you'd have figured that out though
Ned.
beware, I've got yellow skin
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Alez
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| posted on 13/5/05 at 12:18 PM |
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Of course Ned, thanks for pointing out 
Mango, you woulddn't believe how dumb they are. For instance a while ago some Dax Rushes were imported in one go. They had aeroscreens fitted.
Just because of that they ended up with a sentence in their "Spanish V5" which says their occupants must wear a helmet!!! Can it get more
stupid than that???
Cheers,
Alex
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JoelP
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| posted on 13/5/05 at 09:07 PM |
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it wouldnt be possible to declare uk sorn anyway, you have to tell them where it is, and technically they could check that it is there.
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Alez
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| posted on 17/5/05 at 08:08 AM |
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Tax disc
Hi!
Yesterday, when I was about to fill in the section of the V5 for declaring the car as permanently exported, I realized I should have paid road tax
quite long ago (my disc expired something like 10 months ago). What's the proper way to solve this? Should I just give DVLA a ring to see how
can I pay these months (from the date the disc expired to the date the car is exported) from Spain?
Cheers,
Alex
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Peteff
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| posted on 17/5/05 at 09:05 AM |
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Tell them it's not been used on the road. It's not likely they will want to chase you for it if it's not been in the U.K. while
untaxed.
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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