register a lhd uk reg car to spain

Be prepared for a long and expensive process - without an EU certificate of conformity it may need a report from a technical specialist for the make and model concerned. A friend had a Colby Jag replica, built from a kit. The only way he could get it approved and on Spanish plates was to have it inspected by an appointed expert, who happened to be in the Basque country. he had to send the car on a trailer 800 kms, and many months later and at considerable cost got the car back, all legal. From memory at was between €2000 and €3000, plus the time and hassle.

Good luck with it.

Thanks peter I’m doing my research and will post what I find out the car is a Ford Explorer dot 4ltr v6 on 2009 it was USA made jap import and then imported to uk it is registered here motd and got a v5 but obviously it is not European but Japanese market is anal about emissions lhd fully legal in japan and uk I am trying to find out about cert of conformity to make life easier 

Ray

See if there is a Facebook group for owners of that make & model? You may need to find a specialist engineer.

Hi peter so after doing some internet searching I have found there are companies that can provide an icoc after asking the big question then yes I can get one for a cost £175 in Spanish so happy days on a cautious note apparently lhd cars from Dubai are difficult if not possible apparently they don’t reach the euro6 classification on emissions because they are not fitted with catylitic converters

Hope that helps others

Regards 

Ray

My wife and I brought a USA-built, USA-market Honda here. It had been re-registered in the UK, and we brought it to Spain. It had no CoC.

It was a North American market Accord (which is different from a Euro-spec Accord - the North American versions look similar, but they are a bit  bigger and have different engines).  

It was re-registered in Spain without any issues, but we used some experienced guys to manage the process.

The authorities weren't concerned about the lack of CoC - a Honda is a Honda - but the chassis VIN number had to have a certain number of digits, otherwise the Spanish systems won't accept the car. Not all non-Euro-market cars have an acceptable VIN format. They have to use the VIN number stamped on the scuttle - the little aluminium plate under the bonnet isn't acceptable. Then there was the the matter of the pollution rating of the engine. In our case, they found a Honda model that that had been sold in Spain, and that used the same engine; then they used those pollution stats. The pollution stats are important as they are used to calculate registration taxes as well as ongoing road tax,

Your Ford might (??) use the same engine that Mustangs use, and they are sold here.

You might want to get advice from professionals before buying the car though. They would probably need to see an image of the UK V5, and would need to know the VIN number.

Three further points ... two good and one bad ...

You can buy headlights for common USA models on ebay.com (the USA site) very cheaply. Our Honda lights were £80 the pair, delivered from China (pattern parts).

A bolt-on fog light is no longer acceptable, but if you car has twin reversing lights, it is OK to put a red-coated bulb in the left side, and wire it to the fog light switch - cheap and easy.

As I understand it, the costs of re-registering a UK-plated car in Spain have increased post-Brexit (taxes, etc.).  

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We also brought a JDM (Japan-built) Nissan 300ZX here. The VIN number was fine.

There we a couple issues because the car had been modified from standard (or, at least from the standard that applied to the same model sold in Europe). 

- It had Xenon lights (non-standard for that year, the lights had been salvaged from a car 2 years newer) - not acceptable

- it had side reflectors - not acceptable

But it had been de-cat, had non-standard wheels and steering wheel - no problem at all. 

Hi will yes I checked the firm will give a cert of conformity a emission cert a dare of first register cert and another I can’t remember at the moment so all seems fine had a look 👀 on amazon £200 delivered for the pair so yeh I’ve paid the deposit it will becoming to Spain next year and thanks for the info 

Regards Ray

So the package includes 

A UK cert of origin

A UK cert of registration

A cert of emissions 

A cert of conformity 

£398 and sorry headlights £200delivered for both 👀👍🤪

Good for you.

Enjoy Spain and the car

hi yes after sending a copy of vin numbers and v5 doc they give me a discount code so price dropped to £278 so happy days and all being well when they finally sort out the driving license which seem inevitable (maybe) no worries viva espania here we come and yes the mustang uses the same 4.0l v6 engine i think from 2005 to 2010 

cheers all