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I heard on the radio today that when swedish cars are three years old they have an MOT test which is so strict that it demands that the cars entire braking system is replaced.It was claimed that lots of cars are scrapped early in their life and replaced with a new one, has anyone ony knowledge of this ? sounds like a good place to buy a second hand car.
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Only if you want a LHD car - my insurer told me that they load the premium for LHD by 25%.
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Only if you want a LHD car - my insurer told me that they load the premium for LHD by 25%.
Norwich union and Liverpool victoria have both quoted me on LHD cars at no extra premium. So I suppose it must depend on the insurer.
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I've heard that their used car prices are a lot higher then the UK.
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Its not what you drive, its how you drive it! :-)
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Think this is incorrect Ken. You see loads and loads of cars older than 3 years in Sweden, and loads more for sale at ridiculous prices - so high in fact that my swedish FiL was thinking of getting his next motor through me here in Germany. Although he´s been put off by the Swedish urban myth that garages won´t service them there....
Second hand prices even more in Finland apparently.
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I think they may be confusing Japan with Sweden. Their first MOT encourages selling at 3 years.
I'd be surprised if there was a substantial saving, after all the Nordic countries have very high purchase taxes on new cars, so that must be loaded into the prices. Only buying new, ex tax, was there a big saving buying in Denmark or Sweden. The long journey back from Sweden negated a lot of the saving so it wasn't as popular a buyers destination as Germany or Denmark.
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And Jap sourced cars are RHD.
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Oh well! There was I getting all excited about a trip to Sweden to buy a LHD drive car to keep as a runabout in France. Why? Because the French S/H market looks mighty expensive too. Someone will no doubt confirm that the UK has probably the cheapest S/H cars around.
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Second hand cars is one of the few things cheaper in UK.
Importing a car into France is a bureaucratic nightmare and you get different information depending on what 'Mairie' you have. The French do bureaucracy very well. Vive La France.
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There are specialist LHD dealers in UK - one somewhere in Surrey. Their prices are cheap(ish) as there isn't much demand for their stock in UK. Buy there on the cheap, from an English speaking dealer, and take the car to France. Voila!
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Unfortunately it's not quite as straight forward as that. Taking the car out of the UK is the easy bit, this document may help:
tinyurl.com/mk4u5
The hard part starts when you try to register it in France. I know some expats who did this and it took almost a year of letter writing and irate phone calls to sort everything out. They even had to get Mercedes in Germany to write a letter confirming that the car in question was a genuine Mercedes!!
Unfortunately the husband is no longer with us but he gave me the advice to buy a car locally, not import one.
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