Vehicle Transportation

Many cli­ents find it more con­veni­ent to bring their car to Spain than to pur­chase a new one once here. We can ar­range for your car to pass the ne­ces­sary pa­per­work, present the same to the Traffic De­part­ment for the Span­ish Car re­gis­tra­tion and then ob­tain the Span­ish Re­gis­tra­tion plates. If you are non-res­id­ent and a mem­ber of the EU, you may drive your vehicle from your home coun­try within Spain without chan­ging the num­ber plates.  (However, after 181 days in Spain it has to go to Span­ish plates).

If the car needs an ITV (the Span­ish MOT), this can be car­ried out in Spain but will only be valid whilst the car is be­ing driven in Spain. You can ob­tain in­sur­ance for your vehicle but will not be able to tax the vehicle here – you must ap­ply to the rel­ev­ant home au­thor­it­ies for this.

After 6 months of the vehicle be­ing in Spain, you are ob­liged to change to Span­ish plates (you can do this earlier).  While the car is here on for­eign num­ber plates, you are re­quired to put “stick­ers” on the head­light bring them in line with Span­ish reg­u­la­tion. To change to Span­ish plates, the car must have been in the owner´s name one year.

You are gran­ted a period of 60 days after ob­tain­ing a Res­id­en­cia (as a Res­id­ent) to leg­ally “im­port” your vehicle. In or­der to do so, you must have a Ma­tric­u­la­tion and ITV in­spec­tion, pay the rel­ev­ant tax at the ap­pro­pri­ate Hacienda and ap­ply for a Span­ish ma­tric­u­la­tion at your province’s Trafico of­fice. We ar­range this as part of our Ma­tric­u­la­tion ser­vice for car re­gis­tra­tion in Spain.

Contact us for any information that you need and we will have a solution.