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Dublin dealers and non D reg cars

  • 02-04-2012 09:06PM
    #1
    MargeS
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,001 ✭✭✭


    Do Dublin based car dealers generally refuse to take non 'D' reg cars as a trade in because they are too difficult to sell on? No one in Dublin would want to drive a reg that isn't Dublin.
    Is this true or is some one winding me up? :confused:


Comments

  • #2
    MuppetCheck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,830 ✭✭✭✭MuppetCheck


    Of course. Roads cease to exist past the M50.


  • #3
    Jimbob 83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,030 ✭✭✭Jimbob 83


    Tis a country car god knows what horrors it has seen !

    Like..... Caaavan :( *flinches*


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


    My theory on it is that if you're living in Dublin and have say an oy or ky reg, it's immediately obvious that you got the car second hand.


  • #5
    Del2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,138 ✭✭✭✭Del2005


    MargeS wrote: »
    Do Dublin based car dealers generally refuse to take non 'D' reg cars as a trade in because they are too difficult to sell on? No one in Dublin would want to drive a reg that isn't Dublin.
    Is this true or is some one winding me up? :confused:
    Where you told this on Sunday?

    Dealers will use every excuse as to why your car is a POS and they are doing you a huge favour offering money for your car, while the one you're looking at is the most popular car in Ireland and they doing you a huge favour letting you have the 10 year old Mondeo for 15 grand and your 5 year old Mondeo with a county reg.


  • #6
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Prepare for the sharp intake of breath if you're young looking and have a DL reg


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  • #7
    Del2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,138 ✭✭✭✭Del2005


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    My theory on it is that if you're living in Dublin and have say an oy or ky reg, it's immediately obvious that you got the car second hand.

    And where smart enough to buy the car, not a couple of letters.


  • #8
    haminka
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 564 ✭✭✭haminka


    who would buy a car from a culchie? everybody knows that there are only narrow roads covered with grass outside dublin and most of nondubliners use their cars as tractors. and the sheep, never forget te sheep! ever saw shaun the sheep? THEY can drive!!!
    adding : i'm commuting and just bought a car from a Dublin dealer which accidentally has my county reg. also saw other counties on display and this is a rather big authorized dealer


  • #9
    MargeS
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,001 ✭✭✭MargeS


    thanks for all the 'replies' :p
    I just didn't want to waste my time travelling to the 'big city' to be told we don't take non D reg cars.

    I do realise that Dublin folks have an opinion of themselves and think that everyone beyond the M50 lives in stone washed cottages and share their homes with cows/sheep. And I'm not being sarcastic here.... I work in Dublin for a couple of days every week and the expression 'down the country' is used regularly. Someone once said that the reason why they wouldn't live in the 'country' is because the weather is better in Dublin city!!
    I still haven't figured out what 'country' they are talking about. ;)


  • #10
    Mr. Presentable
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,495 ✭✭✭Mr. Presentable


    MargeS wrote: »
    thanks for all the 'replies' :p
    I just didn't want to waste my time travelling to the 'big city' to be told we don't take non D reg cars.

    I do realise that Dublin folks have an opinion of themselves and think that everyone beyond the M50 lives in stone washed cottages and share their homes with cows/sheep. And I'm not being sarcastic here.... I work in Dublin for a couple of days every week and the expression 'down the country' is used regularly. Someone once said that the reason why they wouldn't live in the 'country' is because the weather is better in Dublin city!!
    I still haven't figured out what 'country' they are talking about. ;)

    Funnily enough, there was a science piece in the Sunday Times about this. It is up to 8 degrees warmer in Dublin City at night than it is beyond the suburbs.


  • #11
    randy hickey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,935 ✭✭✭randy hickey


    This has come up in many conversations over the years, and while there may be some truth in what colm says, my sense of it is that it's more to do with the perception of non-D reg cars having lived a hard life on brutal roads.
    Of course this is not scientific, but perception can be greater than reality.
    I know one dealer that point blank refuses to deal in Limerick reg cars!


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  • #12
    MargeS
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,001 ✭✭✭MargeS


    I've heard many times before that buying a D reg brings clutch problems because D reg drivers spend so much time in traffic.

