NCT over 1 Year Overdue!!!

ForestFire

Hi all,

Don't worry I am currently in the process of booking an NCT ASAP, to remove myself from a hazard on the road:D.

What i want to understand is how I got here????

I bought my Car new and it the first car I have kept for more than 3 years, so my first NCT ever.

This is the first NCT due on my car. I was of the understanding that I would get a letter when my car was due for an NCT. Is this not true?

How am I to know when it is due. I have no cert on my window with an expiry date??


Talking of getting notices by letter...My drivers license is also up at the end of this month. I went to process it just after Christmas (I did remember this at least). But again you get no letter to remind you and your supposed to allow 3 months...how are you supposed to know this before you think its time to apply?

Hopefully nothing else is due that I'm not aware about:o

Anan1

ForestFire wrote: »

Hi all,

Don't worry I am currently in the process of booking an NCT ASAP, to remove myself from a hazard on the road:D.

What i want to understand is how I got here????

I bought my Car new and it the first car I have kept for more than 3 years, so my first NCT ever.

This is the first NCT due on my car. I was of the understanding that I would get a letter when my car was due for an NCT. Is this not true?

How am I to know when it is due. I have no cert on my window with an expiry date??


Talking of getting notices by letter...My drivers license is also up at the end of this month. I went to process it just after Christmas (I did remember this at least). But again you get no letter to remind you and your supposed to allow 3 months...how are you supposed to know this before you think its time to apply?

Hopefully nothing else is due that I'm not aware about:o

You're an adult - you're expected to aquaint yourself with the legal requirements for keeping your car on the road. Go to www.ncts.ie and have a read.

Jimbob 83

At one stage my NCT on my Octavia was out 19 months or so

I did the test got my 5 month pass and did it again and passed , job done and it got afew things that needed doing done

Absurdum

ForestFire wrote: »

But again you get no letter to remind you and your supposed to allow 3 months...how are you supposed to know this before you think its time to apply?

the expiry date is a useful hint

ForestFire

ForestFire wrote: »

Talking of getting notices by letter...My drivers license is also up at the end of this month. I went to process it just after Christmas (I did remember this at least). But again you get no letter to remind you and your supposed to allow 3 months...how are you supposed to know this before you think its time to apply?

Hopefully nothing else is due that I'm not aware about:o

Allow 3 months for a drivers license ?
I thought they issue them on the spot?

Alanstrainor

RoverJames wrote: »

Allow 3 months for a drivers license ?
I thought they issue them on the spot?

If not on the spot, it shouldn't take more than a week to get a new license.

Alanstrainor

Alanstrainor wrote: »

If not on the spot, it shouldn't take more than a week to get a new license.

Cool, mine is up in March, no more 19 year old RJ pic on the license :pac:

JerCotter7

Absurdum wrote: »

the expiry date is a useful hint

First NCT for the car so I don't see how he could read the expiry date.

Stheno

ForestFire wrote: »

How am I to know when it is due. I have no cert on my window with an expiry date??

Check the date of registration on your log book, if it's a first NCT it's due on or before that date, you can do the first NCT six months in advance of the due date.

alexmcred

I got a letter for renewing my licence about a month before it was due out last year

mickdw

You will also now only get a 1 year NCT disc OP (just for being bold)

peasant

ForestFire wrote: »

Hopefully nothing else is due that I'm not aware about:o

Checked your passport lately?

unkel

ForestFire wrote: »

I was of the understanding that I would get a letter when my car was due for an NCT. Is this not true?

They used to send you a letter, but they stopped doing that many years ago.

ForestFire wrote: »

How am I to know when it is due.

It's due exactly 4 years after the car was first registered. You will find this date on your vehicle licensing certificate (the bit of paper that shows you're the owner of the car)

So it is up to you to book the car in for the NCT

ForestFire

Thanks for the reply. Although I know its my responsibility, my point is they used to send letters. I knew this and was happily waiting for my letter. Now they don't send letters. What's the reason to stop sending the letter?

