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2012 Cars

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    #2
    mickdw
    Registered Users Posts: 23,280 ✭✭✭✭mickdw


    How muxh extra is an pre 200 number - €1000?


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    Jomcc
    Registered Users Posts: 452 ✭✭Jomcc


    mickdw wrote: »
    How muxh extra is an pre 200 number - €1000?

    Think it's €1000 to specify any number............such a waste of money on a Focus......Nuts.


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    Sitec
    Registered Users Posts: 2,964 ✭✭✭Sitec


    That number-plate would drive me cracked, the LS needs to be under the Ford badge.


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    drunkmonkey
    Registered Users Posts: 28,118 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    mickdw wrote: »
    How muxh extra is an pre 200 number - €1000?

    Don't forget the 2% premium for not buying it yesterday, add another 500.

    If nobody buys another new car for the next 3mts the vat rate won't be long about going back down.


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    #6
    mickdw
    Registered Users Posts: 23,280 ✭✭✭✭mickdw


    Sitec wrote: »
    That number-plate would drive me cracked, the LS needs to be under the Ford badge.

    Yes, that would drive me nuts too.


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    -Corkie-
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,025 ✭✭✭✭-Corkie-


    Jomcc wrote: »
    Think it's €1000 to specify any number............such a waste of money on a Focus......Nuts.



    Thanks for the post. It only seems like a few months since your last thread..


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    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    drunkmonkey wrote: »
    If nobody buys another new car for the next 3mts the vat rate won't be long about going back down.

    Whats the percentage of total vat take that made up by new cars? I'm guessing not huge?

    As for the plate , I'd have rathered 12-LS-12 myself. Had 97-D-97 a couple of years ago. Want the car and plate back :)


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    Jomcc
    Registered Users Posts: 452 ✭✭Jomcc


    -Corkie- wrote: »
    Thanks for the post. It only seems like a few months since your last thread..

    Scary..........time flies.:D


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    colm_mcm
    Registered Users Posts: 73,387 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    If I was spending €1000 on a reg number Id want them t have the number plate centred...


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    Saab Ed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,374 ✭✭✭Saab Ed


    Jomcc wrote: »
    mickdw wrote: »
    How muxh extra is an pre 200 number - €1000?

    Think it's €1000 to specify any number............such a waste of money on a Focus......Nuts.

    A waste on a number, on that car but most of all on a laois reg. Like WTF, a laois reg for Christ sake. I don't think id buy a used car with an LS reg nevermind spending a grand to display the fact you're the greatest idiot in the county. Nuts.


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    colm_mcm
    Registered Users Posts: 73,387 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Maybe he's the lord mayor of Mountmellick or something?


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    Sitec
    Registered Users Posts: 2,964 ✭✭✭Sitec


    Saab Ed wrote: »
    A waste on a number, on that car but most of all on a laois reg. Like WTF, a laois reg for Christ sake. I don't think id buy a used car with an LS reg nevermind spending a grand to display the fact you're the greatest idiot in the county. Nuts.

    Wouldn't bother me in the slightest I'd be more concerned about the cars condition than the county it came from.


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    Saab Ed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,374 ✭✭✭Saab Ed


    Sitec wrote: »
    Saab Ed wrote: »
    A waste on a number, on that car but most of all on a laois reg. Like WTF, a laois reg for Christ sake. I don't think id buy a used car with an LS reg nevermind spending a grand to display the fact you're the greatest idiot in the county. Nuts.

    Wouldn't bother me in the slightest I'd be more concerned about the cars condition than the county it came from.

    But it makes it sale proof back in the civilised world. You'd never shift it on.


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    drunkmonkey
    Registered Users Posts: 28,118 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    Guy:Incognito wrote: »
    Whats the percentage of total vat take that made up by new cars? I'm guessing not huge?

    As for the plate , I'd have rathered 12-LS-12 myself. Had 97-D-97 a couple of years ago. Want the car and plate back :)

    It's roughly €287 Million *

    9jk6c


    I'l like to see the year removed from the number plates altogether while SIMI want to have 2 plates a year so you could have something like 97D97ja in January or in June 97D97ju. It's to create 2 buying seasons.

    Cool plate, what was it?


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    veetwin
    Registered Users Posts: 2,003 ✭✭✭veetwin


    Jomcc wrote: »
    Scary..........time flies.:D

    Scary indeed how this guy wastes €1000 on something that will add precisely nothing in value to his car. He could have got leather or sat nav or something cool but decides to blow it on nothing instead...fair play to him though, it's nutters like him that keep the economy moving!


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    colm_mcm
    Registered Users Posts: 73,387 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    drunkmonkey wrote: »
    Cool plate, what was it?

    Registration 97D97
    Make RENAULT
    Model SAFRANNE
    Description SAFRANE 2.5 RXE AUTO
    Fuel Type PETROL


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    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    drunkmonkey wrote: »

    Cool plate, what was it?

