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Does your Car Tax need to be in date for NCT?

  • 06-07-2010 3:03pm
    #1
    Manuel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 431 ✭✭


    Thanks.
    /M.


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  • #2
    MetzgerMeister
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,885 ✭✭✭✭MetzgerMeister


    As I was told by an NCT customer service rep..."We don't test your Tax"


  • #3
    Gumbo
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 40,356 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gumbo


    einheisserschre wrote: »
    As I was told by an NCT customer service rep..."We don't test your Tax"

    +1
    your tax doesnt have to be in date...............but how would you get the car there :D


  • #4
    galwaytt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,822 ✭✭✭✭galwaytt


    Transporter...?? :p:p

    Ode To The Motorist

    “And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, generates funds to the exchequer. You don't want to acknowledge that as truth because, deep down in places you don't talk about at the Green Party, you want me on that road, you need me on that road. We use words like freedom, enjoyment, sport and community. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent instilling those values in our families and loved ones. You use them as a punch line. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the tax revenue and the very freedom to spend it that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said "thank you" and went on your way. Otherwise I suggest you pick up a bus pass and get the ********* ********* off the road” 



  • #5
    johnos1984
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,096 ✭✭✭johnos1984


    If I'm not mistaken you are allowed to drive to the NCT centre with no tax and home again as you cannot tax a car without a valid NCT.


  • #6
    no1beemerfan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,714 ✭✭✭no1beemerfan


    johnos1984 wrote: »
    If I'm not mistaken you are allowed to drive to the NCT centre with no tax and home again as you cannot tax a car without a valid NCT.

    Them were the days..........!


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  • #7
    testicle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,429 ✭✭✭testicle


    johnos1984 wrote: »
    you cannot tax a car without a valid NCT.

    An urban myth that was once valid about 8 years ago.


  • #8
    lumo22
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 83 ✭✭lumo22


    johnos1984 wrote: »
    If I'm not mistaken you are allowed to drive to the NCT centre with no tax and home again as you cannot tax a car without a valid NCT.

    Ahh, you can.i just did it!


  • #9
    johnos1984
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,096 ✭✭✭johnos1984


    no1beemerfan wrote: »
    Them were the days..........!

    Seriously???? :confused:

    I should of known as my thinking was logical and made sense...........something which we don't normally stand for in Irish motoring regulation


  • #10
    johnos1984
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,096 ✭✭✭johnos1984


    testicle wrote: »
    An urban myth that was once valid about 8 years ago.

    I think you can tax it online but good luck if you have a crash


  • #11
    testicle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,429 ✭✭✭testicle


    johnos1984 wrote: »
    I think you can tax it online but good luck if you have a crash

    You can tax a car anywhere wthout an NCT.

    (Waits for someone to refute with an RF100 with a Certificate of Roadworthiness section or a horrendously old one with an NCT section)


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  • #12
    johnos1984
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,096 ✭✭✭johnos1984


    testicle wrote: »
    You can tax a car anywhere wthout an NCT.

    I didn't know that! I always understood it had to be NCT'd or for a van DOE'd so you could tax it.

    But if the tax and NCT are out are you allowed to drive it to the center for testing with insurance cover?


  • #13
    slinky2000
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,287 ✭✭✭slinky2000


    You can indeed tax a car without an NCT, I done it on Friday in the office and you can do it online also. I did it loads of times!


  • #14
    galwaytt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,822 ✭✭✭✭galwaytt


    johnos1984 wrote: »
    I think you can tax it online but good luck if you have a crash


    you can tax it without NCT, full stop. In person or online. The requirement was done away with, years ago.

    What's a crash got to do with tax ? :confused:

    Ode To The Motorist

    “And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, generates funds to the exchequer. You don't want to acknowledge that as truth because, deep down in places you don't talk about at the Green Party, you want me on that road, you need me on that road. We use words like freedom, enjoyment, sport and community. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent instilling those values in our families and loved ones. You use them as a punch line. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the tax revenue and the very freedom to spend it that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said "thank you" and went on your way. Otherwise I suggest you pick up a bus pass and get the ********* ********* off the road” 



  • #15
    johnos1984
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,096 ✭✭✭johnos1984


    galwaytt wrote: »
    What's a crash got to do with tax ? :confused:

    I meant taxing it and using it without an NCT.

