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Illegal number plates

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  • #2
    Toyotafanboi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,917 ✭✭✭✭Toyotafanboi


    Buyer beware of bat **** crazy old lady, more like.

    I'd love to have so little **** going on in my life that all I had to do was nit pick with NCT's over some technicality like that.

    She obviously went out of her way to get those plates and they are not an acceptable plate whether she likes it or not. If that was my only NCT fail I'd have a new set of plates on the car within hours and I'd be moving on with my life.

    I'd say she was only delighted when she failed on that.


  • #3
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,541 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Oh great, another nutcase.

    Those plates are used in many European countries and we can't reasonably have two different types just to suit a tiny minority. She already has the county in Irish on the top.

    Has to be a retired teacher.

    'Wanted to appeal the decision, but the form was not available in Irish'
    I'd say they conducted the interview in Irish or got an interpreter. No way she can speak English anyway.


  • #4
    wotzgoingon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,309 ✭✭✭✭wotzgoingon


    Toyotafanboi wrote: »
    Buyer beware of bat **** crazy old lady, more like.

    I'd love to have so little **** going on in my life that all I had to do was nit pick with NCT's over some technicality like that.

    She obviously went out of her way to get those plates and they are not an acceptable plate whether she likes it or not. If that was my only NCT fail I'd have a new set of plates on the car within hours and I'd be moving on with my life.

    I'd say she was only delighted when she failed on that.

    Ní raibh aon fhoirm ar fáil i ngaeilge.

    The form to complain was not available in Irish so she did not submit it.


  • #5
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,321 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    In your passport the country is IRL on the photo page, case closed.


  • #6
    jca
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,585 ✭✭✭jca


    Ha ha, I hope she gets caught for no NCT feckin loo la. Some people have little to do.


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  • #7
    aujopimur
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,953 ✭✭✭aujopimur


    Female version of a dickhead.


  • #8
    bazz26
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    Bored old busybody.


  • #9
    JohnBoy26
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    KC161 wrote: »
    Buyer beware when purchasing a car.

    https://www.rte.ie/news/munster/2017/0630/886898-nct-licence-plate/

    How is this a buyer beware issue?


  • #10
    honda boi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,695 ✭✭✭honda boi


    Needed a good laugh


  • #11
    McCrack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,014 ✭✭✭McCrack


    I dont ridicule or in any way disparage someone complaining or insisting conducting their official business through Irish. Its our first language and there are obligations to allow people transact with State agencies through Irish.

    She may have an argument at least to say she could not appeal through Irish and fair play to her for trying.


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  • #12
    challengemaster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,930 ✭✭✭✭challengemaster


    aujopimur wrote: »
    FemaleGaeltacht version of a dickhead.

    Fixed


  • #13
    CiniO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,069 ✭✭✭✭CiniO


    It must have been a decision taken long time ago, probably in 1949 Geneva Convention to assign IRL as country code for Ireland for marking vehicles.
    Possibly if Ireland wanted, they could get EIR instead, but looks like they didn't.

    Other countries have symbols from their own language like Germany had D as Deutschland or Lichtenstein is FL, etc...


  • #14
    boardsuser1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,186 ✭✭✭boardsuser1


    JohnBoy26 wrote: »
    How is this a buyer beware issue?

    If you buy a car with those plates they won't pass the NCT ;)

    How many people truthfully knew it (about the Eire bit) prior to this thread?

    I didn't and i've had 20+ cars in my life time.


  • #15
    JohnBoy26
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,532 ✭✭✭JohnBoy26


    KC161 wrote: »
    If you buy a car with those plates they won't pass the NCT ;)

    How many people truthfully knew it (about the Eire bit) prior to this thread?

    I didn't and i've had 20+ cars in my life time.

    If it came to them failing it's only a visual, not really a big deal or something id look out for when buying a car :)


  • #16
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,770 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    I wonder does she know the Irish for Suzuki grand Vitara!


