Dealer regged car as D reg instead of MH - can I change it?

maithancailin

Buying a UK reg car and dealer just confirmed me the new reg is D but I wanted it as my own home county reg MH, can I change it myself or is it too late???

tossy

Too late unfortunately. buying a UK car from an Irish dealer is a mine field i presume you got the original UK reg and did a HPI check ?

bazz26

They normally go by the address either on a utility bill or the address associated with your PPS number.

Del2005

maithancailin wrote: »

Buying a UK reg car and dealer just confirmed me the new reg is D but I wanted it as my own home county reg MH, can I change it myself or is it too late???

They letter on the plate should be the county of address you gave them, did you use a Dublin address when dealing with the dealer?

maithancailin

Yes did all the checks, I presumed it would be reg as my county where I live. Dealer tells me I can change it...........

maithancailin

I presumed he was registering it by the address I gave him when purchasing the car, but when he went to pay the VRT he registered it as Dublin, is there nothing I can do??

R.O.R

If it hasn't been taxed yet, you should be able to re-register it. That's the case with brand new cars anyway.

Wonder what address was given to get the D Reg?

fl4pj4ck

keep in mind that D reg might have a better resale value

_Kaiser_

R.O.R wrote: »

If it hasn't been taxed yet, you should be able to re-register it. That's the case with brand new cars anyway.

Wonder what address was given to get the D Reg?

Really? I wonder does that only apply to imports/new cars?

I'd actually pay money if I could re-register mine as a D I'm surprised Leo or Noonan haven't come up with it as an extra money spinner

maithancailin

R.O.R wrote: »

If it hasn't been taxed yet, you should be able to re-register it. That's the case with brand new cars anyway.

Wonder what address was given to get the D Reg?

He was paying the VRT so Im assuming he used the dealers address, anyway he rang me back just now to say it can be changed he will have all the paperwork for me tomorrow so I'll let yee know how I get on , thanks for all your advice!

R.O.R

maithancailin wrote: »

He was paying the VRT so Im assuming he used the dealers address, anyway he rang me back just now to say it can be changed he will have all the paperwork for me tomorrow so I'll let yee know how I get on , thanks for all your advice!

Don't be freaked if you end up with an RF100 and VRT receipt, with the D reg printed, and scribbled out for the new MH Reg. It's OK that way or the other way is an RF100 manually written out.

I've had both for new cars that were registered to one county then re-registered elsewhere.

nc19

Why would it bother you? Ive had regs from loads of different counties. Its not important

BMJD

Dublin is superior to Meath anyway so you're better off with the D reg.

djimi

nc19 wrote: »

Why would it bother you? Ive had regs from loads of different counties. Its not important

Each to their own; I wouldnt drive an MH reg car if I had a choice

Idbatterim

the reg may effect resale price alright, more likely if its a premium car...

ironclaw

djimi wrote: »

Each to their own; I wouldnt drive an MH reg car if I had a choice

Genuine question, but why? Surely the overall spec, trim, condition etc is way more important than the two letters on the front / back?

gordongekko

Doesn't the vrt now go to the local council to help fund it rather than directly to central funds so if it's a d reg it will go to the Dublin rather than mh.

djimi

ironclaw wrote: »

Genuine question, but why? Surely the overall spec, trim, condition etc is way more important than the two letters on the front / back?

It wouldnt put me off buying a car if the car did everything that I wanted it to, but like I said given a choice Id prefer it didnt have an MH reg. I guess Im just a little bit racist like that :pac:

MarkR

Make sure you're classed as the first owner in the country on the documents. Just in case it was registered to the dealer before you.

djimi

MarkR wrote: »

Make sure you're classed as the first owner in the country on the documents. Just in case it was registered to the dealer before you.

A dealer doesnt count as an owner I dont think?

CiniO

maithancailin wrote: »

Buying a UK reg car and dealer just confirmed me the new reg is D but I wanted it as my own home county reg MH, can I change it myself or is it too late???

What difference does it make?
County codes in Ireland mean nothing, as they don't change with change of owner to one living in different county or owner changing address to different county.
Therefore everyone is using cars with every possible county letters.

Nonsense to even bother thinking about them.

They would make sense if they showed county of residence of the owner. But in current form those county codes mean absolutely nothing.

Wabbit Ears

Far better resale value on a D reg car. Absolute madness to devalue it this way

ironclaw

Wabbit Ears wrote: »

Far better resale value on a D reg car. Absolute madness to devalue it this way

Always found that to be the greatest load of Celtic-Tiger-esque nonsense. If someone offered me less for a car because of the reg, I'd actually laugh and end the sale there. Its the same car, the only difference is what a piece of pressed metal says on the front and back.

AntiRip

Was looking at a car today and the dealer said he reg them as D plates because of resale value and easier to sell. He was caught a couple times with people buying cars and when they realised they were KY plates they backed out of the sale.

