Latvian car still on foreign plates.

marlot

DoctorFoster wrote: »

They don't have to comply with any home country rules when they are in the uk.

Really?

The French police regularly have a purge of English registered cars where my father lives. Anyone without UK road tax is in serious trouble - especially if their MOT has expired (which prevents them just renewing the road tax).

I wonder if the French police will find it harder to check, now there is no tax disk any more.

bod1467

marlot wrote: »

I wonder if the French police will find it harder to check, now there is no tax disk any more.

I'm sure they have internet access in France.

DoctorFoster

marlot wrote: »

Really?

The French police regularly have a purge of English registered cars where my father lives. Anyone without UK road tax is in serious trouble - especially if their MOT has expired (which prevents them just renewing the road tax).

I wonder if the French police will find it harder to check, now there is no tax disk any more.

Well this is the UK. 😉

As long as our road traffic act is complied with, it doesnt matter what happens in their own country. Or are you suggesting we can prosecute for bald tyres with more than 1.6mm of tread if their home country has a higher limit and therefore would be illegal there?

Ebe_Scrooge

Iceweasel wrote: »

That isn't correct - a vehicle has to stay legal in it's home country at all times.

That EU rule was not one of the ones that the UK got an exemption for.

Loads of UK ex-pats, and others with holiday homes, who try keeping a UK plated car in France or Spain have fallen foul of that one, as they can't have a current MOT and hence no VED if the vehicle doesn't go 'home' every year.

Exactly this. My friend lives and works in France, has done for a couple of years now. He keeps his car registered as English, and never worries about parking tickets that he receives, just ignores them ( naughty, I know ! ). But he comes back a couple of times a year to visit old friends, and has to get his car MOT'd here every year.

To the OP - aside from the questions about the cars, if the neighbours are cause litter or noise nuisance, you can call your local council to report them. Anti-social noise, certainly, is usually acted upon pretty efficiently by most councils.

BeenThroughItAll

DoctorFoster wrote: »

Well this is the UK. 😉

As long as our road traffic act is complied with, it doesnt matter what happens in their own country. Or are you suggesting we can prosecute for bald tyres with more than 1.6mm of tread if their home country has a higher limit and therefore would be illegal there?

Not that it's got anything to do with the original question, but exactly what point are you arguing here? At one point you were supporting the Latvians by suggesting they were complying with their own laws regarding insurance, now you're suggesting that visitors to the UK should comply with our laws, which in the OPs case, it sounds like they're not (in that they've been here more than 6 months and have not registered their vehicles in the UK).

Iceweasel

marlot wrote: »

Really?

The French police regularly have a purge of English registered cars where my father lives. Anyone without UK road tax is in serious trouble - especially if their MOT has expired (which prevents them just renewing the road tax).

I wonder if the French police will find it harder to check, now there is no tax disk any more.

At risk of sounding a picky, pedantic old fart - I've never seen an English registered car - all UK vehicles are registered in Swansea, Wales. Even the NI ones now that the Coleraine office shut up shop in July this year.

Cue for the reply "But you know what I mean." which I hear many times a day.

I reckon if the UK doesn't even share licence points totting up with other countries to keep multi-point serial-offending drivers off the road they aren't going to give up info on cars not currently in the UK.

You should see how some Brits drive the minute they get off the ferry/tunnel and onto French roads.

AdrianC

Iceweasel wrote: »

At risk of sounding a picky, pedantic old fart - I've never seen an English registered car - all UK vehicles are registered in Swansea, Wales. Even the NI ones now that the Coleraine office shut up shop in July this year.

At the risk of out-pedanting you, you can't be THAT old a fart, then - because before all records were gradually transferred to the newly established DVLA in the early '70s, all UK cars were registered with the county council of their home area.

Rover_Driver

AdrianC wrote: »

At the risk of out-pedanting you, you can't be THAT old a fart, then - because before all records were gradually transferred to the newly established DVLA in the early '70s, all UK cars were registered with the county council of their home area.

And after that, vehicles were registered at one of the Local Vehicle Licensing Offices, until they recently closed - not Swansea as they are now. So there are still lots of English, Scottish and Welsh registered vehicles about

Iceweasel

Thanks AdrianC and Rover Driver - But you know what I mean. LOL.

AdrianC

Rover_Driver wrote: »

And after that, vehicles were registered at one of the Local Vehicle Licensing Offices, until they recently closed - not Swansea as they are now. So there are still lots of English, Scottish and Welsh registered vehicles about

The local offices handled the paperwork, but Swansea actually held the details.