smart car and vrt

itarumaa

Hi,

I might be buying a LHD car to take with me later on and I found Smart fortwo with uk plates.

http://www.gumtree.ie/dublin/97/66413697.html

Just out of curiosity I used the VRT calculator and it informed me price of 280e.

I was thinking that VRT is thousands, not only couple hundred euro, so what is the story here?

Could I transfer my insurance to that car, buy it, get it VRT and Irish plates, drive it and then take it with me.

Sounds like guite good deal, specially if I could haggle the
car price a little bit

I have never done any VRT payments so I am not sure can I actually trust the calculator and should I just look a car with Irish plates already.

So what do you think ?

Pkiernan

It is 11 years old, and a low value car.

This is why the VRT calculator is returning a low number.

To make it simpler, tell the buyer you will buy the car when he gets it on Irish plates - that is he registers it here before he sells it to you. You can pay him the extra VRT charges.

A seller here is required to register the car here first before he may legally sell it on to you.

Pkiernan

Dont forget that you will have to NCT it too!

itarumaa

Good advice all the way, thanks.

Eoin

Pkiernan wrote: »

A seller here is required to register the car here first before he may legally sell it on to you.

A car dealer is required to sell it on Irish plates, I don't think a private seller is though. It was essentially the same thing when you only had a working day to register it as a private individual, but that's been extended now.

corktina

A private owner is not entitled to sell it here on non Irish plates AT ALL.

Eoin

Where does it say that? I've only found reference to car dealers.