He said one lady said as long as the plates weren't KY, LK or CE she didn't mind. Crazy stuff altogether but obviously people think like that so a D plate is probably best for resale.

CiniO

AntiRip wrote: »

Was looking at a car today and the dealer said he reg them as D plates because of resale value and easier to sell. He was caught a couple times with people buying cars and when they realised they were KY plates they backed out of the sale.

He said one lady said as long as the plates weren't KY, LK or CE she didn't mind. Crazy stuff altogether but obviously people think like that so a D plate is probably best for resale.

It just proves how utterly stupid some people are.

CiniO

CiniO wrote: »

What difference does it make?
County codes in Ireland mean nothing, as they don't change with change of owner to one living in different county or owner changing address to different county.
Therefore everyone is using cars with every possible county letters.

Nonsense to even bother thinking about them.

They would make sense if they showed county of residence of the owner. But in current form those county codes mean absolutely nothing.

Maybe people just prefer to have the reg of the county they are from?

It wouldn't be a deciding factor in buying a car but given the choice I'd prefer to drive a G reg as that's where I'm from, like you would wear your county colours etc.

cabledude

CiniO wrote: »

It just proves how utterly stupid some people are.

Hell of a lot of stupid people walking around on the surface of this planet.

I once heard of a man who was from Kilkenny and who had spent his entire adult life in Waterford. He was buying a new car and he enquired from the dealer if he could have KK on the plates as opposed to W. The dealer asked 'why'?

The reply was that as a Kilkenny man he was happy that they had won the All-Ireland that September and would like to rub it in his Waterford neighbors faces.

Wierd.

CiniO

Bexley Attractive Statistics wrote: »

Maybe people just prefer to have the reg of the county they are from?

It wouldn't be a deciding factor in buying a car but given the choice I'd prefer to drive a G reg as that's where I'm from, like you would wear your county colours etc.

If majority of people really prefer having own county letter on reg, so why don't we have a system where reg gets changed when you purchase a car from different county or move to different county?

BTW - I wouldn't wear any county (or country) colours

CiniO

CiniO wrote: »

If majority of people really prefer having own county letter on reg, so why don't we have a system where reg gets changed when you purchase a car from different county or move to different county?

I think we should be allowed to change reg if we want but not be forced to.

i.e. Buy a D reg and change it to a G reg as it's my home county, then I change the address to Cork as I'm living here at the moment but still be able to keep the G reg.

hardCopy

CiniO wrote: »

It just proves how utterly stupid some people are.

Is it really any more stupid than wanting to choose a particular colour?

Comhrá

It just proves how utterly stupid some people are.

What a totally ignorant statement.

People are free to choose whatever letter they prefer, just as they're free to make any other personal choices like colour etc. when buying a car without someone calling them "utterly stupid"

This is one of the most narrow-minded opinions I have ever read on this forum - or any other forum for that matter.

Moneymaker

AntiRip wrote: »

Was looking at a car today and the dealer said he reg them as D plates because of resale value and easier to sell. He was caught a couple times with people buying cars and when they realised they were KY plates they backed out of the sale.

Yet another completely facepalmingly ridiculous aspect of Irish motoring.

Jesus wept.

CiniO

hardCopy wrote: »

Is it really any more stupid than wanting to choose a particular colour?

Of course.
Colour is a matter of personal preference and taste.

Number plate is just to display officially assigned number which in general should mean nothing.
My car might look brilliant in blue, but horrible in grey.
But what letters and numbers are there on my number plate won't change anything about my car

bazz26

tippman1 wrote: »

What a totally ignorant statement.

People are free to choose whatever letter they prefer, just as they're free to make any other personal choices like colour etc. when buying a car without someone calling them "utterly stupid"

This is one of the most narrow-minded opinions I have ever read on this forum - or any other forum for that matter.

I think the point he was trying to make was that not buying a specific used car because it has a certain county on the reg despite the car being exactly everything else you were looking for, is a bit daft. And even more so if paying a premium for an identical car with the right reg.

CiniO

tippman1 wrote: »

What a totally ignorant statement.

People are free to choose whatever letter they prefer,

No, they are not.
Registration number is assigned to you depending on year of first registration of your vehicle, county in which you live and amount of cars that were registered in this country in this year before.

Letters and numbers on number plate are there to identify vehicle, not to suit anyone's preference.

just as they're free to make any other personal choices like colour etc. when buying a car without someone calling them "utterly stupid"

This is one of the most narrow-minded opinions I have ever read on this forum - or any other forum for that matter.

I call stupid people who condition purchase of vehicle on number plate is has.
I'm free to have my own opinion, and it's definitely not narrow-minded.

Registration number is for identification purposes - not to make cars more or less desired.

