
14 Jul 2012
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Originally Posted by oldbmw
The French claimed that my Fiat Tipo did not exist in France or the rest of Europe. despite it being European car of the year ( when it was first registered) and I see loads of Tipos about. So I asked them what to do and they said contact Fiact France to get a certificate of non conformity. I know, utter madness. but you just have to do what they ask, and smile sweetly. BTW that bit of paper cost me 120 euros.
if importing into France, best thing is to go to an insurance company and ask how much to insure. They will then look up all the "Known to the French" models. MAKE SURE YOU REGISTER YOUR VEHICLE USING A FRENCH KNOWN MODEL. for instance my Electra is known as a Bullet in France. If you try to import am Enfield Electra you are likely to have troubles. so always call it a BULLET.
This was the prob;em with the Tipo, the model was Eleganza which is a UK only Variant.
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I absolutely agree with your approach, even more being that surrealist. In the private sector, things may be changed (you want the customer's cash), but in the Administration procedures are procedures so if you are told "you have to register your Fiat Tipo as a motorcycle first so that you can import it and then you change the status into a car", just do it, go with the flow, not against the current, leave your brain at home and register it as a bike first, it's all to comply with the procedure. (needless to say the Bullet, never heard of any Electra!)
I think my certificate was for free, I cannot remember that, but I do remember I send a DHL guy to pick it up quickly only to find it was the aforementioned stupid "photocopy" that could have been scanned, e-mailed and printed.
PS: If anyone speaks some Spanish, I found this e-mail... I had already got pretty upset waiting and waiting and waiting with the import blocked due to the certificate!
Estimado Sr. Gonzalez:
A continuación le reenviamos el correo donde reiteramos la solicitud de dicho certificado el cual deseamos este lo antes posible en nuestro poder para transmitirselo y poder solucionar las molestias que se le estan ocasionando.
Enla espera de recibirlo lo antes posible reciba un cordial saludo.
JESUS ******** *********
DIRECTOR COMERCIAL
AVISA VW
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Asunto: certificado COC
Buenos días Andrés: Ante la imposibilidad de hablar contigo por teléfono, me dirijo a ti para pedirte información de un certificado de conformidad comunitaria que os he solicitado a través del Triton hace una semana y no tengo noticias de el.
Por favor dime algo al respecto, te adjunto nº de solicitud:
03403/000008/2008
Saludos.
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