Tyres and NCT

Irishgoatman · 30-10-2010 2:31pm #1

A friend of mine, who's a car dealership owner, was telling me yesterday that there is talk going round the industry that the NCT people are talking about bringing in a rule/law that all tyres over 6 years old will fail the test!!. Has anyone else heard this rumour ?.

Dempo1 · 30-10-2010 2:36pm

I can't believe anyone would even consider having tyres 6 years and older on any vehicle, i doubt the age would fail the test, their appearance would be enough. One rule that has changed is the requirement to have and E number on all tyres, these numbers only started to appear on tyres 4 years or Younger so regardless of age if these numbers are not on your tyres, you will fail automatically.

Irishgoatman · 30-10-2010 2:53pm

Because of having a camper and a car I do less than 10k a year in the car. My car is coming up to 6 years old, 58k on the clock and the original tyres are still well wihin the law and they all have E marks on them.

2 stroke · 31-10-2010 8:29pm

Your thread depth may be legal, but you're getting dangerously close to a blow out or 4. Likely to happen while accelerating, braking or cornering, enjoy.

Irishgoatman · 31-10-2010 10:46pm

This is getting away from my original posting but I'll answer it anyway.

I bought my car new and it is serviced every year by the dealer I bought from. He has permanent instructions from me to do whatever he feels needs to be done (this is the 3rd car I've bought new from him) and I trust him and his mechanics. If the tyres were looking dodgy at the last service back in April I feel sure it would have been in his interest to sell me new ones!.

Now let's get back to my original question posed at the start of this thread and not try to comment on tyres in general.

defike · 02-11-2010 8:56pm

How will the tester know the age of the tyre.

Irishgoatman · 02-11-2010 9:03pm

defike wrote: »

How will the tester know the age of the tyre.

I'll check this out tomorrow but my dealer looked at my tyres and said they were '04. So perhaps there a mark/date letter on them.
I'll get back to you.

zoltar_boi · 02-11-2010 9:17pm

Tyre Marking are explained <<Here>>.

Just been through NCT on my car - no E marks on the back two, but passed without comment. There are signs all over the NCT office about E marks or a fail, but hey - I didn't complain.:D

Mind you, I do work with someone who failed for not having E marks - it's a visual recheck when you get the new tyres as far as I know.

Irishgoatman · 02-11-2010 9:31pm

zoltar_boi wrote: »

Tyre Marking are explained <<Here>>.

Just been through NCT on my car - no E marks on the back two, but passed without comment. There are signs all over the NCT office about E marks or a fail, but hey - I didn't complain.:D

Mind you, I do work with someone who failed for not having E marks - it's a visual recheck when you get the new tyres as far as I know.

Thanks zoltar_boi, that link is very helpful for all.
I've just looked at mine (it's stopped raining and torch is working) and they all have the date mark and e2 mark as per that link diagram. so now we know how the NCT will know if the age is going to be taken into consideration. Still haven't heard this rumour from anyone else though. top marks to you.

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