Moving to Ireland and registering my car

Hi everyone first of all I am new to the Forum, so thanks to anyone in advance who can offer advice. I hope that a few years down the line I may be in a position to offer advice to others in my current position.

Iam not sure if I am on the right discussion board, if not apologies.

I am moving to Ireland from the UK in a few weeks and I am struggling a bit with the process to register my car.

I have learned so far that as I have owned the car for more than 12 months I can get a VRT Exemption Letter from Revenue.
I need this letter when I take the car for the VRT Inspection otherwise I will have to pay the VRT.
Once the VRT Inspection is complete I will then have to do the NCT as the car is older than 4 years.
Once the above is complete I should have my new registration document and number plates.

So you may be asking what is the problem? Well I am struggling with the timeframes required.
According to the NCT Website I must have the VRT within the 7 days of the vehicle arriving in the State. So after checking the Revenue Website on how to obtain the VRT Exemption Letter is explains this may take 7 days. Further in order to get the VRT Inspection done I need a PPS Number, which also takes 7 days.

Can anybody advise if I am reading this all wrong? I am concerned that if I do not complete the VRT Inspection within the 7 days what will happen?

Thanks again for any advice

No idea personally, but what about going to ask on: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=47
Immigrationboards.com is mainly for immigration specific requirements, not down to the detail that you have asked.

There is a thread on boards.ie about importing cars from the UK: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthre ... p=89302597

Drive on your UK plates until you can get the car registered in Ireland. On the unlikely event that you are stopped the Garda are allowed to use discretion in situations like yours.