My new 325i!

[darren_rice]

Been lurking here for a while..
im from ireland and been thinking of buying one for some time,prices over here are far too high so travelled to england on saturday and bought this beauty,talk about a minter,not a spot of rust anywere on her,75k on the clock with history to prove,am abseloutly over the moon with her

[Nelly]

Sweet looking there mate, loving the Motersport BBS'S

Neil.

[stevetigger]

Will you have to put an Irish plate on it??

[darren_rice]

I will have to put an irish plate on it,
costs about 400 euro VRT(vehicle registration tax),so ill leave it for a while..lol!

[stevetigger]

I will have to put an irish plate on it,
costs about 400 euro VRT(vehicle registration tax),so ill leave it for a while..lol!

How long can you leave it??
Whats 400 euro's? Thats like Ԛ£275 Oh my God, Do you pay road tax in Eire

[darren_rice]

your suppose to do it the next day,but i suppose you can get away with as long as you can.the last car i bought in england aswell and i got away with it for 6months,
Yeah we pay road tax,
Vrt is a total fuckin rip off,Basically its taxing tax,its illegal in the EU,
but the goverment gets so much revenue off it,it cant abolish it,
ditry scumbags,
its suppose to be gone in about 20 years GREAT!
If you were to bring in an e46 bmw M3 2003 say,you would pay the guts off 18grand VRT on it,
Its 30% off the cars book value on cars over 1.9,
madness!!!!!

[stevetigger]

I get ya now, so its like import tax!

[toptints]

what interior has it got in there matey... ?

[Simon]

what interior has it got in there matey... ?

Looks like anthracite cloth, black sides, grey cloth, my fave combo for practicality.

Car looks nice matey!

[bigkev]

hopefully the start of a long and happy relationship

[darren_rice]

Yeah simon its the grey and black,
Thanks guys

[Conan]

she looks lovely mate. those motorsport style rims are awesome

[ROC]

Lovely looking motor, how much do Sports cost in Ireland?

[darren_rice]

ones up north go from anywere from 3-5k sterling and here they go for more,seen one in wicklow a red one for 8000 euros

[gary]

Nice car mate hope you enjoy it.

I have a relation who lives in Cork and came over to England and bought an E36 M3 GT2 for about Ԛ£13k he then took it home and after VRT and other stuff the car ost him about Ԛ£22k in total.

Lovely car....

[scottybeemer]

very nice mate ,hope you enjoy it

[garyp_E30_325i]

Lovely car mate, good choice (6 pot beauty).

[dodgydodger]

i think ill start shipping motors to irland lol! minted

[dobbey1]

nice motor mate!

[technoviolet]

Very nice darren,best of luck with it.Is it a 325i or a 325sport?
Reason i ask is that if it's a genuine sport it'll cost between 1650 and 2200 euro to clear the vrt,not 400euro(325i).I got caught out when i went to clear mine,thinking it would only cost 480

[Simon]

Very nice darren,best of luck with it.Is it a 325i or a 325sport?
Reason i ask is that if it's a genuine sport it'll cost between 1650 and 2200 euro to clear the vrt,not 400euro(325i).I got caught out when i went to clear mine,thinking it would only cost 480

I was thinking it was more too, I recently sold a sport to a guy from Ireland, and he said if it's a sport it costs some stupid amount of money to register it there. He was registering it as a 325ise.

[darren_rice]

yeah ill be registering it as an se, dont see any sports on the VRT website so,ah well

[higgs]

Im in the same boat as yourself . I have a sport and its ireland for the past 14 months . bought it off a a guy that never registered it but it didnt matter too much cos he kept it garaged for a year (85k)must get pics up !!
So i went to register it a couple of weeks ago i had to pay between 1100 - 2200 depending on contition . Wouldnt mind but only paid 481 euros six months ago c**ts

[technoviolet]

yeah ill be registering it as an se, dont see any sports on the VRT website so,ah well

Darren,registering it as an se wont work.Unfortunately they arent as stupid as they look in the vro.Your v5 document will state 325"sport" and when they see that they will quote you 325sport prices.Anyway if you could get away with reg.it as an se then it would state se on your new irish vehicle reg.cert when its really a sport and for future resale this would throw doubt over whether its a genuine sport or not.Beleive me ive been through all this horseshit already.

[nav786]

nice motor dude, all this vrt stuff is madness

[QUIRKY]

I actually cleared my 325i sport back in september,cost me 1650 euro to clear it,robbing b***ards