Another one bites the dust..

cul-2008

I passed Enterprise Motors on the dock road this evening and the place has been cleared out, not a single car left in the showrooms or on the forecourt! Even their website is now redirecting to carsireland.ie!

Pitty, I used to enjoy having a gawk at his cars when I'd be stuck in traffic! :rolleyes:

badboyblast

Nice one, people should be buying more Irish cars and not Jap crap

Raiser

badboyblast wrote: »

Nice one, people should be buying more Irish cars and not Jap crap

Didn't think we had an Irish Car Manufacturer since DeLorean closed down......

Jumpy

Damnit, we still had 7 more months warranty with them.

manna452121

This garage is owned by the man who has the Toyota dealership,he has already closed his garage on the ennis rd.

Raiser

manna452121 wrote: »

This garage is owned by the man who has the Toyota dealership,he has already closed his garage on the ennis rd.

Toyota greedily, stupidly and determinedly distorted the basic principles of production streamlining and refined them to the absolute idiotic point of evolution where their motor vehicles couldn't stop.....

- I'd buy a Fisher Price Scooter before I'd humour a Toyota Salesman.

krudler

badboyblast wrote: »

Nice one, people should be buying more Irish cars and not Jap crap

Irish car?

h3000

badboyblast wrote: »

Nice one, people should be buying more Irish cars and not Jap crap

Why is it nice that another business in Limerick has closed and yet more people are out of a job?

h3000

manna452121 wrote: »

This garage is owned by the man who has the Toyota dealership.

I really don't think so. Enterprise cars was owned by the Beary family (I think) and O'Mara's is still owned by the O'Mara's.

Mc Love

Just passed this at the weekend and they had a full stock even flowing into the next lot. When I was passing I remarked to the other half that it was back open again. Cant believe it has shut up shop again

Jumpy

h3000 wrote: »

I really don't think so. Enterprise cars was owned by the Beary family (I think) and O'Mara's is still owned by the O'Mara's.

Yep, Tom, blunt fellow, but decent and honest. Cant believe its closed. But now with the scrappage scheme its probably hard for him to compete, I dont think he sold any new cars.

Kess73

badboyblast wrote: »

Nice one, people should be buying more Irish cars and not Jap crap

Maybe whilst we are at it we should stop German, French, Koeran, British and American cars being sold here and stick to the Irish cars you mentioned.

Stab*City

Jumpy wrote: »

But now with the scrappage scheme its probably hard for him to compete, I dont think he sold any new cars.

Plus the fact he was very expensive..

Melion

I was warned off that place by a few people a few years back when i was looking for my first car.

mark1974

Stab*City wrote: »

Plus the fact he was very expensive..

Totally agree. I tried to buy a car of him last year. He was looking for two grand more for a basic model of car than a high spec one that I had seen elsewhere.:eek:

Berty

A dealership appealing to the laziness of society.

Why go to the UK and buy a car for €10,000? We will do it for you and charge €15,000 for it when it arrives back here! :rolleyes:

Forecourt was full of jap scrap and cars from the UK with some of the trade ins of non imported cars.

His prices were over the top and he had Kia for around 6 months or so and they took it off of him and gave it to his next door neighbour. That must have been some kick in the stones.

mark1974

Berty wrote: »

A dealership appealing to the laziness of society.

Why go to the UK and buy a car for €10,000? We will do it for you and charge €15,000 for it when it arrives back here! :rolleyes:

Forecourt was full of jap scrap and cars from the UK with some of the trade ins of non imported cars.

His prices were over the top and he had Kia for around 6 months or so and they took it off of him and gave it to his next door neighbour. That must have been some kick in the stones.

That has put it perfectly Berty

ninty9er

The lot next door is a new place where Hogans was.

Neither bear any connection to O'Mara Motors or Toyota bar the fact they all sell cars.

wingnut

Lol my parents were the first people to buy a car there when he opened up. It was a Honda Civic Shuttle but in red:

http://www.autowp.ru/pictures/honda/civic/autowp.ru_honda_civic_shuttle_15.jpg

gracem

Its a pity another Limerick business is gone but they cars were way over priced and the one time i was looking at a car in there i wasnt treated all that well- very poorly actually.

