Revisamos la pegatina de la ITV y la carrocería.

In Spain, ITV stands for Inspección Técnica de Vehículos. It is the official vehicle roadworthiness inspection, similar to an MOT in the UK.

So la pegatina de la ITV is the sticker that shows the vehicle has passed that inspection.

Revisamos can mean either:

• we check / we inspect → present tense
• we checked / we inspected → preterite

This happens because the nosotros form is the same in both tenses for many -ar verbs.

So without context, Revisamos la pegatina de la ITV y la carrocería could mean either:

• We inspect the ITV sticker and the bodywork
• We inspected the ITV sticker and the bodywork

Context tells you which one is intended.

Spanish often leaves out subject pronouns because the verb ending already tells you who the subject is.

• revisamos = we inspect / we inspected

So Nosotros revisamos... is possible, but usually unnecessary unless you want emphasis or contrast.

For example:

• Revisamos la pegatina... = normal
• Nosotros revisamos la pegatina, no ellos. = We checked the sticker, not them.

Here revisar means to check, to inspect, or to examine.

It does not usually mean to revise in the English school/essay sense. That is a very common false friend for English speakers.

Examples:

• revisar el coche = to inspect the car
• revisar los frenos = to check the brakes
• revisar un documento = to review/check a document

So in this sentence, revisamos is about physically checking parts of a vehicle.

Spanish often uses de to show that something belongs to, is connected with, or relates to something else.

So:

• la pegatina de la ITV = the ITV sticker

This is very natural in Spanish. English often uses noun + noun combinations, but Spanish more often uses de:

• la puerta del coche = the car door
• el motor del vehículo = the vehicle’s engine
• la pegatina de la ITV = the ITV sticker

Because ITV takes the definite article la.

You usually say:

• la ITV
• pasar la ITV
• la pegatina de la ITV

This is because the acronym refers to la Inspección Técnica de Vehículos, and the main word, inspección, is feminine.

In Spanish, when two nouns are joined with y, it is very common to repeat the article if both nouns are separate items:

• la pegatina de la ITV y la carrocería

This means they checked both:

1. the ITV sticker
2. the bodywork

If you removed the second la, the sentence would sound less natural here and could suggest a tighter grouping. Repeating the article makes the two checked items clearer.

Carrocería means the bodywork or outer body of a vehicle.

It refers to the outside structure/panels of the car, not the mechanical parts inside.

So if someone checks la carrocería, they may be looking for things like:

• dents
• scratches
• rust
• damage to the body panels

No. Pegatina is very common in Spain and is a very natural choice here.

Other related words are:

• adhesivo = adhesive/sticker, a bit more formal or technical
• etiqueta = label/tag, not always the same as a sticker

For a car inspection sticker in Spain, pegatina sounds very normal.

Yes, but this order is the most straightforward and natural:

• Revisamos
  • what was checked

Spanish usually follows a normal verb + object pattern here.

Other orders are possible for emphasis, for example:

• La pegatina de la ITV y la carrocería las revisamos nosotros.

But that sounds more marked or emphatic. For a neutral statement, Revisamos la pegatina de la ITV y la carrocería is the best choice.

In Spain, ITV is normally pronounced letter by letter:

• i-te-uve

So la ITV sounds roughly like la i-te-uve.

That is why the phrase flows as:

• la pegatina de la ITV

rather than as if ITV were read like a single word.