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Yay or Nay on German plates?

  • 11-08-2013 11:29PM
    #1
    yop
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators, Regional West Moderators Posts: 16,716 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Lads
    What are the thoughts there with German plates.
    Lad bought this car off me last Wednesday and has it readvertised now with german plates, not sure what he is up to, regardless, he put german plates on it and I was wondering what ye thought of them.

    http://cars.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/ford-mondeo-st-diesel/5478435

    As one lad said to me, the mondeo isn't a German car.... :D

    German plates? 33 votes

    Yes
    0% 0 votes
    No
    100% 33 votes


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  • #2
    ba_barabus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,585 ✭✭✭ba_barabus


    Why is he selling so soon?

    And they are wrong on anything but a German car.


  • #3
    yop
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators, Regional West Moderators Posts: 16,716 Mod ✭✭✭✭yop


    ba_barabus wrote: »
    Why is he selling so soon?

    And they are wrong on anything but a German car.

    Hard to know tbh, he texted me asking for any of the lads who showed interested before he bought.....
    Said the car "wasn't for him", I suspect though that, if he had checked before he bought the car... that he found out the tax is out Aug 2013, that on the garage receipts on the "work to be done" it says new back shocks, fly wheel.

    Listen, I don't know why, the car was bang on, he can do what he likes with it, I was just curious as I thought that it wasn't going to make a big diff spending 30 euro on new plates on a non german car! :D


  • #4
    challengemaster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,925 ✭✭✭✭challengemaster


    I find it funnier that the first few pics actually have normal plastic plates on


  • #5
    Cienciano
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,197 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    No, pressed metal irish plates are the only ones to get.


  • #6
    Dord
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,815 ✭✭✭✭Dord


    Not unless it's a german registered car.


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  • #7
    yop
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators, Regional West Moderators Posts: 16,716 Mod ✭✭✭✭yop


    challengemaster wrote: »
    I find it funnier that the first few pics actually have normal plastic plates on
    I know! They are the ones I had on it.
    Cienciano wrote: »
    No, pressed metal irish plates are the only ones to get.

    As in standard plates?

    I was "half" thinking of putting them "German" plates on my VRS....... would u boys beat me over the head for it.... :eek:


  • #8
    bazz26
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,877 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    There missing the dashes and County name too. :D


  • #9
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,328 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Stick some Belgian plates on that mondeo


  • #10
    Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,951 ✭✭✭Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime


    Cienciano wrote: »
    No, pressed metal irish plates are the only ones to get.

    Or plastic irish ones ?

    Depends on the car really... my old civic had one metal plate on the back and a plastic one on thefront. I never got around to ggetting a plastic for the back ! But it originally had metal ones and i think it looks better with plastic.

    But it depends on the car if it should be metal orplastic.

    Anyway ddefinitely not germen unless its a german registered car in Germany.


  • #11
    Sobanek
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,350 ✭✭✭Sobanek


    Not German plates, but I think the German font suits the Irish reg plates. As long as it's all legal it's fine :)


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  • #12
    Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,951 ✭✭✭Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime


    Sobanek wrote: »
    Not German plates, but I think the German font suits the Irish reg plates. As long as it's all legal it's fine :)

    I could almost swear that it needs the county name in irish for it to be legal and pass an nct


  • #13
    CiniO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,041 ✭✭✭✭CiniO


    I think I've seen that car somewhere not so long ago. :cool:


  • #14
    CiniO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,041 ✭✭✭✭CiniO


    yop wrote: »
    Lads
    What are the thoughts there with German plates.
    Lad bought this car off me last Wednesday and has it readvertised now with german plates, not sure what he is up to, regardless, he put german plates on it and I was wondering what ye thought of them.

    http://cars.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/ford-mondeo-st-diesel/5478435

    As one lad said to me, the mondeo isn't a German car.... :D

    Did you sell it for much less than his advertised price?

    Those pictures with plates might get attention of some lads, but IMHO it's nonsense.
    Plate is just for identification, and I can't see how someone can think that one plate looks better than other. But it's just my opinions.

    The most ridiculous are lads with "D" underneath EU flag and Irish number plate.


