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Advice on car (NI and UK reg)

  • 16-01-2018 04:52PM
    #1
    kop77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 820 ✭✭✭


    I'm looking at a 2011 car in Northern Ireland that's on NI plates but originally came from England, the dealer has given me the 2 previous UK reg numbers saying that they were both personalized plates so I cannot tie in a MOT history to either of them,

    There are no stamps in the book other than a letter from the main UK dealer showing a 12,000 mile service in April 2012 but thats where the UK history ends... next is the NI history, the VAG emissions recall in July 16 at 53000, a full services at 54,000 miles in Sept 16 and timing belt at 65,000 in Sept 17

    Nothing between 12000 and 53000 either in service or MOT history!!

    Its in a Ford dealership up North so I would expect it to be legit but you never know!

    any opinions welcome.. anything else I can do to check history on personalized plates?

    thanks..


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  • #2
    Mintoe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 339 ✭✭Mintoe


    kop77 wrote: »
    I'm looking at a 2011 car in Northern Ireland that's on NI plates but originally came from England, the dealer has given me the 2 previous UK reg numbers saying that they were both personalized plates so I cannot tie in a MOT history to either of them,

    There are no stamps in the book other than a letter from the main UK dealer showing a 12,000 mile service in April 2012 but thats where the UK history ends... next is the NI history, the VAG emissions recall in July 16 at 53000, a full services at 54,000 miles in Sept 16 and timing belt at 65,000 in Sept 17

    Nothing between 12000 and 53000 either in service or MOT history!!

    Its in a Ford dealership up North so I would expect it to be legit but you never know!

    any opinions welcome.. anything else I can do to check history on personalized plates?

    thanks..

    Run a Motorcheck.ie report, it will pull in as much info as is available and then send them an email and they can manually get NI mot data. Mot’s in mainland uk are due at 3 years but NI mot due at 4 years


  • #3
    kop77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 820 ✭✭✭kop77


    I managed to get a bit of early service history off a local main dealer and going by what I have on paper the car only did 1200 miles between 2014 and 2016 before it was MOT'd!!

    the dealer up north said it was just a period of inactivity... :pac:


  • #4
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,328 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    I’d move on. The place is littered with cars for sale.


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