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Budget Car Hire

  • 20-09-2014 11:14am
    #1
    18MonthsaSlave
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 574 ✭✭✭


    UK registered Hire cars

    I arrived in Dublin Airport and Budget Car Hire gave me an english registered year old 208(nice car). They appeared to have loads of english registered cars in the compound. Does anyone know what is going on here?


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  • #2
    afatbollix
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,102 ✭✭✭afatbollix


    registering them in the north to save on the VRT by the looks of it.

    Saying that last time I rented a car in Belfast they gave me a Irish reged car.


  • #3
    XsApollo
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    I presume it's people renting cars in the north and leaving them in Dublin on the return leg and vice versa.


  • #4
    18MonthsaSlave
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    Irish hire companies have an exemption from VRT I think.


  • #5
    18MonthsaSlave
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    XsApollo wrote: »
    I presume it's people renting cars in the north and leaving them in Dublin on the return leg and vice versa.
    It is a UK registration, north Northern Ireland and it was tuned in with loads of UK radio stations.


  • #6
    For Forks Sake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,751 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    Were you retuning the car to a depot up north? Would've been handier for Budget than loading it on a truck, and make a few quid off it.


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  • #7
    18MonthsaSlave
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 574 ✭✭✭18MonthsaSlave


    no. dublin pickup and drop off.


  • #8
    Gavman84
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    When I worked in Hertz we used to get North cars down to cork. Would send them back if someone was going back up one way but used in South as normal otherwise for awhile. Think they can only be used for short term and have to go back up eventually.


  • #9
    CiniO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,069 ✭✭✭✭CiniO


    How do it go in line with prohibition of Irish residents to drive foreign registered cars in Ireland?


  • #10
    Cleveland Hot Pocket
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,193 ✭✭✭Cleveland Hot Pocket


    CiniO wrote: »
    How do it go in line with prohibition of Irish residents to drive foreign registered cars in Ireland?

    That's been proven as contra to EU law when the car is not permanently yours (eg not a loan or hire)
    There was a thread on it the other day here.


  • #11
    CiniO
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    Cleveland Hot Pocket wrote: »
    That's been proven as contra to EU law when the car is not permanently yours (eg not a loan or hire)
    There was a thread on it the other day here.

    I've seen that thread.
    But does that mean it's not illegal to do it anymore?

    The law hasn't change afaik.


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  • #12
    corktina
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    Hire cars are an exception I believe


  • #13
    Cleveland Hot Pocket
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    CiniO wrote: »
    I've seen that thread.
    But does that mean it's not illegal to do it anymore?

    The law hasn't change afaik.

    Well the law either has to change or it will be ignored.
    Unenforceable in light of the EU ruling.


  • #14
    pippip
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    Maybe there's no way around it but with all the customs checks I've seen in Dublin lately I'd be well pissed to be a tourist and be pulled in by them due to the rental giving me a uk reg.

    I know I'd be innocent and all and once they see the papers be waived on but still a situation that shouldn't happen. And as a possibly non english speaking tourist just renting a car, a checkpoint may take a while to sort out.


  • #15
    CiniO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,069 ✭✭✭✭CiniO


    Do you reckon there are many non-english speaking tourists who are resident in Ireland?


  • #16
    Cleveland Hot Pocket
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,193 ✭✭✭Cleveland Hot Pocket


    CiniO wrote: »
    Do you reckon there are many non-english speaking tourists who are resident in Ireland?
    Plenty.
    And plenty of "tourists" that are actually Irish and are living here driving on UK plates.

    Hence why we must have checkpoints for these cars, otherwise no one would pay VRT!


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