Lionda

Does anyone have any info on taking a car back into the UK after it has been re-registered in Spain? Also is the insurance, tax and ITV valid once in the UK?

jdr

Check that your insurance will cover you for a while until you register it to UK system, your Spanish road tax and itv will cover you for a time.
Email DVLA and make enquiries.

painterhombre

I think you are ok for about 6 months in the UK, but if you are planning to stay and not go back to spain (huh!?) then contact DVLA and get your car registered in the UK, its very easy to do and i think it only costs about 70 quid, something like that?

Lionda

Yes we are planing to stay.

Thanks for the replies I was concerned about the legalities of driving home until we can get the car re-registered.

painterhombre

naaaaaa!, its pretty easy to do, merely a formality in fact..but to get the official line, check this site out

DVLA INFO here

Fred James

You say it was reregistered in Spain.

Was it originally registered in the UK?

If so it is a very easy procedure as the DVLA will still have the original registration info so a lot of the usual paperwork is not required.

Lionda

Yes, we drove over and re-registered the car here.

So we should be ok for driving through England and quite legal That's good to know. Does anyone know if we have to buy tax again in England, ours is due to be paid now in Spain for another year.

jdr

It will need UK tax from when you register it.

onlineamiga

I was subjected to quite a detailed search of my spanish car when i got to Dover. But I had all the paper work (Actually only had temporary owners certificate) and I was only going to be there for a week before heading back. But you will be ok. Just make sure you have all your spanish paperwork on you when you get back.

zel

If yours is due now then to be legal you will have to do this and if when you go back to the UK and re-register it there you will also have to buy 6 or 12 month road tax at the point of re-registering (and MOT if more than 3 years old)

However you can probably get a refund on the outstanding Spanish tax if you can really be bothered with the hassle and hair pulling out moments!

But the general rule throughout the EU is the vehicle has to be road legal in the country it is currently registered in to travel anywhere else within the EU.

So in your case you will need a valid : ITV,Tax,Registration,Spanish Insurance.

This will allow you to drive up to six months in most EU countries which includes the UK however some countries opt to change the time frame, like Spain did.

All you have to do is goto your local DVLA office or give them a call and ask about re-registration. I've actually never re-regged a British car in Britain before but as someone already said since they have your cars info on file already I must assume that's how they do it.

You will also need to obtain an MOT and UK insurance for the vehicle before you submit the paperwork. You may also have to get a certificate to say the vehicle has RHD headlights back in it and still has the MPH speedo.

I'm not 100% sure about this certificate but what I can say is everyone has to get this certificate if they reg cars from a LHD country, but since your vehicle has already been regged in the UK previously, maybe they will bypass this, but technically they shouldn't. But the DVLA is a confusing establishment

Side note is you may have to get UK insurance based on the chassis number number of the vehicle and not all insurance companies do this. The reason you may have to do this as the previous UK registration is invalid so doing it on the reg number may not work.

jdr

Yeah but you had a (waccy baccy) oops sorry Morocco stamp in your passport. lol

onlineamiga

Well that "might" have had something to do with it. But I cant be sure

Lionda

Thanks for that, that just about covers it