A lot of dealers registering imports before sold these days

goochy

noticed this lately any idea why ? is it because they feel car will look better to prospective buyer with plates or is it that they want to be certain of vrt costs before selling ? dont all imports have to get tested to get registered ?

Guy:Incognito

goochy wrote: »

dont all imports have to get tested to get registered ?

Not unless it was changed very recently. You go to the NCTS alright but they just check the VIN is correct and if any extras etc that would affect the VRT.

The NCT itself is booked separately.

dharma200

sorrycan I hijack thread and ask... if I am buying a car from an Irish dealer tomorrow and it has UK plates, the price of the vrt is included in the sale.. can I drive the car away that day or do I have to wait until dealer has put car through the vrt process? Am considering buying a car but need to drive it away tomorrow so the uk reg car from a dealer might not suit..many thanks and sorry again!

colm_mcm

goochy wrote: »

noticed this lately any idea why ? is it because they feel car will look better to prospective buyer with plates or is it that they want to be certain of vrt costs before selling ? dont all imports have to get tested to get registered ?

Aren't they just putting dummy plates like 12 C 2012 etc?

Could they not be imports that were regged a few years back too?

corktina

dharma200 wrote: »

sorrycan I hijack thread and ask... if I am buying a car from an Irish dealer tomorrow and it has UK plates, the price of the vrt is included in the sale.. can I drive the car away that day or do I have to wait until dealer has put car through the vrt process? Am considering buying a car but need to drive it away tomorrow so the uk reg car from a dealer might not suit..many thanks and sorry again!

I'd wait until all the paperwork was in order before buying never mind driving away.

goochy

no cars must be irish reg to drive away

not these cars are fresh imports on proper plates not promotional plates - there is a dealer who deals in imports near my job nearly all the cars he gets in now get plated soon after he buys them and have seen quite a few other dealers doing it too , maybe they were quoted vrt on cars but when cars were sold and they went to pay vrt it had gone up ?

bazz26

That sounds a little daft, what if someone up the country buys one and being the first Irish owner it should be registered to the county of their address. Maybe they are just sold? Dealers afaik can pay the VRT upfront and then the registration process is complete once the new owner buys it.

colm_mcm

goochy wrote: »

no cars must be irish reg to drive away

not these cars are fresh imports on proper plates not promotional plates - there is a dealer who deals in imports near my job nearly all the cars he gets in now get plated soon after he buys them and have seen quite a few other dealers doing it too , maybe they were quoted vrt on cars but when cars were sold and they went to pay vrt it had gone up ?

That's crazy. He's adding an owner to the car and making the car less attractive to those outside his county.

I've honestly never heard of a dealer doing this.

Any link to this dealer?

bazz26

I remember buying a fresh UK import back in 2013 from a dealer and he had already paid the VRT on it when it came into the country but it didn't get registered until it was bought by me. I remember having to provide my PPSN, etc., alright. I assumed this was the norm for legit dealers.

goochy

afaik dealers dont appear as owners of cars so it will know show as that there is an irish owner already

Bpmull

goochy wrote: »

afaik dealers dont appear as owners of cars so it will know show as that there is an irish owner already

They do show up as owners when they demo new cars so I assume it would be the same for them regging imports.

bazz26

goochy wrote: »

afaik dealers dont appear as owners of cars so it will know show as that there is an irish owner already

So who goes down as the first Irish owner if the car is issued a registration plate and the car is not sold yet?

billy few mates

My son bought a UK import from a dealer near us, the car had UK plates on it when we looked at it but the price quoted included the Irish registration. He told us about the system that dealers have in place with the Revenue Dept here where they have an account where they pay some sort of a deposit (iirc) that allows them to hold off registering the car until it's sold so it can be registered in the county where the new buyer lives.
In our case we agreed to buy the car at a price that included VRT and NCT (and service and timing belt) on the Saturday, on Monday he called us with the new registration so we could insure it, on Wednesday he delivered it all done and dusted with my son as the second registered owner but the first Irish owner.

billy few mates

Here it is....
http://www.ros.ie/info/faq/preinspectfaq.html

colm_mcm

billy few mates wrote: »

My son bought a UK import from a dealer near us, the car had UK plates on it when we looked at it but the price quoted included the Irish registration. He told us about the system that dealers have in place with the Revenue Dept here where they have an account where they pay some sort of a deposit (iirc) that allows them to hold off registering the car until it's sold so it can be registered in the county where the new buyer lives.
In our case we agreed to buy the car at a price that included VRT and NCT (and service and timing belt) on the Saturday, on Monday he called us with the new registration so we could insure it, on Wednesday he delivered it all done and dusted with my son as the second registered owner but the first Irish owner.

That would be the normal process alright.

dharma200

many thanks for the replies ye all just saved me a 60km round trip... cheers

goochy

buyer not sure how it works but that supposed to how it works