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Does county of car registration matter to you?

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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?

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.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).

[Deleted User]

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.

[Deleted User]

.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.

[Deleted User]

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

BeepBeep67

Never understood why a re-reg option to county of residence wasn't introduced at change of ownership

TheW1zard

DL = ragged
CN = never had a penny spent on it

[Deleted User]

Could never drive;

Cork
Dublin
Leitrim
Longford
Louth
Offaly
Roscommon
Tipp
Wexford

[Deleted User]

TheW1zard wrote: »

DL = ragged
CN = never had a penny spent on it

A DL reg will never have seen a days tax or test.

Oink

BeepBeep67 wrote: »

Never understood why a re-reg option to county of residence wasn't introduced at change of ownership

What would be the point?

greenspurs

I would never ever ever drive a Tipp reg …

or Waaaaaterfooord boy.

Kylta

Deleted User wrote: »

Could never drive;

Cork
Dublin
Leitrim
Longford
Louth
Offaly
Roscommon
Tipp
Wexford

Are you banned from driving in these counties

Kylta

My second car turned into a push bike

Humberto Salazar

Anytime there's a D reg car parked in my one horse midland town, a group of one toothed cloth capped locals gather round and point at it exchanging knowing glances with each other.

Snails pace

Is the D reg things only an issue in Dublin or do other people around the country only want to drive a D reg vehicle ?

Here at home on the different vehicles theres a T reg, W, TS x 2, KK, D and an RN. I previously owned a WX, C and another D reg. I had no issue selling them.

Dravokivich

BeepBeep67 wrote: »

Never understood why a re-reg option to county of residence wasn't introduced at change of ownership

Screw it, why don't we just print the serial number on the plate.