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"duurtlang" (duurtlang) 09/04/2015 at 09:10 • Filed to: None

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The auction for my BMW just !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! (lot 33). For some reason they decided to not use my own English transcription, and create their own crappy English translation of my original Dutch description. They also changed the lead picture...

I’ll have to check the German translation as well. The French translation, well, unlike the last car I auctioned this car isn’t French, so who cares? I posted my own English translation in reply !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! .

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Tohru > duurtlang 09/04/2015 at 09:32

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You’d be at 10k Euros right now if you were using this picture:

Hiroku > Tohru 09/04/2015 at 10:08

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Lol, now it’s an MK1 Golf GTi wagon!

Hiroku > duurtlang 09/04/2015 at 10:09

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That looks damn fine and cheap at its current price. If importing a car to my country wasn’t so awful I’d be all over this.

duurtlang > Hiroku 09/04/2015 at 10:31

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Where do you live?

fourvalleys > Tohru 09/04/2015 at 10:37

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It shows this picture for me:

Tohru > fourvalleys 09/04/2015 at 10:43

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Look at his picture, then look at mine again. There are some differences.

Hiroku > duurtlang 09/04/2015 at 10:57

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Portugal.

duurtlang > Hiroku 09/04/2015 at 11:01

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Importing a car from another EU country is difficult? That’s weird. It’s really simple here, especially for a 25+ year old vehicle. I’ve done it myself. Fill in a few forms, drive the car to a place where they check if the car matches the paperwork and if it isn’t registered EU-wide as stolen, hand over €130 or so, and done. You’ll get your registration in the mail shortly.

fourvalleys > Tohru 09/04/2015 at 11:01

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Gotcha ;)

I thought he was saying they should have used the front photo but used the back one instead, but I see what’s going on here!

Hiroku > duurtlang 09/04/2015 at 11:14

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The actual registration isn’t that difficult. The biggest problem is that the annual tax is defined by the car’s registration date and emissions. For imported cars, it’s registered with the date it was brought to the country not the date of the manufacture.

So, a 2015 car with a 2000cc engine and 200g/km of CO2 (which I’m guessing this does easily) would set you back over 350€/year on tax which is a bit steep.

For the record, my ‘94 850 Turbo with its 2300cc engine and... let’s say, quite a bit more emissions, pays all of 55€ a year on tax. So it’s quite the difference.

duurtlang > Hiroku 09/04/2015 at 11:24

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That difference is steep, but it’s still way less than what I’m paying though. My daily driver (Peugeot 406 coupe with LPG) costs €96, my 205 GTI €20, my 306 convertible €50 and I assume this BMW would be €50 as well had I had it registered. All of this per month . None of this is based on CO2 taxes though, only on curb weight and fuel type. We do have CO2 taxes here, but they’re a one time tax at the sale of a new car. Or a newly imported car, but you pay less the older it is, and around 15 years or so it’s zero.

Klaus Schmoll > duurtlang 09/04/2015 at 11:59

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German translation is OK. Not perfect but OK.

duurtlang > Klaus Schmoll 09/04/2015 at 12:09

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Thanks for taking the time! How’s the north?

Hiroku > duurtlang 09/04/2015 at 12:13

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Ouch, that sure sounds harsh. I definitely couldn’t afford owning more than one car paying such values a month on my current wage.

Ours are yearly on the month of registration and based on fuel type and engine displacement. Unfortunately LPG doesn’t seem to count as a fuel for out government so we pay gasoline taxes anyway which are way higher than diesels of the same displacement. However one of the changeover years is 95, so my 850 being a 94 pays only 55€/year whereas an identical 850 but from 95 would pay 140€. Not very smart or fair, our taxing system. But at least it seems considerably cheaper than yours so I ain’t complaining!

Our CO2 added taxes are only for 2007 vehicles and newer.

Klaus Schmoll > duurtlang 09/04/2015 at 13:13

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The North itself is great. My colleagues are super friendly and helpful, but the kids are a handful. 8th graders on maternity leave, 5th graders who tell you that they have a new daddy because the old one always looked at pictures of children with adults on his computer etc...

duurtlang > Klaus Schmoll 09/04/2015 at 13:26

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Oh wow. If you don’t mind me asking, is this an Ossi thing?

Klaus Schmoll > duurtlang 09/04/2015 at 14:33

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I wouldn’t say that it’s an Ossi thing as such. You can find this in every formerly heavily industrialised area from Northern England to the Ruhrgebiet, but of course East Germany has a lot of those areas as well. Thousands of jobs were lost in the fishing industry and in the Sassnitz/Mukran ferry terminal after the reunification.

A lot of people moved away to new jobs but those who stayed often had no chance of finding steady employement ever again. So these eastern style pre-fab concrete tower blocks turned into a ghetto. Those with money left, those without stayed and the cheap rent (an appartment the size of mine is half of what I pay) meant that other welfare families (were) moved there.

This is pretty prevalent in a small town in our school district where most of our problem kids come from. At least Sassnitz, after losing a third of its population, has rebounded quite well with tourism which was always strong, the scenic fishing harbour, and the fish factory. So we get a lot of kids from normal families thrown into the mix as well.

BTW, the picture was taken about 30 seconds away from my appartment.