    Oh! I think I'll take me chances! :)


  • #13
    John_Rambo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 11,355 ✭✭✭✭John_Rambo


    MargeS wrote: »
    I work in Dublin for a couple of days every week

    Amazing, you work in Dublin, but you don't have a clue about it. Sometimes the chips on peoples shoulders act as blinkers and they simply don't see what's going on around them.

    I was selling a car a while ago and I wanted to get the best price on a trade in, so I travelled the country viewing various cars while holidaying and visiting various parts of the country. I was told in four rural dealers that they prefer D reg cars. They couldn't explain why, but their rural customers preferred them and they sold quicker.

    It's just a fact, rural people like their cars like their men... from Dublin.


  • #14
    Bearcat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,326 ✭✭✭Bearcat


    I see d Wallace motors has a KE reg Bentley Continental for sale...don't worry I'm just navel gazing, but my point is,it is well known amongst dealers that high end motors only sell with D,C or G regs.....the rest are tricky to sell. ...???


  • #15
    randy hickey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,935 ✭✭✭randy hickey


    MargeS wrote: »
    I've heard many times before that buying a D reg brings clutch problems because D reg drivers spend so much time in traffic.

    Oh! I think I'll take me chances! :)

    I think you'll find that the oul two cow trailer is harder on your clutch!!
    Not many marts in Dublin!:D


  • #16
    Anan1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,770 ✭✭✭✭Anan1


    Bearcat wrote: »
    I see d Wallace motors has a KE reg Bentley Continental for sale...don't worry I'm just navel gazing, but my point is,it is well known amongst dealers that high end motors only sell with D,C or G regs.....the rest are tricky to sell. ...???
    KE and WW are considered to be almost suburbs of Dublin, a KE Bentley will sell much more easily in Dublin than, say, an LH one.
    MargeS wrote: »
    I do realise that Dublin folks have an opinion of themselves and think that everyone beyond the M50 lives in stone washed cottages and share their homes with cows/sheep. And I'm not being sarcastic here.... I work in Dublin for a couple of days every week and the expression 'down the country' is used regularly. Someone once said that the reason why they wouldn't live in the 'country' is because the weather is better in Dublin city!!
    I still haven't figured out what 'country' they are talking about. ;)
    I hear this one regularly from non-Dubs. Lose the chip, we really don't care where you're from. :)


  • #17
    haminka
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 564 ✭✭✭haminka


    Mr. Presentable wrote: »
    Funnily enough, there was a science piece in the Sunday Times about this. It is up to 8 degrees warmer in Dublin City at night than it is beyond the suburbs.
    Another scientific discovery : city lights and houses emit more warmth than cows' farts.


  • #18
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 23,497 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Anan1 wrote: »
    ........... Lose the chip, we really don't care where you're from. :)

    I'm from about a mile from Cork City centre, wouldn't be a bad area but wouldn't be overly fantastic either. When I worked and lived in Dublin (which I really liked to be fair) I did meet lots and lots of Dubs from suburban Dublin who used to think I was a country lad and they were city folk, now most of them were about as streetwise as Frank Spencer and realistically were seldom enough ever in Dublin city, even socially. Once a month or so.


  • #19
    Anan1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,770 ✭✭✭✭Anan1


    RoverJames wrote: »
    I'm from about a mile from Cork City centre, wouldn't be a bad area but wouldn't be overly fantastic either. When I worked and lived in Dublin (which I really liked to be fair) I did meet lots and lots of Dubs from suburban Dublin who used to think I was a country lad and they were city folk, now most of them were about as streetwise as Frank Spencer and realistically were seldom enough ever in Dublin city, even socially. Once a month or so.
    You have to remember that Dublin is a big enough place that most people living here don't think of themselves as Dubliners. The suburban Dubs you met would probably have had the same attitude to anyone who wasn't from their particular area/social class/set, even if that person was from Dublin too. Dublin is more a large collection of towns than a city when you live here, it only looks like a single unit from the outside.


  • #20
    Leonard Hofstadter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,531 ✭✭✭Leonard Hofstadter


    In all fairness, some of the roads "down the country" to use that horrible Dublin expression are really, really bad. I'm not from Dublin (heaven forbid) and I don't live there (thank heavens) but roads in county Galway for example are disgraceful.

