Buying a used car registered in Northern Ireland

[mybrainhurts]

Considering the purchase of a car registered in Northern Ireland from a used car dealer in England. The car is in England now.

Any potential problems here?

[ooo000ooo]

Swansea now look after NI cars so shouldn't be a problem

[750turbo]

I am going to take a wild guess here, and say no.

(Unless that knob Salmond is not over there at the moment, in that case, I say yes )

Seriously though, bugger all to worry about MBH.

[MrBarry123]

Nope - don't believe it'll cause you any issues at all.

The car will be given an English registration number and it will look as if it has always been here.

[Blakewater]

Will the car even require an English/UK registration number? Plenty of people have NI plates as private plates as NI is part of the UK and I've seen UK format registrations on cars for sale over there.

[mybrainhurts]

The last one I viewed had been re registered in NI by someone who lived in Manchester. It was a rebuilt insurance write off and I assume he was trying to hide this, but it came up on my HPI check.

This is the sort of thing I'm thinking about.

Also, do insurers discriminate in any way and is it impossible to put a private plate on such a vehicle?

[golfer19]

I live in Northern Ireland and sold my last car to a guy iin London without any problems.He liked the NI plate and was planning on keeping it as it didn't date the car.

[crostonian]

mybrainhurts said:

The last one I viewed had been re registered in NI by someone who lived in Manchester. It was a rebuilt insurance write off and I assume he was trying to hide this, but it came up on my HPI check.

This is the sort of thing I'm thinking about.

Also, do insurers discriminate in any way and is it impossible to put a private plate on such a vehicle?

No probs whatsoever, as you say they still show up on HPI, no insurance discrimination, it's still a UK vehicle, you can choose whether to keep the Irish plate or get an age related UK one.

[crostonian]

mybrainhurts said:

The last one I viewed had been re registered in NI by someone who lived in Manchester. It was a rebuilt insurance write off and I assume he was trying to hide this, but it came up on my HPI check.

This is the sort of thing I'm thinking about.

Also, do insurers discriminate in any way and is it impossible to put a private plate on such a vehicle?

No probs whatsoever, as you say they still show up on HPI, no insurance discrimination, it's still a UK vehicle, you can choose whether to keep the Irish plate or get an age related UK one.

[va1o]

As above no problems at all, its only republic of Ireland which makes a difference.

[TooMany2cvs]

Blakewater said:

Will the car even require an English/UK registration number? Plenty of people have NI plates as private plates as NI is part of the UK and I've seen UK format registrations on cars for sale over there.

It won't require it, but you can ask for one - it'll be an age-related to the original first reg date.

And you mean a "GB" number. NI is part of UK. Welsh & Scottish cars get the same format as England, but not NI.

[mybrainhurts]

Thank you gentlemen.

[yellowbentines]

MrBarry123 said:

Nope - don't believe it'll cause you any issues at all.

The car will be given an English registration number and it will look as if it has always been here.

Remember if it has sat nav you'll need the languange changed from norn oirish to english, and it probably wont have the bowler-hat peg in the boot.

'English registration number'...hmmmm..

[Blakewater]

TooMany2cvs said:

Blakewater said:

Will the car even require an English/UK registration number? Plenty of people have NI plates as private plates as NI is part of the UK and I've seen UK format registrations on cars for sale over there.

It won't require it, but you can ask for one - it'll be an age-related to the original first reg date.

And you mean a "GB" number. NI is part of UK. Welsh & Scottish cars get the same format as England, but not NI.

The only curveballs are Isle of Man, Jersey, Guernsey, etc.

The Bailiff of Guernsey has this registration:

[dazwalsh]

yellowbentines said:

Remember if it has sat nav you'll need the languange changed from norn oirish to english, and it probably wont have the bowler-hat peg in the boot.

'English registration number'...hmmmm..

That reminds me of a funny clip on youtube about sat nav in northern ireland

http://youtu.be/yoNNi6NuKbU

[TooMany2cvs]

Blakewater said:

The only curveballs are Isle of Man, Jersey, Guernsey, etc.

Not really, since they aren't part of the UK.

[mybrainhurts]

dazwalsh said:

That reminds me of a funny clip on youtube about sat nav in northern ireland

http://youtu.be/yoNNi6NuKbU

That got me thinking....how's about an Ian Paisley TomTom voice...

turn around when possible ..NO NO NO..... NO NO NO

I'd pay for that....

[Poplar350Z]

dazwalsh said:

yellowbentines said:

Remember if it has sat nav you'll need the languange changed from norn oirish to english, and it probably wont have the bowler-hat peg in the boot.

'English registration number'...hmmmm..

That reminds me of a funny clip on youtube about sat nav in northern ireland

http://youtu.be/yoNNi6NuKbU

"Son that's a six cylinder Toyota Carina and she's chipped, you haven't a hope of getting past her"