Taking your car to UK as freight

Hi,
Has anyone taken their car with them when they moved to the UK?

I had a friend in London who took their Jag to Australia with them. sent it as freight.

Just wondering if I could take my car back too. it's kinda new
thanks

There have been several threads about this that you might want to check out.  I don't know if anyone here has brought a car over.  I wouldn't recommend it.  It can be done but you'll have the cost of shipment, fitting your car to UK road standards and then deal with the difficulty in have a left hand drive car in a right hand drive world.  Drive-thrus, car parks, etc. will be difficult to navigate.  Better to just sell the car and buy something new when you get here.

.... but you'll have the cost of shipment, fitting your car to UK road standards and then deal with the difficulty in have a left hand drive car in a right hand drive world.  Drive-thrus, car parks, etc. will be difficult to navigate.  Better to just sell the car and buy something new when you get here.

Not only that, but you'll have the problem of sourcing spares, unless it is a Japanses or German make, and even then some things may be different UK v US.  Even some cars that exist as the same model may give you problems LHD v RHD, for example (some) Mercedes have different wind shields (there are notches in the lower edge, to accomodate where the wipers are located) depending on which side the steering wheel is located.

While everyone has given reasonable advice, if you still want to consider it, there's info here:

http://talk.uk-yankee.com/index.php?topic=5471.0

http://talk.uk-yankee.com/index.php?topic=3525.0

http://talk.uk-yankee.com/index.php?topic=5472.0

And especially this one: http://www.import-car.info/

 

hehe - well that's that silly idea out the window.

Bye bye CRV
thanks