Does county of car registration matter to you?

cannotlogin

I never knew this was a thing but it seems to be mentioned a lot in the Covid threads......Kerry/Galway/Waterford are fully of Dubz on their staycation, car park full of D reg cars etc.

I've never had a car registration plate that matched my home county or the county I live in. Never buy new usually 1-2 old and the reg number doesn't feature as a consideration when buying.

The only person I know who consistency has a reg number from the same county is by father who buys a new car every 3 years, same dealer, same model, etc but he's old school.

Is this really a thing?

corner of hells

cannotlogin wrote: »

I never knew this was a thing but it seems to be mentioned a lot in the Covid threads......Kerry/Galway/Waterford are fully of Dubz on their staycation, car park full of D reg cars etc.

I've never had a car registration plate that matched my home county or the county I live in. Never buy new usually 1-2 old and the reg number doesn't feature as a consideration when buying.

The only person I know who consistency has a reg number from the same county is by father who buys a new car every 3 years, same dealer, same model, etc but he's old school.

Is this really a thing?

Yeah , I'd hate have a Fingal Reg. car.

whisky_galore

Couldn't give a shiny shyte what the reg is.

EmmetSpiceland

Always get a D reg. Wouldn't feel “comfortable” in anything else.

Zebra3

Don't think the resale value is as good on anything with DL on the plates.

JohnnyFlash

I’d never buy a D reg, even though I live in Dublin. Don’t want to be mistaken for a jackeen.

kanadams123

Usually doesn't bother me . I'd rather not get a D plate though. *shrug*

seamusk84

My Yaris is a 201 KE and my Honda bike a 202 KE....Essentially I have banned myself from crossing the boarder as I'd currently be chased out. Reckon the car would be set on fire if I parked it at Liffey Valley!

My penchant for new vehicles has backfired on me with this regional lockdown....

murphyebass

Wouldn’t buy a car unless it was a Dublin reg.

More an ocd thing than anything. I live in Dublin so it feels right to have a Dublin reg car.

The other reason is the “typical (insert county) driver, get off the road, go back to ...”

Easier to have a D reg.

That said if I lived in cork I’d probably want a cork reg for the same reason.

the_syco

SO reg = good chance of rusty undercarriage.

hurleronditch

If you offered me a 20% discount on a Donegal reg car id struggle to take it. I have family from there and i wouldnt touch a car from up there. Bad roads and everyone from 17 to 107 seems to drive the hoop off every bucket on the road.

mycro2013

A car with a d reg would be seen as a neutral reg by the trade and one which could be retailed in any county within the republic.

Plus by selecting a non d reg on a high end vehicle you are limiting your potential buyer. Eg. Try shifting a range rover on a ky reg. Know of examples in the trade where the" wrong reg" resulted in less of a trade in being offered.

Consey

Anything except CN.

Dravokivich

I've had a car with KE and currently one with G.

Aglomerado

I've driven TS, L and G but never a CE, where I'm actually from! Not deliberate, just the way things planned out?

RMAOK

Had a few G regs, a CE and now a D reg. Couldn't give a damn what county is on the number plate so long as the car is going well.

chinwag

Lot of D cars around the country are owned by the locals.

65535

A 'D' reg is looked on as a company car outside of Dubland.

As an aside I'd personally prefer if the green plate method of
xxxx-D-202 was used because at least if you were knocked down or similar you would have the first few letters of the offender but as things stand you only get the year and county - we all read left to right

SmartinMartin

65535 wrote: »

A 'D' reg is looked on as a company car outside of Dubland.

As an aside I'd personally prefer if the green plate method of
xxxx-D-202 was used because at least if you were knocked down or similar you would have the first few letters of the offender but as things stand you only get the year and county - we all read left to right

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Rick_Rack

Well it would be nice to have your reg to the county you live in. so people can see your "looooocal"

Montage of Feck

A disproportionate amount of "boy racer" VW's and Audi's seem to be on DL plates.

spurious

I wouldn't buy a Donegal reg car, or one owned by someone up there. Seems like they all have big mileage and the roads are in bits.

