Registering a Czech-registered car in Germany

I have been trying to sell my Czech registered car for the last 5 months with no success.
I think that the plates might be putting some people off, so It might be a good idea to register it here in Germany.

How would I go about doing this? I guess it would have to be passed by TÜV as road worthy.
Does anyone know exactly what TÜV would check so I can make sure in advance that everything is in good order.

Also if I sold the car directly after registering it would I be liable for import duty?

Thanks in advance,
Duncan.

The best thing is to take it for the TuV so they will tell you what they don't like. They charge substantially more for this test than normal and it takes longer. It helps if you find the HSN/TSN numbers for your car.

If their is anything wrong, you can have a re-test if you take it back within 4 weeks - this is cheaper as they only check thie items that failed.

Also, you need to get a form from the KBA (I think you can download it from http://www.kba.de/). This is for them to check that the car was not previously registered in Germany. You send this off, pay their fee - they send back a document to say the car is not known to them.

You take this document, your TuV, your German insurance, your anmeldung, your passport and Czech car registration documents to your local zulassungsbehoerde - and money for the registration. I think they will also want to take the czech number plates as well.

I don't know what paperwork you need to do with the Czechs - best to check this first.

I did this a couple of years ago for a British registered car - it wasn't too bad.

Your local zulassungsbehoerde should be able to give you a defnitive list of what they need - and it is usually on the town website.

If you have any doubts about the procedure, go to your local Zulassungsstelle, tell them what the problem is and they'll give you all the gen about what to do and where.

They'll also ask you why, if you are registered in Germany, have you been a naughty boy and not bothered to register the car before

I have 2 cars, one on Czech plates and one on German plates.
I have 2 flats, one in Czech and one in Germany.

Is this a good enough excuse for not registering one of the cars here in Germany, I think so?

Thanks for the info though, but I might just keep on trying to sell the second car in Czech, seems alot less hassle, but it's not easy to find people with the cash.

Dunc.

Dunc,

Just drive it to England & park somewhere for a while, probably wouldn't take too long to get nicked.

??? Do you also have 2 jobs and can't quite decide where to settle down. Is the czech flat rented out.

I'm just curious.

Mike

@Leky

I have seriously considered this soloution. The car is a 2001 BMW 316ti Compact, Full service history, 84k/km.
Some joker contacted me today and offered me €7.5k. The problem is that there is still not a real middle class in Czech yet, so not many people have the money to buy such a car. And the ones that do have money buy alot better!

@Mick,

No only one job. I did work in Czech Before Deutschland, where I got married to a Czech girl. We lived in the sticks, and property is well cheap so we brought a flat.
We now use it as a second home for when we visit the outlaws, or want to ski etc...

@ Leky

I also considered this option mind you I've also considered nicking the exes porsche too and selling that the other side of the border

God if he reads this I will be Lamb chopped

What's the deal if the car was previously registered in Germany? I plan to bring my 04 Mondeo with me which has been registered here in Estonia for the last 2 years, but was imported from Germany by the used car company that sold it to me.

At a guess I'd think that the check is to see if the car was stolen, and then registered abroad once it was sold on. If the car was stolen, I'd expect the car to be taken off your hands pretty quickly and returned to the rightful owners, but otherwise I assume it is a formality.

...and if it previously was registered in Germany, it is likely that it meets German construction requirements, and the car's details are probably on computer still, so it probably makes your life easier in this case!

This is what I was hoping would be the case.