Can you choose which county to register a car?

xflyer

Silly question really but when buying a new car from a dealer. Can you specify the county? So if you buy a car, in say Limerick but want it registered in Dublin or vice versa? Do you have to have an address in the county you want? Or does the location of the dealer decide the county?

Not that I'm buying a new car:(.

coylemj

For a brand new car, the dealer asks you for your name and address and this is passed to the Revenue Commissioners who then issue a registration number for the new car registered in your name and obviously the registration number will reflect the address you gave, i.e. the dealer location doesn't matter.

Could you give your Mammy's address instead? Probably, but make sure to give your true address when insuring the car, otherwise there could be a whole heap of trouble down the line.

Avns1s

Your home address decides the county registration.

Big Nasty

Of course you can - once you're prepared to move house!

L-M

xflyer wrote: »

Silly question really but when buying a new car from a dealer. Can you specify the county? So if you buy a car, in say Limerick but want it registered in Dublin or vice versa? Do you have to have an address in the county you want? Or does the location of the dealer decide the county?

Not that I'm buying a new car:(.

if you're asking does your neighbour actually own his 12 car and it's a D reg and he's living in Limerick?

More than probably not :P

kildare.17hmr

Yes you can. I registered 2 vans going to limerick to C/O our company address and the customer changed the address at time of 1st taxing. Country dealers do it to the importers address if customer wants D reg. No logbook is issued until the vehicle is taxed so just log the change then

L-M

kildare.17hmr wrote: »

Yes you can. I registered 2 vans going to limerick to C/O our company address and the customer changed the address at time of 1st taxing. Country dealers do it to the importers address if customer wants D reg. No logbook is issued until the vehicle is taxed so just log the change then

Could you explain that again? i'm missing something...

"Country dealers" who do that would be registering a car in their name as a Demo. Joe Soap can't be the first owner of a car, registered to a different country of that of his home address.

kildare.17hmr

Joe blogs from limerick buys car from me in dublin, register it to joe blogs C/O dublin car sales, he gets dublin reg and changes the address when he taxes it

L-M

kildare.17hmr wrote: »

Joe blogs from limerick buys car from me in dublin, register it to joe blogs C/O dublin car sales, he gets dublin reg and changes the address when he taxes it

Huh, sound plausible.

kildare.17hmr

A country dealer can do it the same but register it to joe blogs C/O toyota distribution dublin or if they had a sister dealership in dublin they could use that address.

xflyer

Thanks for the replies. I suppose it must happen occasionally. Someone proud of their county but living away from it or the car actually owned by a business in another county. I asked the question because I saw a very new car registered in Dublin but obviously based in Galway and sold from a Galway dealer. Presumably a company car.

I did see somewhere that selling on a car registered in certain counties is more difficult. That's another reason. I certainly wouldn't buy a car with a Tipp reg!

colm_mcm

if you're buying a used car, the reg number doesn't change.

Obviously if you're importing a used car from UK, it'd be registrered to the county you say you're living in when you pay the VRT.

Avns1s

xflyer wrote: »

Thanks for the replies. I suppose it must happen occasionally. Someone proud of their county but living away from it or the car actually owned by a business in another county. I asked the question because I saw a very new car registered in Dublin but obviously based in Galway and sold from a Galway dealer. Presumably a company car.

I did see somewhere that selling on a car registered in certain counties is more difficult. That's another reason. I certainly wouldn't buy a car with a Tipp reg!

That very new car could have been a "demo", registered by the garage or the distributers to make a quota.

hondasam

xflyer wrote: »

Silly question really but when buying a new car from a dealer. Can you specify the county? So if you buy a car, in say Limerick but want it registered in Dublin or vice versa? Do you have to have an address in the county you want? Or does the location of the dealer decide the county?

Not that I'm buying a new car:(.

This is the good thing when buying from the UK, you get your own county reg.
I like to have my own county, sad I know:)

MugMugs

You could always use a friends address and change upon taxing?

kildare.17hmr

MugMugs wrote: »

You could always use a friends address and change upon taxing?

You could yeah