Transferring the registration of a car from the UK to Austria.

Personally I would not have bothered bringing it over.  The cost is silly when you coukd have bought one  in Austria

Don't. Even bother sell the car in the UK, and buy one over here, I tried with my Stab after I came over here they asked over € 4000 for a car 22 years old then. I gave it away and bought a van. The regulations are tough enough for cars from Germany to here from the UK impossible, we just got a German Vw Passart with the same spec as the Austrian, and had a bit to pay on a 12 year old car. Someone I know brought a BMW from Germany had to pay a few thousand to change the seating adjustment since a few milometers of difference to the Austrian model then the tax. The difference is impossible plus being right hand drive. Austria is a money making racket.  Pay a visit and have a chat live near the U1 one stop before End favoriten. Also have house in Burgenland 110 kilometers outside Vienna in lovely location. Contact [email protected]

Hi George.
This will not solve your problem but is meant by way of sympathetic support.  However your local and National OAMTC should be able to clarify things for you.  Coming from NZ we were shocked how expensive 2nd hand vehicles were over here, (not to mention the insurance!!!).  We bought a SKODA new in Austria.  It was much cheaper in Germany but there's a lot of legwork and additional expense involved in registering the vehicle in Austria, plus your German needs to be top-notch.  In short they make it a nightmare to do anything other than buy your vehicle in Austria.

Dealing with local authorities on what is supposed to be a relatively  simple national matter can be a nightmare due to inconsistent information provided to them, which then has to be trained to the local Gemeinde/BH rep.  The training is inconsistent at local level both in timings and content.

So while your Gemaeinde/BH rep is wrong, nothing will convince them otherwise, and they can be even more obstinate once you try to offer help (eg from a neighbouring Gemeinde or National Body to "guide" their responses) to what is actually correct.

My example was trying to change my HGV licence to Austrian and finding a suitable and "authorised" course provider for the C95 (Driver CPC) commercial drivers qualification.  This requires 35 hours attendance at a course, covering a variety of compulsory and optional subjects over 5 days.  This is European law!.  Our rep was convinced it must be 42 hours and nothing would change her mind, even though no-one offers a course of more than 35 hours.  We tried all avenues including asking to be seen by a different member of the team "-not possible")and options with her as her abstinence grew, and eventually had to go over her head.  It took a couple of weeks longer of probing from us for her sheepish reply to eventually arrive accepting a course. 

Due to the delays, I'd missed all the Vorarlberg courses and had to travel to Tirol though the Arlberg toll tunnel every day for a week which economically necessitated the purchase of an annual tunnel pass.  The documents duly arrived and we made the appointment to go the rep to get it all changed over.  Interestingly we were seen by one of our reps colleagues as "something had come up".  We took this to mean that she had been suitably chastised by the experience and couldn't face us eye to eye knowing she had been wrong all along and had cost us a lot of extra money, stress and time in the process.  But this was the only satisfaction we got.

Hope thats of help

MarkV