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NCT online booking - no dates left?!!!!!

  • 01-08-2010 10:11am
    #1
    DiarmaidGNR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 382 ✭✭


    Hi,
    I tried booking my car in for the NCT online but it looks like there are no spaces left in any NCT center for the rest of the year!!!!! (?)

    Anyone else experience this?


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  • #2
    doohan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 97 ✭✭doohan


    Just booked the GFs car in there in Nass for end of Sept there are 2 weeks of dates left. Nass was the closest to Dublin I could get as all the Dublin ones have no dates.


  • #3
    TestTransmission
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,106 ✭✭✭✭TestTransmission


    Just get a booking for anywhere and then try to sort a cancellation by calling the NCT people.


  • #4
    DiarmaidGNR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 382 ✭✭DiarmaidGNR


    TestTransmission wrote: »
    Just get a booking for anywhere and then try to sort a cancellation by calling the NCT people.

    What do you mean?


  • #5
    TestTransmission
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,106 ✭✭✭✭TestTransmission


    Book in your car for its NCT in any centre.You get a ref no.
    You can then call the NCT people with your booking reference and try to get a new date and centre.

    You could get a date within 2/3 days.


  • #6
    DiarmaidGNR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 382 ✭✭DiarmaidGNR


    TestTransmission wrote: »
    Book in your car for its NCT in any centre.You get a ref no.
    You can then call the NCT people with your booking reference and try to get a new date and centre.

    You could get a date within 2/3 days.

    Ahhh.. - So just wait for a cancellation and then switch dates...

    I've done that before, - you don't even need to call them up (it's a live system) you can just go online from time to time to see if anyone canceled.

    I found a date in Kells for october!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:eek:
    I thought the system was down, - just turns out there are feck all dates available anywhere in the country!


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  • #7
    bladebrew
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,671 ✭✭✭bladebrew


    ah my favourite topic:)

    i booked mine 3 months ago for next week, now its looking like i wont be able to make it, so i tried to change the date,
    nothing left for the rest of the year:(
    i have tried to change it heaps of times online and never saw a date any closer to what i got!


  • #8
    DiarmaidGNR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 382 ✭✭DiarmaidGNR


    bladebrew wrote: »
    ah my favourite topic:)

    i booked mine 3 months ago for next week, now its looking like i wont be able to make it, so i tried to change the date,
    nothing left for the rest of the year:(
    i have tried to change it heaps of times online and never saw a date any closer to what i got!

    A few months ago I was trying to nct a different car and the waiting time was about a month, a few minutes after booking it I went online to reschedule and I got one for within the week.


  • #9
    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    If you want a date then you need to be patient, keep checking dates and they'll show up.

    I booked my test last Sunday for last wednesday, in the end I couldn't go so I rebooked it for this Tuesday.

    Other than that just ring them to get a date, I don't see any point in booking some random test centre just to cancel it!


  • #10
    bladebrew
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,671 ✭✭✭bladebrew


    DiarmaidGNR wrote: »
    A few months ago I was trying to nct a different car and the waiting time was about a month, a few minutes after booking it I went online to reschedule and I got one for within the week.


    yeah i dont know what the story is, im just unlucky when i go on to change the date!

    either that or no one in cork has a new car so everyone needs an nct:)


  • #11
    JD1763
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 372 ✭✭JD1763


    Did you try ringing instead of using the online booking? I phoned up and got a July evening booking only 4 weeks later in Ballymun. No problems at all getting the time I wanted either.


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  • #12
    Yarnhall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 93 ✭✭Yarnhall


    Begs the question, are they going to open more centers? or at least post something out to you so you can flash it at the cops if they check (that you've at least applied for the test and waiting on the date to get send out).


  • #13
    itarumaa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 704 ✭✭✭itarumaa


    Why call them, when you can email them instead,

    I have had no issues to book using the email, both for test and retest.


  • #14
    galwaytt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,747 ✭✭✭✭galwaytt


    Yarnhall wrote: »
    Begs the question, are they going to open more centers? or at least post something out to you so you can flash it at the cops if they check (that you've at least applied for the test and waiting on the date to get send out).


    They don't need more centres: this fiasco only began when they didn't renew SGS contract and gave it the Spaniard's instead.

    SGS were Swiss.

    Tells me all I want to know about 'organisation' tbh.........

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  • #15
    jimmycrackcorm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,403 ✭✭✭✭jimmycrackcorm


    galwaytt wrote: »
    They don't need more centres: this fiasco only began when they didn't renew SGS contract and gave it the Spaniard's instead.

    SGS were Swiss.

    Tells me all I want to know about 'organisation' tbh.........

    The centres are constantly fully booked. They simply don't have the capacity. Its even more ridiculous given that the bulk of cars were bought at the beginning of the years so early months tests are impossible to get due to uneven demand


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