Have any of you had experience with buying from Northern Ireland? Are there any traps to watch out for or are the cars usually a bit cheaper from over there?

Are you talking new cars? If so there is good business with new cars bought from dealers in the republic. They get bought tax free in the republic, "exported to UK" and VAT paid on the import price then registered as new. With a strongish pound against the Euro and high car taxes holding down new car ex factory prices in Ireland you can see how it happens.

 

Disadvantages can be that models are different spec options etc to similar UK dealer models - typical A/C missing etc or goodies standard here. The main dealers here dont like it either for obvious reasons.

No - it is a used car and as far as I can tell so far, it is the spec it should be. I was just wondering if cars are generally cheaper over there, and if that was the case, it would tie in with the deal and how much he is lowering the price.

I come originally from N. Ireland - it is part of the UK. Whilst house prices are cheaper I don't think there's much difference in car prices. Cars supplied to N. Ireland are UK spec.

Geoff.

Alot of bad imports come thru the republic of Ireland

stolen and accident damaged

harder to trace

Cheers guys,

 

I have the plate so I intend to run it tomorrow.

Cos,

 

Be careful mate. I see lots of car transporters full of accident damaged cars being driven towards the ferry terminal at Fleetwood (used to live in Cleveleys nearby) ready to be shipped over to Northern Ireland. Now you aint telling me its cheaper to ship em over there to repair em???? Like cadpaul says, its not unknown for accident damaged cars to be repaired out there, registered on a NI plate and then sold. Is there any history with the car? Was it sold as new in NI? If so then less of a worry. If it was imported when second hand I would be very suspicious.

 

HTH

 

Nick

:cool:

What I know so far is that the car has the full history, with only 2 lady owners. I know that some things can fall through the net so I am contemplating just going over by plane to view it at the W/E.