Selling your car to a overseas buyer

[haggis catcher]

Hi everyone
I have a chap from France who wishes to buy my Elise. However this would be new to me, as I have only ever sold within the UK. Where would be the best place to get a COC for the Car? On sales of the car do I just send the document to DVLA saying that the car has been exported. All advice would be greatly received.

Regards
Stew

[p4ilip]

You can get the c.o.c from Lotus or he can get it himself later by emailing them and they charge about £100. I think there is an export part to the v5c. When I sold mine I gave the buyer the full document and just wrote a letter to the dvla to say it had been bought and driven to Europe by the new owner.

[haggis catcher]

You can get the c.o.c from Lotus or he can get it himself later by emailing them and they charge about £100. I think there is an export part to the v5c. When I sold mine I gave the buyer the full document and just wrote a letter to the dvla to say it had been bought and driven to Europe by the new owner.

I have emailed Lotus Certificates and had no reply. Are they normally like this? I wish they had a telephone number so I can chase them up.

Stew

[mwmackenzie]

I just sold my old Esprit as if a UK buyer and sent the docs in with the guys overseas details on it no coc to one of Bob Van M's mates

[Corranga]

Congrats with your (nearly) sale!

What are you moving on to, or is it 2 wheels from now on?

[haggis catcher]

Congrats with your (nearly) sale!

What are you moving on to, or is it 2 wheels from now on?

I have a deposit on the Elise. So its almost really sold and the buyer is arriving from France on the 10th of March.
Im also selling one of my bikes as i dont use that either. However I still have another bike and the wife's SLK to use for the summer days.