Need a bit of advice here

PowerHouseDan

right i am currently a perm resident in the Uk and i have a car and uk insurance etc.. No i want to go to Ireland for 2-3 months and want to bring my car over, Can i get stopped for having my car overhere for to long etc?

peasant

Unless you are taking up residence here (ie. work, flat, etc) you are a visitor ...no problems.

Bradidup

Once you hold a UK licence, no probs with UK car for up to a year before you have to re register it.

PowerHouseDan

Bradidup wrote:

Once you hold a UK licence, no probs with UK car for up to a year before you have to re register it.

I still have an irish lis have not changed it, hasnt been nessary .I will be stayin at my parents place so wont be rentin...

Bradidup

Im not sure on that one but in the old days it was illegal to drive a UK car in Ireland with an Irish licence, customs could confiscate it, maybe someone else might have a more up to date answer. The other option is to swap your current licence with the DVLA Swansey for a UK one and you would have no probs. You cant hold dual licences.

Fey!

Why dont you email customs to find out?

optiplexgx270

For 2 months I doubt there will be a problem unless some neighbour kicks up a fuss to the guards about it outside the parents house. Chances of getting stopped day to day are VERY low. Last time I saw a checkpoint was 9 months + and wasnt even stopped just waved through as usual.

Re customs they give you 24 hours to get out as far as i know unless you give lip then you can say bye bye car.

Guy:Incognito

optiplexgx270 wrote:

For 2 months I doubt there will be a problem unless some neighbour kicks up a fuss to the guards about it outside the parents house. Chances of getting stopped day to day are VERY low. Last time I saw a checkpoint was 9 months + and wasnt even stopped just waved through as usual.

Re customs they give you 24 hours to get out as far as i know unless you give lip then you can say bye bye car.

I dotn know. I've seen 4 or 5 british reg'd cars stopped in various places around dublin in the last 2 weeks alone. Could be coincidence but i doubt it, i reckon gards are strting to pull them at random.

Fey!

They'd probably be customs checkpoints, which can be set up anywhere any time.

Wishbone Ash

Bradidup wrote:

You cant hold dual licences.

I'm open to correction but I think a dual license can be held if the licensee has passed a test in each juristiction. My brother did the car test in Ireland and the UK and held seperate licences. That was a good few years ago though. Perhaps it has changed since.

PowerHouseDan

Yeah, wat i will do is always have a load of documentation with me at all times,if i get stopped etc then i can do something about it.. I wont be using my car very offen anyway and no chance of anyone complaning about it.

Guy:Incognito

Fey! wrote:

They'd probably be customs checkpoints, which can be set up anywhere any time.

these were just cars stopped by individual gards either in a patrol car or on a bike.

Bradidup

Wishbone Ash wrote:

I'm open to correction but I think a dual license can be held if the licensee has passed a test in each juristiction. My brother did the car test in Ireland and the UK and held seperate licences. That was a good few years ago though. Perhaps it has changed since.

Maybe in those circumstances if you keep your mouth shut and do the test in each country you could have two but if you transfer from one full to another full you must surrrender the old one. I had to do it with my Australian one.

PowerHouseDan

Thing is a live in the Uk as a student which i am not allowed to exhange my lisence to a uk one for this reason. So really i am not allowed change my lisence.

dil999

What difference does being a student make to whether you can change your licence or not. If you are a resident in the UK it surely doesn't matter whether you are working or a student ??

optiplexgx270

Oh also forgot to mention guy on my road has been driving a English polo for 3/4 years at this stage he only got rid of it a wee while back. As far as i know he never got trouble about it from chatting in passing.

Esel

Bradidup wrote:

Im not sure on that one but in the old days it was illegal to drive a UK car in Ireland with an Irish licence, customs could confiscate it, maybe someone else might have a more up to date answer.

The issue is where you are resident, not what licence you have. If the OP can prove his residency to the satisfaction of Garda/Customs, there should be no problem.

PowerHouseDan wrote:

Thing is a live in the Uk as a student which i am not allowed to exhange my lisence to a uk one for this reason. So really i am not allowed change my lisence.

AFAIK, residency as a student will not qualify you to import the car free of VRT when/if you return here for good. You would want to research this further yourself.

lovell

AFAIK, residency as a student will not qualify you to import the car free of VRT when/if you return here for good. You would want to research this further yourself.

why is this?? anyone know

craichoe

Request a duplicate license as you lost yours and surrender the original when getting your UK one

galwaytt

so long as you can show you are resident in the UK, you won't have a problem. Electricity bill, phone bill, rent book, etc would do.

What you do need to do, though, is tell your UK ins co you are coming here for 3 months, to make sure you're insured.

Mc-BigE

lovell wrote:

why is this?? anyone know

http://www.citizensinformation.ie/categories/moving-country/moving-to-ireland/practical-issues-when-travelling-to-ireland/importing_car_into_ireland/?searchterm=importing%20car%20to%20ireland

Esel

lovell wrote:

why is this?? anyone know

Details of regulations re VRT exemptions/exclusions on Transfer of Residence here:

http://www.revenue.ie/index.htm?/leaflets/vrt_3.htm