On the drivers licence, yes yo van get it in a week, but how many know that officially you should allow 3 months. You may arrive up expecting you have loads of time to be told 3 months.

E39MSport

I got mine on the Corolla last Friday.

I bought it on adverts with no NCT for 800 notes - 80 something on the clock - bit of history. Furry smurf.

The NCT chap told me it was 4 years out of date !! :eek:

Bloody hell - I would have been hung drawn and quartered if stopped. I was driving it about for a month without NCT.

barryfitz

unkel wrote: »

They used to send you a letter, but they stopped doing that many years ago.

Not strictly true, I have received two letters in the last week for the same car which is due in Feb and a different booking ID on each one :pac:

no1beemerfan

My father's car was due its first nct in 2010 and he got a letter to remind him.

My gf's car was due its second nct in 2010 and she got a letter to remind her.

My mother's car is out of nct since last friday. She never got a letter to remind her.

I'd to test two of my cars in 2010 and I never got a reminder.

So I conclude that two out of every five cars due an nct will get a letter!!

ghostdancer

unkel wrote: »

They used to send you a letter, but they stopped doing that many years ago.

nope.

i got one at the start of December for NCT due at the end of this month.

slave1

Why wait, my car is one day under 6 months from it's first official NCT test and I have her in as we speak, so *touchwood, I'll have 2.5years NCT by noon...

slave1

Passed (as expected), two and a half years NCT

ForestFire

Thanks all, All these replies are very interesting.

So it appears that some people are getting letters to remind them and others are not.

When I ring to book my NCT in I will certainly ask about this and will let you know what response I get from the NCT.

Thanks again

The Dagda

Jimbob 83 wrote: »

At one stage my NCT on my Octavia was out 19 months or so

I did the test got my 5 month pass and did it again and passed , job done and it got afew things that needed doing done

That's interesting, what would happen if you had waited until the 2 years was up? Do you have to take the outstanding test or do you just take the one that's due?

slimjimmc

The Dagda wrote: »

That's interesting, what would happen if you had waited until the 2 years was up? Do you have to take the outstanding test or do you just take the one that's due?

NCT cannot be back dated from any period skipped, it's only valid from the day of the test until the end if the current period. The test can be done 3 months (6 months for first test) in advance so if he done the test after 21 months the cert would be valid from that day until the next due date in 2yrs+3mths.

ofcork

On the driving licence i got a letter reminding me mine was up,got the pics went out to the motor tax office,no queue and had new one in 5 mins.

hrcbob

barryfitz wrote: »

Not strictly true, I have received two letters in the last week for the same car which is due in Feb and a different booking ID on each one :pac:

If i was you id call up and confirm one and cancel the other.. they charge you for a no show when you go back the next time..:eek:

hrcbob

Oh and while i think of it.. With this new 1 year test for cars over 10 years old, if you send in a car thats 8 months out of test will they issue a cert for the last 4 months or for 16 months??

Atlantic Dawn

hrcbob wrote: »

Oh and while i think of it.. With this new 1 year test for cars over 10 years old, if you send in a car thats 8 months out of test will they issue a cert for the last 4 months or for 16 months??

16 months.

guil

only nct'd my focus for the first time in october or november, it was due april 09 though

Esel

The Dagda wrote: »

That's interesting, what would happen if you had waited until the 2 years was up? Do you have to take the outstanding test or do you just take the one that's due?

No, once it's over 2 (or 4 etc. :eek:) out of date, you just get a cert going forward.

barryfitz

hrcbob wrote: »

If i was you id call up and confirm one and cancel the other.. they charge you for a no show when you go back the next time..:eek:

Nah its only a letter with a booking id so that I can book it online. Neither of them are appointments...

Orando Broom

mickdw wrote: »

You will also now only get a 1 year NCT disc OP (just for being bold)

Yeah but if your car is over ten years old the result will be the same. I discovered this myself this year i was a year + out on my NCT.

I had the car serviced and then discovered I could not find the log book. between hopping and trotting it went over the year. These things happen.