well I'm bored looking through old posts!
I will add to this discussion on registering vehicles from Europe into the UK, may be useful to someone. Maybe mods want to make a sticky of this post?
see
http://www.ducati851and888.com/showt...88-Motor/page3
The two 851's I bought from Holland came with the Dutch equivalent of the V5. In Holland the bikes have to be de-registered/exported which involves handing in the number plate and getting export registration document.
I insured the bikes on the chassis number with my insurance company, Peter James Insurance. From memory this cost £35 for both bikes for the remainder of the policy, around 9months, and valued at £5k each- bargain!
Not quite sure on the legality here, I probably could have ridden them for an MOT as they were insured, but when you buy from Holland they remove the number plates upon the export documents being produced, so the bikes came without plate. I trailered them for the MOT anyway
Straightforward MOT, no requirement for MPH clock, just black tape on the headlight. whether the MPH is really a requirement or just my MOT guy over looking this aspect I'm not sure.
So to DVLA office [i think they've closed all the local ones now], pay[IIRC] £85, this is for 6m road tax and registration fee, hand over the Dutch papers [tip, keep a copy, you don't get them back], MOT certificate [showing VIN number], insurance certificate [showing VIN again].
2 days later, go back [it was convenient for me, but they will post for free too] and collect certificate which shows the registration number, reissued MOT certificate showing the proper registration no and the tax disc. You'll need this if you go somewhere to get the plate made up, but I get mine off ebay and you just give them the number you want. Once the plate is fitted you can use it! Notify the insurance company of the new registration number, there was no charge for this. My bikes came on two sequential numbers, nice! Both H plate
V5 arrives in the post a few days later.
it really is that simply. Obviously if you just had a frame and log book from abroad then you'd need to build it up into something that approached the bike it was supposed to be [how many modern bike shops would know what an 851 looked like entirely?] to get it MOT'd. I'd doubt they're check the engine number at the MOT. At no point did DVLA visually inspect the bike, and come to think of it, I'm not sure the engine number was put on the V5 anyway. Can check this detail for anyone who's interested.
All in all a very simple process.
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