Hi Tony

This exact thing happened to us when we came here, we told we 60 days instead of 30 to do everything (this was 3 years ago though) so we did the whole running around going like you to the British consul back to traffico then to the Hacienda paying for this paper and that but then ended up with a bill of 1000 euros when we should have had non!! you can imagine I could have cried and screamed at the menchanic who gave us this information.  I had heard that due to a new EU directive that there was now no time limit and that providing you had owned the vehicle for less than 6 months but am not sure my advice is to have a look on www.spainvia.com where Brian Deller the author of Mototring in Spain is normally up to date on this type of thing or and you could contact Gisela Lied from Hondon, her hubby is also a mechanic but she helps with car transfers and is very reasonble and should know the up to date rulings as she actually works at Traffico tel 629067715. Please let us know how you get on. It may be that you still have to pay some tax like when you transfer and this is normally 4% of the value of the vehicle.

Good luck!