transporting car back to England
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transporting car back to England
Is there a transporter company that will load a car and transport it to England ? [ Basingstoke in this case.]
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Thanks for website.
I have requested a quote but I see that their minimum is £500.
I was hoping to get it back up to Uk for a lot less than that - maybe half.
Maybe someone who needs to transport boxes of stuff ( there is a lot of room in the back of a Surf, esp with the back seats down ) might be interested to drive it up for me, with me paying diesel and ferry.
That is how it came down here in the first place.
I have requested a quote but I see that their minimum is £500.
I was hoping to get it back up to Uk for a lot less than that - maybe half.
Maybe someone who needs to transport boxes of stuff ( there is a lot of room in the back of a Surf, esp with the back seats down ) might be interested to drive it up for me, with me paying diesel and ferry.
That is how it came down here in the first place.
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Just be aware that if the car is UK registered it needs a valid tax disk to get it into the UK, otherwise it will need to be taken by transporter.
We had that issue with our UK car and found it was a lot easier to sell it down here to someone willing to have it reregistered as French.
We had that issue with our UK car and found it was a lot easier to sell it down here to someone willing to have it reregistered as French.
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Well it is interesting you say that as I was wondering.
I was assuming that if I ( as I intend/ed to do ) pre-arrange an MOT test for the date of arrival at Portsmouth, and have an email to that effect from the garage, that I can just drive straight to the garage with that doc as my laissez-passer.
But I have heard a tale of someone's car being confiscated on arrival - anyone have direct experience of this ?
I was assuming that if I ( as I intend/ed to do ) pre-arrange an MOT test for the date of arrival at Portsmouth, and have an email to that effect from the garage, that I can just drive straight to the garage with that doc as my laissez-passer.
But I have heard a tale of someone's car being confiscated on arrival - anyone have direct experience of this ?
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PS - I would be more than willing to have the car re-registered as French but I've only got one life and have already wasted far too much time trying to achieve this - so much for EU standardization and whatnot.
If anyone knows anyone who provides the service of getting the re-registration done ( for a reasonable price ) please do advise. the car is old but has plenty of life left in it ( a Toyota Hilux Surf imported direct from Japan in 2004 ) and I have no desire to scrap it either here or in UK.
If anyone knows anyone who provides the service of getting the re-registration done ( for a reasonable price ) please do advise. the car is old but has plenty of life left in it ( a Toyota Hilux Surf imported direct from Japan in 2004 ) and I have no desire to scrap it either here or in UK.
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They could have it driven back and possibly use plated drivers where necessary in the uk.
John
Ajay@AlliedVehicleServices.co.uk
They could have it driven back and possibly use plated drivers where necessary in the uk.
John
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I am not going to be very helpful because I cant remember the name but there is a company's website you go onto and then transporter firms will bid for the job. Just had a brainstorm, think its Shipleys. Thats the trouble with being over 60 things come and go!!
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