TUV RHD AE86 Germany (help please)

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(06-14-2019 08:50 AM)Ivan141 Wrote:  Driving foreign reg cars without a special exemption is only illegal in the Netherlands for it's own citizens, they dont do a damn thing about EU reg cars being driven by non-natives.

Not entirely true: if you are a non-native, but register yourself to live in NL you also have to import your car. They give you a grace period of 6 months, but after that you really ought to have imported the car.

What most people do is bypass that law by registering their car in someone else's name (e.g. mother in law) and continue driving it. You can get a hefty fine for doing this, but in general not many will be checked...except for that really unlucky colleague of mine who got caught driving with a Romanian registered car. He's up for over 5000 euros in fines and currently fighting this in court.