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Hi my father has returned to UK due to I’ll health and we need to de register his Spanish vehicle which is at his Spanish property we need to de register it so we can terminate the insurance policy does anyone have any idea where we start and if it can be done from the UK?
We have spoken to the Insurance company and they are happy to terminate the policy once the car has been de registered
Posted: Fri Oct 9, 2020 10:41am
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Hi Marie10,
Unless I'm missing something, I think the insurance company are having a laugh at your expense. Your father is perfectly entitled to cancel his insurance - if he hadn't been returning to the UK, he may simply have wanted to insure with a different company. It is unwise, of course, to leave the car uninsured, but for the current insurers to suggest you need to de-register it before they can cancel the policy is nonsense and seems to me to be a way of continuing to charge you.
The link in this article from Citizens' Advice Spain should be helpful:
https://www.citizensadvice.org.es/faq/remove-vehicle-circulation-baja/
Kind regards,
Kim
Posted: Fri Oct 9, 2020 5:55pm
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Kimmy11 wrote on Fri Oct 9, 2020 10:41am:
Hi Marie10,
Unless I'm missing something, I think the insurance company are having a laugh at your expense. Your father is perfectly entitled to cancel his insurance - if he hadn't been returning to the UK, he may simply have wanted to insure with a different company. It is unwise, of course, to ...
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...leave the car uninsured, but for the current insurers to suggest you need to de-register it before they can cancel the policy is nonsense and seems to me to be a way of continuing to charge you.
The link in this article from Citizens' Advice Spain should be helpful:
https://www.citizensadvice.org.es/faq/remove-vehicle-circulation-baja/
Kind regards,
Kim
THanks for this we have cancelled the insurance but now the car is sat in a garage at his house it has an mot until February so what do we do now in order to scrap it or sell it I believe we need to de register it unless you know otherwise
Posted: Fri Oct 9, 2020 6:45pm
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Hi Marie10,
Did you read the link I provided:
https://sede.dgt.gob.es/es/vehiculos/altas-bajas-y-rehabilitacion-de-vehiculos/index.shtml#
If the DGT comes up in Spanish, you can change it to English in the drop down box at the top right hand side of the page.
Kind regards,
Kim
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