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Does county of car registration matter to you?

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    #92
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 14,344 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I have had 9 cars.

    Four were D and one each of RN, KE, LD, MO and WH.

    Can state, factually, having carried out all the relevant tests, that D plates get better mileage, as the car doesn't have to carry the weight of the extra letter around. MO are heavier numbers, so my car needed suspension components changed more often, and LD gave me extra time at traffic lights, and more space on the road, as people assumed I was a traveller.


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    #93
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    .anon. wrote: »
    Dublin.

    And Dublin smells like heroin.

    Mind.... Blown


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    #94
    appledrop
    Registered Users Posts: 5,790 ✭✭✭appledrop


    I have to admit as a Dub I'd only buy a D reg.

    In fairnes though a lot of people in commuter counties like Kildare, Wicklow, Louth will often also prefer D reg because usually lower mileage on cars.

    Also usually a better selection of 2nd hand cars with D regs as obviously more cars sold in Dublin due to population.


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    #95
    alchemist33
    Registered Users Posts: 10,969 ✭✭✭✭alchemist33


    spurious wrote: »
    I wouldn't buy a Donegal reg car, or one owned by someone up there. Seems like they all have big mileage and the roads are in bits.

    Mileage, maybe. But the roads here aren't much different to the rest of the country, despite what a number of posters are saying.


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    #96
    micks_address
    Registered Users Posts: 8,451 ✭✭✭micks_address


    Live in Dublin so have D reg. Wouldn't have bothered me but there is a Dublin versus country divide in it. Especially with more expensive car's..I've had friends down the country use my address to get a D reg as they were advised to do so by dealership. E class Merc etc..

    I also had a bit of guff from a dealer years ago when I went to trade my Sligo reg car...oh that reg wouldn't be worth as much in Dublin...traded down the country. Sure enough got about 500 euro more for it.


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    #97
    PsychoPete
    Registered Users Posts: 8,573 ✭✭✭PsychoPete


    I refuse to buy a D reg because I'm a stubborn bogger


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    #98
    Galwayguy35
    Registered Users Posts: 16,272 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    First 2 cars were RN and last 2 were G

    Wouldn't really bother me what the reg is though.


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    #99
    RandomViewer
    Registered Users Posts: 6,191 ✭✭✭RandomViewer


    Donegal all the way, Fxxk the b egrudgers.


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    #100
    RandomViewer
    Registered Users Posts: 6,191 ✭✭✭RandomViewer


    appledrop wrote: »
    I have to admit as a Dub I'd only buy a D reg.

    In fairnes though a lot of people in commuter counties like Kildare, Wicklow, Louth will often also prefer D reg because usually lower mileage on cars.

    Also usually a better selection of 2nd hand cars with D regs as obviously more cars sold in Dublin due to population.

    A lot are very poor spec though, Dubs Chase the plate rather than buying something nice so tin wheels, cloth seats and a flat colour


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    #101
    Voodoomelon
    Registered Users Posts: 9,662 ✭✭✭Voodoomelon


    The county on the plate doesn't bother me personally in the slightest, but it is certainly prudent to stick with Dublin registrations for premium cars. You or I may not care what the registration is, but society to an extent does care and ignore it at your peril.

    Good luck trying to sell an S-Class or Flying Spur with a DL or KY registration, someone will quite literally buy a D-reg all over the alternatives and likely pay a premium for it too.


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    #102
    The J Stands for Jay
    Registered Users Posts: 5,650 ✭✭✭The J Stands for Jay


    When you see a WW reg, you know they'll probably indicate right and turn left or breeze through red lights and oncoming traffic. If you see a TS or T, they'll drive at 70km/h while the limit is 100, and maintain that speed through any towns, villages or children crossing the road.


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    #103
    shaveAbullock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 965 ✭✭✭shaveAbullock


    McGaggs wrote: »
    If you see a TS or T, they'll drive at 70km/h while the limit is 100, and maintain that speed through any towns, villages or children crossing the road.

    So a person from Tipperary North will drive normally but if they upgrade to a car from 2014 on wards they will drive like someone from Tipp south?


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    #104
    Potential-Monke
    Registered Users Posts: 13,807 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    Oh I remember another good reason to not have a D reg. On the rare occasion I am forced to go to Dubland, driving to the legal rules of the road tends to set off Dublin drivers. It's gas craic watching them get all red faced and angry behind you because you refuse to break the speed limit, or have the audacity to not run a yellow/red light.


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    #105
    angel eyes 2012
    Registered Users Posts: 896 ✭✭✭angel eyes 2012


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    I have had 9 cars.

    Four were D and one each of RN, KE, LD, MO and WH.

    Your next car should be a Dublin reg, that will be five in a row, which can only be lucky....


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    #106
    RandomViewer
    Registered Users Posts: 6,191 ✭✭✭RandomViewer


    Voodoomelon wrote: »
    The county on the plate doesn't bother me personally in the slightest, but it is certainly prudent to stick with Dublin registrations for premium cars. You or I may not care what the registration is, but society to an extent does care and ignore it at your peril.

