Importing and re-registering a car in Cyprus

[BabsM]

Originally Posted by andrew-roper

was it worth it, would it have been easier to buy a car out there?

Yes it was worth it. Its a good car, in very good condition and exactly what we needed out here. I would have had little or no value if we had sold it in England because it had high mileage and would have cost us over €12k to buy an equivalent car here. Besides, the container was coming out anyway.

[BabsM]

Originally Posted by asha

this was very helpful as i am planing to move to cyprus in september and i know now what documents to bring with me. can you suggest any company who ships cars to cyprus? i have got few quote from £700 to £1200 if i want to ship it by 20ft container.

asha

You don't have to ship it in a container, you can just put it on a ro-ro ferry (Grimaldi?). I know they go from Southampton as friends shipped their car that way.

[asha]

Originally Posted by BabsM

You don't have to ship it in a container, you can just put it on a ro-ro ferry (Grimaldi?). I know they go from Southampton as friends shipped their car that way.

yes i know but i wanted to put some house hold goods in the car and ro-ro i can not do it and thats why its cheaper then container. any suggestion? i also have a 42" tv which i just bought in january, i wanted to put it in the car but not at the cost of paying nearly £600.00 more.

[Barryjohnwebb]

Originally Posted by BabsM

I would seriously consider shipping it to her. Shipping is not that expensive and registration costs would not be huge because of the size of the engine. Buying a car here is expensive and you would lose a lot selling the Peugeot in England. On balance I think it would be cheaper to ship it here than to fund another car here.

I am Very grateful for you help, I will suggest she looks for your web site when she arrives, , which is Sunday, once again many thanks.

[BabsM]

Originally Posted by asha

yes i know but i wanted to put some house hold goods in the car and ro-ro i can not do it and thats why its cheaper then container. any suggestion? i also have a 42" tv which i just bought in january, i wanted to put it in the car but not at the cost of paying nearly £600.00 more.

Our friends put some household articles in their car when it went on the ro-ro. This included golf clubs and a small TV. They all arrived safely although it was obvious the car had been searched as whoever did it could not pack it properly and the car arrived with some of the goods that had been in the boot loose on the back seat of the car!

You should be aware that the car WILL be searched even if you disable locks or remove central locking fuses! But then I think that is understandable because someone might be trying to smuggle in drugs.

[Valiant]

Hi

This is my first post and any help would be greatly appreciated!
Can anyone tell me if I can bring a car over from the UK but not be resident full-time in Cyprus? I do have an apartment and therefore a bona fide address, but am not able to retire permanently just yet. I did send an e-mail to road transport department a couple of weeks ago with some questions but haven't had a reply!
Would like to bring a small run around that family could use when they come to use the apartment too. When I looked into shipping a car across I found a bit on the website that said you must own the car for 6 months before it can be brought over. Does anyone know if this is still the case? The car prices seem steep to buy on the island and I wondered if it would be more economical to ship out and not have to pay for car hire for each trip.
Has anyone done this already?
~Eilz~

[Lamandabruton]

Hi- I am new on here and Ivalso read on websites that if your car is taxed and nsured in the UK you are ok to drive it in Cyprus, Is this actually the case?
Also we are trying to import an R reg Mazda 3 in Novemeber what fees can we expect to incur at the port and is it best to wait until the end of the 6months to re-register it?

Thanks

[bobparsloe]

Hi everbody,i will be shipping a Mercedes clk convertable from Southampton to limassol next month.the cost of shipping from either Portbury or Southampton is £390 sterling + vat ,insurance extra with Grimaldi car carriers this was supplied by kristy@andrewsshipping.co.uk,port charges and clearance additional and payable in Limassol.I'm told by a nice woman at Gwennys that i can keep car on uk plates up to 4 years and use car 6 months in any year ,will put in bond when away ,only 60 euros pm undercover.I live at Tsada but i am a ships master so only in Cyprus aprox 4 months a year,not a resident i hope this is of help.rgds Bob

[TIGGLEBUMS]

All i can say that any car with an engine capacity over 1300cc will cost the earth to register in duty although the registration is not as bad,

anyone thinking of bringing their car from the turkish side of cyprus will have major problems as the car has to enter south cyprus through a legally recognised port i.e limassol, if you bring it to kyrenia or gyrne as it is known in the north you will have to be especially nice to the port authorities and get permission from ministry of finance to ship your car out from limassol and back again, we had this trouble an extra expense not needed although we were very happily surpised that our duty was not alot our total not including the shipping to and from greece wad around 400 euros the extra expense was 100euros,

any questions please ask