Sleepless nights turned into sleepless weeks and it took almost 2 months and a couple of phone calls before we could pick the car up and start export/import procedures. Yes I live in Europe where transport of people and goods should be free but this unified Europe seems to be one of sharing the costs but not the benefits. (the ride home was a 100 smooth smiles with 2 smiling faces though)
Exporting the car in Holland was a 5 minute job and Importing it into Belgium wasn’t a big fuss either although it took customs 6 day’s to put a stamp on an import paper. I didn’t deliver the paper with some under the table euro’s, so they were busy. Another official was busy too, be it with another type of paper though. I got fined during the 2 minutes the car was parked on the street while not being road legal.
Making it road legal is another thing.
First of all the car needs a COC. This means the car has to be inspected by the importer and he will hand you the paper if the car still has the same specs as the day it left the factory. To achieve this I had already set the car back on it’s original phone dials. I prefer these above the gullideckels it came with anyway.
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