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Trading in a Southern reg up North?

  • 31-03-2009 2:27pm
    #1
    Antrim_Man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 948 ✭✭✭


    Anybody done this? Do they give you the market value for your car??

    My car is a UK import so no VAT would need to be paid and a dealer could re-reg for free or is there still a fee :confused:

    If covered before can someone add a link in this thread?

    Ta.


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  • #2
    PauloMN
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional North East Moderators Posts: 10,878 Mod ✭✭✭✭PauloMN


    I'd say some places might take it, but you can be sure you'd lose your shirt on the deal as not only would you not be a cash buyer for the newer car, but you'd get the NI trade price for the car, probably nothing near what it could be sold for in the ROI privately.


  • #3
    Antrim_Man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 948 ✭✭✭Antrim_Man


    PauloMN wrote: »
    I'd say some places might take it, but you can be sure you'd lose your shirt on the deal as not only would you not be a cash buyer for the newer car, but you'd get the NI trade price for the car, probably nothing near what it could be sold for in the ROI privately.

    Yeah, but trying to shift a car down here at the moment seems impossible. My car is excellent condition and cheapest on the net when compared to others but nobody is even phoning. I have now dropped the price to rock bottom. The car has been on various websites for 8 months :mad:


  • #4
    biggybum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 69 ✭✭biggybum


    Northern car dealers are sdvertising everywhere at the mo saying they will take sothern cars as trade ins but theoreticly your cost to change will be similar to what it would down south. Different situation if you manage to sell yours privatley in the south and buy new in the north. I know a chap that bought a new 320d coupe up north this year and saved himself 7.5k due to vrt and exchange rate


  • #5
    lifer_sean
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 890 ✭✭✭lifer_sean


    Antrim_Man wrote: »
    Yeah, but trying to shift a car down here at the moment seems impossible. My car is excellent condition and cheapest on the net when compared to others but nobody is even phoning. I have now dropped the price to rock bottom. The car has been on various websites for 8 months :mad:

    You don't say what the car is or what price you have it advertised at ?

    In most cases the NI price of a car is lower than the RoI price, so dealers in NI will either trade it in at the NI trade price, or some will trade in at the RoI trade price, and then offload to an RoI dealer. Either way the price will most likely be less than you have it advertised it at.

    Look at it another way, if you can't sell the car in 8 months for a given price, why would a dealer give you that price or more for it ? If you can't sell it, chances are a dealer couldn't either, and he'd want/need profit on the transaction.


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