Moving up North - buying a car

hjoeboy

Well lads,

I'm going to be moving to Belfast in September and I want to buy a car up there. I'm going to buy off a decent dealer just for piece of mind.

Can anyone tell me the process of registering of the car and how to go about getting insurance and tax?

I have a full Irish license for the last 5 years.

stealthyspeeder

You fill in a V5 form.

If you are buying off a dealer, they will do that for you and send it off.

Who is a decent dealer up in Belfast by the way? Please dont say Charles Hurst!

What car you getting now you are free of Irish car tax?

hjoeboy

I'm probably goin to buy a mk5 Golf. The GT TDI's up there have a decent enough spec, 140bhp (more than enough for me!) and are not to bad on juice.

Regards the dealers, I dont know of any at the minute but I'm going to look around. Any recommendations? I have been looking on usedcarsni.com mainly.

Any advice on where a 23 year old would get a good deal on insurance??

Francie Barrett

Usedcarsni will have the widest selection of dealer cars, Gumtree will have the widest selection of privately sold cars.

As for insurance, your best bet would be to just use a price comparison site like moneysupermarket.com. Don't expect insurance to be cheap though.

stealthyspeeder

Im disappointed you not going for something with a bit more Uuuumph now that your away from the Irish tax......

But anyway I just use confused.com and gocompare to compare loads of insuranse companies (I think there is a new one that specialises in Northern Ireland insurers ) as those I mentioned have about 60% of insurers that do not cover NI. But defo very handy.

Dealers - no experieance myself except horror stories from friends and family about Charles Hurst, I go to England when Im getting a another car as I "appreciate" of the UK car tax system!

hjoeboy

stealthyspeeder wrote: »

Im disappointed you not going for something with a bit more Uuuumph now that your away from the Irish tax......

Believe me, a 2 litre turbo diesel has plenty of go when your looking at paying approx. 2500euro for insurance! What would you go for out of curiosity??

I dont really trust those compare websites but I guess there good as a start point. Out with the phone book me thinks!!

I think insurance will be my only hurdle, everything else seems straight forward.

stealthyspeeder

hjoeboy wrote: »

Believe me, a 2 litre turbo diesel has plenty of go when your looking at paying approx. 2500euro for insurance! What would you go for out of curiosity??

Ah right, I just assumed you were older as you were moving country and you were a motorist! If you havent had a full license for a few years and you are a young driver, insurance is a significant barrier! Above 25 and a full clean license it drops a lot. Currently Im in an RS6, before that I had a Monaro and before that a Mazda 3 MPS, so I would tend to go towards performance, even then, the most I paid for insurance was 1,200 GBP i think.

hjoeboy wrote: »

I dont really trust those compare websites but I guess there good as a start point. Out with the phone book me thinks!!

Really? I dont think I would trust a company that is scared to compete in open comparsion with its rivals!

deaglan169

i work in the north but live in the south plan is in the new year to move up also, i have friends that live in the north and im amazed at how expensive insurance is, but the saving is offset against the tax, alot of my friends use hughes insurance brokers and axa seem to be the pick for northern insurance, im insured on work van with irish licence no probem there at all