NCT question..

Apip99

We brought a UK 2003 Freelander last year, paid the VRT and the had the NCT done, and now my wife thinks the NCT up again as a year has passed.

I thought NCT was every two years??

Any one any thoughts.

Pip

Anan1

The expiry date will be on the NCT cert & disc.;)

Webmonkey

It's 2 years, but I think as far as I remember taxi drivers must do it annually.

tc20

Quite possibly the case with imported cars. We got a 95 Mini (ex-Japan) last September and the agreed with the seller that it would be NCT'd before purchase.
We only got the NCT for approx 16months, but the subsequent one will be valid for 2 years

Apip99

Right so, Looks like it is up then as disc says so. Maybe we'll get 2 years this time round. Although I've just heard there is a back log, and can't get tested until late september!!

Great system.

Thanks for the replies.

Pip

mickdw

It quite simple. NCT is always due on the birth date of the car and on a 2 year cycle.
Edit: additional info.
So this means that if your car was irish it would have been due its first test 2 years ago and its second test now. You just happened to bring the car in when it was half way through that cycle

Apip99

mickdw wrote: »

It quite simple. NCT is always due on the birth date of the car and on a 2 year cycle.

So that would mean that our NCT should not be this year, but next?

Seth Brundle

mickdw wrote: »

It quite simple. NCT is always due on the birth date of the car and on a 2 year cycle.

...or when you import it.

Guy:Incognito

Apip99 wrote: »

Right so, Looks like it is up then as disc says so. Maybe we'll get 2 years this time round. Although I've just heard there is a back log, and can't get tested until late september!!

Great system.

Thanks for the replies.

Pip

You get it done every 2 years from the date of registration.(It's 4 years for the first NCT though) Say the car was registered in Feb 2003, it would be due its first NCT in Feb 07, you bought it last year so the NCT would have taken you to FEB this year. When you NCT it this time it'll take you to Feb 2011. Even if you waited till Jan 2011 to do the NCT, it'll still expire in Feb 2011.

Apip99 wrote: »

So that would mean that our NCT should not be this year, but next?

YOur NCT is already up, meanign its overdue.

mickdw

See edit to my post above.
The date of import doesnt have any effect on nct date. Its set in stone from date of original registration. So its falls due when car is 4, 6, 8, 10 etc years old exactly, not 2 years etc from import

Seth Brundle

mickdw wrote: »

See edit to my post above.
The date of import doesnt have any effect on nct date. Its set in stone from date of original registration. So its falls due when car is 4, 6, 8, 10 etc years old exactly, not 2 years etc from import

If thats in response to my post then what I had meant was that if you import a car then it is due an NCT immediately regardless of when it is would be due one. That NCT cert lasts for up to two years depending on the when it was first registered abroad (so in reality it may only be a few months or as in the OPs case, 1 year).

mickdw

kbannon wrote: »

If thats in response to my post then what I had meant was that if you import a car then it is due an NCT immediately regardless of when it is would be due one. That NCT cert lasts for up to two years depending on the when it was first registered abroad (so in reality it may only be a few months or as in the OPs case, 1 year).

Sorry no, just trying to clear up situation for the op.