Trying to buy my old car 01ke11555 Red lexus Is 200 Sport

Blub123 · 10-10-2021 6:26pm #1

How do you go about checking if it's still on the road??

It's the red color, beige interior spec. God I loved that car.

Sold it to 2 young fellas from Wexford about 8 years ago.

Tech_Head · 10-10-2021 6:32pm

One of those car reports would probably give you some details on current status.

My advice, you may not want to see the condition it’s in now.

BrianD3 · 10-10-2021 6:42pm

Some tips in this thread

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058205524/checking-vehicle-tax-and-nct-status-etc-from-public-databases

vandriver · 10-10-2021 6:43pm

Like going back to an old girlfriend.....

DONT DO IT!

ec_pc · 10-10-2021 6:47pm

NCT website says next test due for this car on 26th November which is a good indication it is still on the road.

10-10-2021 6:52pm

Your young lads from Wexford sold it in October 2018.

Atlantic Dawn · 10-10-2021 7:04pm

It doesn't appear to be currently taxed looking at Cars Ireland classifieds but that's not always 100%.

The pricing of them has gone crazy, I was looking at some 2000/2001 around that time you sold yours and they are now going for much more money.

passatman86 · 10-10-2021 7:12pm

No nct since 25/11/18

Last nct centre seems to be blarney cork

BrianD3 · 11-10-2021 10:11am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118001868#Comment_118001868

Need to look at the NCT expiry date rather than the due date. A car could be out of NCT for years but the due date will keep incrementing.

Miscreant · 11-10-2021 11:12am

IS200s seem to have massively increased in popularity lately. I recently spotted 2 of them heading for Galway (1 driving on the motorway and the other 1 on a trailer, which looked like it had been stored in a field), both of them were red. On my last trip to Galway, I pulled into Athlone for a bite and there were 3 IS200s in the car park by McDonald's. Are they becoming popular again for any particular reason? I was never aware of anything "special" about them other than some being Yamaha engined variants.

Notch000 · 11-10-2021 11:23am

they are the modern successor to the mk2 escort/corolla twinCAM for the cruising generation. Saw some someone looking on facebook for there old IS200 recently and it had 18 previous owners !!

zilog_jones · 11-10-2021 1:14pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118001848#Comment_118001848

The NCT check page no longer seems to provide information for long-expired cars. I try searching for a car which last did an NCT in 2015 and it just shows "vehicle unavailable" now, whereas it did previously show details (possibly last year it still worked).

BrianD3 · 11-10-2021 2:11pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118004617#Comment_118004617

When that happens I think it means that the car has been officially scrapped. There is also a different "not found" message which means that the car was not active on the system when the nct was introduced in 2000.

I have a car that was last taxed and ncted in 2011 and it comes up in the system.

Blub123 · 11-10-2021 8:50pm

Thanks for all the tips here.

Was first decent car I owned, at a time when life was starting to go well and I had a bob or two in my pocket.

If did cost a fortune tho, mpg was horrendous.

Cheers!

Trying to buy my old car 01ke11555 Red lexus Is 200 Sport

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