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Looks like parador owners club are not going to be around for long, also Taxis a bit pricey, need some lessons in driving in spain can any body help?

Hi,
We have just returned from Spain & while we were there we traded our English car in for a Spanish registed Espace. Initially it is strange but the roads are quieter then here so it doesn't take long to adapt. We could help short term if required & also put you in touch with the English car dealer we used. We are returning back to live in Spain on the 14th September driving back out with our dog. Contact us if you need to share the experience.

Carol & Charlie 

Hi Charlie,

Welcome to the forum.  We are also in Jardin 2 (J129) so we are not too far away from you, it will be nice to meet you at some point I am going out next week but will have returned before you get there.  Will probably be popping over in October so may bump into you then.  Good luck with your new life in the sun

Jackie and Andy

Hi Carol & Charlie

I was interested to read that you traded your English car for a Spanish car and would like to know whether they gave you a fair price and if it was easy to do as I thought there wouldn't be a market for selling a right hand drive in spain. Also was there a lot of paperwork involved.

regards

Hi John and Val

Trading our car in was very easy. The company we used were recomended to us by someone we met who have lived on Camposol for 3 years. They bought their car from this company whilst still in England and the company did everything to register their left hand drive and insure it before moving out. We decided that we needed a people carrier so we could get our kids and grand kids about. On Monday we made a telephone call and explained what we wanted and described our english car to him. He phoned back and arranged to meet at Camposol where we were staying on Tuesday to show us the Espace. We discussed business and although the trade in price for our Volvo was not good the price of the Espace compensated very well so the difference we had to pay was acceptable. We gave him a copy of our passport and NIE cert so he could organise insurance and breakdown cover. He delivered the car to us on Thursday evening and took the Volvo just in time for us to drive back to England in the Espace on Friday. 
The paperwork is easy with one or two points to be aware of:
You need copies of your passport and NIE cert.
Transferring money may be difficult at short notice.
The insurance certificate we have lasts for 30 days initially but once we get back we will go to the Ayuntamiento and get our "Padron". Once we have this we will contact the car sales company and they will confirm our full insurance cover.
By doing this we saved a lot of travelling to England and back as we have a dog to bring out with us and now don't have to bring the Volvo back.
The company specialise in trading both left and right hand drive cars as they are based on both sides of the chanel.
If you are interested the contact is:
Andy Thompson mobile tel. 0034618628511
Specialist Vehicles Espana
Web: specialistvehicles.eu

Hope this helps
regards
Carol and Chralie

Hi Carol & Charlie

Thanks for your reply. Its very useful information to keep in mind and sounds a good idea when you take a right hand drive and want to live out there permanently to change cars. Not sure what the Ayuntamiento to get your padron is but guess it must be some sort of legal office to register, exuse my ignorance but Ive not come across that before. Hope it all goes well for you when you go out next.

Hi John & Val,
Thanks for your reply our understanding of the "ayuntamiento" is the town hall & the "pardon" is the electoral role you need this to be able to own a car amongst other things.

Regards 
Carol & Charlie

Hi John & Val

We have seen that you have tried to contact us by private message but cannot open yet. We have been in touch with "eye on spain " but not yet respond. We will get back to you asap

Best regards
Carol & Charlie