Buying a used jeep and need your help!

Sophos

Hi,

I'm trading in my 206 for a jeep as I am buying a horse and need a good jeep that is able to pull a horse box with ease and won't give any major mechanical hassle. Budget about 10k

A few questions - if anyone can help me I'd be delighted!

What is the best jeep to go for? I have been looking at two 03s at the moment. One is a passenger Landrover Discovery and the other is a commerical Toyota landcruiser LWB. Both are around the 10k mark.

Is taxing a commerical difficult in that do you need to show evidence that it's being used for business?

And any general advice from jeep owners would be greatly accepted!

Thanks!:)

Ricardo G

Go for the landcruiser, there proven over and over again. Great Jeep for pulling, commercial tax is same regardless of engine or weight, business use or not

Sophos

Is it heavy on diesel being a 3 litre etc? I suppose I'm thinking for the times when I'm not pulling the horse box it wouldn't be very kind on the pocket?

colm_mcm

You should be able to get an 05 cruiser for your budget. But be
aware they have their issues, injectors, clutches, expensive stuff like that

danjo

Ricardo G wrote: »

Go for the landcruiser, there proven over and over again. Great Jeep for pulling, commercial tax is same regardless of engine or weight, business use or not

You can only avail of the commercial tax rate if the jeep is used exclusively for business. Any other use requires you pay the full taxation rate.

Ricardo G

danjo wrote: »

You can only avail of the commercial tax rate if the jeep is used exclusively for business. Any other use requires you pay the full taxation rate.

Commercial tax is for a commercial vehicle, cant see how the rates would vary whether your using it for business or not, i could be wrong !

ronaneire

danjo wrote: »

You can only avail of the commercial tax rate if the jeep is used exclusively for business. Any other use requires you pay the full taxation rate.

Anyone can own and tax a commercial vehicle.
You will need to DOE the commercial every year whereas if it was private the NCT would be every 2 years.
The Toyota beats the Discovery hands down IMO.

danjo

ronaneire wrote: »

Anyone can own and tax a commercial vehicle.
You will need to DOE the commercial every year whereas if it was private the NCT would be every 2 years.
The Toyota beats the Discovery hands down IMO.

Anyone can own and tax a commercial vehicle but only business users may tax them commercially i.e. at the commercial tax rate,
Anyone using a vehicle for personal, domestic, pleasure use must tax it at the full rate and the normal NCT process applies. Commercial tax and DOE apply to business owners only. Check with your local taxation office.

p.s. this issue was covered here before.

ronaneire

danjo wrote: »

Anyone can own and tax a commercial vehicle but only business users may tax them commercially i.e. at the commercial tax rate,
Anyone using a vehicle for personal, domestic, pleasure use must tax it at the full rate and the normal NCT process applies. Commercila tax and DOE apply to business owners only. Check with your local taxation office.

p.s. this issue was covered here before.

You are contradicting yourself in what you say.
If the vehicle is a commercial it can only be taxed commercial. The cost for taxing a light goods (commercial vehicle) for 12 months is €288.
There are plenty of people who own a commercial jeep for towing a horse box and do you think they are taxing them privately?

Gophur

ronaneire wrote: »

...............
If the vehicle is a commercial it can only be taxed commercial. ...........

Not true. A commercial vehicle can be taxed privately and should be taxed so, if one is using it for private use only. But this is Ireland and it is rarely a problem.

As for fuel consumption, any Landcruiser, Pajero, etc will do well to get 30mpg, without a trailer, expect about 20mpg with a horsebox in tow.

Max Power1

ronaneire wrote: »

You are contradicting yourself in what you say.
If the vehicle is a commercial it can only be taxed commercial. The cost for taxing a light goods (commercial vehicle) for 12 months is €288.
There are plenty of people who own a commercial jeep for towing a horse box and do you think they are taxing them privately?

only if used exclusively for commercial purposes :rolleyes:

sealgaire

The only jeep you wont have trouble selling on is a Toyota

ronaneire

Max Power1 wrote: »

only if used exclusively for commercial purposes :rolleyes:

Like it happens? How many company commercial vehicles are used after hours for personal use? And are taxed as commercial? Maybe this where BIK comes into play

Corkladddd!!

Sophos wrote: »

Is it heavy on diesel being a 3 litre etc? I suppose I'm thinking for the times when I'm not pulling the horse box it wouldn't be very kind on the pocket?

If you are going from a 206 which I presume (no experience of these cars imparticular) is economical enough to a landcruiser(no other option in my opinion) then expect to get to know your local petrol station staff on a first name basis!!! These jeeps are seriously heavy on fuel if you don't actually need a jeep I would recommend the likes of a subaru forester as they will have the 4 wheel drive for the odd off course excursion and the power you require, also much more pleasant on the road!!

Max Power1

ronaneire wrote: »

Like it happens? How many company commercial vehicles are used after hours for personal use? And are taxed as commercial? Maybe this where BIK comes into play

doesnt matter if it happens or not. Would you risk your car being impounded for the wrong class of tax being paid (THAT does happen).

ronaneire

Max Power1 wrote: »

doesnt matter if it happens or not. Would you risk your car being impounded for the wrong class of tax being paid (THAT does happen).

See it's not a car that is the difference.

Gophur

Max Power1 wrote: »

doesnt matter if it happens or not. Would you risk your car being impounded for the wrong class of tax being paid (THAT does happen).

ronaneire wrote: »

See it's not a car that is the difference.

Semantics!

How about this?

Max Power1 wrote: »

doesnt matter if it happens or not. Would you risk your vehicle being impounded for the wrong class of tax being paid (THAT does happen).