Anyone spotted an 09 reg yet?

RedorDead

Spotted my first yesterday (dont ask me how) on the Ennis Road in Limerick, looks like it was for a wedding car turning into the Limerick Inn. Looked like some form of Jaguar, passed it too quick to clock exact model. Defo an 09 L though.

Berty

You shouldnt be able to see any unless they are parked up in a garage. If it was a Jaguar then its probably one of the ones from Clareview across the road.

I imagine they have to road test them.

Oh to be picking up an 09 on Friday.

colm_mcm

might be a few 1909's knocking about!

frag4

Berty wrote: »

You shouldnt be able to see any unless they are parked up in a garage. If it was a Jaguar then its probably one of the ones from Clareview across the road.

I imagine they have to road test them.

Oh to be picking up an 09 on Friday.

Fella told me the Reveune are closed Friday. One of their special days.

mikemac

My dad was telling me back in the late 80's/early 90's you'd see cars from maybe September & October onwards with signs "for reg"

So people were buying their cars in October for example and registering them in January.
Can anyone confirm this?
I was obviously suprised, you wouldn't get away with that nowadays

mumhaabu

colm_mcm wrote: »

might be a few 1909's knocking about!

How would that work? I have seen a few 30-KY and 24-D etc? It must be some computerised mess if ever.

lifer_sean

mikemac wrote: »

My dad was telling me back in the late 80's/early 90's you'd see cars from maybe September & October onwards with signs "for reg"

So people were buying their cars in October for example and registering them in January.
Can anyone confirm this?
I was obviously suprised, you wouldn't get away with that nowadays

A guy I knew bought two new cars in August 1989 - his and hers - and both were driven until January and got 1990 plates ...

Re frag4's comment on Revenue not being open on Friday ... can't the dealers register them on-line nowadays and therefore there is no need to wait for the office to open ? If that's the case the 09 plates could start to appear tomorrow if your dealer was prepared to open up for you !

Max_Damage

mumhaabu wrote: »

How would that work? I have seen a few 30-KY and 24-D etc? It must be some computerised mess if ever.

That's nothing compared to this :

allthedoyles

mikemac wrote: »

My dad was telling me back in the late 80's/early 90's you'd see cars from maybe September & October onwards with signs "for reg"

So people were buying their cars in October for example and registering them in January.
Can anyone confirm this?
I was obviously suprised, you wouldn't get away with that nowadays

I vaguely remember this , but i think it was more like the late 70's / early 80's

Wheresmejumper8

Sounds like someone is having fun with a printing machine!

ROS - Revenue online system will open on Friday morning but you cant get an 09 reg until then...

lifer_sean

If you had prebooked a reg then you could have the plates made up and on the car, but I'm sure it shouldn't be on the road yet.

bazz26

mikemac wrote: »

My dad was telling me back in the late 80's/early 90's you'd see cars from maybe September & October onwards with signs "for reg"

So people were buying their cars in October for example and registering them in January.
Can anyone confirm this?
I was obviously suprised, you wouldn't get away with that nowadays

Yep back in September 1981 my dad bought a new Fiesta but did not register it until January 1982. :eek:

Apparently this was normal at the time.

L-M

bazz26 wrote: »

Yep back in September 1981 my dad bought a new Fiesta but did not register it until January 1982. :eek:

Apparently this was normal at the time.

Aye i think the father was the same with his Escort in the early 80's. Although the milkman forgot to put the handbrake on his truck and did a good bit of damage before it was registered...

I'll donate a thanks to the person who get's the first pic of an 09 plate:D

Big Balls

lifer_sean wrote: »

If you had prebooked a reg then you could have the plates made up and on the car, but I'm sure it shouldn't be on the road yet.

A cherished reg (now at a rip off €1,000) can't be used until the number is naturally reached so for example, if you got 09 D 20000 - I'd say you'll get to use your car sometime in August this year

S.I.R

seen several driving by on a truck to crawford motors actually...

DJ Hafez

Saw a car with trade plates earlier on in the window.. Thought they were only allowed to use them on actual days of work

jrar

bazz26 wrote: »

Yep back in September 1981 my dad bought a new Fiesta but did not register it until January 1982. :eek:

Apparently this was normal at the time.

Pre-87 plate codes didn't indicate year of issue so it wasn't such a big deal then.

AFAIK, when the new plate system came into operation in 1987, the use of "For Reg" plates was outlawed at the same time

Voodoomelon

My mother bought a new Fiesta in November 2007 just after she had an operation on her leg, so she couldn't drive. The garage held onto it and registered it for her as a 2008 in January.

