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Driving a Spanish matriculated car in the U.K. with a U.K. licence

Posted: Sat Apr 2, 2022 9:52am
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Aberporth18

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Hi, can anyone advise me on driving a Spanish registered car back in the U.K. My husband & I were going to become residents of Spain and because we have dogs we matriculated our British car.

 We haven’t  become Spanish residents yet…

All our dogs died during the worst Covid times so we didn’t have to drive to & from Spain and never knew before that we shouldn’t have been driving it back in the U.K.!! 
we are in the U.K. now and want to bring the car back from Spain to pick our NEW pup up and have seen info on Citizen's advice Spain that we can’t drive the car in the U.K. with a British licence?

I’ve looked on the Government website and all I can find is that if you are a Spanish resident you have until the 22nd April to change your U.K. licence to a Spanish one. But…that doesn’t apply to us 😩

pah1547

Posted: Sat Apr 2, 2022 6:12pm

pah1547

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Posted: Sat Apr 2, 2022 6:12pm

Have you tried asking your insurers what the situation is? I know you can own a Spanish registered car over here and drive it on a uk licence but really don't know the other way round, maybe Dario or Matthew may be able to shed some light on it.

Aberporth18

Posted: Sun Apr 3, 2022 9:32am

Aberporth18

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Posted: Sun Apr 3, 2022 9:32am

pah1547 wrote on Sat Apr 2, 2022 6:12pm:

Have you tried asking your insurers what the situation is? I know you can own a Spanish registered car over here and drive it on a uk licence but really don't know the other way round, maybe Dario or Matthew may be able to shed some light on it.

Hi, the last time we drive from Spain to the U.K. we checked with them and they said it was ok 🤷‍♀️

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