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Car wrongly registered

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  • 15-07-2016 7:25pm
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    AutoMan79
    Registered Users Posts: 158 ✭✭


    I have just noticed that my car is registered as estate but it is actually a hatchback.. Will department of transport be able to change it.


    Need advice on this.

    Thanks


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    colm_mcm
    Registered Users Posts: 73,384 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Is it a VW? Quite common if so.


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    FortySeven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,296 ✭✭✭FortySeven


    Common on any import. I see certs weekly with chassis number wrong.


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    AutoMan79
    Registered Users Posts: 158 ✭✭AutoMan79


    It is vw 152


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    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    OP you can get it changed but why bother, it makes absolutely no difference to anyone.


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    colm_mcm
    Registered Users Posts: 73,384 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Yeah.a load of hatches are down as estates. Don't think it makes any odds to anyone.


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    AutoMan79
    Registered Users Posts: 158 ✭✭AutoMan79


    FortySeven wrote: »
    Common on any import. I see certs weekly with chassis number wrong.

    It s Irish car


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    FortySeven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,296 ✭✭✭FortySeven


    AutoMan79 wrote: »
    It s Irish car

    If chassis is right I wouldn't worry about it. All service and parts done from chassis number.


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    AutoMan79
    Registered Users Posts: 158 ✭✭AutoMan79


    Would like to change it coz of Insurance and to avoid questions when I sell it..


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    colm_mcm
    Registered Users Posts: 73,384 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    It's a non issue in reality. Yours isn't the only one out there registered like this, as I said its commonplace on vws.

    There's no golf estate model on sale in Ireland so no possible confusion.


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    AutoMan79
    Registered Users Posts: 158 ✭✭AutoMan79


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    It's a non issue in reality. Yours isn't the only one out there registered like this, as I said its commonplace on vws.

    There's no golf estate model on sale in Ireland so no possible confusion.

    There is Golf Estate in Ireland.


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    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    AutoMan79 wrote: »
    I have just noticed that my car is registered as estate but it is actually a hatchback.. Will department of transport be able to change it.
    Yes, ring them and ask how to.


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    bazz26
    Registered Users Posts: 51,133 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    AutoMan79 wrote: »
    There is Golf Estate in Ireland.

    You will need to fill out the RF111 form below for change of details on the logbook, section 3 is what you interested in. Have a read of the form first as some sections require a main dealer to confirm and stamp the changes:

    https://www.motortax.ie/OMT/pdf/RF111_en.pdf


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    GM228
    Registered Users Posts: 8,925 ✭✭✭GM228


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    There's no golf estate model on sale in Ireland so no possible confusion.

    The Golf Estate went off the Irish market in 2004, but returned in October 2014!


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    robtri
    Registered Users Posts: 5,473 ✭✭✭robtri


    damn thats tough....

    looks like you will have to drop the car into the bodyshop and have it converted to an estate.....
    big job that ....





    :)


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    delly
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 7,652 Mod ✭✭✭✭delly


    OP, my 3 series coupe is registered as a saloon. I copped the mistake on the insurance cert, which was auto filled from their system. A simple call to them sorted the insurance cert, but it's still wrong on the reg cert.


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    AutoMan79
    Registered Users Posts: 158 ✭✭AutoMan79


    bazz26 wrote: »
    You will need to fill out the RF111 form below for change of details on the logbook, section 3 is what you interested in. Have a read of the form first as some sections require a main dealer to confirm and stamp the changes:

    https://www.motortax.ie/OMT/pdf/RF111_en.pdf

    Thanks a lot. I really appreciate your help.


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    GM228
    Registered Users Posts: 8,925 ✭✭✭GM228


    robtri wrote: »
    looks like you will have to drop the car into the bodyshop and have it converted to an estate

    Saves all the hassle of re-registering the body style! :)


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    AutoMan79
    Registered Users Posts: 158 ✭✭AutoMan79


    delly wrote: »
    OP, my 3 series coupe is registered as a saloon. I copped the mistake on the insurance cert, which was auto filled from their system. A simple call to them sorted the insurance cert, but it's still wrong on the reg cert.

    I want to be sure if something happens to the car that paperwork is right.


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    AutoMan79
    Registered Users Posts: 158 ✭✭AutoMan79


    robtri wrote: »
    damn thats tough....

    looks like you will have to drop the car into the bodyshop and have it converted to an estate.....
    big job that ....





    :)

    Hahaha might be easier to do it haha


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    #21
    delly
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 7,652 Mod ✭✭✭✭delly


    AutoMan79 wrote: »
    I want to be sure if something happens to the car that paperwork is right.

    What the insurance company have on record is what matters, but sure change it with Shannon if you're worried.


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    JoeA3
    Registered Users Posts: 7,409 ✭✭✭JoeA3


    My Golf R is down as an "estate" as was the GTI before it. Not an issue, I never bothered doing anything about it.


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    #23
    AutoMan79
    Registered Users Posts: 158 ✭✭AutoMan79


    I am so amazed how many issues are here with paperwork.. So is that a fault of VW guys who are sending the paper work or ppl at the registration office ???


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    FortySeven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,296 ✭✭✭FortySeven


    AutoMan79 wrote: »
    I am so amazed how many issues are here with paperwork.. So is that a fault of VW guys who are sending the paper work or ppl at the registration office ???

    Vrt are appalling. Constant mistakes with chassis recording. I sell parts where chassis is paramount and you end up guessing the s should be a 5 or the 1 might be an l. I often have to tell customers to go and get the number off the car.


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    ianobrien
    Registered Users Posts: 2,756 ✭✭✭ianobrien


    I had the same with the Leon FR. It was down as an estate when SEAT were not selling a 184PS estate. I copped it before I went to tax it for the first time in the tax office. It was changed there and then when I pointed out the car out the window. If a tax disc was issued, it couldn't have been changed so quickly.

    I copped it as I looked at the computer screen when the civil servant was inputting details and getting the tax figure.


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    Neilw
    Registered Users Posts: 3,777 ✭✭✭Neilw


    JoeA3 wrote: »
    My Golf R is down as an "estate" as was the GTI before it. Not an issue, I never bothered doing anything about it.

    So is mine.

    Any idea why that is? When getting insurance last week the wrong car is selected when I input the reg.


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    R.O.R
    Registered Users Posts: 12,673 ✭✭✭✭R.O.R


    Neilw wrote: »
    So is mine.

    Any idea why that is? When getting insurance last week the wrong car is selected when I input the reg.

    Just checked 2 hatches and an estate (a Golfs) I've had registered this month and they are all down as estates. Only golf's correct are the vans.


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    JoeA3
    Registered Users Posts: 7,409 ✭✭✭JoeA3


    Neilw wrote: »
    So is mine.

    Any idea why that is? When getting insurance last week the wrong car is selected when I input the reg.

    No idea Neil. Has never made any difference and I never had the motivation to chase it up!


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    Mintoe
    Registered Users Posts: 340 ✭✭Mintoe


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    It's a non issue in reality. Yours isn't the only one out there registered like this, as I said its commonplace on vws.

    There's no golf estate model on sale in Ireland so no possible confusion.

    For a long time there was no new golf estate model on sale in Ireland in VW dealers but there is now for the last year or so.


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    bazz26
    Registered Users Posts: 51,133 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    I'd say the mistake is historical and nobody bothered or cared to rectify it. More than likely the standard "computer says estate" mentality in Government departments.


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    RedorDead
    Registered Users Posts: 1,596 ✭✭✭RedorDead


    Its all to do with how the cars are classified on the EU type approval documents. If you check it anywhere in Europe it will be the same as it is in Ireland.


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