My motorhome is in Spain MOT Due to expire Help

[Skyblue3491]

My 6.3 m motorhome is in Valencia province Spain, my MOT runs out 20/08/20 . I am in Australia, with no flights to UK until further notice, because of COVID 19
I was due to fly back to UK 22/04/20 but all flights stopped. Any Suggestions?

 

[EuroTrotters]

Perhaps non payed-up members can't receive PM's ???

Thanks, I had not seen that.

Anyway, I have to make other plans soon so if they have not been in-touch, I hope they get sorted.

 

[Minxy]

I believe that non-subscribers can receive PMs but they can't start a conversation themselves, unless that's been changed.

 

[Yorick]

If you have breakdown cover, get a 'pal' to put the motor out of action and get them to recover it to the UK

 

[EuroTrotters]

If you have breakdown cover, get a 'pal' to put the motor out of action and get them to recover it to the UK

Cheeky

They would repair it

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[Yorick]

Cheeky

They would repair it

My bike was repatriated from Spain to the UK.

 

[EuroTrotters]

My bike was repatriated from Spain to the UK.

Who broke it !?

 

[Yorick]

Who broke it !?

Me and the missus. Sub frame broke when back wheel went into a pothole.

 

[busby]

Mot extensions have stopped. Have you thought of having it shipped back. You could look on website like return loads. There might be a step frame trailer looking to make up a load returning to the uk. If you deduct off the costs of fuel, ferries, and flights to get it yourself, the costs might not be so bad.

True,,probably get it transported back for a grand...BUSBY.

 

[alanj]

Mot extensions have stopped. Have you thought of having it shipped back. You could look on website like return loads. There might be a step frame trailer looking to make up a load returning to the uk. If you deduct off the costs of fuel, ferries, and flights to get it yourself, the costs might not be so bad.

I am a Spanish resident but have an old motorhome. Fiat ducato herald Castillo. Which needs going to UK for MOT on 2nd April 2021. I am not well ( not covid related ) and borders are closed until 4th April 2021 due to covid so am not able to drive it back.
Any advice

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[Bolti]

You could get it matriculated on to Spanish plates as a resident you should not be driving a UK registered vehicle.

 

[EuroTrotters]

I am a Spanish resident but have an old motorhome. Fiat ducato herald Castillo. Which needs going to UK for MOT on 2nd April 2021. I am not well ( not covid related ) and borders are closed until 4th April 2021 due to covid so am not able to drive it back.
Any advice

Where in Spain are you ?

I can help with contacts

 

[Riverbankannie]

I am a Spanish resident but have an old motorhome. Fiat ducato herald Castillo. Which needs going to UK for MOT on 2nd April 2021. I am not well ( not covid related ) and borders are closed until 4th April 2021 due to covid so am not able to drive it back.
Any advice

I’m sorry to read that you are not well and of your predicament. As Bolti says above, you may well have to change to Spanish plates to be legal.
Otherwise, if you don’t hold Spanish residency, the only other option is to SORN it at DVLA and get it trailered back to UK and you travel separately when restrictions and your health allow.

 

[EuroTrotters]

I’m sorry to read that you are not well and of your predicament. As Bolti says above, you may well have to change to Spanish plates to be legal.
Otherwise, if you don’t hold Spanish residency, the only other option is to SORN it at DVLA and get it trailered back to UK and you travel separately when restrictions and your health allow.

You can’t (or rather “shouldn’t”) sorn it if it’s outside the UK

 

[royw]

You can’t (or rather “shouldn’t”) sorn it if it’s outside the UK

It should be on uk soil to sorn is my understanding.

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[royw]

I am a Spanish resident but have an old motorhome. Fiat ducato herald Castillo. Which needs going to UK for MOT on 2nd April 2021. I am not well ( not covid related ) and borders are closed until 4th April 2021 due to covid so am not able to drive it back.
Any advice

As a Spanish resident are you able to be owning and driving a UK regiestered vehicle ? For France i believe this to be a nono not sure for Spain

 

[EuroTrotters]

It should be on uk soil to sorn is my understanding.

Yes

As a Spanish resident are you able to be owning and driving a UK regiestered vehicle ? For France i believe this to be a nono not sure for Spain

Nono

 

[Bessy765]

As I understand it your vehicle has to comply with the country it is registered in, if it is legal for you to drive it to a pre arranged mot i the UK then it should you should be able to bring it home. I would book an mot close to your UK port of entry then as long s if it fails on only minor defects you can then drive it home. There is no actual legislation that states how far the mot station has to be.

