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Scrappage rules .. the fine print...

  • 31-03-2011 5:59pm
    #1
    ifconfig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 880 ✭✭✭


    I've just returned from taking a test drive and pricing scrappage deals.
    I hadn't double checked my original Vehicle Licensing Cert until now.
    My car's first date of licensing was 16/7/2001.
    I phoned the original dealer who I purchased the car from earlier in the day and they told me that from their records it was registered in June 2001 but he couldn't be sure which date.
    Hence I went to check the VLC.

    I am a bit downhearted.
    Is this definitely a non-runner for the scrappage scheme which runs until June this year ?
    Is the date on the VLC the definitive one.

    --ifc


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  • #2
    ifconfig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 880 ✭✭✭ifconfig


    Update on this.
    I found the Vehicle Reg. Cert and the car was registered 26/6/2001.

    Also my NCT is due 25/6/2011 (this year).

    Might I still just slip into the scrappage scheme ?

    -ifc
    ifconfig wrote: »
    I've just returned from taking a test drive and pricing scrappage deals.
    I hadn't double checked my original Vehicle Licensing Cert until now.
    My car's first date of licensing was 16/7/2001.
    I phoned the original dealer who I purchased the car from earlier in the day and they told me that from their records it was registered in June 2001 but he couldn't be sure which date.
    Hence I went to check the VLC.

    I am a bit downhearted.
    Is this definitely a non-runner for the scrappage scheme which runs until June this year ?
    Is the date on the VLC the definitive one.

    --ifc


  • #3
    mickdw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,688 ✭✭✭✭mickdw


    I guess date of first licencing was date it was taxed.

    You should be grand given the date on the reg cert


  • #4
    -Chris-
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,035 ✭✭✭✭-Chris-


    Yep, first licenced is date it was taxed.

    Date first registered is the date that matters.


  • #5
    ottostreet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,987 ✭✭✭ottostreet


    What's the car?


  • #6
    Cionád
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,002 ✭✭✭Cionád


    He's changing from a Renault Megane, 2001 (119k miles on the clock), not sure what he's changing too, possibly a Fabia considering his previous posts. :)


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  • #7
    ifconfig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 880 ✭✭✭ifconfig


    Yes. Indeed Cionád has been stalking me :D
    It is indeed a long-in-the-tooth Megane (01) at 119k miles.
    I did a lot more mileage in the first 5 years of owning it.

    I'm veering towards the Hyundai i30 or even i20 now.
    I took both out for a test drive today.
    I thought the i20 was very sweet and easy on the pocket.
    It had the feel of a well equipped Polo and was surprisingly more roomy than I expected.

    i30 is a fine car too.
    I may stretch to it but I'm being deliberately thrifty given the times, etc !

    I'll test drive the Fabia as well but it is a second run-around car as the family car is a much larger Skoda Octavia 2010.

    -ifc


  • #8
    Henree
    Closed Accounts Posts: 60 ✭✭Henree


    Tip: Scrap the car yourself, some scrap dealers give a couple of hundred for the car, as long as you have a "Certificate of Destruction" you can go to any dealer to do a scrappage deal. You can scrap it 60 days either side of registration of new car.


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