May have dropped a clanger in the planning dept!

[Fanum]

Methinks you worry too much, my old workmate who retired and took off in a motorhome has spent this winter on a campsite in Morocco. Wifi is not available where he is so he was unable to seek advice from internet based forums about this tricky subject. Irresponsible fool that he is Charlie and his wife jumped on a plane at Christmas and came home to visit friends and family for ten days with absolutely no issues.

It is correct that the authorities check that vehicles that enter do subsequently leave again but probably only not that often.

He was very lucky then.

The vehicle is registered against a person's SIN number, which is written in the passport.

When leaving the country, that SIN number is put into the computer and it should bring up the details of the vehicle and that it's in the country.

It may be that they don't check at airports so carefully, but we've had cases where someone was challenged about a vehicle that we'd taken through at Sebta and out through Mauritania three or four years earlier

I also had a long argument with les Douanes when I was ENTERING the country in my Landy 130- they hadn't done the paperwork correctly and they were insistent that I was trying to bring a vehicle in that was already in the country from another trip a couple of months earlier

 

[Blue Sweeper]

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I also had a long argument with les Douanes when I was ENTERING the country in my Landy 130- they hadn't done the paperwork correctly and they were insistent that I was trying to bring a vehicle in that was already in the country from another trip a couple of months earlier

I've had that as well. One of the guys on a tour I took returned on the same bike a couple of years later and was challenged for not exiting in the correct way previously.

 

[paintman]

He was very lucky then.

The vehicle is registered against a person's SIN number, which is written in the passport.

When leaving the country, that SIN number is put into the computer and it should bring up the details of the vehicle and that it's in the country.

It may be that they don't check at airports so carefully, but we've had cases where someone was challenged about a vehicle that we'd taken through at Sebta and out through Mauritania three or four years earlier

I also had a long argument with les Douanes when I was ENTERING the country in my Landy 130- they hadn't done the paperwork correctly and they were insistent that I was trying to bring a vehicle in that was already in the country from another trip a couple of months earlier

I will check what happened with Charlie when we next speak and report back, although if you are flying out with a return ticket the facts would seem to speak for themselves.

It does remind of an alarming incident that occurred long ago before goods could move freely amongst EU countries. I have helped a pal who races cars for ever, before 1993 if you raced abroad you had to prepare a carnet which was stamped in and out of every country you traveled through, detailing everything you raced with, including a value for every item including tools, tyres, spares and of course the car and trailer, the whole lot totaled maybe thirty thousand.
Late one Sunday night, very tired and chasing a particular ferry we missed completely the customs post on the Dutch/Belgium border. The carnet was not stamped out of the country so a year later a large bill arrived for import duty's and taxes.

 

[paintman]

Skyped Charlie and this is what you need to do, in advance of your flight home go to any customs office (he used Agadir port) and explain what your doing, they will give you a form to fill out and in his case verified by the manager of the campsite his motorhome was parked on.

When flying home take the form together with your V5 and a set of vehicle keys and hand everything in at customs at the airport to be collected on your return.

No costs job jobbed.

Paintman.

 

[Tim Cullis]

Yes, you can legally leave your vehicle in Morocco and return home. Find the customs office in any town that has a sea or air port and do the necessary paperwork. I'm in Morocco at the moment so can't retrieve the copy of the document I signed.

Be aware, however, the clock continues to tick on how long you can have the vehicle in Morocco.

 

[paintman]

Be aware, however, the clock continues to tick on how long you can have the vehicle in Morocco.

That's what I am told too, but my friends were given another three months (personally not the vehicle)) when they re-entered Morocco, not that they needed it because they are back in Spain now.

 

[MarkG]

A big thanks for all your replies I am not getting my ear bent so much now for not doing my homework properly.

In the past we have just hired cars so this will be the first time in our own vehicle.

Going down south in to start but will head back to Chaouen May/June,if anyone is passing through come and join us for a cold one! We have a house in Chaouen 5 mins from the Parador with a nice terrace.

Thanks again

Mark & Jo
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