Just brilliant! Kudos to your patience, planning and effort to successfully register a car in UK after exporting it from India. If our RTO and customs clearance system supported this in a better manner, many used cars in India could successfully be exported to other markets and there could even be a thriving industry for it.
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Originally Posted by Ace F355 Service wise you should be covered well since 3.2 Ford Ranger sells officially there and shares a lot of underlying parts with the Endeavour. |
Definitely. Service support shouldn't be an issue at all in UK or EU for the periodic service items as well as the wear n tear parts. In most cases, part availability and service response might be faster than in India for these basic items, as well as the skilled knowledge for diagnosing issues.
Maybe special ordering would be required for the body parts/trims or suspension items related to the coil-sprung rear axle of the Endy, but that's about it and I am pretty sure they would be able to source it officially. At least in bigger cities, they have to cater to diplomatic vehicles also, which often are models not sold in domestic markets.
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You mean BS4. Launched in early 2016, new Gen Endeavour can't possibly be a BSIII, period.
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Originally Posted by Arbind Ray Hi Ace F355, for what its worth, checking out the Endy's VIN on couple of online VIN Decoder websites shows it to be a 2010 Ford Galaxy! |
VIN decoders are rarely accurate for models produced in different markets. The logic used for the content and placement of the digits could vary. Your vehicle is definitely BS4. There was never a BS3 version for this generation of the Endeavour and in general for manufactures who introduced a common-rail diesel in India after April 2010. But then again BS4 does not mean vehicle is EU4 as the emission test cycle is different between the two markets.
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Originally Posted by Jeroen Believe it or not. My Jaguar, build in the UK, bought by me second hand in the USA and eventually did take back to my home country in the Netherlands did not have an EU type approval! The USA version, or at least mine, did not have a formal EU approval. Even though the difference are less than minor and with the exception of the indicators, it is neary all cosmetic! |
‘Type approval’ for a VIN is almost solely dependent on the final destination market of the vehicle (as intended by the OEM), irrespective of where it is manufactured/assembled. Exceptions are when there is agreement between specific countries or regions to respect each others' type-approval certifications.
Example: For certain categories of CBU vehicles, or more recently for a limited volume per year, India will respect an EU Type approval (Eg: WVTA) and the importer/OEM needn’t homologate the vehicle again in India. Even in such cases there would be a lot of effort for a customer in India to obtain the original EU type approval in case he wishes to export it outside India. Eventually, individual type approval would be the easiest to make them road legal, or find alternatives/exemption (based on local regulations).
As you rightly mentioned, in most cases, the actual difference between cars will be quite minimal between a vehicle type approved for US vs EU vs India or some other markets. Often as simple as side markers on headlamps vs having them on the fender/ORVM, different certification for the OE supplied tyres or even certain symbols/colours for warnings on the instrument cluster etc.
The differences can be significantly more also when it comes down to specific emission certifications, specific crash structures added uniquely for a market (Eg: for the small overlap tests in US).
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In the Netherlands it would have costed in the region of Euro 2500 - 3500 to get an individual vehicle approval.
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While on the topic of Individual type approval, I am aware of a Tata Nano CX (2013 model that was type approved in NL in 2015) in Netherlands, which was on sale last year. While the advertisement is no longer active, I recall the owner describing the efforts he had taken to get the individual type approval.
Here is a screenshot from my chat history, when a Dutch friend shared it with me
I am not sure if it is the same car, but here is an article on a
private import of Tata Nano to the Netherlands.
Cheers,
Avinash