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[AVR2]

If it's Euro spec you may get away with a certificate of compliance. Does it have a CAT and wing repeaters?

Yes to both (if by CAT you mean a catalytic converter). It's the "export emissions" dual-cat system, one cat per cylinder bank.

[Mike Pavelin]

If that's the case, You could contact Jeep in the UK and ask them to confirm/deny it is European spec. If it is, they can issue a certificate of conformity, you can then toodle off to the DVLA with a current MOT and insurance along with your original docs and import papers and register it.

[Bulldog67]

Trust me!! For 10 years I have shipped shit allover the world, some new some used, I have been busy for 6 years but unless an act of GOD has changed things, you will pay DUTY and you will pay VAT!!!

This is what the government website says:

If you’re moving to the UK

You don’t pay VAT or duty on vehicles imported from outside the EU if you qualify for transfer of residence relief. To qualify you must meet these conditions:

    you’re moving your normal home to the UK
    your normal home was outside the EU for a continuous period of at least 12 months
    you’ve owned and used the vehicle for at least 6 months outside the EU
    you didn’t get the vehicle under a duty or tax-free scheme
    you’re going to keep the vehicle for your personal use for at least 12 months


As far as I can see, that's all me 

Hah I win IOM, I win

[eastryjeep]

Nope, sorry.
Categorically can't be done, sell it to me!
Oops, meant to say 'give' there, but might console you with a bacon sarnie!
Does that sound convincing enough?

Didn't think so!
I brought a couple of cars back to Blighty with me when I moved back, (ruddy fool).
XR3 came over in 40 foot container with majority of household gubbins via Felixtowe with no problems, no VAT or duty, easy.
CJ7 came in second 20 foot container via London and got caught for all sorts of rubbish. No charges wrt the purchase of the vehicle itself but got clobbered for VAT on the shipping charges and duty on the  container contents. Never did get HMRC to see reason so bit the bullet and paid up chop-chop before they started charging storage too.
Moral of that story is insure the vehicle for UK use, get it to a RORO ferry, drive off like every other tourist but with a booking at an MOT station near where you are going to stay, take it to the garage, get your MOT then get hold of the DVLA and register the car.
Anyway that's how I'd bring it in but the choice as they say is yours.

[j33pky]

Or do what I did with the 2004 ram I had...  Leave it as the good Lord made it.  Mot station just sad Iraq's a import and didn't need to comply.  Never got stopped for having yellow side lights

[Dutch]

get it to a RORO ferry, drive off like every other tourist

P&O Dubai to Dover ................ fook me, you learn something new every day.

[eastryjeep]

Car in container to Amsterdam, then ferry to Felixtowe or Harwich (farmers accent required on exit), job done!

However!
If you don't like my suggestions and not many do, be warned that your sidewalls WILL be chaffed when you get the car out of the shipping container. When the removals company puts the car in the box they put blocks beside the tyres to stop the car working it's way across the container floor, so make sure you put the Jeep in with slightly deflated tyres, let them strap it down, then re inflate the tyres to add a bit more tension to the strops, after that let them block it into place, but make damn sure the blocks are radiused on the top corners. (This all learnt from experience).
Also:
If the Jeep and furniture is all going in the same container, the removals company will probably build a feeble shelf across the bonnet which usually collapses, complete with the contents of the china cupboard onto the Jeep five minutes after the container door is shut, this leaves you with a lovely hollow dent in the bonnet and nothing to eat off! (Experience again I'm afraid).
Just take the time to watch the container packed, I wish I had.

[AVR2]

If that's the case, You could contact Jeep in the UK and ask them to confirm/deny it is European spec. If it is, they can issue a certificate of conformity, you can then toodle off to the DVLA with a current MOT and insurance along with your original docs and import papers and register it.

Interesting, cheers for that Mike. I'll look into it. As far as I can tell, the bits that matter are all European spec.