.Longshanks.

mikemac wrote: »

My dad was telling me back in the late 80's/early 90's you'd see cars from maybe September & October onwards with signs "for reg"

So people were buying their cars in October for example and registering them in January.
Can anyone confirm this?
I was obviously suprised, you wouldn't get away with that nowadays

This was the norm. I remember seening loads of cars around every Nov & Dec with no plates waiting on the new year before it was registered. In fact i'm nearly sure my dad had got a new renault 19 (car)van like this. This would have been in approx 1992 or 1993

DJ Hafez wrote: »

Saw a car with trade plates earlier on in the window.. Thought they were only allowed to use them on actual days of work

I know of a focus ST that was driven around from late Oct, Nov & Dec '06 on trade plates before being registered as a '07. The lad who owns it also runs the small trade / service garage. Dunno how he it got away with it.....

JoeA3

The "For Reg" thing was fairly common practice right up to the early 1990's! My father bought a car in Oct 1991, it wasn't reg'd till Jan 1992.
I'm pretty sure it was outlawed shortly after that.

colm_mcm

Yup I remember this happening in 1991. Always wondered as a child who this "Reg" was!

alo1587

JoeA3 wrote: »

The "For Reg" thing was fairly common practice right up to the early 1990's! My father bought a car in Oct 1991, it wasn't reg'd till Jan 1992.
I'm pretty sure it was outlawed shortly after that.

Yeah, i remember a Hiace with 'for reg' written on cardboard on the back of it? This was in 90 or 91 i'm sure.Were there actual For Reg number plates available at this time or did you just get one made up at a motor factors?

maxwell smart

Remember working in a garage in the early 90's. The MD had a unreg'd Pug 605 which also had the clock turned off. He had a set of trade plates on it and drove it for 8 months. Then sold it to some unlucky sod come January. White one.

colm_mcm

alo1587 wrote: »

Yeah, i remember a Hiace with 'for reg' written on cardboard on the back of it? This was in 90 or 91 i'm sure.Were there actual For Reg number plates available at this time or did you just get one made up at a motor factors?

I just remember it being written in marker where the number plate would go. I once saw a motorbike in 1991 with just 92D on it, the rest would be filled in in 1992!

Way different times!

Esel

VROs are open Friday 2nd.

snowman707

RedorDead wrote: »

Spotted my first yesterday (dont ask me how) on the Ennis Road in Limerick, looks like it was for a wedding car turning into the Limerick Inn. Looked like some form of Jaguar, passed it too quick to clock exact model. Defo an 09 L though.

My daughter saw this car to day out here in Clare . Jag 09 reg.

R.O.R

Limerick-man wrote: »

I'll donate a thanks to the person who get's the first pic of an 09 plate:D

Have 5 un-reg'd Audi's downstairs to get registered today, get plates made up and fixed on.

Do you need the plate on the car?

FloorBoard

bazz26 wrote: »

Yep back in September 1981 my dad bought a new Fiesta but did not register it until January 1982. :eek:

Apparently this was normal at the time.

OMG, think of all the revenue the government lost. They could have bought hospital beds, or more likely, had a few big feeds at the taxpayers expense.

killwill

snowman707 wrote: »

My daughter saw this car to day out here in Clare . Jag 09 reg.

Yep, Maroon 09 L reg Jag in Killaloe @ about 4 o clock. He was just driving over and back across the bridge. The driver was well in his OAP years.

Berty

Passed Pat Keogh BMW at 8:10am this morning and there was a security guard behind the closed security barrier. I was hoping other than just letting the staff in that he was there to tell the rich folk "FVCK OFF and come back later"

I then passed Ford Lyons of Limerick and could see all the new cars lined up at the front door(without number plates) and 3 XC90's thrown in for good measure on account of the new volvo account he has. What was odd about Lyons of Limerick line up of cars. They were nearly all black saloon focus cars.

FloorBoard

Berty wrote: »

What was odd about Lyons of Limerick line up of cars. They were nearly all black saloon focus cars.

And do the undercover cops not need new cars too?????????

Drummerboy08

Our first car of the year has landed! A Black Mazda 6. No camera unfortunately....

Berty

FloorBoard wrote: »

And do the undercover cops not need new cars too?????????

Probably but they do not get them from Lyons of Limerick

What has black and saloon ford focus have to do with undercover cops?

david

Saw two this morning already in work. Theres a Bentley Continental GT with "'09-D" in the middle of the plate. Presume it's a wedding car (Ribbons etc). Trade plate on dash. :rolleyes:

The other was 09-WW-9XX. On a poverty spec Skoda Octy covered in muck . One of the pre '04 shaped models. Probably some rich farmer...

