Buying a car from UK

[FetishCherry]

Hi guys, where to be a better place to ask if not here where so many guys lol. I plan to buy a car from Northern Ireland as prices are better as u all know after sterling lost its power prices look better there for many things (plus they have more specifications comparing with here where many cars have just the basic things no navigation no nothing...)... and bring it in ireland ad register here. Now i have read online in Citizen information what i should do but still i would like to hear your experience what u done step by step when u bought a car from a dealer from UK. How u drove off the car from there?I dont have any insurance yet as i never had a car here( i do have one in my country on my car i have home but there is different and is doesn't matter here anyway i think) . Can someone else who is insured on his/her car to drive the car from uk i Ireland or need to be on the trailer, cant be driven off until registered and paid VRT? How is works? Thank you

[bmw528]

Hi guys, where to be a better place to ask if not here where so many guys lol. I plan to buy a car from Northern Ireland as prices are better as u all know after sterling lost its power prices look better there for many things (plus they have more specifications comparing with here where many cars have just the basic things no navigation no nothing...)... and bring it in ireland ad register here. Now i have read online in Citizen information what i should do but still i would like to hear your experience what u done step by step when u bought a car from a dealer from UK. How u drove off the car from there?I dont have any insurance yet as i never had a car here( i do have one in my country on my car i have home but there is different and is doesn't matter here anyway i think) . Can someone else who is insured on his/her car to drive the car from uk i Ireland or need to be on the trailer, cant be driven off until registered and paid VRT? How is works? Thank you

You normally get a few days to register the car and pay the dutiies . If you have a certain model in mind then enquire about how much the insurance is on that model. Most insurance companies will cover you with an english registered car providing you get it registered within a few days of bringing it to Ireland. It would probably best to pay someone independant to look the car over before you buy it.

[MrNormanBates]

The VRT on my Ferrari was something over 70k punts at the time,
I remember two guys behind me in the queue saying that guy(me) lift doesn't go all the way to the top as he could have bought a good house with that sort of money but i'm happy and dont regret it.

[MrNormanBates]

Hi guys, where to be a better place to ask if not here where so many guys lol. I plan to buy a car from Northern Ireland as prices are better as u all know after sterling lost its power prices look better there for many things (plus they have more specifications comparing with here where many cars have just the basic things no navigation no nothing...)... and bring it in ireland ad register here. Now i have read online in Citizen information what i should do but still i would like to hear your experience what u done step by step when u bought a car from a dealer from UK. How u drove off the car from there?I dont have any insurance yet as i never had a car here( i do have one in my country on my car i have home but there is different and is doesn't matter here anyway i think) . Can someone else who is insured on his/her car to drive the car from uk i Ireland or need to be on the trailer, cant be driven off until registered and paid VRT? How is works? Thank you

Give me details on the car and I check it for you, Mother bought the defender in the UK and she got the VRT all online, its only an estimate and she was charged extras at the centre for leather seats, a must for spills, and some other extras but she is really happy with it as would not get a cleaner one in Ireland

[MrNormanBates]

My Maserati was wasn’t that expensive

you won't get much better than Ferrari, Enzo was some man for one man

[bmw528]

Lots of reading on this thread -> Importing from the UK - definitive guide (Q&A) - boards.ie
May be useful (certainly more useful than here for answers )

And if your getting a mechanic to look it over maybe get him to bring his marriage licence with him.

[bmw528]

The VRT on my Ferrari was something over 70k punts at the time,
I remember two guys behind me in the queue saying that guy(me) lift doesn't go all the way to the top as he could have bought a good house with that sort of money but i'm happy and dont regret it.

I dont think they charge for a little model car that fits into a shoe box Norman.

[anon361]

https://www.motorcheck.ie/blog/vrt-calculator/

Just fill in a few details along with the reg of the car and it will email you pretty quickly the exact amount of VRT you will have to pay. While cars in Northern Ireland and the UK are higher spec VRT is also charged on those extras if they are not standard on the Irish model. This calculator takes all the extras on the exact car into consideration where the vrt calculator on the revenue site does not.

You cannot drive a car in this country or in Northern Ireland without a valid insurance policy, not even to test drive the car if you are buying it from a private individual. Once you buy the car get some sort of a hand written or printed receipt from them as VRT will ask you for one to prove when you bought the car, you have 7 days to inform them that you have brought a foreign vehicle into Ireland (by making an appointment to pay vrt online does that, https://www.ncts.ie/1145 ) and you have a total of 30 days from when you bought it to pay the vrt. If you do not inform them within 7 days they'll fine you and it adds up quickly as it is now run by a private company and they're money grabbing fuckers..

[anon361]

Incidentally VRT is an illegal tax, the European union fine Ireland something in the region of 2 Billion Euro each year for charging it but because they take in 6-7 Billion they keep charging it.
I have heard of people appealing the vrt charge to revenue and getting a full refund as once it goes to court which you legally can take them they know they'll loose but how many Irish are brave enough to challenge revenue

[NORBURY]

only one solution is to buy electric, Diesels in the uk have slowed down, called in few dealerships when I had finished having great sex in Birmingham and they said most these diesels will be going across the pond to Ireland as theyre way behind, Buy a electric Golf car which by the way are superb and pay no vrt and you have free charging points at present too.

its a sin not to go for it