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Registering vintage cars

  • 04-10-2011 4:30am
    #1
    Volksmania
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6 ✭


    Since the NCT centres took over the vrt of cars in Ireland things have apparently got a bit stricter, You have to have an invoice of sale, the car has to be running, it has to be done within 30 days of bringing it into the state ect.

    What happens though if someone wants to register a car that's been in the state for a long time on foreign plates? Or if someone had an imported car on ringer Irish plates and wanted to register it to get everything above board? Or if someone imported a vintage car that wasn't running and wanted to register it how would they do that? Say if you imported a basket case for restoration, would it have to be restored before you could register it and would that have to be done within 30 days?

    I'm just wondering has anybody any experience with this kind of thing, or does anybody know anything about it.

    I'm not thinking of getting anything ragistered by the way I'm just asking out of interest.


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  • #2
    hi5
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,107 ✭✭✭hi5


    The search button is your friend:)

    http://www.boards.ie/search/?subforums=1&f=514&q=nct+vrt


  • #3
    jimmyw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,382 ✭✭✭jimmyw


    This was my experience earlier this year doing similar, but with a tractor, so not sure if its different with a car.What a bloody pain in the..................:mad:

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056238772


  • #4
    acmatman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86 ✭✭acmatman


    be creative with a printer


  • #5
    kelpie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4 ✭kelpie


    I took a72 mustang to the nct to get it cleared on the back of a breakdown truck,as it clearly wasn't roadworthy,and no bother, the girl asked me to read out the vin number for her,rather than her climb up on the truck. That was all there was to it. I had brought the car into the country two years earlier


  • #6
    macplaxton
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 2,957 Mod ✭✭✭✭macplaxton


    acmatman wrote: »
    be creative with a printer

    See this post: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=75023016&postcount=12


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  • #7
    555guy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 142 ✭✭555guy


    kelpie wrote: »
    I took a72 mustang to the nct to get it cleared on the back of a breakdown truck,as it clearly wasn't roadworthy,and no bother, the girl asked me to read out the vin number for her,rather than her climb up on the truck. That was all there was to it. I had brought the car into the country two years earlier


    What paperwork did you have to provide ??


  • #8
    kelpie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4 ✭kelpie


    the paperwork requirements are a pain in the butt, they want a bill of sale, a ferry ticket, log book...but, there is different criteria for certain circumstances. i owned the car in uk for afew years prior to bringing it to Ireland, and was getting it vrt free, got four cleared free! if you are bringing in a car just bought, then they want your loot, the paperwork dont matter so much. The nct visit is just to confirm that the vehicle is what the logbook says it, a vic check, not a test, they send the details to the revenue, who then set the vrt amount, send that back to nct, who then contact you with the grim news, if you disagree with the amount they want, you can appeal, but! you must pay the initial amount first. I had this with a freelander commercial I brought in last year, I refused to pay the amount they wanted, and declined to pay and then appeal. I took it home and it sits outside since. Anybody interested in a smart freelander commercial?


  • #9
    Means Of Escape
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,897 ✭✭✭Means Of Escape


    kelpie wrote: »
    the paperwork requirements are a pain in the butt, they want a bill of sale, a ferry ticket, log book...but, there is different criteria for certain circumstances. i owned the car in uk for afew years prior to bringing it to Ireland, and was getting it vrt free, got four cleared free! if you are bringing in a car just bought, then they want your loot, the paperwork dont matter so much. The nct visit is just to confirm that the vehicle is what the logbook says it, a vic check, not a test, they send the details to the revenue, who then set the vrt amount, send that back to nct, who then contact you with the grim news, if you disagree with the amount they want, you can appeal, but! you must pay the initial amount first. I had this with a freelander commercial I brought in last year, I refused to pay the amount they wanted, and declined to pay and then appeal. I took it home and it sits outside since. Anybody interested in a smart freelander commercial?


    Paperwork does matter
    They can charge you .1 percent of the vrt tariff for every day you are over the 30 day cut off time to clear your car after importing it.
    Does not amount to much of a penalty on a vintage car but on a modern car it adds up and fast.


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