  • #15
    Sobanek
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,350 ✭✭✭Sobanek


    Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime wrote: »
    I could almost swear that it needs the county name in irish for it to be legal and pass an nct

    That's why I said as long as it's legal :D


  • #16
    yop
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators, Regional West Moderators Posts: 16,716 Mod ✭✭✭✭yop


    CiniO wrote: »
    I think I've seen that car somewhere not so long ago. :cool:
    lol, where did you see it?

    CiniO wrote: »
    Did you sell it for much less than his advertised price?

    Those pictures with plates might get attention of some lads, but IMHO it's nonsense.
    Plate is just for identification, and I can't see how someone can think that one plate looks better than other. But it's just my opinions.

    The most ridiculous are lads with "D" underneath EU flag and Irish number plate.

    Bought it for 5k. I had it on dd for I would say 6 weeks, started at 6200 -> 0 calls, 5800-> offered 4750, then I reduced it to 5600 for about 3 weeks and it nothing at all.
    Finally said that with the tax up at the end of Aug I would dip it to 5400 and let it off.
    Had 5 interested parties, 1 was to come on the Wednesday evening, 1 was due on the Sat and one wasn't sure when he would come. The other didn't turn up and then this lad bought.


  • #17
    yop
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators, Regional West Moderators Posts: 16,716 Mod ✭✭✭✭yop


    So them plates aren't actually legal? Didn't know that.


  • #18
    challengemaster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,925 ✭✭✭✭challengemaster


    yop wrote: »
    So them plates aren't actually legal? Didn't know that.

    Those ones definitely aren't. No dashes, No county in Irish above the reg. Font looks oversized too


  • #19
    Scortho
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,871 ✭✭✭Scortho


    I liken German plates to vinyl wraps.
    The first time I saw it I thought it was deadly. Matt black 645.
    Then I started seeing wraps on everything from 316 (with oblig m3 badge) to a Renault megane.
    They've just became **** and tatty.


  • #20
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,978 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    I detest that font with a passion


  • #21
    yop
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators, Regional West Moderators Posts: 16,716 Mod ✭✭✭✭yop


    dgt wrote: »
    I detest that font with a passion

    So to just clarify that... if I put plates like that on my VRS, you won;t like them :D


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  • #22
    SniperSight
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,295 ✭✭✭SniperSight


    yop wrote: »
    So to just clarify that... if I put plates like that on my VRS, you won;t like them :D

    Isn't the more important question, whether YOU'D like them?


  • #23
    yop
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators, Regional West Moderators Posts: 16,716 Mod ✭✭✭✭yop


    SniperSight wrote: »
    Isn't the more important question, whether YOU'D like them?

    True. I think they "distinguish" a car a bit, make it look less same-y, but i think the ones he has there on that are a little too much for an auld lad like me :D


  • #24
    bazz26
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,877 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    Like any trend they started out being nice because they were kind of unique/rare, then they became popular and before you knew every muppet in the country had them. Now the skangers have embraced them so they are tatty and tasteless.


  • #25
    corktina
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,730 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    tacky imo


  • #26
    djimi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,234 ✭✭✭✭djimi


    Not my cup of tea but each to their own I guess.

    That said, Id put Japanese plates on my car if I thought Id get away with it :pac:


  • #27
    Victor Meldrew
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 767 ✭✭✭Victor Meldrew


    Should the poll options be "Ja - Schnell " and "No - they don't like it up 'em " ?


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


    yop wrote: »
    So to just clarify that... if I put plates like that on my VRS, you won;t like them :D

    Its your car, yours to modifly in whatever way pleases you. What I think should have no effect on that but that's what this thread is about, finding out who likes/dislikes those plates....?

    On the flip side, I use blocky felt style font on my plates, sure not everyone will like them but I don't care very much,my car not theirs :p


  • #29
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    yop wrote: »
    True. I think they "distinguish" a car a bit, make it look less same-y,

    I use these holders to get the same effect :D

    olqd.jpg

    photo1ctw.jpg


  • #30
    Henry Ford III
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 18,197 Mod ✭✭✭✭Henry Ford III


    If I were a Cop I'd pay extra special attention to any car with those plates on them.

    Not that I'm vindictive or anything :D


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  • #31
    gallag
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,352 ✭✭✭gallag


    The pressed metal and german font are acceptable but putting the D Instead of the IRL is silly.


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