Em, a little disease called COVID, remember that? It was practically impossible to get test appointments and exemptions were given all through that time. Being petrol I wouldn't say it was doing much heavy trailer work, the days of hauling 4 calves to the mart with the family car are long gone. For the money I think it's great find.
As above I imagine its partly down to Covid. Even if it had a 10 year gap I wouldn’t care. As long as its been NCT’d recently thats the main thing. Being a 22 year old car I would not be concerned about it being an import either.
Just before Covid, I bought an 07 one of these that had failed the NCT on 1 tyre for €100.
Didn't bother testing it and sold it for €500 a few days later.
That was then, this is now, Brexit put a stop to all that.
Where does Brexit come into it the car is on Irish plates
Prices of s/h cars rose.
Because Brexit means no more cheap imports which drove up the price of used cars here.
Not that actual car🫣, the market in general has changed completely since Brexit.
It's not necessarily an import. We didn't get km only speedos until 2005 or 2006.
Defo an Irish car, reg number too low plus km came in 2005
Covid disruption of the NCT didn't stop people getting tests for a 4 full years. I think things were back to normal by 2022 defo by 2023.
Some families only have one car and it has to do everything.... maybe it wasn't towing a trailer with 4 calves, but maybe it towed 400 trailers of turf from the bog.
Its not a bad deal, but I was just pointing out a couple of things that stuck out for me.
It's a 21 year-old car with a current NCT…
Edit: typo
God, you're really making a big deal out of nothing aren't you? It's a 21 year old car with plenty of test, what more do you want?
https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/04-toyota-avensis-1-6-nct-june-25-/38349511
Tax and nct 1300
Cars like these will just keep going and going once the engine is looked after.
Transfer your insurance and away you go, nothing wrong with that👍
Reg number too low??
Yes?? All the low numbers are taken by Irish cars registered new here, and then after that its imports
ah yeh, that's now but it's not how it was back in the early noughties
That doesn't make sense, explain what the logic would be not to start at 1 and go upwards.
I bought a new car in April 02 it had 3xxx. My friend bought 1 in February 02 and it was 17xx.
Where did I say reg numbers didn't start at 1? The point I made is imported cars were just given the next available number back then.
Nice low mileage example. These go for ever, if minded. Quite good to drive as well.
https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/renault-fluence-2011/38123844
They are still given the next available number now? Like if you imported a brand new car in January you’d get a low number wouldn’t you? Whenever I VRT cars I always get the next available number, so if I VRT 2x 2012 cars at the same time the reg plates will only be 1 digit in the difference
Yes but if you import a car from 2011 or back you'd get the 11 - D - 120000 style plates not the ones that were sequential with the original cars.
I’ve imported 2x 2011 cars recently, both in the 60000 range, similar to 2012 etc
They changed imports to 120xxx numbers and above sometime in the noughties and then changed it back again the last few years afaik. It's not the age of the car but when you were doing the importing.
Not in Dublin you havent.
In clare for instance, the imports start at 9000
Yes I have? I VRT cars on a weekly basis😂
Currently 2011’s & 2012’s are in the high 60 thousands. 131’s are in the high 40 thousands and 132’s are in the mid 20 thousands. I’m literally looking at my most recent VRT receipts as we speak.
Ok, so maybe it was 2010 and before and not 2011 and before?
And certainly the car linked above, 2005, imports have the 120xxx plates and not the 60000 ones
