Numberplate snobbery - solution?

Terrontress

In the Bangernomics thread a Saab 9-3 convertible was posted and someone's response was that the Cavan reg would put him off it.

We're all aware of reg snobbery.

It costs £80 to register a car in NI. As the VRT has been paid against that chassis number, could the car be exported to NI for a cost of £80 and then taken back to the VRO of your choice to get a reg more befitting of your origin.

A lot of effort, but would it cost more than £80?

EPM

It will be re-registered under its original registered number.

si_guru

Terrontress wrote: »

In the Bangernomics thread a Saab 9-3 convertible was posted and someone's response was that the Cavan reg would put him off it.

We're all aware of reg snobbery.

It costs £80 to register a car in NI. As the VRT has been paid against that chassis number, could the car be exported to NI for a cost of £80 and then taken back to the VRO of your choice to get a reg more befitting of your origin.

A lot of effort, but would it cost more than £80?

Hmm.. to prove it was VRT paid in the past would you not need the orignal tax book... and therefore it will get the original plate - given (AFAIK) you can never change plates in Ireland.. other than from (or is to) ZV??

Leonard Hofstadter

EPM wrote: »

It will be re-registered under its original registered number.

If a car is "officially exported" from Ireland and if the car is subseqently brought back into the country then it will be re-registered and it will be registered for the county the owner will be living in.

Only thing is I don't know how long the car would have to be gone for though, but I do know someone who had a 98-D-xxxx reg car, brought it to France as he was working over there, the car had French registration plates while there, and when he came back to Ireland he was living in Kildare and the car was re-registered as 98-KE-xxxx.

Somehow I doubt this would work for what the OP is proposing though!

I would like to an optional "re registration" system introduced. Not compulsory of course. Would make the government a few bob and would allow me to get rid of the Offaly reg on the car I'm picking up today!

TestTransmission

Deleted User wrote: »

I would like to an optional "re registration" system introduced. Not compulsory of course. Would make the government a few bob and would allow me to get rid of the Offaly reg on the car I'm picking up today!

What's wrong with the offaly reg?

mickdw

I don't want to see this. Knowing the way things are administered here, it would end up as a great way of hiding a cars history. Even in UK where they have these things pretty much nailed down, there are a few too many instances whereby write offs show up clear due complex plate swapping schemes.

TestTransmission

TestTransmission wrote: »

What's wrong with the offaly reg?

Nothing if you live in Offaly!!
I would prefer to have a reg from the county where I live. Haven't ever had that though! I've had a wicklow when I lived in Dublin, a Dublin when I lived in Wicklow and the current one is Waterford!

mickdw wrote: »

I don't want to see this. Knowing the way things are administered here, it would end up as a great way of hiding a cars history.

This is true. Communication between our country's databases does not appear to be a strongpoint of ours!

Leonard Hofstadter

I would prefer if the registration plate system was revised, so that the county a car is registered in was less obvious. The old number plate system was also done by counties (the last two letters in the three letter sequence represented counties e.g. xxx AZK, ZK stood for Cork), but you'd want to have been a complete geek to know what they stood for!

Del2005

I like number plate snobbier. Makes good cars cheaper if they've the "wrong" plate on them.

Suckers worry about what the plate says. I worry about the condition of the car not what's on a plate 0.06m2, or even less as it's really only 1 or 2 letters that's the "problem".

Big Nasty

Deleted User wrote: »

I would like to an optional "re registration" system introduced. Not compulsory of course. Would make the government a few bob and would allow me to get rid of the Offaly reg on the car I'm picking up today!

Congrats whoopsies!

Anything nice?

shawnee

The vehicle registration crew and those in charge of vehicle numbers is an absolute shambles. When there was a fortune to be made with giving out private plates to the Seanie Fitzes , the Drumms and the Quinns and many more of this country , they would not provide them. Similarily the classic car crew have been advocating number changes and they don't listen. The year of the car on your plate was in my opinion a disaster and only led to people buying cars for the new numbers.
They really don't think outside the box atall;)

L-M

i personally wouldn't by a car with an OY reg, nothing against Offaly but it looks mank.

