Registering a car in ROI (1 Viewer)

[theweeyin]

If I was to come over to live in ireland would i have to register my UK car in Ireland and get irish plates for it?


How Exciting! And possibly expensive??

 

[magicbastarder]

yes.

 

[theweeyin]

Thanks. Any more info on that?

 

[Dr Winston Umbogo]

brit cars out.

 

[magicbastarder]

no, but i have heard there's been a recent clampdown on this.
a chap here has managed to keep his northern reg, but when asked, he's able to produce evidence of permanent residence in the north.

 

[HMD]

If you can prove that you've been resident in another EU country for the last six months i don't think you've to pay VRT. Check http://www.revenue.ie/index.htm?/leaflets/vrt6.htm

 

[classic seanc]

A friend of mine's car is worth a good bit more here than it was in England. If she sold it here she'd make a tidy profit, or so she says. It's a '97 Prelude. There's not many of them here, and boy racers are mad for the 97's it would seem. But I would've thought Brit reg's were compulsory for boy racers. Anyway....

Still, it did cost a lot. Can't remember off the top of me head, over €1000 anyway. She had to deal with a lot of insurance company bullshit too.

 

[plug]

"yellow reg!"
*thwack*
"ouch, my arm.."

good times...

 

[ernesto]

keep a bill from your old uk address and you shuld get away with it and delay it for a while if asked to produce proof. if they do it on the spot or something. no rush.think in a year if you start in september. what am i saying. ive no experience in this. thats what id do anyway

 

[jack nance hair]

I did this, but it was 10 years ago so things may have changed. The duty to be paid then was 25% of the value of the car, as determined by the vehicle registrations people. Unfortunately, they valued my car at twice what I paid for it, so I had to pay £250 on a car that cost me £500.

I didn't have to register it immediately as I got a green card from my UK insurance which basically insured me while holidaying over here. I think I had that for a month, but I'm not sure if you can keep extending it or not (I seem to recall hearing recently that you can).

 

[Goff]

By the amount of foreign regged fuckers on the road, I wouldn't worry about it. Most of them have no insurance either.

The amount of left-hand drives. I've even seen commercial vehicles left-hand. Surely that's illegal?

Why you leaving Bonnie Scotland? This place is a fucking kip.

 

[magicbastarder]

because the grass is greener?

 

[theweeyin]

By the amount of foreign regged fuckers on the road, I wouldn't worry about it. Most of them have no insurance either.

The amount of left-hand drives. I've even seen commercial vehicles left-hand. Surely that's illegal?

Why you leaving Bonnie Scotland? This place is a fucking kip.

Ah goff, I'm in sunny berkshire at the moment, being a crabbit music teacher and I fancy a wee change. I'll live back in the homeland sometime but I'm not ready to go back yet and I fancy getting myself some real Irish action for a while . Amongst studying and things of course...