Bahrain to the UK.

Bahrain is small, which makes collection easy. We pick the car up from your address, deal with the export side and ship it to the UK.

My Car Import’s Bahrain figures put the sea leg at 3 to 6 weeks on average, and the car must be deregistered in Bahrain before it ships.

Before the car can leave Bahrain

Before a car goes, every Gulf country wants its registration closed and nothing owed against it, with the paperwork in order. The detail is local. Here is how it tends to work in Bahrain.

Rules and fees are set by the local authority and do change, so treat this as a guide and check the latest with them. Our agents will tell you if anything has moved.

Cars that crossed the causeway

Plenty of cars in Bahrain started life in Saudi Arabia, across the King Fahd Causeway. That is fine, as long as the car is registered to you in Bahrain and the history is clean. Tell us if it was ever registered elsewhere.

Once it reaches the UK

From here, the process is identical wherever the car came from. It comes to our own site in Castle Donington, where our team unloads containers themselves, our customs team clears it with HMRC, and the car goes into our workshop for its UK conversions: headlights adjusted to dip the right way, a speedometer that reads in miles per hour and a rear fog light.

Then it is tested in our own lanes, an IVA test if it is under ten years old or an MOT if it is older, and registered through our dealer-level DVLA account in around 10 working days. You collect it, or we deliver it.

The sea leg itself is usually 3 to 6 weeks. Your quote sets out what to expect for your car.