Renewing a carnet on the road in Africa
 

Hi All

I’m planning next year to spend about 15 months self-driving around Africa, with the trip starting and ending in South Africa and the car being shipped back to the UK at the end. I see that the RAC in the UK has now stopped issuing carnets but you can get one from ADAC in Germany.

I also note that the carnet is issued for a maximum 12 months though. If you’re on the road for longer than this, how do you go about getting a new carnet? Has anyone out there done this and can they advise on the practicalities involved? It would be great to hear from anyone who has first-hand experience of doing this on the road and, amongst other things, can answer the following questions:

• How did you manage to get all the required supporting paperwork from where you were to ADAC in Germany? By courier?
• How did you pay the fees for the new carnet when you were on the road?
• How did you physically get your new carnet delivered to you?
• Did you use your old carnet to exit from one country and then use the new one to enter the next?
• Did you have to send your old carnet back to ADAC (or equivalent) when it expired or were you able to hold on to it until the end of the your trip?
• If you had to surrender it, did you have to surrender your old carnet BEFORE ADAC would issue the new one? If yes, did you have to stay in one country until the new one arrived?
• If you had to send your old carnet back when it expired, how did you do this? By courier?
• How did you get your deposit transferred from your old carnet to your new one?

There are a couple of supplementary question though, which UK citizens might be able to answer. What did you do about MOT etc? My MOT will expire while I’m away. Do you put your vehicle on a SORN before you went away? What did you do when you got back? Did this cause any problems with insuring your vehicle when you got back to the UK?

That’s all I can think of at the moment so I’d love to hear from anyone who can advise. There must be a way to do this else I’ll have to limit my trip to 12 months, which I really don’t want to have to do.

Thanks to you all.

Been a couple of reports of people having problems renewing a carnet while within a carnet country, so it would be smart to do it while you are in a non-carnet country

You can optain a new Carnet in your Homecountry. You let them (or friends) sent it to your Position.


Then you stamp the old carnet on Exit, the new Carnet on enter the next Country.


Here i try to collect informations about the carnet in german language
http://www.4x4tripping.com/2013/04/d...ouane-cpd.html