driving our (Legal) Spanish car to the UK

 DVLA say you cant have a foreign registered car registered to your home address in the UK.

I took in a Fiat with Belgium plates on it that had been in the UK for over 18 months, it was registered in his name, and to his new home address in Essex UK, he was Indian, insured it via Belgium, and I presume some sort of road tax in Belgium, maybe not, never got stopped once by the UK cops,  hit a UK driver / car and wrote it of, got sorted out and paid out from the insurance company, never a question asked.

DVLA say it cant  be done.

Well now I see clearly that this didn't happen to me, and I was sure it did.

johnzx I am NOT tryting to prove you wrong just trying to get an answer for the OP

From the information I have been provided you are wronng and we simply have to agree to disagree

There is NOTHING on the DVLA website that clearly states a UK resident with a UK DL cannot drive  foreign registered car on UK roads - FACT

The reason I asked my Spanish insurance broker was to confrim the cover would be OK in the circumstances stated by OP

The link you posted is part of the problem you and many people seem to have and is in regard to intended permanent move to UK and importing of a car NOT a holiday / short  / temp  visit in a foreign car etc.

I am very content with the answers I have recieved for the questions I asked in relation to the exact circumstances asked by the OP

Finallly

To drive a motor vehicle legally on a road you must

 ensure you have a valid licence with valid categories for the vehicle you are driving, THE OP DOES HAVE ONE

    have insurance that covers you for the vehicle you are driving, THE OP COMPLIES (insurnce cover will confirm)

    have an MOT (on vehicles over 3 years old), THE OP DOES HAVE ONE (a Spanish ITV will meet this requirment)

    make sure the vehicle is taxed, THE OP DOES HAVE TAX (spanish road tax)

    make sure the vehicle is registered, THE OP COMPLIES as it  is regtoired in his name in SPAIN and is on a visit to UK with no intention of moving the car premanately to his or nay other UK address

    ensure the vehicle is in roadworthy condition. THE OP COMPLIES (in accordance with the rules of the coutnry of registartion of the car)

I will say no more on this subject (*othet than get back to what the traffcio say to me when I ask them later this week on Spanish ruels) as I said above I am content with the resposne I have had and the OP can make the same calls and I am100% certain he will be OK

Still going round and round,

I have just called the DVLA again and they advised that except for 2 exceptions a UK Resident with a UK Licence cannot legally drive a foreign registered vehicle on UK roads.There are 2 exceptions to this:

1/  An employee or self employed person whose buisness is in another EU country,

2/ A person working for another EU company.

As Johnzx says it would be best if Badger called the DVLA and found out for his self. If he does then hopefully he will confirm or deny the info we have given.

The above info was given re the info that Badger gave.

Tadd in your quote you failed to print the most relevant part.  That was:- 

https://www.askthe.police.uk/content/Q658.htm

 - UK residents are not allowed to drive foreign registered vehicles on UK roads.

I bet the DVLA are getting fed up with all the phone calls!! - Truely amazing.

Calm down everyone.

I'll ask Tony tonight.

He'll have the definitive answer, I'm sure 

I wonder where you stand if you are a UK resident whose car breaks down in France and you rent a car to get your family back to UK. You'd be a UK resident driving a foreign registered car.

I wonder where you stand if you are a UK resident whose car breaks down in France and you rent a car to get your family back to UK. You'd be a UK resident driving a foreign registered car.