british plated car in trnc

lagosboy


Joined: 08/08/2011
Posts: 132

Message Posted:
03/09/2011 11:16

pls i need advice on buying a british plate car. its at a cheap price and i am wondering if it might have not been registered.



so, is it possible for a british car to be in trnc unregistered?

Carndi


Joined: 12/06/2009
Posts: 613

Message Posted:
03/09/2011 11:52

Yes. there are several cars running around and the fact that they still have GB plates mean that they have not been registered.

Cars brought into the country are given a year before they must be registered and tax paid.

Were you to buy an unregistered car then you would be responsible for paying tax etc.

Should you bring a car into the country and remove it after several months with the intention of bringing another car from the UK then the time that your first car was here counts ie first car in the country 9 months then your second car has to be registered within 3 months.

I believe all the above to be true. Maybe someone else can correct me if I am wrong.

lagosboy


Joined: 08/08/2011
Posts: 132

Message Posted:
03/09/2011 11:58

thank you.

Ed1957


Joined: 03/09/2011
Posts: 377

Message Posted:
03/09/2011 12:08

Sounds a cheap deal which could have expensive consequences

lagosboy


Joined: 08/08/2011
Posts: 132

Message Posted:
03/09/2011 12:25

yes. that is exactly what i am afraid of.

SidsPinkFloyd


Joined: 01/09/2008
Posts: 69

Message Posted:
03/09/2011 13:57

So what if you drive your British plated car to Cyprus, stay for 3 Months (the max on visitors visa) and drive home. Can you repeat this every year or does each 3 month period add up?



SPF

Carndi


Joined: 12/06/2009
Posts: 613

Message Posted:
03/09/2011 14:43

Good question and I dont know the answer BUT it would not suprise me if they ( Customs ) would make you pay tax after your fourth return.

dalartokat


Joined: 14/04/2008
Posts: 734

Message Posted:
03/09/2011 14:55

Ed1957 has a good point, personally would not get involved as you could end up paying not only for registration but anything else attached to that car and make sure the owner is still in NC.

minertor



Joined: 14/02/2009
Posts: 1238

Message Posted:
03/09/2011 16:26

friends of ours, mixedherbs on here, had to take their car out of the country. They had been driving to and from UK for a few years. all time spent here was totalled. I'm pretty sure that's what happened. No doubt Rachel will respond if I'm wrong.



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yorgozlu



Joined: 16/06/2009
Posts: 4437

Message Posted:
03/09/2011 16:26

You can drıve your car over to trnc for your holıdays....etc and then back again and so on.But only until you complete the 360 day limit.After that you won't be able to.............however long it takes you to complete..........



As far as uk plated cars on the island are concerned........find out how long they had been here because there is a good possibility that it may be in penalty,which means it won't only be the import duty that you'd need to pay but the penalty as well,which is 60tl per month.

matula


Joined: 07/07/2008
Posts: 647

Message Posted:
03/09/2011 16:53

I personally know a chap who has been driving around on a British plated car for longer than I have been here (4.5years) and have often wondered how he gets away with it.?????

Carndi


Joined: 12/06/2009
Posts: 613

Message Posted:
03/09/2011 17:25

Matulu. Will only do that until stopped on a routine police check or picked up for some other offence.

Then he will not only have to pay the tax, be fined as vorgozlu says but may well have to pay the mot and road tax for every year he has had the car here.

They ( the authorities ) do not miss a trick when it comes to collecting monies.

lovingcyprus


Joined: 02/03/2007
Posts: 1272

Message Posted:
03/09/2011 17:52

If a deal sounds too good to be true it usually is

minertor



Joined: 14/02/2009
Posts: 1238

Message Posted:
03/09/2011 18:38

one of the nicest guys that I ever met, here or anywhere else, was a Scotsman called Brian ? (forgot his surname) A regular at the Watermill, Girne. He had an old red car of indeterminate age and make. He had a set of English plates and a set of TRNC plates. He'd managed for the last five years, at least, without paying any exhorbitant fees. Unfortunately Brian died last year, there's a plaque on the wall at the Watermill, just the one. Dunno what happened to the car but Gary got the microwave. Memories eh,

doddies


Joined: 16/02/2009
Posts: 102

Message Posted:
03/09/2011 20:31

A Turkish Cypriot in Karsiyaka has been driving a white and yellow pick-up truck for at least three years. It`s an Xreg British plates. Think he works for the government. Lapta Belydire also have/had a British reg vehicle for a long time.

Quarmby


Joined: 15/09/2008
Posts: 975

Message Posted:
03/09/2011 20:56

Msg 12



Well the authorities seem to be missing a trick for 4.5 years on collecting tax on that car!

Biggles


Joined: 14/06/2009
Posts: 165

Message Posted:
03/09/2011 21:00

Msg 11, probably no tax or insurance! Dangerous!

MickSturbs


Joined: 23/12/2009
Posts: 110

Message Posted:
03/09/2011 21:01

Hello Minertor, yes indeed we had British plates brought the car out for 2 winters on the trot and we had to return the car as we had overstayed the car by 1 day in 2 years (361 days in 2 years) even though it was a different car. Register it or take it home was the orders. We took it home, we did too much travelling in different countries to have a TRNC plate!

yorgozlu



Joined: 16/06/2009
Posts: 4437

Message Posted:
03/09/2011 22:24

msg 15

The mentıoned car,truck,mitshibushi l200 belongs to a guy who is a policeman and works at girne mot station.I know him personally but not know under what sircumtances he drives that car around.However,as wrong as it may be it makes no difference as far as you and I and the likes are concerned.



Beleive it or not,I get just as much frusturated as you,if not more.

minertor



Joined: 14/02/2009
Posts: 1238

Message Posted:
03/09/2011 22:56

cheers Rachel, mick sturbs, (mixed herbs) didn't look right when I put it but thought the gen was ok.

Stay in touch (Skipsea Castle) yeah

Groucho



Joined: 26/04/2008
Posts: 7993

Message Posted:
04/09/2011 08:48

Insurance companies love to be able to wriggle out of paying for damages, just think what joy they'd have at being able to say 'sorry sir as you are driving your vehicle in contravention of the road traffic laws in the TRNC we do not cover your damage costs or those of the car you hit.'

dearie


Joined: 08/03/2011
Posts: 142

Message Posted:
04/09/2011 12:39

message 15 as it says in Animal Farm WE are all equal but some of us are MORE equal than others !!!!