One of those cars is ours I'm afraid. It is insured through a Spanish ins.co. When I asked about the fact that it doesn't have an ITV but still has an MOT which expires some time during the cover and what would be the insurance payout should an accident occur and the MOT(ITV) had run out I was told that the payout would be dependent upon the ascessed roadworthyness of my vehicle at the time....assuming it wasn't my fault,which seemed like a load of B*****KS to me.

Meanwhile the car had to be SORNed in the UK.The DVLA then told me I had to import the car into Spain,re register it on Spanish plates,ITV it etc,etc.This was so If in the future I decided to return to the UK I could then re re register it with the DVLA  and go through the whole bloody performance over again.I could also not do any of this but keep the car in Spain for 6 months and drive it back to Blighty for a new MOT and then drive it back to Spain for 6 months and so on and so on and so on.

When I had lost the will to survive and enquired about the complications of owning a donkey in Spain she got a little stroppy.....
In a nutshell,Roswells reply sums it all up.

There is a new guide that has recently been published - it's orange in colour and we got our copy from the local Ajuntament in Roquetes.

It's titled 'Welcoming guide ENGLISH'

One of the sections in the guide is 'Car Registration' which states the following (with minor language corrections!):


Foreigners that bring their private car from their country of origin have six months to legalise their car for use on Spanish roads if they wish to reside permenantly in Spain.

The necessary requirements are:

• To have an NIE number
• To be registered (as living in Spain)
• To go to the ITV station and request the technical registration document for the vehicle
• To pay the registration tax
• To register for and pay the municipal tax for the vehicle

You must present all the documentation to the Provincial Headquarters of Traffic of Tarragona, Department of vehicles tel: 977 22 11 96


As an alternative you can go to a gestor and they will do it all for you - we changed our car to Spanish plates - the cost was €600 for everything including the first years road tax.

Nigel

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