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    #32
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users Posts: 73,426 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    It's all done on ROS.

    You can even load up the cars details in December and pull the trigger on your phone on the way home from the pub after New Year's Eve.


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    #33
    KwackerJack
    Registered Users Posts: 2,126 ✭✭✭KwackerJack


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    His last 8 cars have had the chape tax to be fair.
    People buying things is good for the economy.

    Typical Irish thinking......I'm not going to buy a big high spec Lexus for 10k because the tax is 1800

    But instead I'll spend 30k+ to get the cheap tax.........


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    #34
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users Posts: 73,426 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    You'll find Ford Focuses sell quite well outside Ireland too.


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    #35
    f140
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 875 ✭✭✭f140


    would you have to pay for that 171 lk 1 reg or whatever it was? As in how does he secure that he gets the 1st registered car for that year


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    #36
    Rackstar
    Registered Users Posts: 1,347 ✭✭✭Rackstar


    KwackerJack wrote: »
    Typical Irish thinking......I'm not going to buy a big high spec Lexus for 10k because the tax is 1800

    But instead I'll spend 30k+ to get the cheap tax.........

    He has had the cheap tax for 8 years. What he's after is a brand new car every year, not a 8/9 year old Lexus. That's what he wants and that's what he gets. Fair play to him.


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    #37
    Toyotafanboi
    Registered Users Posts: 12,917 ✭✭✭✭Toyotafanboi


    KwackerJack wrote: »
    Typical Irish thinking......I'm not going to buy a big high spec Lexus for 10k because the tax is 1800

    But instead I'll spend 30k+ to get the cheap tax.........

    Someone has to buy that Lexus new, for it now to be secondhand and worth 10k.

    Typical "x" attitude, buying new Lexus and allowing them depreciate over time.


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    #38
    goochy
    Registered Users Posts: 4,316 ✭✭✭goochy


    Was looking around x2 land rover dealerships in Dublin over Xmas , thought they would have been packed with new sold vehicles waiting for 171 reg played but very little stock. Maybe they are waiting for new discovery or is the uncertainty effecting this end of market ?


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    #39
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users Posts: 73,426 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    f140 wrote: »
    would you have to pay for that 171 lk 1 reg or whatever it was? As in how does he secure that he gets the 1st registered car for that year

    Limerick is reserved for the Lord Mayor I think. But in counties where it isn't: it's first up, best dressed


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    #40
    Toyotafanboi
    Registered Users Posts: 12,917 ✭✭✭✭Toyotafanboi


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    Limerick is reserved for the Lord Mayor I think. But in counties where it isn't: it's first up, best dressed

    The parents accidentally got 12wx1 the other year, still have it in fact.

    Didn't order or ask for it.


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    #41
    Dia1988
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,252 ✭✭✭Dia1988


    I like the Focus, even if it's 6 years on the go!

    That model Focus is much smaller than the Mk2.5 Focus which is a drawback!


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    #42
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users Posts: 73,426 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Toyotafanboi wrote: »
    The parents accidentally got 12wx1 the other year, still have it in fact.

    Didn't order or ask for it.



    Yeah, it's just whoever gets there first. I never bothered, it started at 200 back when I was selling so no real motivation. A colleague of mine would often get 200,201,202 etc as he didn't really go out on NYE. Back then I'd be in a heap until the 3rd so I couldn't use an ATM on the 1st nevermind register a car on ROS.


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    #43
    gctest50
    Registered Users Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭gctest50


    dfeo wrote: »
    We seriously need to remove the year from the plate. People are flocking in their droves to get their brand bastarding new fūĉkïñĝ car of cereal box spec for chape road tax and so the neighbours can see.

    After the first NCT, cars should get a number plate with a yellow background


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    #44
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users Posts: 73,426 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    gctest50 wrote: »
    After the first NCT, cars should get a number plate with a yellow background

    Why though?
    goochy wrote: »
    Was looking around x2 land rover dealerships in Dublin over Xmas , thought they would have been packed with new sold vehicles waiting for 171 reg played but very little stock. Maybe they are waiting for new discovery or is the uncertainty effecting this end of market ?

    Id say they're in storage indoors somewhere.


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    #45
    Dia1988
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,252 ✭✭✭Dia1988


    gctest50 wrote: »
    After the first NCT, cars should get a number plate with a yellow background

    Or have the car programmed not to go over 50kmph as they are now an old car and potentially dangerous!!


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    #46
    Dr. Kenneth Noisewater
    Registered Users Posts: 3,236 ✭✭✭Dr. Kenneth Noisewater


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    He's not Focus-ed enough.




    My coat. I'll get it.

    Seems he can af-Ford it though.

    I forgot my coat.


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    #47
    xabi
    Registered Users Posts: 2,997 ✭✭✭xabi


    He should be invited on to do one of those ask me threads. Fair play to him if he likes having a brand new car every January more power to him. But I think if it was me I'd try a different manufacturer, or at least a different model.


