Sell a Dutch car abroad, or to a buyer in Norway

We look at cars built in 2008 or later, in particular:

• cars with more than 200,000 km on the clock;
• diesel cars;
• ex-lease cars;
• company vans;
• damaged cars.

You do not have to come to Hengelo to ask for an offer: the details and photos can be sent online. Asking costs nothing and commits you to nothing. The buyer pays for the export papers, and for insurance and plates if the car is driven away.

1. You send the details: registration number, make and model, year, mileage, fuel, condition and any damage, with photos, via WhatsApp or the form below.
2. We pass the car on to our network of car dealers abroad, who may make an offer.
3. We forward the offer to you, and you decide.
4. If you accept, the transfer for export takes place at our desk in Hengelo. You receive the vrijwaringsbewijs, the proof that your Dutch registration has ended; the buyer receives the export papers, plus export insurance and two white plates if the car is driven to its destination.

The more complete your details and photos, the easier it is for the companies to assess the car. Selling a car with damage? Describe all damage and add photos of it. We mediate and arrange the export papers; we do not buy cars ourselves. Offers come from companies abroad, and we cannot promise an offer or say how soon one will come.

A car sold abroad is not transferred to the foreign buyer in the Dutch register. Instead, the RDW says the buyer should export the car in his or her own name. At our desk the buyer therefore receives the export certificate, the kentekenbewijs deel II (Dutch registration certificate part II), in his or her name, and you as the seller receive the vrijwaringsbewijs. That is how a change of ownership is handled for export. Keep the vrijwaringsbewijs: according to the RDW, your obligations for insurance, APK (the Dutch periodic roadworthiness test) and motor vehicle tax on the car stop after the export. For the transfer we need, among other things, the registration card with its tenaamstellingscode and the yellow Dutch plates, which are handed in. Read more about the Dutch export documents.

Found a buyer in Norway on your own? Then the buyer exports the car in his or her own name. If the buyer cannot come to the Netherlands, the RDW allows a contact person in the Netherlands to arrange the export.

Because Norway is outside the EU, an export declaration with Dutch Customs is needed as well: the EX-A document. For that we need an invoice to the buyer in Norway and the EORI number of the selling party. Dutch Customs requires the declarant to be established in the EU, so agree with us in advance who will make the declaration, for example you as the Dutch seller. For businesses, the sale is taxed at 0% VAT once you can prove that the car left the EU. We can arrange the RDW export and the EX-A at our desk, but we do not promise that both are ready on the same day.

After that, the buyer handles the Norwegian steps: customs clearance with VAT (mva), the approval, the one-off registration tax and the registration, as described on importing a car into Norway. Our overview for Norway shows the whole route at a glance.