Hello,
A friend and I have been traveling and investigating the possibility of purchasing property in northern spain for the last month and we are currently based in oviedo. One (of many!) problem we have encountered is the details and law surrounding how long we can affectively use the car in spain without having to import the vehicle. We have encountered most English sites that state that we can use it for up to 6 months in any 1 year but nothing concrete about this has been found on any official spanish goverment websites written in spanish or otherwise, we can both speak OK spanish but long searches have been fruitless. We also very interested to find out how us becoming residents would effect the permisability of us using the car within this 6 month period. Once again extensive searching has showed us that this is quite a grey area as this matter seems to exist between law of the road and law of residence. Some sites have indicated that once residency has been applied for, you are no permitted to drive any foreign vehicle (assuming that includes your own within 6 months of entering spain) whilst car insurance companies have insured us that we can drive the car for upto 6 months no matter whether you have applied for or obtained residency…
Whilst i really want to hear everyones opiniones, we have found quite alot about this on the web but like i said, nothing concrete on websites such as http://www.dgt.es and www.mir.es, so if anyone could point us to a link it would be much appreciated!
Nick