 

[nicholsong]

As I understand it your vehicle has to comply with the country it is registered in, if it is legal for you to drive it to a pre arranged mot i the UK then it should you should be able to bring it home. I would book an mot close to your UK port of entry then as long s if it fails on only minor defects you can then drive it home. There is no actual legislation that states how far the mot station has to be.

In addition, if I were asked to account for whether the vehicle was legally compliant with the law in its country of registration, my response would be as follows:-

The country of registration is UK. UK law requires the vehicle to have a current MOT while on a highway in UK. When the vehicle is not on a UK highway UK law does not require an MOT, so in any other country, even without an MOT, it conforms with UK law, so is complying with the law of the country of registration.

Whether M. Flic and a French Court would agree with this analysis is yet to be tested.

Geoff

 

[royw]

Bessy, That is totally incorrect for France, an allowance for a untested vehicle maybe acceptable in the UK but it is certainly not in France, it can be trucked to the uk shores to then take up that appointment, chances are you would not get stopped but god help you if your in a accident. You are not driving on uK land but French and Spanish.

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[bobandjanie]

It's illegal to drive a vehicle without an itv ( mot ) in Spain, if you let it expire you have to get it transported to the testing station, we take our motorhome for test on Wednesday it's 1st one as it's 4 years old about a month after that date, so like the UK it will have an extra month, but ours is 2 years so 25 months.

Anyone caught driving without an mot, it will be picked up and parked in a compound and storage will be charged until you arrange a truck to take it for test or back to your country, they don't let you swan off down the road, all this book a test at your nearest place in the UK is 8oiiocks , I think you will find your Gov web site will explain about travelling overseas your vehicle should be legal insurance tax and mot. Bob.

 

[royw]

It's illegal to drive a vehicle without an itv ( mot ) in Spain, if you let it expire you have to get it transported to the testing station, we take our motorhome for test on Wednesday it's 1st one as it's 4 years old about a month after that date, so like the UK it will have an extra month, but ours is 2 years so 25 months.

Anyone caught driving without an mot, it will be picked up and parked in a compound and storage will be charged until you arrange a truck to take it for test or back to your country, they don't let you swan off down the road, all this book a test at your nearest place in the UK is 8oiiocks , I think you will find your Gov web site will explain about travelling overseas your vehicle should be legal insurance tax and mot. Bob.

but surely if you have a british bulldog t'shirt and a atitude you can break local laws ?

 

[bobandjanie]

but surely if you have a british bulldog t'shirt and a atitude you can break local laws ?

No sorry those days are long gone, the last time I heard anyone say don't tell them was about 4 years ago. Bob.

 

[gus-lopez]

then it should you should be able to bring it home.

Apart from the fact that as a spanish resident he
A ) cannot leave the region he lives in to go anywhere legally &
B) for the same reason cannot exit spain.

 

[Minxy]

Apart from the fact that as a spanish resident he
A ) cannot leave the region he lives in to go anywhere legally &
B) for the same reason cannot exit spain.

Looks like it's gonna have to be changed to Spanish reg then.

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[Bolti]

Nice to see alanj hung around for the whole of 10 minutes.

 

[suavecarve]

My 6.3 m motorhome is in Valencia province Spain, my MOT runs out 20/08/20 . I am in Australia, with no flights to UK until further notice, because of COVID 19
I was due to fly back to UK 22/04/20 but all flights stopped. Any Suggestions?

Shouldnt you be flying to Spain or are there no direct flights to Spain from Oz ?

No idea when they will be opening up ozzie export flights but anticipated news on getting into UK will be forthcoming on 12th April to be implemented on 17th May at the earliest.

At the present time all the indications are that Spain and UK are well ahead of the vast majority of Europe.

I would relax until April as your situation is nigh on impossible to resolve atm

 

[suavecarve]

Shouldnt you be flying to Spain or are there no direct flights to Spain from Oz ?

No idea when they will be opening up ozzie export flights but anticipated news on getting into UK will be forthcoming on 12th April to be implemented on 17th May at the earliest.

At the present time all the indications are that Spain and UK are well ahead of the vast majority of Europe.

I would relax until April as your situation is nigh on impossible to resolve atm

Dam

didnt notice it was a last year thread

 

[Minxy]

Dam

didnt notice it was a last year thread

You've been too occupied with all those statistics chuck ... it's obviously fuddled your brain!

 

[suavecarve]

You've been too occupied with all those statistics chuck ... it's obviously fuddled your brain!

That adds up