However, as with all laws, it depends on how it is enforced. If you crash
an expensive sports car (oops- sorry Arthur) an expensive jeep and take
if off the road for repairs it does certainly not meet the end-of-life
criteria (basically beyond economic repair or reuse). You probably do
have to fill in some declaration that it is off the road though (SORN,
Statutory Off Road Notification in the UK) If however you delare on paper
that you have disposed of it to an authorised recycler and you haven't,
that will probably be an offence in all the EU countries and the Police
will come knocking. I think the German authorities might expect you to
keep paying road tax or whatever whilst it is off the road, and the
temptation would be to 'hide' such a vehicle.
I have several MVs road legal, several off the road with SORN
declarations, and several in bits, and in the UK I've had no problem, of
course if we keep them off the road we pay nothing........
I would also suspect that Germany is not really able to make life
impossible for jeep owners (much as they might like to) as there are just
too many of us in Europe, and in the case of the UK running eccentric old
vehicles is a bit of a national pastime. One of the EU foundations is
equality, and it wouldn't really be fair if I could go to Germany in my
UK-registered Dodge and drive it about all day, whilst a German resident
couldn't.
Gordon
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