Post Brexit French Car Extraction Connundrum

[Wolfsbait]

Apologies in advance for 'nice problem to have' nature of this question...

Essentially my in-laws have a place in France that currently has a UK supplied but French registered and insured car residing there.

However, said car is going to cost a small fortune for a local main dealer to fix a few relatively minor issues, so we want to repatriate it to the UK and 'swap' for a car currently registered and insured in the UK.

So, the question is, does anyone have knowledge of registering / insuring / testing cars in France and then moving back to UK?

French MOT is for two years, but I'm assuming there is a grace period before getting re-registered / MOT'd in the UK?

It could be that the cars are swapped back, so could the French registered car be left on French plates etc?

So many questions...any answers mucho appreciated!

[stevensdrs]

You have 6 months grace before you have to import the vehicle permanently. All the info is on the dvla website "temporarily importing a vehicle"

[Wolfsbait]

stevensdrs said:

You have 6 months grace before you have to import the vehicle permanently. All the info is on the dvla website "temporarily importing a vehicle"

Great - thanks.

So in theory the car could still be registered, tested and insured at the French address for 6 months whilst being temporarily in the UK? Would be plenty of time to get it fettled and then driven back across.

(Possibly more complicated having a UK registered car over in France for a similar period however)

More digging needed!