R.O.R

freakonaleashx wrote: »

Saw two this morning already in work. Theres a Bentley Continental GT with "'09-D" in the middle of the plate. Presume it's a wedding car (Ribbons etc). Trade plate on dash. :rolleyes:

The other was 09-WW-9XX. On a poverty spec Skoda Octy covered in muck . One of the pre '04 shaped models. Probably some rich farmer...

I'd be really, really surprised if WW had got to over 900 already :eek: Dublin is currently around 500 with Cork about 100 behind.

david

Thats what I thought! It didn't look new.. Defo was Mk1 with '09 plate...

Could be a very stupid criminal...
Or a senile farmer who reserved a meaningless reg number...

Hmm

pburns

Spotted a very high spec new Accord. Nicer than expected but much bigger than old model & front is very bling/'American'.

Anyone know how numbers are comparing to last year? I bet there's a percentage of new-plate obsessives who will be PARTICULARLY smug in parading around in a '09 amid all the talk of doom-and-gloom this year...

Drummerboy08

I have a mondeo sitting outside thats 09 D 684. Must be up around the 1000 mark at this stage?

rebel.ranter

R.O.R wrote: »

I'd be really, really surprised if WW had got to over 900 already :eek: Dublin is currently around 500 with Cork about 100 behind.

They don't issue 1-200 automatically, they also hold back 222, 333, 444, 555, 2222, 3333, 4444., 5555 etc.

They try sell these to get extra revenue, used to be €315 a go, they raised it to €1,000 in the st budget. So, being pedantic, the car with reg 09 -xx-500 may not actually be the 500th car registered in the county.


On the "For Reg" thing, I know someone who bought a car in 1989 & registered it in 1992!! In fact Cork VRO would not register it for him so he had to go to Waterford to get it registered!
There's still a pair of "For Reg" plates sitting in our garage.

kluivert

R.O.R wrote: »

I'd be really, really surprised if WW had got to over 900 already :eek: Dublin is currently around 500 with Cork about 100 behind.

900 relates to the number of registerations in the County not per manufacturer.

Think about it Nissan VW Opel BMW all have the same reg 09-D-900.

My aunt thinks the same as this, till I explained it and then she realised that she couldnt be right.

R.O.R

kluivert wrote: »

900 relates to the number of registerations in the County not per manufacturer.

I think you mis-read what I wrote. It does look like VW, but is actually WW

L1011

kluivert wrote: »

900 relates to the number of registerations in the County not per manufacturer.

He said "WW" not "VW", I read it as that also...

NinjaTruncs

way too slow

testicle

I suspect the 09 Mk1 Octavia is actually an 04 too

nhughes100

Saw an 09 Octavia this morning in Mullingar, have to say didn't look new but had 09 WH 2XX reg, wasn't expecting to see one so early but there's a lot of car dealers around Mullingar.

copacetic

saw a fair few today, lexus is220 09 d 220 I think, an old model c200 which was 09 d 304 or something, seemed weird to see old model with new reg. couple of audis and a bmw too.

R.O.R

testicle wrote: »

I suspect the 09 Mk1 Octavia is actually an 04 too

The Octavia TOUR (MK1) model is still being sold as new. Put a couple of estate versions out last year - good value for money if you are going to run it in to the ground.

bazz26

Two 09 Opel Insignias just passed me there about 1 hour ago. One after the other, the first was 09 LK xxx and the second was 09 CE xx. Both coming from the direction of the Opel dealer out past where I live so presume they were just collected today.

Jo King

Car registratations were taken over by the Revenue Commissioners in 1993. A new car cannot leave a garage without number plates since that time. The garages have to get numbers from the VRO and fit plates before the car is handed over to the purchaser.The purchasers details are input into the Revenue computer system and the registration cert is printed that night and posted out to the purchaser.
That put an end to the For Reg messing.

alan4cult

Saw two 09-MO reg plates today, both reg numbers in the 200's. One a Kia, the other a Ford.

Berty

LOL @ This. Its sort of funny.

I just passed the old Volvo dealer Elm on my way to here(which is outside the Subaru dealer in Limerick explain in a minute)

There are no desks in the showroom, no cars, the lights are all on and there is one guy sitting on a single chair in a suit in the showroom with a black box next to him. Either he is a lost pilot or he is the last salesman with the keys to the few new cars ordered today.

Im outside the Subaru dealership stealing somebodies WIFI. I dont know who but It could be Chubb Ireland. Oh well.

The Subaru dealer is closed. I asked a guy on a forklift. He said they are not bothering to open till Monday because nobody ordered a new Subaru or Daihatsu. Could that be right? NONE???