E30 Zone

Am I missing something obvious?

Just been looking at E30 sports on the trader and there are at least 6! E30 325i sports up for sale.

Have they all found somthing better to buy or is it just coincidence?
Seems strange though as most look pretty mint and are within 10 or 20 miles of each other.

Ireland has about twice as many sports as the whole of the UK. I think the S14a 200sx or the Skyline GTS is the new craze and people are buying those now for RWD fun instead.

Sounds like an ideal time for people to pick up a nice sport.

When you buy a car from Ireland is it as simple as paying the seller, jumping back on the ferry and driving home or is there more to it?
ie- Different plates, tax etc

Not too sure to be honest as I was from the north and as its part of the UK there are no silly regulations to follow.
Im sure some of the southern lads will know the details. I think there is some kind of stupid tax you have to pay depending on the value of the car.

The influx of higher power jap cars for similar money has made many people jump from sports in Ireland. I dont know what the case is with bringing a car back to the uk. We have a ridiculous amount of money to pay when buying from the uk.

Buy the car, bring it back, has to have Vehicle Registration Tax paid, only 400-500 on a normal 325i but anything from 1000-1600 on a sport as their classed as classics by customs. Then we have to tax them, 861 and then NCT/MOT them.

Bloody Hell!!

Just shows how good and how popular the e30 is for people to pay that sort of cash for a car thats generaly 15 years old or more.
Fair play!

With the big rally following back in Ireland, any decent RWD or 4x4 car will be very popular.
It still surprises me every time I go back how many more "sports" cars there are on the road compared to here in England.

Did you know that N'Ireland has the most BMW's per head than anywhere else in the world except Germany!

Indeed. On the VRT (Vehicle Registration Tax) topic, this is very prohibitive to importing, and is arguably illegal under EU law! The thing is, it also applies to new car sales, adding up to 25% to the purchase price...

Ian, are you around East Cork or the city?

also the market price here of a sport seems to have risen a good bit and i have even seen some prices up around 7000 euros for one. -lcrazy money

MattyP wrote:Sounds like an ideal time for people to pick up a nice sport.

When you buy a car from Ireland is it as simple as paying the seller, jumping back on the ferry and driving home or is there more to it?
ie- Different plates, tax etc

There's usually a few in the trader from Northern Ireland which enable you to pay for and jump back on the ferry and take it home, and most have english plates on them as they have been brought over from the mainland to begin with as mine was

kenwoir wrote: Most have english plates on them as they have been brought over from the mainland to begin with as mine was

Yeah i brought mine home from Lincoln 2yrs ago flight & boat cost less than Ԛ£100

If you are buying a car from Northern Ireland, you will have to cancel the road tax to register the car in GB, regardless of it having an English or Northern Ireland registration.
The reason for this is that NI has it's own driver and vehicle licensing.
You can keep the registation, but will have to fill in a import form.
Even though the tax disc and registration books looke identical. It is a bizarre situation.
One good thing to note is that the MOT's have been done by the government, not by every garage down some back lane - this will be vaild until it runs out. Note that due to a strike, some cars are still carrying exemption certificates while they wait for an MOT. Thes eare invalid as soon as you take the car into GB, so, you couldn't legally use it on the road until you MOT'd it in GB.

Pilsbury wrote:If you are buying a car from Northern Ireland, you will have to cancel the road tax to register the car in GB, regardless of it having an English or Northern Ireland registration.
The reason for this is that NI has it's own driver and vehicle licensing.
You can keep the registation, but will have to fill in a import form.
Even though the tax disc and registration books looke identical. It is a bizarre situation.
One good thing to note is that the MOT's have been done by the government, not by every garage down some back lane - this will be vaild until it runs out. Note that due to a strike, some cars are still carrying exemption certificates while they wait for an MOT. Thes eare invalid as soon as you take the car into GB, so, you couldn't legally use it on the road until you MOT'd it in GB.

Nothing too tasking with the import form and definately would be sooo much easier than transfer a car from southern ireland. And a point well made about the mot aswell