.anon.

I'd prefer if we returned to letters and numbers that didn't overtly display the age of the car or where it was registered. I know, sad nerds with nothing better to do with themselves can tell you that a pre-1987 car with a KI reg was from Waterford county, and one with EI was Sligo or whatever, but most people wouldn't have a clue.

freshpopcorn

It doesn't really bother me to be honest.

Once we had a CE Golf and we're from Cork a lady on our road ended up with a Jetta a few number above ours.

Snails pace

I don't really mind what the reg is. I'd like if we had number plates like up north. They look nicer and you can't tell what year a car is. A car could be 10 years old but it would look brand new.

Ubbquittious

Wouldn't give a damn. Obviously if I won the Euro millions and I bought a brand new supercar I'd make sure to get it on LM plates just to stand out from the crowd but that would be the only exception

Loveinapril

Nope, couldn't care less. I am from Dublin and mostly have had D reg plates but I lived in Wicklow for a while and just so happened to buy a WW reg car right before the move. I thought that was nice! But overall, no, I wouldn't care.

EmmetSpiceland

Would just be worried that there’d be an odd smell off it if it wasn’t a Dublin reg.

When I said “odd” I mean, like, bad. Boiled cabbage or old, rotten, grass. The type that would linger.

.anon.

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

Would just be worried that there’d be an odd smell off it if it wasn’t a Dublin reg.

When I said “odd” I mean, like, bad. Boiled cabbage or old, rotten, grass. The type that would linger.

I had a Dublin reg car once and you couldn't move for the smell of heroin.

AdrianBalboa

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

Would just be worried that there’d be an odd smell off it if it wasn’t a Dublin reg.

When I said “odd” I mean, like, bad. Boiled cabbage or old, rotten, grass. The type that would linger.

It sounds bad to say it but I would never buy a secondhand car if it didn’t have a D reg on it. As my DH said you’d “never know where it’s been,” and frankly we would never need a car with a tow bar on it anyway. It’s a moot point in any case since we haven’t bought a secondhand car in years. I genuinely don’t even know where you would get one.

Chocolate

.anon. wrote: »

I'd prefer if we returned to letters and numbers that didn't overtly display the age of the car or where it was registered. I know, sad nerds with nothing better to do with themselves can tell you that a pre-1987 car with a KI reg was from Waterford county, and one with EI was Sligo or whatever, but most people wouldn't have a clue.

I must have been a sad nerd with nothing else to do.

You've just reminded me of the car games our parents used to play to keep us occupied on long journeys when we were kids.
(No mobile phones/ tablets for entertainment back then)
We used to know the all the county registrations.
We always went to Waterford so your reference to "KI" has just reactivated some fond memories! Thanks!

From "AI" and "ZN" land.

When I was buying a second hand MH car from a Dublin dealership, I remarked that I was delighted it had the proper reg for me. He said it would be considered a drawback in the dealership world as it would be harder to sell.

Come on the Royal!

Kylta

Reg never bother me as long the car goes who really gives a fu¢k whats on the plate

.anon.

Chocolate wrote: »

I must have been a sad nerd with nothing else to do.

You've just reminded me of the car games our parents used to play to keep us occupied on long journeys when we were kids.
(No mobile phones/ tablets for entertainment back then)
We used to know the all the county registrations.
We always went to Waterford so your reference to "KI" has just reactivated some fond memories! Thanks!

From "AI" and "ZN" land.

I went to school with someone who successfully badgered his father into buying a new car because their Ford Escort had the letters 'HIV' (Limerick?) on its number plate.

Grab All Association

In Ireland you’re shamed into buying a car with number plate snobbery, now twice a year!

Revert to the old system or introduce personalised number plates (think of the revenue County Councils/RSA etc would make with this)

.anon.

Grab All Association wrote: »

In Ireland you’re shamed into buying a car with number plate snobbery, now twice a year!

Revert to the old system or introduce personalised number plates (think of the revenue County Councils/RSA etc would make with this)

Personalised plates are a great way of identifying arseholes.

