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[quote user="allanb"]I'll tell you what, Ernie, why don't you take your car back to the UK and register it with an "MG" number. Then bring it back to France and we can revive the "non-resident registration" thread.   There are only about twenty pages of it, and it's been quiet for a few days now. [/quote]   Yeah ,go on Ernie, go on .I double dog dare you[:D]

Well BD, if you spend a bit of time at your place in France you'll probably find someone with some space you could park a car up. But for goodness sake don't pay them ,or if you do ,don't post about it .Or the paying taxes posters will have you[:D]

[quote user="Just Katie"] Merci (that means thank you) [geek] [6] [:D] [/quote] [:D]

Thanks Ron ,I think thats answered it.

Reminds me of the Kenny Everett joke " Some people think they're crape, but I quite like them"

[quote user="Ron Avery"] French registered because the owner lives in France.   [/quote] Right I'm begining to understand.  It's alright for a French person to keep a French registered car indefinitly in England. Not paying any road tax and having the bi annual CT instead of the yearly MOT test. Sounds good to me.

[quote user="Quillan"][quote user="pimpernel"][quote user="Quillan"][quote user="pimpernel"] Alright,how does this work. You're a brit living in France. Cars are all legal, CT'd insured etc but you keep a car garaged in the UK for the times you have to go back. Should this car be French or English registered. If it is English registered ,howif you haven't got an English address.? Are you allowed to drive it in France.? If it is French registered how do you keep it in England.? Probably obvious to most of you .[8-)] [/quote] This looks like somebody who is trying to 'bend' the rules a bit but anyway. [/quote] Well I'm not trying to bend the rules ,merely to understand them thoroughly[:@]. I am a French resident but may soon be working extensively with a vehicle in the UK. While in the UK I will be staying with a family member and I can keep a vehicle at their address. The use I will be making of my vehicle excludes a hire vehicle. I could take my French registered vehicle with me but I wondered what the legal situation would be regarding using a French registered vehicle in the UK for extended periods for business. I assumed this would be illegal so it occurred to me that a UK registered vehicle would be better. It would be easier to fly to the UK and use my vehicle there than drive over every time I go. I repeat, I'm not trying to bend the rules. I only want to be able to drive legally in both countries. Any vehicle I have in the UK may occasionally need to drive in to France. As any French vehicle I have won't be paying road tax I assume I couldn't use it for extended periods in the UK. or do I have to change my country of residence every couple of months. This is plainly absurd. I am posting this as I've been trying to figure out how other people do this. Hence my earlier posts. [/quote] Perhaps if you said all this in the first place instead of going at it in a very round about way people may have been more helpful. [/quote] Sorry about that ,but I was hoping the information would emerge without me having to explain my personal involvement and getting flamed by all and sundry and told to go back to the UK if I want to work there.

[quote user="Quillan"][quote user="pimpernel"] Alright,how does this work. You're a brit living in France. Cars are all legal, CT'd insured etc but you keep a car garaged in the UK for the times you have to go back. Should this car be French or English registered. If it is English registered ,howif you haven't got an English address.? Are you allowed to drive it in France.? If it is French registered how do you keep it in England.? Probably obvious to most of you .[8-)] [/quote] This looks like somebody who is trying to 'bend' the rules a bit but anyway.   [/quote]   Well I'm not trying to bend the rules ,merely to understand them thoroughly[:@].  I am a French resident but may soon be working extensively with a vehicle in the UK. While in the UK I will be staying with a family member and I can keep a vehicle at their address. The use I will be making of my vehicle excludes a hire vehicle. I could take my French registered vehicle with me but I wondered what the legal situation would be regarding using a French registered vehicle in the UK for extended periods for business. I assumed this would be illegal so it occurred to me that a UK registered vehicle would be better. It would be easier to fly to the uk and use my vehicle there than drive over every time I go.   I repeat,I'm not trying to bend the rules. I only want to be able to drive legally in both countries.Any vehicle I have in the UK may occasionally need to drive in to France. As any French vehicle I have won't be paying road tax I assume I couldn't use it for extended periods in the UK. or do I have to change my country of residence every couple of months.This is plainly absurd. I am posting this as I've been trying to figure out how other people do this. Hence my earlier posts.

Alright,how does this work. You're a brit living in France. Cars are all legal, CT'd insured etc but you keep a car garaged in the UK for the times you have to go back. Should this car be French or English registered. If it is English registered ,howif you haven't got an English address.? Are you allowed to drive it in France.? If it is French registered how do you keep it in England.? Probably obvious to most of you .[8-)]

Don't know about the cover ,but the trailer has its own number and insurance.

Damn, does this mean that if I'd hung on for a couple more years France would have come to me.[:@] And I wouldn't even have had to learn the language.[:D]

Thank you Sunday driver,both for your patience in answering me and for the benefit of your knowledge. Thank you to the other posters who answered.

[quote user="Frederick"]    Our local bar/ hotel has a shop attached ....even when closed.. if we run out of anything they will open the shop for me and let me in ...so by that I assume they are happy to have us among them . [/quote]   As long as you keep bringing in money,they will stay happy.Should you settle here and start competing for jobs etc. they will not be so happy.

Thanks SundayDriver I think the first paragragh covers it.   I would just like to state that these people are not exactly friends of mine. I just know them. When I spoke to them about the box ,they were a bit defensive so I think they realised it probably wasn't legal. Just to further this slightly for clarity's sake. Is it illegal for a French resident to drive an English registered car. ie Someone comes to visit and while out on day trips etc the driving is shared

So what you're saying is that they are OK. I personally would have thought this wasn't right.