Buying a car in NI

1984baby

Hi, I am purchasing a new car and I am considering checking out car dealers in Newry/Belfast area.
Do they accept Irish reg cars as trade ins there??
(prob a stupid question)

bmwguy

1984baby wrote: »

Hi, I am purchasing a new car and I am considering checking out car dealers in Newry/Belfast area.
Do they accept Irish reg cars as trade ins there??
(prob a stupid question)

Generally yes but nobody can tell you of you will get a good allowance or not.

bazz26

Some do, some don't, really depends if they have dealer contacts down south where they can sell it back as most won't bother going to the trouble of reregistering it on NI plates. Also you will get the NI trade in valuation for it which generally will be lower than down here but then again the car your buying is probably cheaper in NI too.

Atlantic Dawn

Look at similar models of what you have to trade in on Autotrader.co.uk and knock about 30% off it, you will do well to get that much as trade in against the car your buying.

griffin100

I bought a car of an NI dealer last month (thanks to the guys in the importing thread) and the salesman mentioned that he'd had a couple of 'southerners' want to trade in cars but that he couldn't offer them anything close to what they were looking as his dealership weren't at all keen on taking in southern registers cars.

CeilingFly

They will simply sell it through the trade in the south.

Less "cash price" discount is built into UK car prices, so an artificial high trade in price like what you get down here doesn't exist.

Unless its under 4 years old, sell it through an auction - merlin or Wilson or Paul cooke - and haggle a "cash price" discount.

witless_steve

Maybe I'm missing something but if it's "new" new won't VAT have to be paid on top of the VRT?

bazz26

OP probably means new to them as opposed to brand new.