Does county of car registration matter to you?

The J Stands for Jay · 12-08-2020 9:31pm

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.

shaveAbullock · 12-08-2020 9:40pm

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?

Potential-Monke · 12-08-2020 9:44pm

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.

angel eyes 2012 · 12-08-2020 9:45pm

[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....

RandomViewer · 12-08-2020 9:45pm

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,

The J Stands for Jay · 12-08-2020 9:45pm

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.

rainbowtrout · 12-08-2020 9:56pm

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.

shaveAbullock · 12-08-2020 9:58pm

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?

13-08-2020 5:53am

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

Pkiernan · 13-08-2020 5:58am

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.

rainbowtrout · 13-08-2020 9:58am

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

Doctors room ghost · 13-08-2020 10:02am

I wouldn’t buy a Clare reg.

gourcuff · 13-08-2020 12:29pm

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..

Pkiernan · 13-08-2020 12:36pm

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.

13-08-2020 1:29pm

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.

armaghlad · 13-08-2020 1:42pm

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.

The J Stands for Jay · 13-08-2020 2:15pm

[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.

rainbowtrout · 13-08-2020 3:46pm

[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

RandomViewer · 13-08-2020 6:51pm

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

13-08-2020 7:55pm

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.

13-08-2020 7:56pm

Stopped in 2015 or something didn’t it? I did a car in 2014 and got a big number.

13-08-2020 7:56pm

rainbowtrout wrote: »

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

I was waiting in a car park reading this thread and saw several xx-RN-6xxx plates close by.

rainbowtrout · 13-08-2020 7:59pm

Deleted User wrote: »

I was waiting in a car park reading this thread and saw several xx-RN-6xxx plates close by.

Ya every second car in Roscommon is an import. The sequence used to start 6xxx. Practically every BMW, Merc, Audi that's about 10 years old has a 6xxx reg.

RandomViewer · 13-08-2020 9:28pm

Pkiernan wrote: »

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.

Im from Donegal, we dont yield for anyone or anything.

shaveAbullock · 13-08-2020 9:34pm

RandomViewer wrote: »

Im from Donegal, we dont yield for anyone or anything.

Explains the higher rate of fatal car accidents on Donegal. May of them involving a single car.

John_Rambo · 13-08-2020 11:21pm

When trading in newish hot-hatch for a car I was asked by every (Dublin and non Dublin) dealership was it a D reg. Eventually got the new car and the sales guy told me that D reg are more popular and sell quicker (and sometimes for a little more money) than non D reg cars purely for resale reasons. He also said there's a perception that Dublin drivers are better drivers and look after their cars better!! :eek: This was a non-Dub dealership.

13-08-2020 11:40pm

John_Rambo wrote: »

When trading in newish hot-hatch for a car I was asked by every (Dublin and non Dublin) dealership was it a D reg. Eventually got the new car and the sales guy told me that D reg are more popular and sell quicker (and sometimes for a little more money) than non D reg cars purely for resale reasons. He also said there's a perception that Dublin drivers are better drivers and look after their cars better!! :eek: This was a non-Dub dealership.

Probably more to do with the fact that there are a lot of secondhand D plated cars on the market at the moment, they'll tell you anything anything to shift them.

pgj2015 · 13-08-2020 11:45pm

John_Rambo wrote: »

When trading in newish hot-hatch for a car I was asked by every (Dublin and non Dublin) dealership was it a D reg. Eventually got the new car and the sales guy told me that D reg are more popular and sell quicker (and sometimes for a little more money) than non D reg cars purely for resale reasons. He also said there's a perception that Dublin drivers are better drivers and look after their cars better!! :eek: This was a non-Dub dealership.

I always thought the D reg cars were sought after was because they are driven on good roads, not pot holed roads you would get in the country.

shaveAbullock · 13-08-2020 11:45pm

Perhaps people in Dublin think other counties have no roads and all non D cars spent their life in fields.

John_Rambo · 13-08-2020 11:56pm

pgj2015 wrote: »

I always thought the D reg cars were sought after was because they are driven on good roads, not pot holed roads you would get in the country.

Yeah, could be a legacy issue, certainly not an issue now, I've driven all over the country and major rural roads are excellent now. Things start to rattle in my camper van in towns and cities, not on the country roads.

I think a lot of people (from wherever) buying high end cars want a D reg in the (likely) case that it could be sold to someone in the county of Dublin giving that almost 30% of the population live in it! Nothing to do with snobbery, just a practical decision that has sort of snowballed.

Deleted User wrote: »

Probably more to do with the fact that there are a lot of secondhand D plated cars on the market at the moment, they'll tell you anything anything to shift them.

This was circa 2009.

RandomViewer · 14-08-2020 2:27pm

shaveAbullock wrote: »

Explains the higher rate of fatal car accidents on Donegal. May of them involving a single car.