68 lost souls

From my understanding of it a lot of the reason is that people assume (wrongly or rightly) that the roads are better in Dublin then compared to the bog and therefore people will pay a higher price for a car that hasn't had a hard life. Now I don't necessarily agree for example the stop start driving of Dublin city could do worse damage to a car then the nice cruising drive on a nation road of a commuter but that's why they sell for more with a D reg.

When I was buying the golf countless (may be an exaggeration) people warned me off buying any DL cars.

joeperry

If its an import and a D reg will it be 12XXXX number. I hate a reg with too many numbers.

CiniO

68 lost souls wrote: »

From my understanding of it a lot of the reason is that people assume (wrongly or rightly) that the roads are better in Dublin then compared to the bog and therefore people will pay a higher price for a car that hasn't had a hard life. Now I don't necessarily agree for example the stop start driving of Dublin city could do worse damage to a car then the nice cruising drive on a nation road of a commuter but that's why they sell for more with a D reg.

When I was buying the golf countless (may be an exaggeration) people warned me off buying any DL cars.

1. D reg doesn't mean at all that car was driven in Dublin.
I have a car with D reg which is 13 years old with over 220k kms on the clock, and most likely this car was never in Dublin. It spend half of it's life cruising between Galway and Kerry, and another half flying around bumpy boggy Mayo roads.

2. Car driven on bad roads does not automatically mean it had hard life.
Indeed - suspension might suffer, but that's about it. I'd be much more vary of buying car used in Dublin than car used in Mayo, Donegal or Kerry.

CiniO

joeperry wrote: »

If its an import and a D reg will it be 12XXXX number. I hate a reg with too many numbers.

It makes them hard to read and remember so this denies the whole purpose of having number plates.

Ireland with 2.5 million vehicles registered uses number plates 9 (probably soon more) character long, while UK with 40 million vehicles can go with 7 characters on number plate - amazing.

Moffett

Be it right, or be it wrong, a Dublin registered car is more valuable. An LD registered Lamborghini would be hard to shift unless to a Longford man. It wouldn't bother me personally but I wouldn't like people to think I was from Longford either.

Rabbo

Jesus, it's hard to believe some people would value a car more because it has a D reg.

Down here in Cork, a D reg. actually reduces the value of a car :pac:

Moffett

Aye, but a KY would be a hard sale in Cork I believe!

cabledude

Rabbo wrote: »

Jesus, it's hard to believe some people would value a car more because it has a D reg.

Down here in Cork, a D reg. actually reduces the value of a car :pac:

Same for most of the country IMO. A 'D' reg anywhere outside Dublin means cops. Or a repmobile. Who the f**k would want to buy a cop car or a repmobile.

high horse

fl4pj4ck wrote: »

keep in mind that D reg might have a better resale value

Only in Dublin...

Moneymaker

Moneymaker wrote: »

Yet another completely facepalmingly ridiculous aspect of Irish motoring.

Jesus wept.

People pay thousands for personalised number plates in the UK.

CiniO wrote: »

No, they are not.
Registration number is assigned to you depending on year of first registration of your vehicle, county in which you live and amount of cars that were registered in this country in this year before.

Letters and numbers on number plate are there to identify vehicle, not to suit anyone's preference.



I call stupid people who condition purchase of vehicle on number plate is has.
I'm free to have my own opinion, and it's definitely not narrow-minded.

Registration number is for identification purposes - not to make cars more or less desired.

There is absolutely no doubt that certain letter and number combinations look better than others. I regularly notice certain reg plates being more symmetric etc or if the number matches the model of car etc. I also notice other and dislike them. For instance I don't think regs with less than three numbers after the county letter look great.

Fred Swanson

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Noccy_Mondy

Import a car yourselves lads, that's where it's at. Choose your colour, spec, everything and register it in your own county, then there's no bother. I wouldn't buy a car basing it on "ohh whats the resale value in X years". I buy it because I want it and not trying to please future buyers by worrying about the reg!

If you chose not to get an import, as long as you don't get a Roscommon reg, all is ok :pac:

Noccy_Mondy

Noccy_Mondy wrote: »

Import a car yourselves lads, that's where it's at. Choose your colour, spec, everything and register it in your own county, then there's no bother. I wouldn't buy a car basing it on "ohh whats the resale value in X years". I buy it because I want it and not trying to please future buyers by worrying about the reg!

If you chose not to get an import, as long as you don't get a Roscommon reg, all is ok :pac:

Or buy a new car...

Noccy_Mondy

Bexley Attractive Statistics wrote: »

Or buy a new car...

Well I was referring to pre-owned cars, rather than a brand new car.

Pawwed Rig

Rabbo wrote: »

Jesus, it's hard to believe some people would value a car more because it has a D reg.

:pac: That is true

Rabbo wrote: »

Down here in Cork, a D reg. actually reduces the value of a car :pac:

Eh??

Moneymaker

Bexley Attractive Statistics wrote: »

People pay thousands for personalised number plates in the UK.

What does that have to do with anything?