Car Swap

We are off to England to do a car swap. The BMW is giving us some electrical problems and the air conditioning has failed. The Lady of the Villa can’t be seen in a car in the summer without AC!

We have a Lexus in the UK and some good friends of ours have a Rover 75. We are going to swap cars. Why? Well the Lexus will cost too much to convert to Spanish plates. The lights will cost too much to switch over, the number of garages who can provide service facilities are few and far between and the killer is that the low profile wheels and tyres on the Lexus will have to be replaced as it will not be an easy drive with them on the roads of Spain as we found out a couple of years ago. It will also be expensive on import tax to Spain.

If we swap to the Rover we can switch the lights (£200), no wheel change. Lots of garages can service them, costs less to import and the killer is… we can still use the Lexus when we get to the UK. Our swap partners have a classic car that they want to run more so this gives them more reason to run it in the UK.

So the swap is on!