    Was on a Safrane. Previous owner was a high court judge who owned it from new. I bought it in 06 . He had all the boxes ticked including the egonomic seats (5 rocker switches in each of the front seats controlling a compressor that inflated diffeent parts of the seat from lumber to the bolsters).

    Wish I never sold it but I had just started as a Plumber and didnt want to wreck it. Should have mothballed it instead. I pissed the money away anyway :(


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    Jomcc
    Registered Users Posts: 452 ✭✭Jomcc


    veetwin wrote: »
    Scary indeed how this guy wastes €1000 on something that will add precisely nothing in value to his car. He could have got leather or sat nav or something cool but decides to blow it on nothing instead...fair play to him though, it's nutters like him that keep the economy moving!

    and that was only for this years car. Same fella had the following


    Registration
    03LS201
    FORD
    FOCUS
    FREEDOM 1.4
    PETROL

    Registration
    04LS202 (Obvously must have been on the beer this year and slept it out):D
    FORD
    FOCUS
    FREEDOM 5DR 05DR
    PETROL


    Registration
    05LS201
    FORD
    FOCUS
    NT 1.4 FREEDOM 5DR
    PETROL

    Registration
    06LS201
    FORD
    FOCUS
    NT 1.4 FREEDOM 5DR
    Fuel Type
    PETROL


    Registration
    07LS201
    Make
    FORD
    FOCUS
    NT 1.4 FREEDOM 5DR
    PETROL

    Registration
    08LS201
    Make
    FORD
    FOCUS
    STYLE 1.4 80PS 5DR
    PETROL


    Registration
    09LS201
    Make:FORD:
    FOCUS
    STYLE 1.6 90PS 5SP
    DIESEL

    Registration
    10LS201
    Make
    FORD
    FOCUS
    STYLE 1.6TDCI 90PS SI 5DR
    DIESEL

    Registration
    11LS201
    FORD
    FOCUS
    STYLE 1.6TDCI 90PS 5DR
    DIESEL

    Beginning to see a pattern here. Looks as if he likes the Ford Focus:rolleyes:


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    #20
    Absurdum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,445 ✭✭✭Absurdum


    and he like the lower tax but doesn't mind pissing money away on depreciation


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    #21
    R.O.R
    Registered Users Posts: 12,675 ✭✭✭✭R.O.R


    They are all the most basic model available at the time, cheap git.


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    #22
    challengemaster
    Registered Users Posts: 16,931 ✭✭✭✭challengemaster


    Money doesn't buy sense....


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    #23
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 23,339 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Is he one of these drive nothing else but Fords folk? I have an uncle like that, he used to change every 3 years for a new one but is retired now and uses public transport a good bit so I think he'll keep his current Fiesta a while more.


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    colm_mcm
    Registered Users Posts: 73,387 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    To be fair, he wouldn't have paid extra for any reg other than the one this year,

    Used to have a customer who always got 201 as we were the only garage in the county that submitted registrations on the first half of new years day.


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    Jomcc
    Registered Users Posts: 452 ✭✭Jomcc


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    To be fair, he wouldn't have paid extra for any reg other than the one this year,

    Used to have a customer who always got 201 as we were the only garage in the county that submitted registrations on the first half of new years day.

    Was wondering if that was the story. Next time I'm chatting with salesman, must ask him.
    How soon can car be registered (if not pre-booking)? Does it have to be registered on 1st January?


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    #26
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users Posts: 73,387 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Far as I remember you can load all the details before Xmas once you have the birth cert. a lot of garages don't register everything in one go as it all costs money :-)


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    bazz26
    Registered Users Posts: 51,144 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    I'd say the salesperson he buys off every year must look forward to seeing him arriving in to the showroom. Must be costing him at least €4k a year and probably more this year going up to the new model and opting for a personalised number plate.


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    #28
    AugustusMinimus
    Registered Users Posts: 4,546 ✭✭✭AugustusMinimus


    What an insane waste of money in all aspects of this story.


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    #29
    ThePower11
    Closed Accounts Posts: 554 ✭✭✭ThePower11


    Recession me hole..


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    #30
    bazz26
    Registered Users Posts: 51,144 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    In fairness lads, some people go out drinking every weekend, smoke a few packs of cigerettes a day or go on 2 or more holidays a year. Maybe this guy just likes to have a new car every year instead.

    I would not do it myself but each to their own.


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    EPM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,822 ✭✭✭✭EPM


    bazz26 wrote: »
    In fairness lads, some people go out drinking every weekend, smoke a few packs of cigerettes a day or go on 2 or more holidays a year. Maybe this guy just likes to have a new car every year instead.

    I would not do it myself but each to their own.

    Exactly, and best of luck to him.


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