    My problem with the whole D reg thing is that loads of people outside of Dublin drive cars with D regs, and a lot of D reg cars spend most of their lives nowhere near Dublin (company cars for example will often get D regs even if the person who is getting the said car is not based there), yet there is a perception that only D reg cars are in any way looked after, which is patently not true.

    Some rural people do abuse the absolute crap out of their cars, trust me I have country relatives and I know plenty of people living in the country:)! But I know people living in cities that do the same thing!

    Going by stereotypes, urban cars can present their own problems such as the engine not being warmed up properly because of all the start/stop driving and of course the clutch won't be lasting anything like as long as it should for the same reason. Rural cars may sometimes look rougher and the suspension will have suffered from more abuse because of the roads depending on location but at least they'll have been driven at decent speeds, which is much kinder to the engine than urban driving. Then there are people like me who live in a city but I spend a lot of time not driving in a city!

    It's really just best not to generalise.

    If it looks right, sounds right and goes right, then that's all that matters. Proper maintenance not what reg a car carries or where the car is based is what counts. Feck reg plate snobbery that's all I'll say!


  • #21
    ShadowHearth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,911 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    And they say cork is a country of its own...


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  • #22
    Anan1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,770 ✭✭✭✭Anan1


    captainspeed wrote: »
    It's really just best not to generalise.

    If it looks right, sounds right and goes right, then that's all that matters. Proper maintenance not what reg a car carries or where the car is based is what counts. Feck reg plate snobbery that's all I'll say!
    I think we're all agreed that the whole reg plate thing is ridiculous. The problem is that it's nonetheless real, and therefore needs to be taken into account when buying/selling. To look on the bright side, it can result in bargains for some.


  • #23
    For Forks Sake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,130 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    captainspeed wrote: »

    My problem with the whole D reg thing is that loads of people outside of Dublin drive cars with D regs, and a lot of D reg cars spend most of their lives nowhere near Dublin (company cars for example will often get D regs even if the person who is getting the said car is not based there), yet there is a perception that only D reg cars are in any way looked after, which is patently not true.

    I have a D reg company car and live well outside Dublin. However, company cars are usually serviced bang on schedule and generally better maintained than most private cars, albeit with far higher mileage e.g mine has 85,000 km in 14 months, but has been serviced on time in a VW dealership each time.


  • #24
    Tea 1000
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,497 ✭✭✭Tea 1000


    For Forks Sake wrote: »
    I have a D reg company car and live well outside Dublin. However, company cars are usually serviced bang on time and generally better maintained than most private cars, albeit with far higher mileage e.g mine has 85,000 km in 14 months, but has been serviced on time in a VW dealership on time each time.
    Company here where I work are all serviced on time alright, but well over half of the company cars are treated like dirt. The cleanest and tidiest cars in the carpark are privately owned ones, with the exception of one or two company ones. Get it on a plate and treat it like dirt is a typical enough attitude.


  • #25
    pred racer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,380 ✭✭✭pred racer


    Anan1 wrote: »
    I think we're all agreed that the whole reg plate thing is ridiculous. The problem is that it's nonetheless real, and therefore needs to be taken into account when buying/selling. To look on the bright side, it can result in bargains for some.

    Exactly, which is why as a bog hopper meself, ill always look for a culchie reg car in dublin first;)

    Another plus side is that in dublin everyone presumes you dont know where you are going and that you cant drive anyway, makes lane changes much easier:D


  • #26
    For Forks Sake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,130 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    Prepare for the sharp intake of breath if you're young looking and have a DL reg

    *goes to look for picture of car parked in lake*


  • #27
    fasttalkerchat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,652 ✭✭✭fasttalkerchat


    I be reluctant to buy a diesel Dublin car because I would have the impression that it was used for short journeys.


  • #28
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,978 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    Ah the reg plate discussion again.... :)

    From that thread:
    • D plate cars fit in anywhere and not necessarily reside in Dublin
    • MH, KE and WW are the next desirable after D platers
    • SO, MO and DL are least desirable due to the roads
    • Individual counties prefer their own county plates (very true)

    I'll see if I can get a link to it...

    Edit Ah here we go :)


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