Another one bites the dust... or maybe 2 or 3 actually!

smash

McCarrick's SEAT and Peugeot are gone today, Tom Kilroy's closing next month!

darcy.jonny

by the end of the year ild say there will be more than just a few gone , unfortunite as that is for the people that work in these garages

CountingCrows

steve06 wrote: »

McCarrick's SEAT and Peugeot are gone today, Tom Kilroy's closing next month!

McCarricks - Tubercurry, Sligo?

smash

CountingCrows wrote: »

McCarricks - Tubercurry, Sligo?

Yep, that's what I've just heard...

EPM

Feel sorry for the staff, any idea how many working in those dealers?

2 Espressi

Only heard about Kilroy's yesterday, they've been around for ever, my grandad used to work for them in the old garage years ago.

-Chris-

Are these absolutely, positively, definitely announced/known or still at hearsay stage?

smash

-Chris- wrote: »

Are these absolutely, positively, definitely announced/known or still at hearsay stage?

http://peugeot.mccarricks.ie/ - site removed, and also removed from peugeot.ie dealer list.
http://www.tomkilroy.com/ - closing down sale.

Slidey

I work opposite McCarricks.

Staff were told last Friday at 4 that there would be no work Monday.

John Scanlon the former Seat dealer is supposed to be setting up repairs on the premises and I heard that a former salesman in the garage is going to take the showroom for 2nd hand sales.

gunner099

i work in the trade myself, scary times. the motor trade is all i know
we have let go a good few since xmass. dunno what the future holds for my job but it looks bleak. i hear volkswagen ireland are letting people go aswell so that cant be good news for anyone. they are a big seller in the
market so it just shows the change in recent times.

Captain Slow IRL

They were going through a very rough time - kept hearing constant threats of them going out of business.

peasant

Sorry for the people who worked there and lost their jobs ...but McCarricks is no great loss.

sloppy

To say Tom Kilroy has "bit the dust" is wrong.

He is retiring after a long career and his family don't want to continue in the business in the current environment.

Who can blame them.

Bobo78

sloppy wrote: »

To say Tom Kilroy has "bit the dust" is wrong.

He is retiring after a long career and his family don't want to continue in the business in the current environment.

Who can blame them.

I live just near them, I hope they come back when times get better.

darragh o meara

Kilroys will be a sad loss to the area, I remember dealing with them years ago and buying a LHD Peugeot 205 GTI (Trade sale ) off them and they were excellent to deal with, got the same treatment as the fella buying a brand new motor off them!!

Unfortunately the motor trade is getting worse by the minute, I worked in it myself until last October when I became a victim of the recession. Hopefully it will pick up again soon and the government get off thier lazy asses and sort something out for them.. They bailed out the builders, They bailed out the banks so why not help the motor trade????

netwhizkid

Omeara_darragh wrote: »

Kilroys will be a sad loss to the area, I remember dealing with them years ago and buying a LHD Peugeot 205 GTI (Trade sale ) off them and they were excellent to deal with, got the same treatment as the fella buying a brand new motor off them!!

Unfortunately the motor trade is getting worse by the minute, I worked in it myself until last October when I became a victim of the recession. Hopefully it will pick up again soon and the government get off thier lazy asses and sort something out for them.. They bailed out the builders, They bailed out the banks so why not help the motor trade????

The motor trade in Ireland deserves no help and has a silver spoon up its rear from day one. Irish main dealers have been ripping off the irish consumer for years with specials like windup windows and no a/c as standard. They have been totaly insulated from the UK market by VRT and the more job losses and dealers to go bust the better. VRT must go and road tax must be cut by 50%, you cannot have Danish levels of taxation with somalian levels of infrastructure and no-existent public transport.

amacachi

Also helping the motor trade is just funnelling money out of the country.

Still not nice to see people losing their jobs though.

robtri

never good to hear about closures, motor industry or not....
damn shame......

R.O.R

netwhizkid wrote: »

The motor trade in Ireland deserves no help and has a silver spoon up its rear from day one. Irish main dealers have been ripping off the irish consumer for years with specials like windup windows and no a/c as standard. They have been totaly insulated from the UK market by VRT and the more job losses and dealers to go bust the better. VRT must go and road tax must be cut by 50%, you cannot have Danish levels of taxation with somalian levels of infrastructure and no-existent public transport.

Don't you just love ill-informed posts :rolleyes:

If you are going to have a go at someone, have a go at the importers / distributors, not the dealers who are working within limits imposed on them.

galwaytt

R.O.R wrote: »

Don't you just love ill-informed posts :rolleyes:

If you are going to have a go at someone, have a go at the importers / distributors, not the dealers who are working within limits imposed on them.

+1

...try being in the commercial veh business - even worse. Most commercial veh's are leased, and the banks have simply closed their doors. There's no shortage of would-be clients, no shortage of the likes of us to build bodies - but dealers cannot get finance/leasing, for anyone.

The banks have taken the 3.5Bn each, stuffed into their own ledgers, and not let a red cent of it out to anyone. Closing garages ? - time to close a few banks, methinks.

Blazer

No loss with Kilroy's...
Remember I wanted a Peugeot 407 in the blue colour.
"Ah now you have to wait a month for it...and next month the prices are going up by €500 and your car will have depreciated by €500 so it will cost you €1000 extra" the salesman said to me.
Didn't like that answer so bought a Primera instead.
But I'll say one thing for them..when I went to test drive the 407 they just handed me the keys and left me off on my own for 30 minutes driving it wherever I wanted to. In fact they were the only garage that actually allowed me to do that.
It's a pity they tried to rip me off as I really wanted the 407 first and the Primera was a close second.

Johnboy Mac

R.O.R wrote: »

Don't you just love ill-informed posts :rolleyes:

If you are going to have a go at someone, have a go at the importers / distributors, not the dealers who are working within limits imposed on them.

Dealers working within their limits! - you mean dealers working within the limits that suited them i.e sales departments that operated as glorified order takers and nothing more. After sales departments were treated as an after thought. The distributors & the dealers worked hand in hand where overall it was happy days alround until the new car market died.

Taking about ill-informed, your having a laugh.

Saab Ed

Johnboy Mac wrote: »

Dealers working within their limits! - you mean dealers working within the limits that suited them i.e sales departments that operated as glorified order takers and nothing more. After sales departments were treated as an after thought. The distributors & the dealers worked hand in hand where overall it was happy days alround until the new car market died.

Taking about ill-informed, your having a laugh.

Are you talking about stuff you have no idea about again?

Here go play with this.....



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