06 Feb 2011 7:47 PM:
Hi mazlester
I have just taken a car to Spain fthrough portsmouth to santander stayed in Madrid for 1 night. I wish I had stayed for two or three as Madrid is Fab. I then drove to Torre. Here is a copy of the mail received from my solicitor.
Hello Paul,
Thank you for your email. When you buy a Spanish Plated car you will need to change the ownership to your name in Tráfico in Spain. It is a procedure we can help you with. To do the change in the ownership there are some necessary paperwork to be signed both by you, the buyer and the seller. Would it be possible for you to get the signature of the seller? We could email you all the documents necessary to be able to present the papers in Tráfico for the change in the ownership. Or if you bought it from an official dealer would you have the invoice of the purchase?
The other thing we recommend is to check if there is no any registered debts on the vehicle you are buying. We could do this for you as well, we would need the copy of the papers of the car and the details of the seller (FULL NAME, ADDRESS AND NIE NUMBER)
Once you could email us the copy of the papers of the car we could prepare for you a quote about the cost for changing the ownership of the car in Tráfico. And when you are here in Spain we could present all the paperwork in Tráfico and change the ownership on your behalf.
To prepare for you the Car Insurance Quote we would need copy of the papers of the car and copy of your driving licence:
- Copy of the logbook
- Copy of the ficha técnica (document with all the caracteristics of the car)
- Copy of your driving licence
To be able to drive the car you would need to have the:
- Original logbook in the name of the seller
- Original ficha técnica
- The last paid receipt of the Suma (road tax) it should be for 2010
- Car Insurance papers
- It is also recommended to have with you a purchase contract signed by both of you/or the invoice if it is through a dealer/ in the meantime you are driving the car and it is still not in your name.
It is also recomended for own convenience when you purchase the car to take a copy of the NIE number and the passport of the seller.
Vincente
I also had to get an addition to my english insurance for a week (£100 )until |I got to spain and insured it with Direct line in Spain. The cost of name exchage is about 400Euro I can not remember exactley.
Hope this helps
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Buying a spanish car in Spain
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