Selling a car to an overseas buyer

[UltimateBadger]

Guys,

Can someone clarify my responsibilities if I were to sell my car to an overseas (French) buyer? I have someone interested in my MX-5 because they're expensive in France and his current (UK) model is now too old to drive around Paris (crazy!) He wants to come over and presumably drive mine back.

Do I treat the transaction as a 'normal' sale, or do I have to do the 'export' bit?

 

[~Divine~Wind~]

I sold a car to an irish chap

He came with cash, I picked him up at the airport we had a drive around and he'd decided he would take it.

Cash handed over and his details taken down and I filled in the V5 as export as it was permanently leaving the country. Only hiccup was we didnt know he needed the V5 lol

 

[UltimateBadger]

Thanks. A little reading around suggests that just giving them the V5 and writing to the DVLA to advise them is acceptable, along with some kind of date/time receipt.

 

[Liquidfox]

The previous advice was:

What to do if you are selling your vehicle privately to someone
that does not have a GB address

You should fill in sections 6 and 10 with the new keeper’s name and address.
Both you and the new keeper (buyer) must sign and date the declaration in
section 8. Give the whole V5C to the new keeper to aid registration abroad.
You should then send a signed letter to DVLA, Swansea, SA99 1AG giving
the vehicle’s registration number, the make and model of the vehicle, the
date of sale or transfer, and the name and address of the new keeper.
Once we know about the change of keeper, you should receive an
acknowledgement letter to confirm that you are no longer responsible for
the vehicle. If you do not receive the letter within 4 weeks, please phone
0300 790 6802. If you are deaf or hard of hearing and have access
to a textphone, phone 0300 123 1279 (this number will not respond to
ordinary phones).