30 Mar 2011 6:45 PM:

Hi Jek,

Thank you for a helpful reply and kind offer.  I think that the following is the relevant text.  My spoken Spanish was okay, but reading it was always a problem for me -

"No facilitar el titular o arrendatario del vehiculo. Debidamente requerido para ello, la identificacion veraz del conductor del mismo en el momento de ser cometida una infraccion. Procede del expediente 110600083271 de fecha 2010105108, hora 09:48, en via a -0383 k,m.:003.6, sentido la linea."

Now I know that we were in the area of La Linea on that day and probably about that time, so I can't argue with that bit, but I really don't know what they think I did.

Any help of translations would be great.

Thank you.

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29 Mar 2011 9:44 PM:

We were living in Spain at the time and we owned the car that is on the documentation.  The document was sent to the address where we were living, had the correct name on it and the correct car details.

We were in the area that they say we were at the time, but were never stopped.

I just wondered if there was anything we could do or whether it's just the Police's word against ours and we are, basically, stuffed

 

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29 Mar 2011 12:00 AM:

Hi all,

It's been a while since we posted here as our adventure in Spain ended in August of last year when we came back to the UK.  Our rental agent from Spain recently sent us a Traffico fine that seems to say that we failed to produce our car related documents when we stopped in May of 2010.

The fine wasn't issued until the end of October (over 5 months since the alledged incident took place) and we only received a scanned copy of it this month.  Whilst we were in the area they say on the date and did see some Police on a roundabout, we were never stopped.  Even if we had been, I always make it a point to carry my documentation on me whenever I'm in the car - Just in case.

My questions are -

Does €300 seem excessive an amount to be charged for this 'infraction'?

I'm sure I recall reading something about minor fines being invalid if they aren't issued within 3 months - Which this one wasn't.  Is this the case or was that something that I made up?

On a related note - Is this indeed a minor offence?   I know that in the UK we have 7 days to produce our documents at a local Police Station, but am well aware that things are done "Oh So Differently" in Spain.

As we've been back in the UK for 8 months now, we're reluctant to pay for something that didn't even happen almost a year ago.  I was hoping that somebody on the forum here would have some advice or a similar experience.

Thank you all.

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14 Oct 2008 12:00 AM:

Hello all,

  This is our first post, so please be nice if it goes wrong.

  We're looking at renting in the Costa Del Sol area from May until November of next year, but a number of the properties we've looked at on various other sites state that a Long Term Let is for 11 months.  Which is obviously no good for us.

  Can anybody tell us if this is the case with the properties being listed on this site, or is purely down to the individual owner agreeing to a term with the tennant?

  Thank you.

  ShirleyJon.

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