Re: Buying a used car in Germany and re registering in Spain
Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2018 11:26 am
PGA wrote:I would be interested to hear how you get on with this. I am thinking of importing vehicles into Spain given the high cost of s/h cars there and want to learn my way around the bureaucracy, legal requirements, tax etc. I appreciate from the start it will be littered with hurdles but feel that once you learn the path a few times to repeat the process will be far less cumbersome. Moving to a further extreme (given it will be non-EU specification), I would like to get to a stage where I could import cars from both the USA and also the GCC region.
I tried to import my Yamaha XV1700 motorbike from the UK to Spain, but discovered to my cost that, because I had originally imported it as new from the USA, it couldn't be re-registered in Spain. I even asked Graham Shelton whether he could do it for me, but apparently the problem is because US imports have an extra letter on the registration document that can't be accommodated on the Spanish system.....!
Since then, I've seen a specialist, second-hand car dealer just off the N332 at Guardamar who sells Mustangs, Cadillacs, Corvettes, etc. The only thing I can think of is perhaps the cars have come from South America, and/or they're European spec, but worth double-checking before trying to import from the USA.