EmmetSpiceland

.anon. wrote: »

Personalised plates are a great way of identifying arseholes.

The “German” font on one is another.

Errashareesh

Grab All Association wrote: »

In Ireland you’re shamed into buying a car with number plate snobbery, now twice a year!

Jaysus who does that!

Potential-Monke

I heard it's only a Dublin thing, ie: Dubs will only buy D reg cars. I bought a 02 C Galant in Dubland once, it was €1000 cheaper than the same year/spec D reg Galant. Seller told me it's because Dubs wouldn't buy it because of the C reg. But I do admit to automatically judging D reg cars outside of Dubland as an asshole Dub, and they're usually the cars which are speeding/driving badly. Just my opinion.

I've had about 7 cars at this stage, and the current one is the first one with the local county reg. Doesn't bother me what's on mine, but as others said, I'd be wary of a DL reg because of the aforementioned bad care those cars usually get.

D reg are also the main of company cars for some reason, and all Garda cars are usually D reg (save for the "undercover" ones, which are usually rented locally).

65535

65535 wrote: »

A 'D' reg is looked on as a company car outside of Dubland.

As an aside I'd personally prefer if the green plate method of
xxxx-D-202 was used because at least if you were knocked down or similar you would have the first few letters of the offender but as things stand you only get the year and county - we all read left to right

I have finally found the person that needs the writing on the motorway to be upside down.

.anon.

.anon. wrote: »

I had a Dublin reg car once and you couldn't move for the smell of heroin.

What does heroin smell like?

GT89

Any car I've had has always been a D reg. I live in Dublin and I don't make a consious decision just happened that way.

Plumbthedepths

I look at the milage, check the bodywork and engine. The tax office doesn't give a shiny one where I live .

.anon.

Niner leprauchan wrote: »

What does heroin smell like?

Dublin.

Jade2015

I'm from Dublin and when I lived in Meath I bought a second hand car that needed to be re reg'd to Irish plates. They put MH on the plates but I bought the car in Dublin. I didnt know that they have to reg the car from the county you live in when getting an import re reg'd. I kinda wanted a D plate, but didnt bother me. I now dont live in either D or MH

cj maxx

I knew a man from Galway who drove his car to get taxed in Monaghan as that was his name.

Rubberchikken

Mines a D reg. Don't live there though.
Have had a couple of new cars with my own county reg. Doesn't make any difference to me what the reg is.
Knew someone who wouldn't have 13 in the reg. Can't figure that either.

Realt Dearg Sec

Errashareesh wrote: »

Jaysus who does that!

Nobody. Plenty of people buy cars in January to be able to have the current year reg for the longest possible time, which is idiotic, but nobody feels in some way pressured to do it, they do it because they themselves are snobs, not because they are somehow victims of snobbery. But I suppose it's nicer to think you were forced to be a clown than to just be a clown.

Mars Bar

My car was a Clare Reg but I like Clare and 99% of the people from Clare I've interacted with have been sound. It doesn't bother me to be honest.

I know someone who point blank refuses to have a Mayo Reg car.

angel eyes 2012

Only D reg for me. I'm from Dublin and live here, and yes I have waited for a particular car because they didn't have a D reg version.

My Dad was in the motor trade and always said car reg was somewhat important but the colour of the car was even more important as invariably wives usually had the final say and colour played a big part.

Don’t care one bit. Last three have been D’s but I’m far from being a dub.

Grab All Association

I once saw a Bentley in Cork City with the reg 06-D-666.

There was a Toyota Corolla in Thurles up until recently with the reg 151-T-666

I heard this story in Thurles years ago of a farmer in the early-mid 2000s buying a car with 666 in the reg in nearby Upperchurch/Drombane and the community were terrified of having this vehicle in their locality. Apparently the priest visited the farmer to convince him to sell the vehicle. It was banned from parking on church property. Couple of loons even tried preventing it parking on County Council/public parking spaces in the locality.

The people who told me this story were from Drombane themselves