Torrevieja Forum and Discussion Board

My UK car, which I take to Spain, is a diesel AdBlue vehicle which meets Euro 6 emission standards and has a "Yellow 2" Crit'Air sticker. According to the DGT site my French sticker is equivalent to the Spanish "Green C" sticker and will allow me to enter Spanish ULEZ zones.

For people with older non-compliant diesel cars, it might be cheaper overall to import a ULEZ compliant petrol car from the UK and transfer it to Spanish plates, a car like this perhaps:

https://www.gumtree.com/p/citroen/2011- ... 1453492398

Nice car. Add about 33% to import it from 3rd country and it's still good value. Now if you can get one first registered in Northern Ireland you save yourself the VAT of 21% so you would only add 12%.

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Brandyboy wrote: 10 Mar 2023 16:28 i'm surprised at the number of cars who have still not got emmision stickers in their windscreens.

Why are you surprised? They're not required yet, and may never be.

Sheff_Blade wrote: 15 Mar 2023 16:02

Brandyboy wrote: 10 Mar 2023 16:28 i'm surprised at the number of cars who have still not got emmision stickers in their windscreens.

Why are you surprised? They're not required yet, and may never be.

We were told that we had to have them by 1st January 2023 and that details would follow later.

https://ourspanishadventures.com/what-a ... u-get-one/

Brandyboy wrote: 15 Mar 2023 16:33

Sheff_Blade wrote: 15 Mar 2023 16:02

Brandyboy wrote: 10 Mar 2023 16:28 i'm surprised at the number of cars who have still not got emmision stickers in their windscreens.

Why are you surprised? They're not required yet, and may never be.

We were told that we had to have them by 1st January 2023 and that details would follow later.

https://ourspanishadventures.com/what-a ... u-get-one/

You shouldn't believe all you read on the web! There's been a lot of scare-mongering going on and that website looks a typical example. Further down in the article it says you may be fined for entering an EZ without one but there are currently very few in the whole of Spain.

Just a quick question, if on UK plates and driving a polluting car, I doubt you will receive a fine from cameras in the post? If you use the toll roads to drive down I assume they do not require low emission vehicles.

Brandyboy wrote: 15 Mar 2023 17:56 https://m.murciatoday.com/torrevieja-an ... 031-a.html

Interesting, and it'll be even more interesting for Torrevieja when they publish a map of the proposed zone, supposedly within the next couple of weeks(!).

Retire1day wrote: 16 Mar 2023 08:59 Just a quick question, if on UK plates and driving a polluting car, I doubt you will receive a fine from cameras in the post? If you use the toll roads to drive down I assume they do not require low emission vehicles.

You might escape the cameras with an English plate but if the policia catch you without a sticker it may cost you! As far as I'm aware the zones will be in city centres so it's highly unlikely that they will cover any toll roads. I think I read somewhere that the Madrid EZ does include part of a motorway but I assume that's an inner city motorway. I doubt very much, for example, that the Torrevieja EZ will include the N332 but who can tell with the madness that exists in these days!

Sheff_Blade wrote: 16 Mar 2023 10:54

Brandyboy wrote: 15 Mar 2023 17:56 https://m.murciatoday.com/torrevieja-an ... 031-a.html

Interesting, and it'll be even more interesting for Torrevieja when they publish a map of the proposed zone, supposedly within the next couple of weeks(!).

Yes wait and see. We we're told that Torrevieja had until the end of the 2023 to get things sorted out, yet we were also told at the end of last year that we must have emmission windscreen stickers in place by 1st January 2023 and many complained at the such short notice. But some of us duly rushed down to the post office and paid our €5 only to see the vast majority haven't bothered !!