New car - grey card question

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Hi folks,

This may be a naive question but would like to have some opinion!

We've bought a new car (from reputable garage - Emil Frey) and they have sent the grey card over so I can purchase insurance.

However, I see that there is a name on the grey card (looks like one from Emil Frey of course). Is this perfectly normal? As obviously being a new car we want to be the first and only owners of the vehicle.

Thanks for any advice!

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When I bought my car, they gave me form 13.20. if you have a grey card, it was already registered once.

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You usually get the insurance before the grey card...

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If there is a name on the grey card then it means it has already been registered to somebody else, quite usually a garage in the case of new cars.

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Is this meant to be a brand new car or a car which the garage already had available? When we got our VW Van, it had already been purchased by the garage and registered and sold as new but we knew it had been registered already.

What is your situation?

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First you need insurance, then you can get the grey card. You just need to tell the authority the insurance company and a code which the insurance co will give you.

If you have a grey card in Emil Freys name, then it is insured by them (but check it had full cover) at the moment till you change it over. It's possible they do this as a service to their clients, but in every case where I've bought a car from a garage, the garage has arranged the grey card in my name after I gave them the insurance details.

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A garage will quite often at the end of the year purchase stock cars from the manufacturer which transfers ownership to the garage.

The reason behind this is the car is considered sold by the manufacturer and if the garage sells a certain amount of new cars they get a rebate which works on a sliding scale, so with the "sale" of a few additional cars, they go into a higher rebate percentage.

As the carf is not first registered to you, you maybe able to negotiate something (small) for this, full gas tank & a vignette, maybe ?

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Normal? Yes. Legal? Yes. Honest? It’s complicate

A full description of one-day registration, original in FR. As Biro mentioned, one-day registrations can be used to inflate sales statistics. Downside? manufacturer warranty started to count the day of the first registration.

https://guide.autoscout24.ch/fr/acha…n-journaliere/