As a resident (or renting a vehicle as a tourist), in that case, five key items are absolutely essential to have in your vehicle at all times – if you don’t have these, you could be fined. Suppose you’re unlucky enough to break down or be involved in an accident on a major road or highway in Spain. In that case, you have to wear a hi-vis jacket when outside the vehicle. You’ll need to put it on before you get out of the vehicle, it’s best stored in the passenger compartment to reach it easily if needed. Fine for

An ITV sticker is given with a pass sheet once a vehicle passes successfully an ITV test. If your car is less than four years old, a sticker on the windscreen is not needed because the first ITV test has to be done when the car reaches this age. Other kinds of vehicles have different periods of non-obligation of ITV test since they are bought new.  If your car already passed an ITV test, you should be given an ITV sticker, which should be placed in the upper right (for inside point of view) corner of your car windscreen through

The environmental Sticker must be placed on the windscreen of your vehicle, in the lower right corner. If the vehicle does not have a windscreen, the environmental Sticker must be displayed in a visible place. The environmental Stickers objective is to identify the most environmentally friendly vehicles in high pollution areas, mainly large cities with traffic restrictions. The Sticker is voluntary, except to access specific densely populated areas with restricted access to low-pollution vehicles. There are 4 types of Stickers, depending on the vehicles contaminating potential: 1. Zero emissions Sticker: Is blue, and it applies to:     Battery-powered electric vehicles (BEV)

Besides choosing a vehicle that you like suits your needs, meets your budget and is up to date with the mechanical revisions, there is a lot more to consider.  From an administrative point of view, you need to check that the vehicle doesn’t have any charges or fines against it.  When you are thinking on buying a vehicle, it is always a good idea to get a ‘nota informativa’ first from the DGT or through a gestor to see if there is anything wrong with the vehicle or any debt attached, like an ‘Embargo’. An Embargo is an annotation of