Matriculation

[Guest]

What is the easiest way to change from British registration to Spanish and how much does it cost?

[Dai_Laffin]

Dai-bach,

Can't answer your question about the easiest way but my sources tell me these points to deal with:

The biggest expense will be changing the headlamp units for ones that dip .

I know someone who has just done this task and for a Peugeot 406 cost 500 euros !

The other thing is to ensure you register on the padron, and produce the original purchase receipt of the car if you bought it through a source which charged you sales tax, as this will save you money here.

1.Change headlights
2.Engineer's report - 90 euros
3.Special ITV test (MOT) - 70 euros

Getting the garage who change the headlights to do the other two things is the best idea.

4.Pay Spanish road tax at SUMA
5.Pay tax at Hacienda - if you have the original purchase receipt, have it certified at the UK consulate first, as this will save you paying the VAT again !
6.Submit paperwork proving all of the above and your own ID and the car's logbook along with completed form to the Provincial Traffic Office - 65 euros
7. Come back next day to collect new Spanish reg no.
8.Make up plates and stick an 'E' sticker on your new Spanish car - 40 euros.

[Guest]

Save yourself the mither.
Flog the motor in the UK.
Go down Motril and pick up a decent car from a dealer, maybe you will not find one on the first visit, but you'll find one.
To change the plate on, say for example, a German car costs 600 Euro minimum. To buy new head-lamps so that they focus to the right rather than the left is extra (ones that dip? what's he on about???)
Not only that, a right hand drive car will NEVER be worth the same as an equivalent left hand drive, so you'll loose cash if you want to subsequently sell the pig.

[Guest]

PS:

The engineer's report thing is just a bloody con!
You do not need one! Just think about it, why should you???
This is just another way to screw cash from Johnny Foriegner!!!
The ITV test for a non-Spanish car is a shade less than 100 E.
It's all there, on the wall of the ITV station! Go ask them! They are a tadge surly down in Motril, but you get it all from the hoss's mouth.

Scoot. Toot, toot!