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[Varche]

Couple of issues with what is otherwise a sound idea.

1st How would you buy the car into your name. In Spain you have to fulfil a basket of criteria in order to legally purchase a car? Most revolve around you being a Spanish resident (i.e. you don't live in Britain)

2nd What would you do with the leftover detritus (after stripping and selling /using parts). No British Scrapyard should take a foreign reg car.

The answer would be to register it onto UK plates in your name AND then scrap it!!

[Omegatoy]

Couple of issues with what is otherwise a sound idea.

1st How would you buy the car into your name. In Spain you have to fulfil a basket of criteria in order to legally purchase a car? Most revolve around you being a Spanish resident (i.e. you don't live in Britain)

2nd What would you do with the leftover detritus (after stripping and selling /using parts). No British Scrapyard should take a foreign reg car.

The answer would be to register it onto UK plates in your name AND then scrap it!!

well have to say, you just dont know the right people Varche!!

its easy to weigh in any car or remains of the car foreign plated or not,
 if from germany the process is very easy, you fill out an export form, buy either a 1 month or 3month insurance with a temporary plate which allows you to use the car for the duration of the plate and bobs your uncle!!

from spain it would be different but if you bought it an drove it to uk after getting insurance here it wouldnt matter to much having said that spainish cars are to damned expesive to consider it!!

[Omegatoy]

Forgot to say!!! if you find a very very cheap 2.5dti estate on ebay de then give me a nod!! will get one, sooner or later and put it on spanish plates!!
great cars

[Martin_1962]

RHD 2.5DTI sounds very nice

[Lazydocker]

RHD 2.5DTI sounds very nice

And a very tempting replacement but insurance could be a right royal PITA :-/ :-/

[Boditza]

from germany you can even get 5 days numbers and insurance now .. if you chip it(remap) you get a considerable boost of hp (~197) and i believe that the gearbox will hold it

[james4287]

lol, i might be a total newbie to this forum with this being my first post but this thread came up on a google search and the ebay link on the first page was a car that i was watching aswell almost for this very purpose! That is transplanting a y25dti into a p38 range rover!

Also i have no idea about buying a car abroad, i was palnning on putting it on a trailer and catching the ferry.

That said, did they do a 2.5dti in this country?

[TheBoy]

That said, did they do a 2.5dti in this country?

Vauxhall didn't, pretty certain Land Rover didn't, obviously BMW did

[SJKOO01]

Josh,

Don't want to wee on your chips matey.

But how would you stand on the insurance side of things, as if the spec of the car wouldn't be a standard option for the UK and what about resale value to someone else if you decide to sell?.

And as you're such an honest chap, you'd bound to tell them it isn't a standard gearbox option (auto swap) if you sell it and they may not want the risk of an unknown quantity, so would you be stuck with it?.

Just a thought.

You can shoot me down if you want to (I expect others on here will if you don't  )

[Lazydocker]

Josh,

Don't want to wee on your chips matey.

But how would you stand on the insurance side of things, as if the spec of the car wouldn't be a standard option for the UK and what about resale value to someone else if you decide to sell?.

And as you're such an honest chap, you'd bound to tell them it isn't a standard gearbox option (auto swap) if you sell it and they may not want the risk of an unknown quantity, so would you be stuck with it?.

Just a thought.

You can shoot me down if you want to (I expect others on here will if you don't  )

Nope... Someone on here would have it (me, me, me!!!)

[SJKOO01]

Josh,

Don't want to wee on your chips matey.

But how would you stand on the insurance side of things, as if the spec of the car wouldn't be a standard option for the UK and what about resale value to someone else if you decide to sell?.

And as you're such an honest chap, you'd bound to tell them it isn't a standard gearbox option (auto swap) if you sell it and they may not want the risk of an unknown quantity, so would you be stuck with it?.

Just a thought.

You can shoot me down if you want to (I expect others on here will if you don't  )

Nope... Someone on here would have it (me, me, me!!!)

Looks like you've sold it before you've built it Josh   

[Lazydocker]

Josh,

Don't want to wee on your chips matey.

But how would you stand on the insurance side of things, as if the spec of the car wouldn't be a standard option for the UK and what about resale value to someone else if you decide to sell?.

And as you're such an honest chap, you'd bound to tell them it isn't a standard gearbox option (auto swap) if you sell it and they may not want the risk of an unknown quantity, so would you be stuck with it?.

Just a thought.

You can shoot me down if you want to (I expect others on here will if you don't  )

Nope... Someone on here would have it (me, me, me!!!)

Looks like you've sold it before you've built it Josh   

If, and only if, it was the correct colour combination and spec

[joshwyatt]

I've been thinking about that Mike, and you're quite right. It would have to be an Omega enthusiast to buy it. Most likely I'd bring a DTI over, keep it complete so anyone who's interested can drive it before it's broken for parts. The DTI and gearbox can be palleted up and sold with perhaps a dead 2.2 DTI vehicle for someone to do the engine fit themselves.
It's just an idea currently, I'll have to work it out carefully.

[SJKOO01]

I've been thinking about that Mike, and you're quite right. It would have to be an Omega enthusiast to buy it. Most likely I'd bring a DTI over, keep it complete so anyone who's interested can drive it before it's broken for parts. The DTI and gearbox can be palleted up and sold with perhaps a dead 2.2 DTI vehicle for someone to do the engine fit themselves.
It's just an idea currently, I'll have to work it out carefully.

Maybe worth also checking on the side of the DVLA with regards to the importing side and not sure if they're would be any importing duty of some kind.

You know what it's like over here, always some steath tax of some sort.  Also DVLA have tightened quite a few rules now Josh and it doesn't make it easy for anyone these days.

Like I've said, don't want to squash an idea, just hate to see you spend all that money on a project and it runs away with you.  No such thing as a plan coming in under budget, I know I've been there   

Do your sums and save your plums   

[james4287]

That said, did they do a 2.5dti in this country?

Vauxhall didn't, pretty certain Land Rover didn't, obviously BMW did

So it was just an Opel option then? I thought the omega facelift 2.5's was a common rail bmw engine?