Northern Irish plates on mainland

This Gixer thou I'm buying is just under 3 years old and on an NI
plate. In NI bikes don't need an MOT for 4 years from date of first
registration. I need to get it registered over here but I want to keep
the NI plate.

Questions:

How do I go about it?
Do I need to get an MOT regardless of age?
Do I have to tax it for a year when doing the registration thing, or
can I opt for 6 months?
How much is this lot going to cost me?

 

I have vague memories from when I _nearly_ did this with a car a bought back
from NI. Keeping the plate was, IIRC, no problem at all - there are just
some DVLA forms to fill in, and the cost 4 years ago was about £100 I think.
No idea on the rest of the questions though.

 

Go to the nearest DVLA centre with the irish paperwork, say I want to
transfer this to UK paperwork, and tax it.

You'll be within the UK exemption period, it should be fine.

6 months for over 600cc..

The cost of a tax disk... I had to do it with the SZR.

 

Ginge says...

Obliged, that's exactly the type of answer I was after.

I've just noticed that it was first registered on 3rd May 2002, so I
may well have to MOT it first anyway.

UKRM more than just a bunch of cunts.

 

Point of Order.
NI is, no matter how much they bleat, still a part of the UK.
They just run a different vehicle licencing system than the mainland.

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No worries, remember to take your insurance docs too as it'll be just
like taxing at a post office, only they'll use different forms, or tap
it straight into the computer.

 

Ginge says...

I had a DVLA experience this week when I went to get a duplicate tax
disc in Stanmore, Middx. **** me but the dregs of humanity frequent
that office. They didn't want to see any proof of insurance or MOT,
just the reg docs.

 

I brought my old Cortina over in '80. When the MOT ran out, I got it MOTed.
When the tax ran out, I went into the Post Office in Bristol and taxed it.
All this on the original reg. The only time this was ever questioned was by
some idiot of a Customs officer in Holyhead, who made us sit around (this
was about 6:00am) until he got his boss out of bed to tell him not to be so
fucking stupid.

 

You'll have until the end of May to MOT it then.

 

nothing to it.

I'd get it MOTed at 3 years, just for an easy life.

Don't see why not?

whatever the MOT+Tax costs - you don't /have/ to do anything else.

 

Why don't you get the owner of said GSX-R to MOT it for you?

 

.....and it always will be. Up the Union!!! here's a good lad

It's being *integrated* soon though, grrrr

'Hog

 

dwb says...

Because it doesn't need one until after I take delivery. In NI vehicles
go 4 years before they need their first MOT, not 3 years like the
mainland.

 

Ask anyway

 

dwb says...

Can't be arsed tbh. At least if I have it MOTd by my man I'll know
exactly what needs doing or not. I don't know who Hog uses for MOTs and
how much he'll let go or how strict he is.

 

Never a truer word..

 

Christofire says...

I tried not to make too many people suffer too much

 

If it's NI, then it'll be one of only a few MOT test centres in the country.
Unless they've changed it since I was there, the set-up (as it was described
to me - never actually went through it myself) is an absolute bugger - you
have to book the test ages in advance, they're bloody strict, and the test
centres can't do any work on the vehicle. So if you fail on so much as a
blown bulb, you have to book (and pay for) another test, at a later date.
Locals correct me if I'm wrong.

 

"Monkey" wrote in message

Pretty much spot on except an appointment takes about a fortnight now. Was
months last year when the civil servants working in the centres were on
strike/work to rule but that backlog is cleared up now. Its a doddle for
bikes tbh but cars can be a nightmare.

Tullyhubbert