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Buying first car

  • 01-02-2010 12:23pm
    #1
    [Deleted User]
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    I'm close to buying my first car and I was just wondering about something. Not sure if this is the right board. When you buy a car, is it up to the owner to get it to you? I'm a learner driver with only a few lessons so I wouldn't be exactly comfortable in driving it too far. I also worry about the fact that I wouldn't be insured on the vehicle in order to take it home. What's the deal with this? What do you do after buying a car?


Comments

  • #2
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,478 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    If the seller wants to make a sale then accommodating the buyer by delivering it wouldn't be unusual. within reason of course!


  • #3
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 23,339 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    As above really in most cases, I sold a Prelude during the summer, chap that bought it wasn't insured so I delivered it to Skibberean for him and he drove me back to Cork City in his car. As I said to him, I want to sell and he wants to buy to 50 miles shouldn't dent the deal. The car I have now the seller brought from Connemara to Galway City for me.

    Most folks are totally reasonable and will help you out.


  • #4
    squod
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,704 ✭✭✭squod


    Just ask the person seling it to you to bring it to your house if that's what you want. Organising insurance is generally done before the sale is completed though, not a whole lotta point going home with a car you can't insure (or can't afford to insure).

    Roadtax and NCT also have to be arranged, these can be organised over the phone when the change of ownership documents are sent back from the motortax office to you.


  • #5
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    waynewex wrote: »
    I'm a learner driver with only a few lessons so I wouldn't be exactly comfortable in driving it too far.

    I'd recommend you save up and wait until you have the full license. That's what I plan on doing.

    Insurance will be less of a bother then going for a car on a Provisional License, that and you also need to have a named driver with you that has had a full license for a while, don't recall the exact number of years though.


  • #6
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 23,339 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Many folks require hours and hours and hours of driving before they would contemplate sitting a test, I include myself in that. I was driving my own car for a year and a half before sitting a test. The waiting list was a factor in that too though.


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