We had similar issue, nobody asked us when the car entered the country. Unless you had an accident or forgot to take off your foot from the pedal - you should not worry.

 

Welcome to the forum.
Are you going to do all of the paperwork yourself? If you are having help they should be able to put your mind at ease.
BTW if you have had the tow bar removed I do hope the bolt holes are no longer open as my ITV stations have told me they would not pass a car with holes in the subframe or chassis legs. I cannot confirm if that is only my test station or if it is nation wide.

 

thank you both for your responses, that actually helps for my anxiety we found a Gestoria around, very nice peoples. I'll talk to him then. My guy from the ITV station simply said "if you get it remove, I'll give you the stamp.". I'll let you know how it resolves in the end - also for ppl here in the future.

 

May be wrong but I believe you only have 30 days in which to register a car without having to pay duty or taxes.

Also, as a Spanish resident you are not legally permitted to drive a foreign registered car.

Finally, what are you doing about insurance?

I fell foul of the stupid Spanish rules on towbar. I had a professionally fitted, but not OE, tow bar on a car I imported but because it didn't have a homologation certificate the barstewards made me take it off. No mention of filling holes though which is an utter nonsense and clearly intended to mean due to corrosion. I had a new one fitted by Norauto and as far as I can tell it was absolutely identical to the one I'd had except it did have the necessary paperwork!

 

I fell foul of the stupid Spanish rules on towbar. I had a professionally fitted, but not OE, tow bar on a car I imported but because it didn't have a homologation certificate the barstewards made me take it off. No mention of filling holes though which is an utter nonsense and clearly intended to mean due to corrosion. I had a new one fitted by Norauto and as far as I can tell it was absolutely identical to the one I'd had except it did have the necessary paperwork!

The thing is, its not about the product, i.e. the towbar itself, its about the fitting which has to be done by an authorised fitter.

I used to think that the Spanish rules were ridiculous and that I should be able to do my own work on my vehicles, but the longer I live here and the more I see that many Spanish people really can't even change a headlight bulb, the more I'm glad that these rules exist.

After being here a while and making a few friends and contacts you will find that the system works as with most things in Spain. You do all the work yourself and your mate with the garage at the end of the road signs it off for you.

The problem is that when you first arrive these avenues are not open to you unless you're very lucky, so you have to pay up and do everything as per the book.

 

I went through the same frustation a month ago.
My vehicle was imported from the USA and I went through hoops to find an engineer to create the ficha técnica reducida. I also had to take my towbar off which had been installed in the United States by a certified shop 7 years ago.
I will have to find a shop where I live to install a new one. They will not installed the one the vehicle had!

Also, because this is the first vehicle imported from the US of that type, they took all the emission gas limits off the ficha técnica. I am now paying the highest tax because of that.