Posted: Thu Jun 7, 2018 9:02am
We brought partners rhd Honda hybrid down last March 2017 via the Portsmouth Bilbao ferry and are still using it, she had it registered, matriculated and put onto spanish number plates without any thought of selling it, which we'd most likely do back in the UK anyways in p/x for another rhd, it's not compulsory that you have a lhd vehicle.
For safetys sake I put one of those convex driving mirror add ons on the passenger side mirror that shows any vehicle in that blind spot, only alteration we made, I've driven lhd hire cars and this one and you'll still have to have your wits about you because the spanish dont hardly indicate, especially on roundabouts and on motorways as brilliant as they are here, trafiic free etc theres always someone needs to get sonewhere faster than you.
Speed limits are to be adhered to and if turning left say into a gas station, dont cross a solid white line, find somewhere theres a broken line to turn and do it that way, there are unmarked police cars here just like in the UK and they do on the spot fines too.
Any other queries just ask :)
Once youve completed on your villa here and gone thru all the things you'll need, once you have residencia you have a further 6 months within whuch time frame you'll need/have to get a spanish driving licence which means surrendering your uk licence