Need Advice on Registering Car in Spain - javierCarrion Are You Out There?
 

Hi everybody -

Some friends and I have been planning to drive from Madrid to Ghana. I run an NGO in Ghana, and a friend in Madrid is selling us her car very inexpensively. We are US citizens.

We are planning to drive the car to Ghana and then use it as our NGOs office car there. We plan to leave December 28, but we are having major problems getting the car registered to our names in Spain.

If any of you have any advice on what to do, I would be so grateful -- we very much want to make the trip, and the car is going down to Africa for a good cause. If anyone knows a gestor in Madrid who could help handle this, I would be very willing to pay. Thanks so much!

javierCarrion, if you are out there, maybe you can help -- your profile says that you are from Madrid. You have done the route we intend to do quite a bit, and your posts here are always very matter-of-fact and informative.

Hello Big Apple,
If it is anything like Italy, it is a nightmare trying to get temporary export licence plates + insurance.
A car dealer who is doing export could help you. But Spain may be easier than Italy (or not).

Easiest way is if you keep the car in her name and use her insurance (if she allows it). You can buy your own insurance starting from Morocco. You must get your own from Mauritania onwards anyway.

You should then carry a paper from the owner allowing you to drive her car and also a copy of her passport together with the registration papers.

Thanks so much for the reply! This could well work. You don't think that the various authorities along the way would ground us because of the fact the we are not the legal owners of the car? Perhaps, as you say, if we have a letter stating that the car has been donated to the charity and we are allowed to drive it, along with a copy of the person's passport, we would be ok.

I think I can help. I am in Johannesburg right now but flying back to Madrid tonight. If you are in Spain, write me and we will sort out the way to buy the car. It is not easy but there should be a way to do it.

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J. M Carrion is here.

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