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car will attract attention, this is true, it takes longer to cross the border, for insurance, last year cars were insured by Generali in Austria, we will not give you details about current insurance companies
Hello, I have been looking at this thread for several months now. I see that it is spread over about 3 years too. So perhaps I can add something.
I have had my car registered in Vanuatu for several years now, driving it in Europe, UK, Belarus and down into the Balkans. The registration is great, it causes no problems and in some places I get saluted by police as they think its a diplo registration ! Just crossing borders every 3 months and getting a stamp in the passport to prove a road crossing, also keeps you legal for not transgressing any registration laws in any European country too. I remain a 'visitor'.
Forget the fact that it looks like a French reg as many (selling agents) claim, it is closer in style etc. to that used by the Finnish military, and where there are peacekeeping forces - such as the Balkans - again one can get mistaken for an official car. The Finns use a yellow background to the black numbers but you can get your Vanuatu plate made that way too if you like.
My strongest advice is don't use the Mickey Mouse plates that they supply. With an all black plate featuring 4 palm trees on it, you are either taken for a suspicious character possibly linked to terrorism, or in my case, you attract young men in supermarket car parks who are looking for a trophy!
I got some alternative plates made by 'fancyplates.com'. They are a generic 'European style' with white background. I also had the EU type blue line round the edge with the wide blue stripe on the left. I did not include the 15 stars EU symbol, but do have a statutory white oval with the letters 'VU' in the middle of it. Something they don't supply along with the plates, and in Europe you are technicaly illegal if you don't display your contry of origin. I had a nice font with silver shadowing and the Toyota logo placed in the bottom right corner. All this makes it look like a very legitimate dealer supplied plate, and reduces any suspicions that would make people curious. And being an ordinary white late it just blends in with the rest of the cars on the street.
Having the Vanuatu reg makes it easy to avoid all the usual pitfalls of having a registration in a country which is not one's own. Like registration for residence, police controls, vehicle mechanical checks (where stupid foreigners get fleeced for 'charges' to make the care allegedly conform, whereas locals just pay a 50 euro bribe.) It also makes for easy border crossing where local registered cars get the full works from the customs etc.
THE BIG PROBLEM is insurance. Like many others I used to use ARIS of Austria who insured the car on the chassis number and even used their own address on the policy. Nice and easy and anonymous. But not any more. The Austrian government have made it very difficult for them to do such insurance and they stopped over a year ago. But most of the offshore type sites selling this reg also say that ARIS will insure - THEY WILL NOT.
Others say that it is possible to get insurance in the EU for a chassis number. Well technicaly - in some countries - it is, but is only meant for short term use of a max of 30 days where a car is temporarily imported and requires insurance to get to a vehicle testing station for mechanical certificate and then to a local registration office. There is one company in Holland who will do more than 30 days but they charge a huge amount and say its not meant for full-time driving use.
You can get local insurance in the Balkans states for using the car in the country of insurance issue, but you have to get frontier insurance to get out of the country as no green card is available with the policy. But the frontier (pink card) insurance is a joke, as only a very few border crossings have an insurance office, either that or there is one but its only open a limited number of hours/days a week. No good for busy international travellers.
I see that our friends Slogold post here, they sell Vanuatu registrations and I also see in their posting that they will not disclose any insurers details. I have asked them about this and in Spring 2007 they told me that they would send insurance details for me the following week from Croatia Osiguranje.
I told them that I had used that company b4 and they will not issue a green card against a vanuatu registration. Slogold said that they had the right contacts. Well that was 4-5 months ago and I am still waiting.
I have also tried the various branches of USA insurance companies who insure US reg cars in Europe for forces members but they will not look at a Vanuatu reg.
So if any of you out there know of an insurer who will cover my car for all contiguous European countries down to Turkey and across to the Russian Federation. The please let me know. A good night out in Belgrade awaits anyone who can help.
Insurance is really not an issue. I am told that Vanuatu only allows residents of the EU to register cars. Do the Cook Islands allow residents from any country to register a vehicle? Also what is the cost and turn around time -- feel free to PM me if you'd rather.
Insurance is really not an issue. I am told that Vanuatu only allows residents of the EU to register cars. Do the Cook Islands allow residents from any country to register a vehicle? Also what is the cost and turn around time -- feel free to PM me if you'd rather.
There is no restriction on Cook Islands, also no need for insurance at time of registration, it takes about 1 month to get everything.
if i imported a car from the usa to the EU, but dont want to register in my country (reg fees are ard 150% of the cars price) is it possible to register the car in vanuatu / cooks and receive the security deposit i made to the customs back?
the scheme is running many years, the problem is the insurance to dive in canada, at the border should be an authoside insuracne agent to do it due to the fact insurance is compulsory, i suggest to calll canada road trafic department
i think i rebenber a firm who can help you is the involved in with the hutt river province
Slogold you say that the problem is the insurance, there are many insurance companies who help in the process, especially French and Austrian. To me the problems isn't it.
The problem (in Europe) is that you must have the same country driver license of the plates. Then if you have a car with Vanuatu License Plate you need a driver license of Vanuatu or a International Driver License from Vanuatu.
If the police catch you with a plate from Vanuatu and driver license from Italy your car will be to police deposit, confiscate.
I had this problem with my Hummer the last year in Portugal, the police take my car and was in the deposit during 7 days, I had paid a ticket up to 900€ in cash.
After I went to Monaco and I had not problems, the police stop me, ask for the insurance papers, driver license from Europe country (different of plates), all good.
An appointment: I saved a 12% of plates taxes and 16% of VAT (I bought in USA)and 12% (Customs), then a total of 38% ~ 22000€
I know of no law in the EU that prohibits me from driving a car from a country other that that which the driving licence was issued, otherwise we would never be able to hire a car at an airport when we land. Or I would not be able to drive my employer's cars which are registered in the country in which I am working at the time, with my UK licence (which is the EU style by the way).
I thought the idea of a standard EU licence was to make the rules uniform over the 25 member states.
I have been stopped with my car plenty of times - especially when entering Austria and needing a green card using insurance from a Balkan state, and the police are only concerned about the insurance and not my licence matching the origin of car registration.
Or is it perhaps that you are driving a vehicle more familiar in the hands of shall we say, people of sometimes dubious character?! No intention to insult you, but in the Balkans and Russia the drivers of such cars are frequently stopped on some pretence just so that the police can extract and on-the-spot fine (for themselves of course.
So more importantly, insurance. The point is that its issue of a green card that is tricky. I was perhaps wrongly informed that the Austrian government introduced a law (just as the British government have) that local insurers can only insure vehicles registered in that country or those with formal diplomatic registrations or UN or OSCE employees?
So your information is invaluable, please give names of companies and phone numbers, I am sure I am not the only one interested in this.
Your rapid response is really very much appreciated, thank you. (Do you ever get to Belgrade?)
Country is France, French Plates and USA license (International license): Possible.
Country is France, USA Plates and USA License (International License): Possible.
Country is France, USA plates and UK or French... or UE license: NOT POSSIBLE.
For insurance the car with chassis number you must go to Cote d'Azur in France , there are an insurance family company, in the group has got hotels and other service companies.
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