To firesale my Landcruiser or not?

ballooba

I moved to Sydney about 6 months ago leaving behind my 7 year old LWB Landcruiser Commercial. I tried unsuccessfully to sell it before I left with no joy.

I'll be in Australia for at least 12 months so I'd like to buy a car here now but don't want to end up owning two. I'm home for three weeks at christmas and I'm thinking of throwing it into an auction.

I'm taking it that there is absolutely no market in Ireland at the moment for commercials. Should I just hang onto it as a second car for when I come home?

spadder

I have one and it's very hard to sell these yokes now, If you intend working in Ireland again and you can afford it, I would say keep it, the toyota is a good old workhorse.

L-M

For what it's worth, and what you will lose throw selling it through auction, i would say keep it. If you need the few bob, an auction seems to be the easy solution out.

unkel

If you can afford to, keep it. Declare it off the road so you don't have to pay motortax. Store it securely and cancel your insurance.

If you can't afford to, the news is not good. Did you search carzone.ie for Lancruisers? There are thousands of them for sale it seems. Take the cheapest one comparable to yours, halve the price and that's what you can realistically expect at auction. Also, Christmas would be the worst time of the year to sell a car.

niceirishfella

If it costs you nothing like you have no finance left on it, hang onto it or you'll loose your shirt on it.

Eoin

The Link in your sig doesn't work by the way.

ballooba

eoin_s wrote: »

The Link in your sig doesn't work by the way.

Yeah, the ad expired about 5 months ago. I hadn't been bothered to renew it when I was out of the country. It looks like the best option is to just hang onto it.

maidhc

unkel wrote: »

If you can afford to, keep it. Declare it off the road so you don't have to pay motortax. Store it securely and cancel your insurance.

No need to declare it off the road. You just need to sign a statutory declaration when you wish to tax it again.

unkel

maidhc wrote: »

No need to declare it off the road. You just need to sign a statutory declaration when you wish to tax it again.

Iirc, before the motor tax is running out, you automatically get a renewal form in the post. If you don't do anything, you get several other reminders / renewal forms and finally you get a form where you can state you don't own it anymore, the car is scrapped, the car is permanently off the road, etc.

I'm not sure what happens if you don't fill in and return this form. Probably nothing

L-M

unkel wrote: »

Iirc, before the motor tax is running out, you automatically get a renewal form in the post. If you don't do anything, you get several other reminders / renewal forms and finally you get a form where you can state you don't own it anymore, the car is scrapped, the car is permanently off the road, etc.

I'm not sure what happens if you don't fill in and return this form. Probably nothing

Ya you can generally just leave it until your taxing the car again.

Del2005

unkel wrote: »

Iirc, before the motor tax is running out, you automatically get a renewal form in the post. If you don't do anything, you get several other reminders / renewal forms and finally you get a form where you can state you don't own it anymore, the car is scrapped, the car is permanently off the road, etc.

I'm not sure what happens if you don't fill in and return this form. Probably nothing

My folks got one of them when I was away for a few months, there was some threat on the letter but I've no idea what it was as they just signed it off the road and posted it back.

niceirishfella

unkel wrote: »

Iirc, before the motor tax is running out, you automatically get a renewal form in the post. If you don't do anything, you get several other reminders / renewal forms and finally you get a form where you can state you don't own it anymore, the car is scrapped, the car is permanently off the road, etc.

I'm not sure what happens if you don't fill in and return this form. Probably nothing

Nothing happens. I've had loads of those letters in the post. They say they'll inform the gardai etc etc, that the vehicle is untaxed blah dey, blah dey, blah.
We don't have the "SORN" thing here yet like the uk - i'd say its coming tho tbh. In the uk and your tax is out and you don't declate it off the road by fillin out a statutory of the road notice, they will do you right and proper if you're caught driving on a public highway, or parked up anywhere on a public street/highway!:o

pred racer

unkel wrote: »

Iirc, before the motor tax is running out, you automatically get a renewal form in the post. If you don't do anything, you get several other reminders / renewal forms and finally you get a form where you can state you don't own it anymore, the car is scrapped, the car is permanently off the road, etc.

I'm not sure what happens if you don't fill in and return this form. Probably nothing

Nothing happens if you ignore these forms.

S.I.R

ballooba wrote: »

I moved to Sydney about 6 months ago leaving behind my 7 year old LWB Landcruiser Commercial. I tried unsuccessfully to sell it before I left with no joy.

I'll be in Australia for at least 12 months so I'd like to buy a car here now but don't want to end up owning two. I'm home for three weeks at christmas and I'm thinking of throwing it into an auction.

I'm taking it that there is absolutely no market in Ireland at the moment for commercials. Should I just hang onto it as a second car for when I come home?

There is, but its not as large as it used to be thanks to a poor econemy and a land of nearvous buyers so worse comesa to worst, stick her in the n.i auto trader, at trade price and take no less...


can't make a profit, or your money back in a resession... :rolleyes:

Lumen

Life is too short to worry about depreciating assets rotting away in other countries.

Get rid of it ASAP.