How long? Marino --> Fonthill at 6pm this evening.

Rowley Birkin QC

Quick question, I've always avoided the M50 at peak hours but have to get to Fonthill NCT centre for 6:40 pm this evening and just wondering what time I should be leaving Marino?

For anyone looking for an NCT booking I cancelled my test for this Sunday at 13:45pm in Fonthill if anyone wants to try and get the slot!

Cheers.

eringobragh

bigkev49 wrote: »

Quick question, I've always avoided the M50 at peak hours but have to get to Fonthill NCT centre for 6:40 pm this evening and just wondering what time I should be leaving Marino?

For anyone looking for an NCT booking I cancelled my test for this Sunday at 13:45pm in Fonthill if anyone wants to try and get the slot!

Cheers.

I worked in Grange Castle near enough to where your doing the NCT.

I started my shifts at 6:45 (3 months ago) and I left my house (artane) at around 5:20 and had time to spare when I got there, depends if there's no accidents etc..I never bothered with the M50, I went up Dorset Street past smithfield onto the quays up the N4 and took the Liffey valley slip

I reckon give it an hour at least: How come you didn't use the Ballymun test centre ?

Rowley Birkin QC

Just asked for next available date at any of the test centres in Dublin, paranoid that I'll meet a Guard fresh out of Templemore and my nice shiny license will be sullied by 5 dirty penalty points!

This is a re-test but they wouldn't transfer it to Ballymun as it has to be in the same centre as the original test.

Cheers.

Rowley Birkin QC

Left at 17:20 and got there with 10 minutes to spare, as a bonus the car passed the test. Diptaine and regular maintenance ftw.:D:D

unkel

bigkev49 wrote: »

the car passed the test. Diptaine and regular maintenance ftw.:D:D

So it failed the test on emissions and it passed the re-test? You can thank diptaine, but an Italian tune-up would have sufficed

Rowley Birkin QC

No, it didn't fail an emissions test the first time as emissions weren't tested. I had sealed up all but one leak in the exhaust so they wouldn't test emissions. I was trying to get through the test on the cheap tbh.

Serviced it myself last week, got an second hand exhaust fitted at the scrapyard for 1/3 of price the dealer wanted before fitting and threw some diptaine in there last night for the retest just to bump up my odds of passing. Kept the engine nice and hot up until the minute before the test commenced and she flew through, 98 Vectra.

Italian tuneup?

unkel

bigkev49 wrote: »

Italian tuneup?

You gave a pretty good definition of an Italian tuneup yourself:

bigkev49 wrote: »

Kept the engine nice and hot up until the minute before the test

Rowley Birkin QC

It appears I gave my car an Italian tune-up last night and today unbeknown to myself even though it's a petrol model.