Exporting A Hoodie

[Guest gpollard]

Hi guys,

 

My first post after becoming a new hoodie owner. Two questions I am hoping to find answers for are the following:-

1) in the coming future I'll be moving to France for my job and obviously want to take my hoodie with me. But I have heard that the French are quite hard over on registering cars and all cars built after 2000 (I think) require a certificate of conformity. Now you can get these for factory built cars but does anyone know how I can go about this with a kit car?

2) My hood has full wet weather gear but I am after a tonneau cover. I see from kit parts direct that they do a tonneau for the zero. Will this fit? If not where can I get one as I've trawled all the sites related to the hoodie but can't seem to find a specialist one.

 

Any comments on these two issues welcome (esp. the first).

 

Thanks

 

Guy

[philshelton]

Hi guys,

 

My first post after becoming a new hoodie owner. Two questions I am hoping to find answers for are the following:-

1) in the coming future I'll be moving to France for my job and obviously want to take my hoodie with me. But I have heard that the French are quite hard over on registering cars and all cars built after 2000 (I think) require a certificate of conformity. Now you can get these for factory built cars but does anyone know how I can go about this with a kit car?

2) My hood has full wet weather gear but I am after a tonneau cover. I see from kit parts direct that they do a tonneau for the zero. Will this fit? If not where can I get one as I've trawled all the sites related to the hoodie but can't seem to find a specialist one.

 

Any comments on these two issues welcome (esp. the first).

 

Thanks

 

Guy

I would speak to richard at gbs rather than going through via kitparts direct.

[Guest Ian & Carole]

Hi Guy

 

Hve a look at this web site for your tonneau.

 

Some things are a bit expensive but all seems good quality.

 

No idea about registering your car in France though sorry.

[Guest scrabster]

hi,what area are you in?theres a chap near me who made my boot cover for £40 and he said a tonneau would be about £80-£90.i think thats a good price.

jess.

[Guest gpollard]

Thanks for the help. The bits on the website you identify Ian look just the job.

 

Still struggling over the French registration - I don't want to keep driving it back each year for an MOT but it may be the only option.

[TonySuperSpec]

Hi

 

There are a number of threads on the topic of exports

 

As far as I am aware 1/1/09 was the crunch day..

 

From that date no car registered in an one EU country can remain legally in any other for > 6 months..

 

Of course you can have it in country longer but in the event of an accident you may find you have no legal protection and no insurance!!

 

I originally intended to export mine to Spain but they have stopped matriculating i.e re re-registering non Spanish conformed cars so no go on getting hoodie into country legally.

 

Did a quick look and it looks like France has adopted a similar stance.

 

 

Sorry to be the Bearer of back news..

[trextr7monkey]

We sold a kit car to an English couple living in France last year, they hope toregister it as a historic vehicle as fortunately it had been registered in the 70s which I realise may not be of great help in this case, it had loads of history including the original buil dup inspection sheet and receiptd s fron the factory.

Before that another bloke was going to buy it but said he couldn't register it as it was a Q plate, difficult to know where exactly their laws stand

 

Good luck

Mike