Pre-87 import

Xlaxeo

Hello if a 1984 car is imported do they get a long number like thiis 84-D-XXXXXX


or is this only for older cars?

hi5

Yes, all imported vehicles pre 2011 get the long numbers, unless its over 30 years old, then you can apply for a ZV number.

macplaxton

Xlaxeo wrote: »

84-D-XXXXXX

Yes. The next available one after 84-D-120001 if it's a County Dublin issue. When it gets to 30 years old, it can be swapped for one in the ZV series, which for Dublin is the next available one after ZV10001.

colm_mcm

I think you'd get 84d12001, nobody seems to have it or the ones after that

Xlaxeo

What is the logic in these long numbers?

Who made this decision?

Pdfile

Xlaxeo wrote: »

What is the logic in these long numbers?

Who made this decision?

i assume its to put deals and such off, and to let people know roughly when the car was imported and such.

hi5

Xlaxeo wrote: »

What is the logic in these long numbers?

Who made this decision?

Written Answers - Motor Imports
Tuesday, 21 February 2012

Dáil Éireann Debate
Vol. 756 No. 2
Unrevised
Page of 496

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144. Deputy Olivia Mitchell

asked the Minister for Finance the rationale behind the decision to register imported cars starting from the number 120,000, as there does not seem to be any reasonable administrative reason or any consumer information purpose, but it does serve to devalue imported cars; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9732/12]

Minister for Finance (Deputy Michael Noonan): I am advised by the Revenue Commissioners that a new vehicle registration computer system was introduced in December 2011. Because of budgetary constraints, it was not possible to carry forward all the registration details of vehicles registered in the previous 19 years to the new system. Accordingly, a simplified model that did not require the details of the registration number assigned to the last vehicle registered in each of the licensing authorities in each of the previous 19 years was adopted for issuing registration numbers for prior years. The simplified model assigns registration numbers starting from a particular number for each licensing authority regardless of year. The particular number chosen had to be sufficiently high to enable additional unique registrations to be added. The starting registration number for each licensing authority was selected to ensure that there is no possibility of a vehicle being assigned a number that was previously assigned to another vehicle under the old system. Accordingly, the number will be higher than would have been assigned in the normal course of events for some years.

This is a short-term phenomenon. Vehicles presented for registration that were first registered in 2011 and subsequent years (in another State) will not be affected by this change and will be assigned the next available number in the sequence for that licensing authority and year of registration.
http://debates.oireachtas.ie/dail/2012/02/21/00062.asp#N2

corktina

if it can be proved a car has been devalued, would there be grounds to sue the State here?

colm_mcm

corktina wrote: »

if it can be proved a car has been devalued, would there be grounds to sue the State here?

No moreso than someone registering a CN or DL car