Hi when i finally move across i was wanting to bring my Landrover 110 over but i have heard that i would not be allowed as it is classed as commercial and rhd as it only has three doors , but has seven seats can anyone give me some advice please
Best regards
RM

No problem to bring it over just leave it on the uk register i have two cars at my villa from the uk both been in spain 8 years.

Please disregard the billymackers post as it is advising you to seriously break the laws of Spain and the UK.

How are you breaking the laws of the uk or spain we live in the eu just look at how many cars from the uk, france, german plus many more cars from different country's are running around spain you have the car registered to your uk address.

Also how many lorry's are doing delivery's in the uk that are registered abroad so they do not have to pay the uk road tax.

Because you ARE breaking the law, simple as that..

The *EU LAW* states that you have a maximum of six months to register your vehicle in your new country.

However as with most EU LAWS there is an opt out and countries can change the parameters, which has happened in Spain and you have considerably less than six months to register your vehicle there.

So yes, you are breaking not only the Spanish law,but the UK one and your cherished EU law..

And not only are you breaking the law in terms of registration, your vehicle will not have valid insurance (check the t&c small print) and not only that, even if you did (doubtful) have a 'valid' mot it's not worth the paper it's wrote on in either UK (sine you're no longer a UK resident) or in Spain.

So yes, when it comes to motoring you're breaking pretty much every law you can.

WELL DONE! don't you feel proud? moving to a lovely new country and breaking the law from the outset?

And as far as your STUPID reasoning about lorries in the UK doing deliveries who don't have UK VED that's because they are here SHORT TERM just like you don't have to register your car in Spain if you drive it there for your 2 weeks holiday.

Some people.. blimey..

It really does annoy me the amount of Brits driving round in their British plated cars. If I was in an accident and it was their fault then their insurance would not cover it because they are illegal!! And it makes me laugh how they all keep renewing their insurance which is invalid anyway

What is it with these Brits that come to Spain with their cars? Do they think its one law for them and another law for the rest?

Ignore billymacker as I'm sure he wouldn't dig into his own pocket to help you out if you were fined or had your vehicle impounded.

Right,

There is a law regarding RHD commercial vehicles not being able to be registered but as like most things in Spain it's yet another gray area of what is considered a commercial vehicle.

If you can not find anyone on the forums who have had personal experience of registering the same vehicle. If however (probably) you can not find someone I would find a gestor in Spain that can look into it for you before you bring the vehicle over.

If it's any help things like the L200 double cabin vehicles that a lot of people use as personal use in the UK is considered Commercial in Spain, so it's definitely not 'like for like' basis.

Try this thread


http://britishexpats.com/forum/showt...ng+a+landrover

Basically yes. although it does happen in Portugal, France, Greece and other popular EU destinations for expats by far the worst for trying to dodge the system is Spain.

Maybe people move there and see it's not as much as a big brother society as the UK and think they can get away with more?

Maybe people move to Spain more on a budget and put it off?

Maybe they're just ignorant and believe in some mystical eu law that doesn't exist? lol

Who knows, probably a mixture of all reasons and more.

And yet there are the one's like me that have spanish mot (itv) on there cars, mine are registered in the isle of man where i am resident where they do not have MOT's, also spanish insurance on our british registered cars which also cover's you the brake down truck just like your spanish registered cars.

Sorry but now you're just trying to backtrack and you're digging yourself into a bigger hole than you already did in the first post.

A Spanish ITV isn't worth the paper it is wrote on if the vehicle is foreign plated car, so therefore the vehicle(s) are considered not road worthy.

And as many people have found out, Spanish insurance companies will take your money for insurance on a foreign plated car, but if it ever comes to claiming you don't have a leg to stand on..

There are countless threads about these topics across ALL expat forums.

And since you are 'not' a resident of Spain then it's also illegal to have your vehicles in Spain for anything longer than 3 months.

I would just stay quiet before you implicate yourself further in my opinion.

I have expats ask me who I insure our car with, but I just tell em it aint worth insuring yours because its illegal anyway insured or not!!

Bloody selfish numpties

I might just buy a lhd 110 as there are a fair amount of ex mod ones available for not a lot of money then i can just swap the extras from my own .
I also have a lhd Cj2 on gibraltar plates will the same rules apply to it?

Why bother going through all that process and paperwork taxes etc to import something from the U.K.?
Here in Spain they have been building a ‘Rover under licence since 1958. Now days they are a bit different but they are still the same vehicle and you can get parts, Nowadays the company is owned by IVECO
http://www.santanauk.com/default.asp
http://www.santana-motor.es

Owning a Gib registered car is not really the answer. Do a search on this forum you will find out a lot more information about importing a vehicle to Spain.

Billy, if you are ignorant of the law then I am tremendously glad that this forum has been of assistance and helped you to understand what it is you have to do

If however you are fully aware of the law then I can only say, as I do to all such posters, consider what happens if you have a serious accidernt and hurt someone. As you will have no valid insurance to cover the huge claims that could follow, you may end up with a civil suit against you and could lose absolutely all you own .......... just because you couldn't be bothered to matriculate your cars in accordance with the laws of the land