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Minimum requirements for taking the NCT

  • 16-11-2010 9:02am
    #1
    oxygen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 852 ✭✭✭


    Hey, can anyone tell me the minimum requirements of a car to sit the NCT. I just want to send the car in to see how much it will cost to do it up, ill tell you whats wrong with it.
    No tax,No insurance, the side back window was smashed in. Thats cleaned out and taped over now. The back seat is wet from where the pain got in at it from the broken window.
    Thanks


Comments

  • #2
    Trampas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,983 ✭✭✭Trampas


    With no tax and insurance you will not be able to even drive to the centre


  • #3
    Ghost Train
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,467 ✭✭✭✭Ghost Train


    Trampas wrote: »
    With no tax and insurance you will not be able to even drive to the centre

    Maybe it could be towed there

    Would a car with no engine pass on emissions i wonder


  • #4
    Tallon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,565 ✭✭✭✭Tallon


    Two words:

    pre Nct


  • #5
    Zubeneschamali
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,686 ✭✭✭✭Zubeneschamali


    Tallon wrote: »
    Two words:

    pre Nct

    Three words: waste of money


  • #6
    Tallon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,565 ✭✭✭✭Tallon


    Zubeneschamali wrote: »
    Three words: waste of money

    four words: did not know that!


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  • #7
    Zubeneschamali
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,686 ✭✭✭✭Zubeneschamali


    Tallon wrote: »
    four words: did not know that!

    The NCT only costs €50, fix what they report and you pass the even cheaper retest.

    Anything a pre-NCT reports which would cause a fail is found in the test. Anything a pre-NCT would report which doesn't cause a fail doesn't need to be fixed to pass. Plus there's the issue that the pre-NCT might miss something which causes a fail, and you have to retest anyway.


  • #8
    corktina
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,733 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    Ghost Train wrote: »
    Maybe it could be towed there

    Would a car with no engine pass on emissions i wonder

    to be towed it needs tax insurance and NCT just the same


  • #9
    oxygen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 852 ✭✭✭oxygen


    corktina wrote: »
    to be towed it needs tax insurance and NCT just the same
    Thanks for the replies guys.
    Well i live a mile or two from the centre,so i was going to get my dads insurance transfered to it and for the tax just bring the NCT cert with me in case i got stopped.
    But does any one know will they NCT A a car with no tax?


  • #10
    kildare.17hmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,615 ✭✭✭kildare.17hmr


    yeah they will do it with no tax


  • #11
    mathepac
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,991 ✭✭✭mathepac


    If the car is in a bad state, just be aware of the following from the NCTS manual -

    "Testers need not start a test in the following circumstances:

    (i) where in their opinion any part of the vehicle or its equipment is in such a dirty or dangerous condition as to make it unreasonably difficult to carry out the test... "

    So if it looks really bad / dodgey they may ask you to represent it for testing after a fix-up.


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  • #12
    CiniO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,069 ✭✭✭✭CiniO


    corktina wrote: »
    to be towed it needs tax insurance and NCT just the same

    But if it's carried on a trailer or towing truck, it doesn't need above.

    Besides- when car is driven to NCT centre for a test, it doesn't need valid NCT to be legally on the road.
    It can be driven without it's own insurance, by someone who has a policy allowing him to drive other cars. Nothing can be done about tax though.


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