{"id":2673,"date":"2022-04-28T18:44:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T18:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rosiemeleady.com\/?p=2673"},"modified":"2022-04-28T18:45:40","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T18:45:40","slug":"car-in-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rosiemeleady.com\/index.php\/car-in-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"My Car In Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Once our residency came through, we knew we had 30 days to get rid of our car and replaced with an Italian one or change the registration and make our car an Italian citizen.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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So off we went with all the documents needed to the agency that looks after car stuff equipped with car registration, IDs, code fiscale, residency cert, driver\u2019s licence.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Next to the photocopier sits a small thin woman in her 60s, with her hair pinned up on top of her head and silvery blue eye liner. She has a kind face. Her son, who is about 20, is a good-looking chap, with soft brown eyes and light brown hair and ready to be helpful.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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He acts as a translator for us with his pidgin English and my wren-sized Italian.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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She answers all our questions\u2026 the age of the car is not an issue, of course you can change the 13-year-old car\u2026 It will cost about 800-1000 euro to do the change over\u2026 And she would get working on it straight away\u2026 It will take a month to come through\u2026<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The woman creates a cardboard file for us with all our photocopied stuff in it, ID, Code fiscale, Car registration, Car insurance.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cEverything is in order, but\u2026\u201d her son says, translating to Ronan what his mother needs from him.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cYour cock is missing. She needs your cock.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Ronan looks down at his trousers.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cWhat is a cock?\u201d I tentatively ask trying to stop my wobbling mouth by not looking at Ronan.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cIt is the document that has all the specifics of the make of the car. The certified copy would have been given when the car was sold to you.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cWe bought the car second hand five years ago, and it was already eight years old then, so I think his cock may have disintegrated by now or lost along the way.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cWe can get you a new cock in Italian for \u20ac230 or you can order one online for less.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cDoes it need to be in Italian?\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cNo.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cWell then, we\u2019ll do it online. We\u2019ll be back.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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We returned home and Ronan googles car cocks and after some surprising results; he finds what he is looking for.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cWe can order one online for 85 euro, just like they said. But I got a brainwave to contact Toyota. They knew exactly what we were looking for and within minutes had taken details of the car and the document is now in the post free of charge.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The document arrives in the post within days and Ronan goes straight to the agency with it. The lady took two photocopies of Ronan\u2019s cock, which he is very proud of as he got it for nothing, and adds them to our file.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Car insurance was the next thing I wanted to check before making a final decision. Even though I had been driving 30 years without an incident, they said my no claims bonus from Ireland would not be recognised in Italy, so it would be like starting off again as a first time driver. In Ireland, insurance for a first time driver can cost thousands.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cThey have to recognise your no claims bonus, it\u2019s EU law,\u201d Ronan surprises me sometimes with his random knowledge of law and regulations.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cTell that to the Italian government, I dare you.\u201d Orientating our way around legal stuff and bureaucracy is something we both became quite skilled at in Ireland but in a country with an alien language we don\u2019t have a hope in hell of knowing where to start to argue this point.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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So I braced myself and sent an email off to the woman who organised our house insurance to give me a rough estimate for car insurance. Once we had this quote, we could weigh up the costs of every option again and make an informed decision.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cRonan, you are not going to believe the car insurance estimate they just sent. Go on, guess?\u201d Ronan is PC (pre coffee) and not in the mood for guessing games.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cI dunno, 50 thousand, two thousand?\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cNo, \u20ac450! She would need the full details of the car, a road worthiness cert and it to be Italian registered before going ahead. I couldn\u2019t believe it. All this time I thought it was going to be ridiculously expensive, but it is costing the same, actually a bit less than our insurance in Ireland.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cWow,\u201d even PC Ronan was impressed. \u201cSo decision made, it\u2019s full steam ahead with making our car an Italian citizen.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The following day Ronan is closing the plastic boot of the car and a whole section cracks off in his hand. He superglues it back together and hopes for the best. It\u2019s then I notice the small print on the insurance quote. It is for six months, not per year. So it is, in fact, double the cost of my Irish insurance.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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It all goes downhill from there.<\/div>\n
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(Edited extract from A Rosie Life In Italy 3)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cEverything is in order, but\u2026\u201d her son says, translating to Ronan what his mother needs from him.
\n\u201cYour cock is missing. She needs your cock.\u201d
\nRonan looks down at his trousers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[235],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-how-much-does-it-cost-to-live-in-italy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosiemeleady.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosiemeleady.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosiemeleady.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosiemeleady.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosiemeleady.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rosiemeleady.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2675,"href":"https:\/\/rosiemeleady.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2673\/revisions\/2675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosiemeleady.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosiemeleady.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosiemeleady.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosiemeleady.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}