Berty

I know the guys brother who is older than him. It's like one got all the sales and business acumen and the other didn't.

Guess which one is which?

Shammy

I went in looking at a car a few years back , i found the salesman very curt and rude , needless to say i didnt buy my car there.

gracem

I was not dealing with the owner, it was another lad. I asked the price of the car as there was none on the window and i was told... 'I doubt you could afford the insurance lovie'...enough said I was gone.

Jumpy

Heh, sounds like Tom alright . I think he was trying to be funny.

Raiser

gracem wrote: »

I was not dealing with the owner, it was another lad. I asked the price of the car as there was none on the window and i was told... 'I doubt you could afford the insurance lovie'...enough said I was gone.

How's Enterprise Motors doing these days?

Jumpy

A bit unfair, I would say those guys were due for retirement at this stage. I found them quite sound to deal with, just a little blunt. But I prefer blunt and honest over smooth and untrustworthy.

Berty

Jumpy wrote: »

A bit unfair, I would say those guys were due for retirement at this stage. I found them quite sound to deal with, just a little blunt. But I prefer blunt and honest over smooth and untrustworthy.

You also like overpriced cars, vehicles being sold which are not even in the country, cars without their VRT paid(Illegal after 24 hours in the country).

Was he SIMI?

Jumpy

Berty wrote: »

You also like overpriced cars, vehicles being sold which are not even in the country, cars without their VRT paid(Illegal after 24 hours in the country).

Was he SIMI?

None of this was applicable to the car I recently bought from them. It was reasonably priced, irish from its first registration and definitely in the country at the time.
Of course, its now missing 7 months of warranty because they no longer exist. That pisses me off.

Berty

Jumpy wrote: »

None of this was applicable to the car I recently bought from them. It was reasonably priced, irish from its first registration and definitely in the country at the time.
Of course, its now missing 7 months of warranty because they no longer exist. That pisses me off.

Is it new enough that it still retains some of its manufacturers warranty?

Jumpy

Berty wrote: »

Is it new enough that it still retains some of its manufacturers warranty?

Hell no, its 00

langdang

They probably saw this coming for a while if they were giving 12 months warranty on a 00 car!

tfitzgerald

gracem wrote: »

Its a pity another Limerick business is gone but they cars were way over priced and the one time i was looking at a car in there i wasnt treated all that well- very poorly actually.

i had they same treatment went in to look at a car and the salesman did not want to know very very rude but like an earlier post i liked looking at the cars when i passed

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is'nt that a bit sad

Jumpy

langdang wrote: »

They probably saw this coming for a while if they were giving 12 months warranty on a 00 car!

They werent giving the warranty. Its was via a car warranty crowd. Unfortuantely without them there, I dont know who it is.

phill106

Jumpy wrote: »

They werent giving the warranty. Its was via a car warranty crowd. Unfortuantely without them there, I dont know who it is.

Passed by it this morning, cars in forecourt and inside again. Still says enterprise on the sign. If anyone has any queries on warranty, id go there today!!

cul-2008

seems like lazarus has returned...passed by enterprise motors at 6.20-ish this evening and the man himself was standing outside, cars in the forecourt and all like the previous poster said...strange...

Berty

cul-2008 wrote: »

seems like lazarus has returned...passed by enterprise motors at 6.20-ish this evening and the man himself was standing outside, cars in the forecourt and all like the previous poster said...strange...

Most likely declared bankrupcy(sp) and reopened under a new directorship. I.e one of the salesman became the listed director. I think after bankrupcy there is a few years you have to wait before you can be a listed director again.

Something similar happened in Tom Hogan motors in Galway. The General Manager reopened the dealership under his directorship but all people from the previous business were screwed. Even though the names over the door changed and it looks like the same dealership with the same staff all the deposits were lost.