    They can refuse to cover a claim if it has no nct, although I do recall someone saying they can refuse if you have no tax also (not sure on about this though)


  • #16
    kierank01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 720 ✭✭✭kierank01


    I don't really understand why someone would tax their car, and not nct it (assuming roadworthiness).

    It would be like saying I will obey the speed limit going this way, but not while going that way.

    Even if the car was not roadworthy, and you had decided not to nct the car, why would you say to yourself 'oh I must tax the car, 'cause if i get caught without it...'


  • #17
    L-M
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,694 ✭✭✭✭L-M


    kierank01 wrote: »
    I don't really understand why someone would tax their car, and not nct it (assuming roadworthiness).

    It would be like saying I will obey the speed limit going this way, but not while going that way.

    Even if the car was not roadworthy, and you had decided not to nct the car, why would you say to yourself 'oh I must tax the car, 'cause if i get caught without it...'

    +1 UNLESS you were waiting for an NCT dated. If you were simply avoiding your nct i wouldn't bother taxing it, it's not going to help a whole pile lol


  • #18
    galwaytt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,822 ✭✭✭✭galwaytt


    johnos1984 wrote: »
    I meant taxing it and using it without an NCT.

    They can refuse to cover a claim if it has no nct, although I do recall someone saying they can refuse if you have no tax also (not sure on about this though)

    No they can't. An insurance Cert, once issued under the Road Traffic Act means you are covered to drive.

    That doesn't mean they can't come after you, separately, under a civil suit, afterwards, for any claim they've paid out for, but they can't refuse to honour any claim for a policy in force. And you can't be prosecuted for 'no insurance' for it in the interim, either.......

    Ode To The Motorist

    “And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, generates funds to the exchequer. You don't want to acknowledge that as truth because, deep down in places you don't talk about at the Green Party, you want me on that road, you need me on that road. We use words like freedom, enjoyment, sport and community. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent instilling those values in our families and loved ones. You use them as a punch line. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the tax revenue and the very freedom to spend it that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said "thank you" and went on your way. Otherwise I suggest you pick up a bus pass and get the ********* ********* off the road” 



  • #19
    johnos1984
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,096 ✭✭✭johnos1984


    galwaytt wrote: »
    No they can't. An insurance Cert, once issued under the Road Traffic Act means you are covered to drive.

    I'd really like confirmation of that

    So if i drive without an NCT and my brake pipes burst due to poor condition (easily picked up on an nct) and I have a collision with another car your telling me the insurance company will pay out no problems?

    From what I know they won't as you haven't fulfilled your end of the contract by keeping the car in a roadworthy condition. Even if you are in an at fault collision without mechanical failure I'm pretty sure they can leave you high and dry if you have no NCT. There is no point in having an NCT system if they don't


  • #20
    CaraFawn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 314 ✭✭CaraFawn


    Even if you have an NCT it does not mean your car is roadworthy.
    Let say you have an accident right after you passed the NCT because a coroded brake line just burst, you can not sue them.
    Even on the cert itself it is written it is not a proof the car is roadworthy.

    When I tax my cars, and I go down regularly because often I forget to do it online, I never write down the NCT details because I am too lazy. They never asked me anything. The tax office guy don't care, they are not here to enforce NCT on cars, this is just a way to capture the NCT details for the Garda or so I suppose as I don't think the garda has access to the NCT database directly. I stand corrected.


  • #21
    johnos1984
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,096 ✭✭✭johnos1984


    CaraFawn wrote: »
    Even if you have an NCT it does not mean your car is roadworthy.

    Thats understandable but you can be pulled if your car is NCT'd and not roadworthy

    Also as you say it doesn't guarantee your car is roadworthy but you still have to have one by law


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  • #22
    CaraFawn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 314 ✭✭CaraFawn


    johnos1984 wrote: »
    Thats understandable but you can be pulled if your car is NCT'd and not roadworthy

    Also as you say it doesn't guarantee your car is roadworthy but you still have to have one by law

    Yeah sure the cars are pretty well tested anyway, I'd say if they pass, they are pretty good, but this is just a legal/responsability thing I suppose. They decline to take the hit if anything wrong happens.


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