7000 kilometres of road , most of them secondary, 100 heroin deaths in Dublin for every Donegal road death yet we make the headlines?

Pkiernan · 14-08-2020 2:33pm

I'd honestly avoid a Limerick, Longford, Cavan, Louth and Donegal plated car.

I think most people would too if given the choice

Agricola · 14-08-2020 2:44pm

Would like to see what percentage of Corkonians would buy anything other than a C reg car.
Infinitesimal I'd say.

The J Stands for Jay · 14-08-2020 2:45pm

RandomViewer wrote: »

7000 kilometres of road , most of them secondary, 100 heroin deaths in Dublin for every Donegal road death yet we make the headlines?

And Cork has worse roads statistics than Donegal, but somehow doesn't have the same reputation.

Errashareesh · 14-08-2020 2:53pm

Agricola wrote: »

Would like to see what percentage of Corkonians would buy anything other than a C reg car.
Infinitesimal I'd say.

Tis fairly pathetic really. Whenever people say "Ireland is like the third world", stuff like this being something which actually bothers people really drives home how wrong they are.

14-08-2020 3:02pm

Seems to me that the best solution would be to remove the county from the registration index altogether and replace it with a national sequence of letters & numbers similar to the old system (or current NI one) then have a county badge on the plate opposite side of the plate to the EU/IRL badge. (similar to the newer French number plates)
In this image RN would replace the 25 on the right, with the county crest above it.

Then the plate can be changed to the new badge if the owner chooses while keeping the same number.

Galwayguy35 · 14-08-2020 3:57pm

shaveAbullock wrote: »

Perhaps people in Dublin think other counties have no roads and all non D cars spent their life in fields.

In fairness most of the secondary roads are sh1te with bumps that cause wear and tear driving on them everyday and thats not even mentioning the potholes we have to deal with in winter time.

RandomViewer · 14-08-2020 7:00pm

McGaggs wrote: »

And Cork has worse roads statistics than Donegal, but somehow doesn't have the same reputation.

Ours are usually speed related, Cork'seems to be people driving out in front of larger vehicles, I think why we get more attention is that while other counties have an even age spread the Donegal deaths are usually young with everything to live for
, Handsome photos make better headlines for the gutter press

The J Stands for Jay · 14-08-2020 7:06pm

RandomViewer wrote: »

Ours are usually speed related, Cork'seems to be people driving out in front of larger vehicles, I think why we get more attention is that while other counties have an even age spread the Donegal deaths are usually young with everything to live for
, Handsome photos make better headlines for the gutter press

There seems to be more of a car culture in Donegal, but more crossroads in Cork with tyres tracks of donuts and a drink driving culture.

John_Rambo · 14-08-2020 11:48pm

RandomViewer wrote: »

7000 kilometres of road , most of them secondary, 100 heroin deaths in Dublin for every Donegal road death yet we make the headlines?

Middle class, rural young deaths will always attract more media coverage than inner city poverty drug related deaths. The people the read the news relate more to their kids dying in a car crash than overdosing in a derelict house.

And to be honest, majority of people don't care about heroin related deaths in Dublin.

juneg · 15-08-2020 11:22pm

Whatever about potholes most of my driving is spent going over ramps .

Capt'n Midnight · 15-08-2020 11:34pm

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

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

TN / TS

Capt'n Midnight · 15-08-2020 11:38pm

iamstop wrote: »

I used to do a regular radio show at a pirate radio station in town just off the quays there. Drove in in my WX plated Seat Cordoba. It was in rough shape but did the job. Anyway, the lock on the driver's side was acting up to the point where I was afraid to lock it for fear it wouldn't open again.
I finished my show and put my records back in the car. I still had to go to the quays to drop the studio keys back to the desk. I decided I'd put the records in the boot, out of sight and close but not lock the driver door.

Reminds me of the time I left the car locked with some R&B records visible on the back seat.

A few minutes later I realised what I'd done and rushed back.

But I was too late, window was broken and there were three more records dumped there

JasonStatham · 16-08-2020 5:52pm

They should definitely remove the county from the registration. That'd stop local wa*nkers trashing your car cos they don't like where you're from.

RandomViewer · 16-08-2020 6:03pm

JasonStatham wrote: »

They should definitely remove the county from the registration. That'd stop local wa*nkers trashing your car cos they don't like where you're from.

Where'd this happen?

shaveAbullock · 16-08-2020 6:11pm

RandomViewer wrote: »

Where'd this happen?

Belfast on July 12 probably

RandomViewer · 16-08-2020 6:14pm

shaveAbullock wrote: »

Belfast on July 12 probably

Doubtful, Southern brethren would ve up to march, cars wouldn't be touched

iamstop · 18-08-2020 4:39pm

RandomViewer wrote: »

Where'd this happen?

Dublin. N Lotts Lane to be exact.

Does county of car registration matter to you?

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