exporting a car to the uk

  I have a friend who exported a (four or so years old)  Nissan on Italian plates back to the UK about four years ago. She paid something over £3000 to get the lights, mirrors (?) speedo etc changed to UK spec by a Nissan dealer in the UK. Scary price, heh!   Get onto a UK dealer for your specific car, they should be able to give you a quote. There are things which the UK insists on (for example, how the fog lights switch) which you wouldn't have thought about - but why the mirrors needed changing defeats me.

I imported a new lhd Panda from Belgium to UK last year, though the car is primarily for use outside of UK. There was no issue with the lights etc involved with the importation. The car did not enter UK at the time, though it subsequently has done. I think the only issue is with MoT when maybe the lights could be an issue, but my main UK car is tested with stickers on the lights to change to European use and the testers don't seem to mind that they point the wrong way!

My experience, The lights can be changed with stickers. You can then source some uk ones from a breakers at your leisure, if you want to. The speedo can have a stick-on scale applied to it to read in m.p.h. or fit it with an aux speedo as it has to have an m.p.h. indicator but  "it doesn't have to be the primary instrument" There is also some argument that a GPS with an m.p.h. display is enough.  You can also buy little boxes to change your speedo from k.p.h. to m.p.h. using the same scale! I just put m.p.h. markers on my speedo (nissan) and it never failed an m.o.t. , not for that anyway! YMMV Pip pip

It must be a special car for you to want to take it back to UK where cars are generally much cheaper.Then to go through all that bureaucracy.I have a French car in UK some of the time but I would not consider reregistration.

I would agree with Cardi. Unless it is a collectors car, it will be worth more in Italy than it could ever be worth in the UK - especially with the steering wheel on the "wrong" side!

 Chris,   did you manage to get approval from the vca just with the stickers? Their guidelines state that receipts from a garage are needed in order to get their approval. The vca clearance is required for cars less than 10yrs old