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    #48
    dazza161989
    Registered Users Posts: 882 ✭✭✭dazza161989


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    Why though?



    Id say they're in storage indoors somewhere.

    I work at a dealers and sales of land rovers for this year have flopped . I think LR's decision to scrap the commercial option on the new discovery is going to bite them in the ass!!


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    #49
    rebel.ranter
    Registered Users Posts: 3,570 ✭✭✭rebel.ranter


    ANXIOUS wrote: »
    Who is it? Do they always get one?

    Steve Jobs used to buy an identical coloured Mercedes SL every 6 months. In California you don't need to put a registration plate on the car for the first six months, so he never had to run with a number plate!

    https://www.google.ie/amp/www.cultofmac.com/126338/why-steve-jobs-mercedes-never-had-a-license-plate/amp/?client=safari


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    #50
    Nonoperational
    Registered Users Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭Nonoperational


    Gas. Take the piss put of the guy for the cheap tax etc but if he has the money and he likes sitting in to a new car every January then more power to him. As was said, its the same cost as 20 cigarettes a day.


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    #51
    Atari Jaguar
    Registered Users Posts: 985 ✭✭✭Atari Jaguar


    Can someone explain why we still have 1 at the end of the reg? I believe in 2013 it was because car dealers were concerned people wouldn't want a car "13" but I could be wrong. It seems stupid. It's 2017, not 20171


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    #52
    Shannon757
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,847 ✭✭✭✭Shannon757


    Atari Jaguar wrote: »
    Can someone explain why we still have 1 at the end of the reg? I believe in 2013 it was because car dealers were concerned people wouldn't want a car "13" but I could be wrong. It seems stupid. It's 2017, not 20171

    So they can sell more cars in July with the 172 etc


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    #53
    Atari Jaguar
    Registered Users Posts: 985 ✭✭✭Atari Jaguar


    Shannon757 wrote: »
    So they can sell more cars in July with the 172 etc

    Is that the actual reason!l? **** me. :rolleyes:


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    #54
    xabi
    Registered Users Posts: 2,997 ✭✭✭xabi


    Atari Jaguar wrote: »
    Is that the actual reason!l? **** me. :rolleyes:

    The fact that you believed it was superstitious is more of a **** me tbh


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    #55
    Shannon757
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,847 ✭✭✭✭Shannon757


    Atari Jaguar wrote: »
    Is that the actual reason!l? **** me. :rolleyes:

    I'm just guessing


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    #56
    rebel.ranter
    Registered Users Posts: 3,570 ✭✭✭rebel.ranter


    Shannon757 wrote: »
    So they can sell more cars in July with the 172 etc

    There's also another albeit a lesser issue (for now) that we are now enterprise my the territory where cars from the last century that did not get issued a ZV plate but rather got an aged identifiable plate e.g. 17-D-xxx. Obviously it's not a huge deal right now but as we push in to the next few decades it will become one, of course they could have held off until it really was an issue.....


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    #57
    Atari Jaguar
    Registered Users Posts: 985 ✭✭✭Atari Jaguar


    xabi wrote: »
    The fact that you believed it was superstitious is more of a **** me tbh

    Well why did they start only after 2012? That's what I was told and it adds up when that's when they started.


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    #58
    2Mad2BeMad
    Registered Users Posts: 2,790 ✭✭✭2Mad2BeMad


    Wasn't it in the papers about that 131/132 thing for plates over the unlucky number 13? I'm nearly sure thats why they changed it then as well. Or at least for what I can remember reading about.


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    #59
    Dia1988
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,252 ✭✭✭Dia1988


    What's more concerning is that anyone can go to a Motor Factors in Ireland and get any number plate they want without proof.

    In the UK only authorised agents can issue number plates and you must show the registration book and ID.

    There's nothing stopping anyone sticking a 171 LS 1 registration on a 2015 blue Focus and zooming up and down the M50. It's scandalous!


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    #60
    xabi
    Registered Users Posts: 2,997 ✭✭✭xabi


    Dia1988 wrote: »
    What's more concerning is that anyone can go to a Motor Factors in Ireland and get any number plate they want without proof.

    In the UK only authorised agents can issue number plates and you must show the registration book and ID.

    There's nothing stopping anyone sticking a 171 LS 1 registration on a 2015 blue Focus and zooming up and down the M50. It's scandalous!

    Exactly, happened to me recently.


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    #61
    rebel.ranter
    Registered Users Posts: 3,570 ✭✭✭rebel.ranter


    Dia1988 wrote: »
    What's more concerning is that anyone can go to a Motor Factors in Ireland and get any number plate they want without proof.

    In the UK only authorised agents can issue number plates and you must show the registration book and ID.

    There's nothing stopping anyone sticking a 171 LS 1 registration on a 2015 blue Focus and zooming up and down the M50. It's scandalous!


    With cheap, high quality printers it would be easy for anyone to print a vinyl sticker anyway in order to produce a fake number. Limiting who can make plates is futile.


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