jonesy

Well thanks to everyone, some excellent advise and experience. Having read clarksoninfrance's experience with the Mazda I think that somehow, my request for a certificate of partial conformity has been missunderstood and I am in a loop for a full conformity version. I'll start again, submit a new request and try again. Jonesy

Thanks for the info folks. Re the Toyota form, the instruction was to get a Toyota agent to complete it but this could be due to commercial interests. I have considered 'estimating' weights and other answers but was concerned that DRIRE would want some form of collateral. Similarly, I have discovered from a world wide owners register that the 'missing' 6 digits from my VIN are pretty much the same for all MR2s so I could blag that  as well but of course, they don't appear on the V5. The documentation that came with the car is in Japanese and my knowledge of written Japanese is somewhat shaky. I am concerned that if I get too smart I will dig myself a hole from which there will be no escape. My insurance agent says that he can insure a UK registered car ad infinitum but this conflicts with much other information. There is a widely held view that there is only a small difference between insurance companies and thieves (if and when the ferment hits the windmill) so to quote Mandy Rice-Davies, "He would say that wouldn't he" and I feel I could find myself waving a useless piece of paper in Chamberlain fashion as I am taken to the Bastille! So, am I legal? I have a current CT and French insurance on a UK plate but there's this nagging voice which says "ah, but if a child runs out in front of you . . . ." Your thoughts and experience will be appreciated. Jonesy

Sorry to be a bore or appear to be just plain simple but in the Driving forum FAQ's there is a very good post about this but states at the end "not applicable to Japanese 'grey' imports". So, as a Toyota MR2 grey import is what I have got and I have received any amount of contradicting advise, tell me; is there a sure fire process to achieve immatriculation? I have changed the headlights to RH dip and have a valid CT but the car has an 11 digit VIN but DRIRE wants 17 so computer says NO! I have contacted Toyota France who have provided a 'Questionaire No 2' (Vehicule produit pour un pays hors d'un pays membre de l'union europenne) which needs to be completed by my local Toyota garage. This is presently where the process is stalled as they just scratch their heads whilst reading the requirement to answer questions such as 'Poids total authorisé en charge' and 'Poids total roulant authorisé' and I get the (by now expected) Gallic Shrug and a sudden inexplicable and simulaneous loss of any previous English language skills and a new inability to comprehend my spoken French. In an effort to circumvent the latter I visited again with a local French friend who is a mechanic with much the same result. Or rather lack of! I would like to be legal on the road and rarely take the car out but is there any possibility of light at the end of the tunnel? If I had any hair left I would be pulling it out. Any/all advice will be welcomed. Jonesy