Can anyone help please with regard to a UK Mot.
If your Mot has a long time to run is it covered for Spain or do we need an ITV as soon as we get there.
We will be driving over in a UK registered car but obviousley transfer it to Spanish plates when we need to.
Any help or advice will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

Thanks for that Nizzo we are in a quandry now as in do we take the car or buy a second hand one in Spain.
I have read some nightmare stories with regard to importing cars and you can end up paying more than the car is worth.  Also do you know if you have to have a car for 6 months prior to importing.
Any advice appreciated

Thanks again

we changed uk number plate to spainish number plate recently. We didn’t know we had only one month (since you register here in town hall) to change number plate to avoid paying import tax 12%. Hope nobody have some mistake we did.
I found below information from another spain forum site(http://spain.othercountries.com
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REGISTERING A FOREIGN EU VEHICLE IN SPAIN.
EU residents living in Spain who want to re-register and legally import their cars ie, get them onto ?Spanish plates?. Can now follow this procedure, however please note that at the time I am posting up this information there is a massive crack down and the police are stopping many UK plated cars at the moment, so be warned and driving a British plated car around after a period of 6 months (12 if 6 months from one year and 6 of the next) is illegal anyway.
First of all you have to persoanlly decide whether the car you wish to imoport is worth transferring or not and if it is a right hand drive car it may not be just the steering wheel being on the wrong side that is the problem. You may also need to fit right hand dipped headlights (depending on the make and model) Also Spanish insurance companies are not normally allowed to insure foreign plated cars in Spain anyway. There are Insurance companies in Spain that will insure you but you need to question how legal your insurance really is, if at all! So you need to know how much it is going to cost you and where you are going to insure your car when you get it here, for starters.
If then you do decide to re-register this is how you do it, but take a deep breath first as it even though it sounds more complicated than it really is it can be a stressfull job, however it can be done and once you have done it you may wonder what all the fuss was about in the first place.
Please be warned though if you want to import the vehicle tax free you have only 30 days from the day your car has started this procedure to the day you go to Hacienda to see what the tax payable is on the vehicle and this is dependant upon the age, make and model of the vehicle, for example the newer the car the more the tax. To start with you need to check that the car conforms to Spanish standards so you need an engineers report, ask at the ITV station or garage.
You must “legally” do the actual transfer within 30 days after taking out residencia or registering your arrival in Spain and ITVing the vehicle, not one but all of these things must be within the stated 30 days. Otherwise you may get stung for the import tax! Let me tell you that one day makes a difference at the Hacienda and it could be a difference of 1000’s of euros!!!
Take your car to the local ITV station and ask for a form to change matriculation. For the UK there are two forms to register the permanent export of a motor vehicle. If your older vehicle registration document is not a Form V5, you will have to contact the DVLA in Swansea for a Form V756, complete it and send to them the completed section ?Notification of Permanent Export?. Keep a photocopy because Traffico will keep the originals and you never know when or if you might be asked for this! You will then need to go to your local ITV (Inspecci?n Tecnica de Vehiculos) station where motor vehicles are periodically checked for mechanical safety, every two years as apposed to every year in the UK, dependant again upon age of vehicle, you can find out where these stations are on the Traffico web site at http://www.dgt.es/tramites/itv/itv.htm. Have the vehicle checked for the Certificado de Conformidad (CEE), or that it is EU type approved and often this can be legally done by someone at the ITV station for a fee.
After you have obtained a ?Satisfactorio? (pass) certificate from the ITV and the CEE, take them to your local ayuntamiento or council offices, where the details will be put onto their computer and you can pay the ?road tax?, as mentioned above (impuesto) You may have to take a form to the Bank to pay this, depending on the local ayuntamiento (Town Hall), and the amount varies depending on the engine size of the vehicle.
Go to the local Consulate with your car documents and ask for a Baja Consular, this being the declaration that you intend to import the vehicle permanently into Spain. This will cost you 36 euros and you will also have to filkl in a form stating that you live permanently here in Spain and they will stamp your passport stating just that.
Next Go to the Hacienda or tax office with the original DVLA vehicle registration document plus a photocopy, the original Bill of Sale or Invoice showing that VAT was paid. Hmmm, this could be a tricky one as if you bought the car privately would you necessarily have one? If you do not have this invoice you will probably have to pay VAT/IVA based on their valuation of the vehicle apparently. So I would try to get one somehow!!!!
Take the following documents with you, The ITV and CEE certificates, Baja Consular or import certificate from the British Consulate. Original residencia or NIE documents and photocopy. All within the stated 30 days.
At the tax office Hacienda ask for the Form Modelo 565 which will cost you a few centimos at most and complete it. Go to the counter where the sellos or (revenue) stamps are to be bought. It should be identified by the sign ?Espacio reservado para le etiquita identificada.? These need to be stuck on the form at the top left hand side. Then show your residencia or NIE as applicable, and if you do not have this actual document, the official receipt should suffice. They should then certify the ?libre de impuesto? which is the tax exempt box and if everything is present correct and all in order you will not be asked for the tax. Keep everything crossed at this point!

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Next stop ? Traffico. The following are the documents required-

The completed Hacienda Form Modelo 565.

Original DVLA registration document (V5 or V756).

ITV and CEE certificates.

Residencia/NIE or a copy of the application for either.

Certificado de empadronamiento

The road tax receipt (impuesto municipal sobre vehiculos de traccion mecanica) after payment at the Bank or the local ayuntamiento as applicable.

The registering (matriculation) fee in cash, currently ?66,70.

To save queuing at Traffico my advice would be to download from the Internet the form Solicitud de Matriculaci?n, Form number TASA 9.03 at the web-site address -http://www.dgt.es/indices/dgtHtm_Impresos_es.html. You will need Adobe Reader software to download this form. You need two copies of the form which are both printed size A5 on an A4 sheet.

When you arrive at Traffico get a ticket queue up and hand in the paperwork.

Hopefully all will be in order, they should give you a receipt for it all and you will be asked to return probably the next working day, sorry I know, and you thought it would be done the same day? Come on! that?s the way it is, you may be one of the lucky ones! and it could be, but more often than not you will have to return, Or if you want to risk the wait and or the slow Spanish postal system, you can give them an SAE so they can send the documents to you.

I advise coming back the next day if it is not too far from you as you then have the paperwork literally in your hand. If it is going to take longer you will be issued with “P” plates to drive until the paperwork comes through. These can be placed at the front and rear inside the car so they can be seen from the outside.

When you next return, go to the cash counter and show the receipt and you will be given another ticket. Go to the appropriate window you will be given your registration document, the Permiso de Circulaci?n ? Certificado

If you haven?t already been given this you will then need to return to the ITV station and given a Tarjeta de Inspeccion T?cnica card and if your car is over four years old, or five if a motorcycle, you will be given an ITV sticker to place in the top RH side of your windscreen. Now you can have new number plates fitted.

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