My car has been a quite multi-national like the owner.
I've bought it in the UK about 10 years ago, it has never been any issues.
The car was actually imported from Japan - it's happened to be like that. So she's been driven in Japan before coming to the UK. I love driving, so I took my car as much as I could through England - I love driving without a map.
Now, the car is driven in France - despite they drive the other side of the road. We have installed a new stereo too which makes our trip more fun.
Anyways, we have been trying to get the French number plate, as any insurance company do, they simply won't cover you after 6 months in abroad.
So we've got all the information for registering in France from DRIRE and prepared as much as we could - got the technical check done, put together all the papers they said they needed. We were aware that it would take a bit of time, but this long.... never expected to take 10 months to go through this process.
As we all know, French loves documents - They'd asked you to send all the original documents (the UK car registration certificate etc)- which makes us a bit nervous but luckly they didn't lose them. (Yes, don't forget to take all the papers a photocopy)
If my car was purely from the UK - it wouldn't have been this complicated.
In January, we had to go to UTAC - Paris suburbs for the similar technical check but for the imported car which had costed us a bit of a fortune.
Now we've got everything we need - we had a meeting at the nearest DRIRE with the car for a final check up in person. Seems like all's been sorted - all we have to do is to wait.
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