    Good luck trying to sell an S-Class or Flying Spur with a DL or KY registration, someone will quite literally buy a D-reg all over the alternatives and likely pay a premium for it too.

    We'd only use sh1t like that for diffing if there's no Altezzas to be had,


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    #107
    The J Stands for Jay
    Registered Users Posts: 5,650 ✭✭✭The J Stands for Jay


    shaveAbullock wrote: »
    So a person from Tipperary North will drive normally but if they upgrade to a car from 2014 on wards they will drive like someone from Tipp south?

    A TN has never been spotted in the wild outside Tipperary, and no-one from outside has ever visited and returned.


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    #108
    rainbowtrout
    Registered Users Posts: 15,381 ✭✭✭✭rainbowtrout


    Voodoomelon wrote: »
    The county on the plate doesn't bother me personally in the slightest, but it is certainly prudent to stick with Dublin registrations for premium cars. You or I may not care what the registration is, but society to an extent does care and ignore it at your peril.

    Good luck trying to sell an S-Class or Flying Spur with a DL or KY registration, someone will quite literally buy a D-reg all over the alternatives and likely pay a premium for it too.

    Someone from Dublin will pay the premium for the D reg, plenty of other people around the country won't care.


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    #109
    shaveAbullock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 965 ✭✭✭shaveAbullock


    rainbowtrout wrote: »
    Someone from Dublin will pay the premium for the D reg, plenty of other people around the country won't care.

    Is it only people from Dublin that do this?
    is it the same in Cork or Limerick?


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    #110
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,712 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The T reg needs to piss off. Should have been TY.


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    #111
    Pkiernan
    Registered Users Posts: 4,315 ✭✭✭Pkiernan


    rainbowtrout wrote: »
    Someone from Dublin will pay the premium for the D reg, plenty of other people around the country won't care.

    But only Dubs are buying premium cars.

    No one cares if their Avensis has a KY reg.


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    #112
    rainbowtrout
    Registered Users Posts: 15,381 ✭✭✭✭rainbowtrout


    Pkiernan wrote: »
    But only Dubs are buying premium cars.

    No one cares if their Avensis has a KY reg.

    You mustn’t have been outside Dublin recently. Avensis doesn’t exist anymore, it’s all Camrys now.

    Anything premium around my area is usually imported. So no D regs


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    #113
    Doctors room ghost
    Registered Users Posts: 4,799 ✭✭✭Doctors room ghost


    I wouldn’t buy a Clare reg.


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    #114
    gourcuff
    Registered Users Posts: 295 ✭✭gourcuff


    wouldn't touch a D reg, hate to be mistaken for a howiya when i go travelling around Ireland. potential for animosity from the locals esp during Covid.

    Besides that i wouldnt care too much..


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    #115
    Pkiernan
    Registered Users Posts: 4,315 ✭✭✭Pkiernan


    gourcuff wrote: »
    wouldn't touch a D reg, hate to be mistaken for a howiya when i go travelling around Ireland. potential for animosity from the locals esp during Covid.

    Besides that i wouldnt care too much..

    I've found that my country brethren yield right of way to my D reg vehicle.

    Kind of like the way they used to doff the cap to the English Lords back in the 1800s.


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    #116
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Who cares about the letters, it's the numbers that count!
    High numbered vehicles (over 6000 in Roscommon for example) are UK imports, usually have a far higher spec that Irish registered cars.


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    #117
    armaghlad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,660 ✭✭✭armaghlad


    In the north number plates are a lot more ambiguous and most people can’t tell which code is for which county, cars on UK plates though give the year of manufacture which annoys some people as it advertises the age of the car. I bought a flashy motor few years ago (English reg) and although not stopped was briefly followed by the guards in Swords one evening.


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    #118
    The J Stands for Jay
    Registered Users Posts: 5,650 ✭✭✭The J Stands for Jay


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Who cares about the letters, it's the numbers that count!
    High numbered vehicles (over 6000 in Roscommon for example) are UK imports, usually have a far higher spec that Irish registered cars.

    They seem to have stopped that. I imported a car 2 years ago and got a 3 digit number.


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    #119
    rainbowtrout
    Registered Users Posts: 15,381 ✭✭✭✭rainbowtrout


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Who cares about the letters, it's the numbers that count!
    High numbered vehicles (over 6000 in Roscommon for example) are UK imports, usually have a far higher spec that Irish registered cars.

    That changed around 2012. Now they just get the next available number in the sequence. Having said that I’d say every second car in Roscommon is an import


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    #120
    RandomViewer
    Registered Users Posts: 6,191 ✭✭✭RandomViewer


    McGaggs wrote: »
    They seem to have stopped that. I imported a car 2 years ago and got a 3 digit number.

    Was cheaper to buy new and import around 09-10, lots of low reg Avensis and Corollas are imports


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    #121
    [Deleted User]
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    McGaggs wrote: »
    They seem to have stopped that. I imported a car 2 years ago and got a 3 digit number.
    I hadn't really noticed newer cars with large numbers, just the fact that there are so many D plates with phone number sized suffixes on them.

    All those 10-D-12xxxxxplates must have really pissed off the dealers that they got the government to change them.


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