Import , Insure and Register problems

[Mr.Flo]

Hi , i live in Ireland ( Republic of Ireland ) , and my cousin live in UK , so she buy from me a Lexus GS300 2007 and now after she did all steps till DVLA she con t go forward because they ask the car to be insure other wise cannot be register and she can t get any insurance to insure the car because she still have the irish reg , any one have same problem or have any ideas to help , i did try but can t find anything  , here it s much easy to register an imported car but for UK if you don t know where to look it s almost impossible 

Thank you 

[johnatg]

You can get UK insurance using the vehicle VIN number for identity. (It's called Chassis number insurance)

One company offering this is acorninsure.co.uk

It should be fairly straightforward - if the car has a non-EU VIN number (eg an 11 digit Japanese one) there are additional complications, but if the car was first registered anywhere in EU (when it will have a 17 digit VIN) there shouldn't be any problems.

[Mr.Flo]

33 minutes ago, johnatg said:

You can get UK insurance using the vehicle VIN number for identity. (It's called Chassis number insurance)

One company offering this is acorninsure.co.uk

It should be fairly straightforward - if the car has a non-EU VIN number (eg an 11 digit Japanese one) there are additional complications, but if the car was first registered anywhere in EU (when it will have a 17 digit VIN) there shouldn't be any problems.

Thank you so much Johnatg i will tell her to try this one , thank you again 

 

Regards

[Mr.Flo]

1 hour ago, johnatg said:

You can get UK insurance using the vehicle VIN number for identity. (It's called Chassis number insurance)

One company offering this is acorninsure.co.uk

It should be fairly straightforward - if the car has a non-EU VIN number (eg an 11 digit Japanese one) there are additional complications, but if the car was first registered anywhere in EU (when it will have a 17 digit VIN) there shouldn't be any problems.

Thank you again , that was work , the car is insure already ...THANK YOU 

[johnatg]

Great! The car will need to be MoT tested as soon as possible after arrival in UK.

[Mr.Flo]

6 hours ago, johnatg said:

Great! The car will need to be MoT tested as soon as possible after arrival in UK.

She did that already , she only need to send all papers at DVLA and the only missing thing was the insurance , thank you again for your help , wish you all the best