VRT'ing a car and able to select an unused Reg number?

stezie

Hi.. does any one know how you can select a registration number that hasnt been used yet. The Registration number i want is shown on cartell.ie as

"Vehicle Not Found
No Irish or UK vehicle details were found for registration xxxxx...


I heard of the fee to reserve a number for a new car for the following year, but is there a way to request to use a number on a car that has not been used and the sequence of numbers has continued on passed the desired number in the county?

for example if i wanted 05D500 , and it is shown as not found, is there a way to request that number with out paying the €1000 reservation fee?

http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/travel_and_recreation/vehicle_standards/vehicle_registration_numbers.html

Senna

Is it a low number, as in below 500?

mickdw

my reading of it is that its €1000 to reserve a plate or pick any special number at any time.
I believe many counties hold back wanted plates such as 500, 320 etc for this reason.

coylemj

stezie wrote: »

I heard of the fee to reserve a number for a new car for the following year, but is there a way to request to use a number on a car that has not been used and the sequence of numbers has continued on passed the desired number in the county?

for example if i wanted 05D500 , and it is shown as not found, is there a way to request that number with out paying the €1000 reservation fee?

If the system has passed by that number and it's 'not found' then it would suggest to me that someone has already paid to reserve that number but not yet presented details of a vehicle (VIN, make & model etc.) to be assigned that reg. no.

Revenue claim that the only numbers that are reserved automatically are the number '1' for the Lord Mayors of Dublin (12 D 1), Galway, Limerick and Waterford, every other number is available but must be reserved in November or December of the preceding year.

http://www.revenue.ie/en/tax/vrt/leaflets/reserve-reg-number.html

bazz26

I think the numbers 1 to 200 were always reservered by each county upto recently.

It's €1k these days to reserve a number. If the Government had any sense they would have put it at a low rate and made a nice little earner from it I think. But alas this is the same country where our elected officals also think it is a good idea to increase the rate of vat when consumer spending is at an all time low. :rolleyes:

stezie

Senna wrote: »

Is it a low number, as in below 500?

No its in the 1000's.. i just used D and 500 as an example.

mickdw wrote: »

my reading of it is that its €1000 to reserve a plate or pick any special number at any time.
I believe many counties hold back wanted plates such as 500, 320 etc for this reason.

that is typical of this country alright.. its bad enough that you pay plenty for VRT then if you want to pick an used number you need to pay €1000 for the privilege and then its not transferable to another vehicle.

£80 to register a car in Northern Ireland and then you can transfer any number you want to the car for a nominal administration fee.

coylemj wrote: »

If the system has passed by that number and it's 'not found' then it would suggest to me that someone has already paid to reserve that number but not yet presented details of a vehicle (VIN, make & model etc.) to be assigned that reg. no.

Revenue claim that the only numbers that are reserved automatically are the number '1' for the Lord Mayors of Dublin (12 D 1), Galway, Limerick and Waterford, every other number is available but must be reserved in November or December of the preceding year.

http://www.revenue.ie/en/tax/vrt/leaflets/reserve-reg-number.html

Yeah if the system has passed by a number and no one has reserved the number then that number should be available to any one paying vrt'ing a car..


Does anyone know if there is a way around claiming an unused number?

coylemj

There's a Rosslare phone number at the bottom of that revenue webpage I gave you a link to, give them a bell and ask them.

Atlantic Dawn

You can purchase unused numbers, have spotted some used cars imported by dealers and assigned unused rather than unused rolling numbers. If you have €1000 to spend on a plate I hope it's a decent car.

E39MSport

Anyone know whether you can do it after the fact and change registration numbers?

corktina

with the new number system for imports just set up, I doubt they'll give you a number out of that series. Im pretty sure they wont let you swap your own nubmer (unless its to the ZV series)

Henry Ford III

E39MSport wrote: »

Anyone know whether you can do it after the fact and change registration numbers?

Not possible.

Mariusz Pudgyanovski

unless it has changed since monday 05 december 2011, no you can't.

apparently you could before this, but on that date they introduced a new software for vrt'ing stuff and it wont allow you to assign a reserved reg to a previous year; only the upcoming year.

i found this out, much to my dismay, after reserving the reg a few months before and happened to walk in on the day they introduced this bogie software.

after a lot of chasing up and ringing revenue heads in dublin castle etc i find out that because the law says you can reserve a reg for the upcoming year, and doesnt specifically say for a "previous" year too, the software was set to only allow current or future years reserved registration numbers.

sickened, is not the word for how i felt. they didnt seem even remotely interested in updating the software to allow previous years and the corresponding extra revenue.

anyhooo it was 315 quid until 08 i THINK, then €1000 since. they used to automatically hold onto 1-200 for every county to "sell" but this stopped in 2012 which is why you would have seen 2012 reg boring cars like polo or micra with 67 or 15 as a reg, they didnt pay 1000 for it let me tell you.

and yeah the number 1 was reserved for mayors and the like in a few gafs.

corktina

5th December 2011 eh?..that's about a month before the last post on this thread....jo-incidence?