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Revenue Seizing of Cars from Garage - wherre do they go?

  • 23-10-2009 2:52pm
    #1
    Matt Simis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,718 ✭✭✭


    A couple of months ago I was looking at an old 8 series BMW in a sorry state in a garage in Dublin area. It had flat tyres, cracked glass, mold everywhere and wouldnt start. I was the first person in 18mths to even look at it, the sales guy had never seen it running. It was on UK plates. He said they could have it running "next week".
    They wanted 9k for it, I told them you can get WORKING versions for less than that, on Irish plates. :rolleyes: They laughed and said yeah, "but my boss wont reduce it further, its a customer's car we are just doing them a favour". Which was a lie, but neither here nor there.

    I was going to go back to them to ask about buying it for parts, super cheap (it almost certainly would cost a fortune to get running again) but found that Revenue had been and removed everything from the garage, its gone!

    I talked to a Revenue officer (when um getting my own car un-impounded, no hassles though) and she said an old model, non-running UK reg car would be "disposed of", they had bad experience selling them in the past. Such a waste!!

    Is there anyway of buying it for parts from the Revenue or anyone "in the know" want to chime in?


Comments

  • #2
    JHMEG
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,686 ✭✭✭JHMEG


    Surely they should be sent to auction somewhere? If they are being disposed of I can see an article in the Indo, and Matt Cooper, Kevin Myers et al having something to say about it!

    I know that the civil service auction off their fleet cars to staff.


  • #3
    Matt Simis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,718 ✭✭✭Matt Simis


    JHMEG wrote: »
    Surely they should be sent to auction somewhere? If they are being disposed of I can see an article in the Indo, and Matt Cooper, Kevin Myers et al having something to say about it!

    I know that the civil service auction off their fleet cars to staff.

    Yeah I think the "legit" cars will be auctioned, but old stuff that doesnt run doesnt have such a nice fate, especially on foreign plates. I read the VRT Enforcement Document (5), it said that if a vehicle cannot be sold to a garage it will be disposed of as its assumed unmarketable.
    The officer in question told me flat out that old cars arent sold as there were legal cases taken against the revenue for selling unfit cars in the past.


  • #4
    Mailman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,571 ✭✭✭Mailman


    wilsonsauctions pdfs include Revenue entries.


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