Anybody good with cars?

[Rich]

Hello all,

I am looking for a car for my girl friend who has just passed her test and needs a broom for work. She has found a 53 plate Peugeot 206 1.1, 40,000 miles for £1800. This seems very cheap to me, but figure that it may be a bit tatty (this is fine).

My problem is that she seems to think that the car is Irish as the number plate doesnt look English (I havnt seen it yet, could be personalised). I seem to remember some1 telling my that if a car is registered to another country, you have a certain number of years you can drive it about on the same plates until you have to pay through the nose to register it in this country. My worry is that the car may be at this point and is being sold off cheap.

Does anybody know if I am making this up?
If not how would I check?

Any advice here would be very much appreciated

 

[Rich]

Oh and I forgot to mention that this car has Central locking, LED lights, custom interior, CD player and a handful of other extras. This is why I thought it was a low price.

 

[Deleted member 9966]

Rich

looking at the registration documents would be a good place to start to ascertain where the car was first registered. if it's a UK car, it should have a DVLA V5 reg document.

also check www.whatcar.com for their take on the 206's.

 

[Deleted member 9966]

and if you can't physically get to see the vehicle, ring whoever is selling them with a full list of questions and if at any point they can't answer your questions satisfactorily, bin them off and keep looking.

we tested a Saab9-3 diesel for Mr GRR the other week, and it was a nice car but not what we hoped for, and then we heard knocking from the back end... not a good sign. didn't go back.

my first proper car (when I was an adult and working full time) was a Fiat Punto 1.2. cheap and cheerful to insurance, tax, MOT and maintain. avoid any cars with more than 2 owners I say, because otherwise they've been shifted around too much and might be masking bigger problems. oh and make sure it has 2 keys. nothing narks me more than having to go and spend £100 getting a second key cut because the original owner lost one and didn't bother to replace it!!!!! :incazzato:

 

[Rich]

Thank you, I will be having a look at it next weekend. I just wasnt sure how much it would cost to re register the thing if it needed it.

I hate buying cars, such a pain in the backside :incazzato:

 

[Deleted member 9966]

Thank you, I will be having a look at it next weekend. I just wasnt sure how much it would cost to re register the thing if it needed it.

I hate buying cars, such a pain in the backside :incazzato:

I can't imagine it would cost much to re-register it to a UK number plate. And then you can haggle with whoever is selling it to knock some money off it to cover part of the registering if it does indeed turn out to be a foreign car.

 

[hillhead]

Rich, as you know i live here in NI.
Cars here are no prob to take over there, it's cars from the Republic of Ireland where you'd have to pay import duty i believe.
If i buy from the Republic then i have to pay the duty too.
Check out where in Ireland the car is from????????
The southern plates have ... like ... 00-WX-8906, 97-CN-4587 etc.
Northern plates are like ULZ 1234, HIB 1789 etc.
So only the southern ones you'd have probs with as you'd be paying the import duty IMO.

 

[Colour Republic]

Oh and I forgot to mention that this car has Central locking, LED lights, custom interior, CD player and a handful of other extras. This is why I thought it was a low price.

For me it's the other way round mate

Those extras mean it's being doing dounuts round mcdonalds carpark, handbrake turns in asda's and general reving the nuts off it, for those reasons I think it's expensive!

 

[Rich]

Thank you guys

Joe, my GF says that she doesnt think the car is English because the number plate is letters then numbers (e.g. ULZ 1234) so it sounds like its northern :hurray:

I will let you know how I get on next week.

Thanks again guys

 

[Scott]

Mine was an Irish car with a prefix of PNZ only found out when i HPI checked it. Made no difference to the overall value.

I will add this though, every low mileage car i have ever had has cost me far more than a high miler.

 

[Colour Republic]

I will add this though, every low mileage car i have ever had has cost me far more than a high miler.

So true! I had to force my GF to drive hers, sitting around for long periods of time can kill a motor. When we scrapped it a few years ago it had only done 67K less than 5K a year for its age

 

[Del W]

That is not a lot of miles for that year of car. Average of 5k a year.

Try this as a guide.

Free Used Car Valuations - What Car?

 

[Rich]

Thanks for the replies peeps. If the car moves and I dont have to get the thing re registered than I will prob get it as she is a mobile beauty therapist who is borrowing a car at the moment and she just needs to get on the road. If it lasts her a year it will keep her quite for a year

 

[Olz]

When you say custom interior, led lights etc, this springs to mind, have you seen any photos of it yet?

:lol::lol::lol::lol:

 

[Colour Republic]

I've never understood buying a car for £5k then spending £20k on it! My little sister bought a Citron Saxo for £4.5k which the guy before had spent £13K on in the last two years... where do these kids get their money from anyway???!!!