Getting my 500E over EU borders?

[*VlnX@cm]

Happy new year!
My workplace has been stationed in Mumbai for a year now and I have one more year in front of me over there. I am thinking about having my good old car shipped here for making some trips on my own. There are some marvelous sights around here. I'm sitting in a relatively upper class community where the traffic happens to not be ungodly and the roads are new and not used much between some areas it would be nice to steer a wheel again for shopping trips and such.

I'm wondering about the regulations of having a car transported over international borders (country of origin is Germany), is it a big deal to have a private older model sent into another country?

-P

 

[alabbasi]

Car transports will not be an issue. Having to deal with the bureaucracy of keeping it in a place like India for an extended period of time is another story altogether.

 

[outrbnks]

Happy new year!
My workplace has been stationed in Mumbai for a year now and I have one more year in front of me over there. I am thinking about having my good old car shipped here for making some trips on my own. There are some marvelous sights around here. I'm sitting in a relatively upper class community where the traffic happens to not be ungodly and the roads are new and not used much between some areas it would be nice to steer a wheel again for shopping trips and such.

I'm wondering about the regulations of having a car transported over international borders (country of origin is Germany), is it a big deal to have a private older model sent into another country?

-P

With your expected departure only 1 year away, it seems like a lot of risk and expense for such a short period of time. It's really just motivation and $$$. If you have high levels of both money and motivation, and a lot of patience dealing with the bureaucrats go for it. But for me, (and I'm assuming your speaking of a E500E), I would not put my E500E at risk for such a short period of time. Consider what could possibly go wrong. At work we look at decisions like this from a risk management perspective. What are the risks, and what is the ROI for you, are they in balance?

I would rent/lease a car for that short period, knowing that my E500E was safely waiting for me less that a year from now. But like the old Yamaha commercials used to say, "Different Strokes for Different Folks". Either way, good luck with your decision...

 

[036]

Agree.
Still would be extremely posh to drive 500E there

 

[Kyiv]

I don't know about India, but I'd assume it might be similar to Ukraine. Worth checking though. As a non-citizen, but not a tourist - as in work permit/etc, you can bring a car with you, with out any taxes or overly complicated hassles for a duration of 1 year. You keep your foreign plates. What most foreigners here do is drive cross the border every year and return right away to extend for another year. The cost is transportation, a trip to sea port (you're in Mubai, so you're good), some basic processing fees + your time. Find a legal services company in India and they'll walk through the process - if it's similar to Ukraine, which there is a high chance it is.

 

[ForKEtel]

Hi P,

Looks like you already got some good solutions in here, but in case you want to get to know all the regulations, I think this is the regulatory authority on the issue:

Automotive Research And Development, Automotive Service Provider, India, Vehicle Type Certification, Automotive Testing And Calibration, Vehicle Design Labs, Advanced Automotive Design Standards, Automotive Engineering Course

araiindia.com

I got there from here:

What is AIS - MPR India Certification

Overview for AIS, the mandatory Indian type approval certification for automotive products to be exported to India.

www.certification-india.com

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