Ok, one step further.

To get the export plates you will have to go to the traffic department in Madinat Khalifa. There are small shops just in front of the building where official agents are waiting for offering their services. Negotiating the price might work, because they start offering their service at QAR 150, we managed to come down to QAR 100. For this money the agent will issue the necessary paperwork in Arabic. You will have to present the car registration, the no-liability-letter from the bank as well as the Arabic letter for the change of ownership, issued by the bank after clearing your loan. Also please check that the bank will hand you over the necessary second page with all the signatories on it. We did not have it, but due to lucky circumstances we managed to get through without it.

The agent then will cash QAR 210 for the changeover at the traffic department, QAR 30 for the 3 letters and QAR 150 for the insurance. Plus his own fee. I am sure if you speak and write Arabic, the insurance will be less. He will ask you where to export the car to and how (by ship or by road). This will later appear on the export certificate issued by the traffic department.

First step thewn is to give up the parking space you will have been circling for for half an hour. Just to pass through the checking for the vehicle chassis number (right lane). If the agent is nice he will show you some "hidden" place to park your car.

Next step is to go to traffic department and queue up. In our case carrying a cranky baby speeded up the process tremendously. You will get the export plates and do a second circling through the place they checked the vehicle chassis number, but this time on the left hand side. The regular plates will be dismantled and the export plates riveted to the car. Now you've got 10 days to export the car.