MCMLXXV

MCMLXXV wrote: »

Congrats whoopsies!

Anything nice?

Ta!
Yep, a 05 Saab 9-3 TID Arc Sport

Limerick man wrote: »

i personally wouldn't by a car with an OY reg, nothing against Offaly but it looks mank.

I concur with your evaluation! But I loved the car and figured it was a small price to pay!

Berty

Handy thing about snobbery in Dublin about non Dublin car reg's is that if you are in Limerick and you see an L or LK reg for sale in a Dublin garage you can go in and tell him you want €XX off the price because of the weird reg that was probably driving around by people looking to stab each other.

Drive it back to Limerick. Win Win.

Would you drive a DL reg though? Sur' they're all felted A4 Tdi's on yellow DL regs?

I jest because these threads never turn into anything productive.

coylemj

shawnee wrote: »

The year of the car on your plate was in my opinion a disaster and only led to people buying cars for the new numbers.
They really don't think outside the box atall;)

Which makes for increased sales and more VRT and VAT for the Govt., where's the 'disaster' in that? Giving people personalised numbers which can be transferred to a new (or secondhand) car will reduce sales and mean less revenue.

shawnee wrote: »

When there was a fortune to be made with giving out private plates to the Seanie Fitzes , the Drumms and the Quinns and many more of this country , they would not provide them.

Fcuk Seanie Fitz and others who want to swan around town with their initials on the numberplate, they're showing off enough with their fancy cars, we don't need our noses rubbed in it even more with personalised numberplates.

carchaeologist

It ain't gonna happen here anyway with the new import registration series plates now issued.

CiniO

Would anyone chance driving with following plates in Ireland?




They can be easily purchased in Gdansk in Poland for about €240.

sogood

Terrontress wrote: »

In the Bangernomics thread a Saab 9-3 convertible was posted and someone's response was that the Cavan reg would put him off it.

We're all aware of reg snobbery.

It costs £80 to register a car in NI. As the VRT has been paid against that chassis number, could the car be exported to NI for a cost of £80 and then taken back to the VRO of your choice to get a reg more befitting of your origin.

A lot of effort, but would it cost more than £80?

I have no problem or issue whatsoever with driving a car that has a CN registration. Mine has and beside the registration plate on the boot lid it also says Jaguar Sovereign, which to me is much more important and of much greater relevance! Just my tuppence worth.

dr.fuzzenstein

In Germany the reg shows the town or district the car resides in.
Should the owner move, the car must be re-registered in the new town/district.
So if you move a lot, your car could have had a whole heap of reg-plates.
Dunno what that will do to car checks.
In the UK I hear you already need to do a car check for each reg the car's had over it's life, that can quickly get expensive.
Having the year on the reg is nonsense, people sell the car not because there's something wrong with it, but because, as a friend put it, "the numberplate ran out".
It would be more environmentally friendly if cars where made to last a minimum of 20 years, rather than being cheap and nasty and having to be scrapped after ten.
But there is an Irish obsession with newness, shiny and new is ALWAYS better than classic and old.
By that logic a 12-reg Yaris is ALWAYS better than a 00 reg Mercedes S-Class, because it's too old and must now be scrapped.
The greens used to be about caring for the environment, but in the end where used by the government to justify bilking us for money and supporting the car industry. I hope we buried them deep enough for them to never dig their way out again.

V Eight

Del2005 wrote: »

I like number plate snobbier. Makes good cars cheaper if they've the "wrong" plate on them.

Suckers worry about what the plate says. I worry about the condition of the car not what's on a plate 0.06m2, or even less as it's really only 1 or 2 letters that's the "problem".

Good point - now I can afford that Lamborghini Aventador with an 'OY' plate.