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anyone exchanged their French car at a dealer in UK


Georgina

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Thinking of buying a new car in England as the price was the same in France with my car in exchange as to buy in england without an exchange. Can anyone tell me what UK dealers need for a french car other than signing the V5. Or any experiences of pitfalls.
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1. French reg cars don't have a V5 for the dealer to sign

2. I traded in my RHD, French reg German car in Wales using exactly the same documents and procedure as if I had sold it here in France. Not sure what the dealer did with the CG, his copy of the Cert de Cession etc but that was not my prob. I used my copy of Cert to cancel insurance and sent Prefecture copy to Prefecture.

Simples

John

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Eddie bought a LHD french -reg. Laguna in England and brought it over here to drive. I wasn't there at the time, but I know he drove it back with no problems. The only thing he had to change was the dept. number on the carte gris. Insurance here went ok.

ps not sure if this is what you were asking?

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1. Search this forum for "selling a car in France", the paperwork is the same wherever you sell your French reg car

2. Provided you can con(vince) the dealer into taking said car off your hands

    1. Cut the dotted corner from your CG

    2. Diagional line through what is left and write "Vendu le (date + time) à (wherever you are) and sign - hand over to dealer

    3. You and dealer fill in and sign certificats de cession in 3 copies (1 for dealer, 1 for you to keep and 1 for you to send to your Prefecture)

    4. Hand over Certificat de non-gage

    5. The dealer will not have a clue how to proceed (probably) but that is not your problem

3. Show cert de cession to your French insurer to cancel insurance

4. Where to obtain French forms and anything I have forgotten will be covered by 1 above

John

 

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