Moving to the UK with a Jeep Gladiator

Hi everyone

Moving to the UK soon from Canada! Excited about this new chapter in our lives.

I love my truck (like the one pictured) and we're intending to bring it with us. My wife took her car from here too, she's already in the UK with her Italian left hand drive cabriole.

The shipping costs etc have so far been worth it. Vehicles are more expensive in the UK, even with the shipping and registration costs accounted for my wife would essily get a better price on selling her car in the UK than here, and the Gladiator in particular is not available there. My truck here is worth about £23,000 but the 3 Gladiators on Autotrader UK with more years and miles are listed around £50k. Parts are basically the same as the Jeep Wrangler which is in the UK so I don't think I'll run into problems with parts or know-how.

What I am wondering about though is insurance, the legal sizes of tires, and extended warranties. If anyone has a perspective or experience with these things I'd love to hear from you.

I'm expecting insurance to be about £800 a year. That is expensive in the UK but not bad by Canadian (BC) standards. It will go down as we get more years of UK driving experience.

The truck has 37inch tires, they're ideal for the offroad and snow wheeling we do here. I'm looking forward to exploring and back-roading in the UK, in an environmentally sensitive way of course 🙏🏽. We'll be living near beautiful, rural, remote landscapes and so long as I avoid offending the local townsfolk and police I am happy to keep 37s. They are common here but probably less so in the UK!

Extended warranty: this is the one I've had no luck with so far. My current warranty expires in 2025, and the powertrain warranty lasts until 2027. Alas, they won't apply in the UK. Stellantis vehicles aren't famous for their reliability and I prefer the security of a warranty. Has anyone found a way to warranty imported vehicles?

The truck is only 2 years and 30,000miles into its life. Has treated us extremely well, the family loves it, and we have a softop and drive with the roof off in everything except proper rain. Even light snow is no problem moving at 40kmh. The interior is technically waterproof 🤣. We get about as much rain and sunshine here in the PNW as you do. All our vehicles are convertibles and I reckon we get most of our sun that way.

See y'all out on the roads soon.