  • #17
    boardsuser1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,186 ✭✭✭boardsuser1


    JohnBoy26 wrote: »
    If it came to them failing it's only a visual, not really a big deal or something id look out for when buying a car :)

    She might take a case to the European courts and fight it (in Irish) :pac:


  • #18
    boardsuser1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,186 ✭✭✭boardsuser1


    freshpopcorn wrote: »
    I wonder does she know the Irish for Suzuki grand Vitara!

    It wouldn't surprise me :rolleyes:

    Blarney is only out the road from me, It certainly ain't the ghaeltacht :cool:


  • #19
    JohnBoy26
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,532 ✭✭✭JohnBoy26


    KC161 wrote: »
    She might take a case to the European courts and fight it (in Irish) :pac:

    A new set of plates might work out a bit cheaper for her :)


  • #20
    boardsuser1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,186 ✭✭✭boardsuser1


    JohnBoy26 wrote: »
    A new set of plates might work out a bit cheaper for her :)

    No disputing that.

    She seems like a woman on a mission though if she went to the media about it.


  • #21
    ED E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,170 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    As a bit of an aside, saw a Captur today and was struck by how low the plate is. Very easy for a dash cam to miss it. Car was parked at a curb and the plate was almost touching.

    lXE0f6Jm.jpg


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  • #22
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,541 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Is it much nearer the ground than on some non crossovers though?


  • #23
    Silvera
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,031 ✭✭✭Silvera


    CiniO wrote: »
    It must have been a decision taken long time ago, probably in 1949 Geneva Convention to assign IRL as country code for Ireland for marking vehicles.
    Possibly if Ireland wanted, they could get EIR instead, but looks like they didn't.

    Other countries have symbols from their own language like Germany had D as Deutschland or Lichtenstein is FL, etc...

    Interestingly EIR was previously used as Ireland's international oval in 1938 and changed to IRL in 1962. This list of international oval's lists both EIR and IRL for Ireland...

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_international_vehicle_registration_codes


  • #24
    barneygumble99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,497 ✭✭✭barneygumble99


    I'd love to be there the day she has to go back in with the correct plates on. Big puss on her.


  • #25
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,541 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Her test is valid till 20 July anyway.


  • #26
    boardsuser1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,186 ✭✭✭boardsuser1


    barneygumble99 wrote: »
    I'd love to be there the day she has to go back in with the correct plates on. Big puss on her.

    She clearly never kissed the Blarney Stone :pac:


  • #27
    Fred Swanson
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    Fred Swanson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,730 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


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  • #29
    TallGlass
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,908 ✭✭✭TallGlass


    A number plate shouldn't be a fail. It should be an adviser. How can a number plate affect the safety of the car? Isn't this what this test is about.

    The tester obviously was able to pick the car out to test it, so the number plate can't be that badly functioning.

    Yet cars borderline passing on tyres are allowed to leave with advisers is madness.

    Que ten posts telling me how important it is to test it and fail the car, fair enoght if the letters are faded and honestly you can't read it. But if your getting a measuring tape out to check if the font is 10mm rather than 9mm, just to fail a car.

    Come on.


  • #30
    jimmycrackcorm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,419 ✭✭✭✭jimmycrackcorm


    CiniO wrote: »
    It must have been a decision taken long time ago, probably in 1949 Geneva Convention to assign IRL as country code for Ireland for marking vehicles.
    Possibly if Ireland wanted, they could get EIR instead, but looks like they didn't.

    There's a marketing manager in a well known telecoms company who is sickened every day thinking about missing this opportunity.

    Meanwhile a senior executive in another well known airline transport company has mixed feelings about choosing AER instead of EIR, but yet secretly glad that no-one chose CUNNI.


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  • #31
    DaveyDave
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,497 ✭✭✭DaveyDave


    I wish my life was so easy that's all I had to complain about. Must be nice...


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