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Fail NCT with broken horn

  • 02-02-2011 1:07pm
    #1
    mozattack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,908 ✭✭✭


    Hi all,

    I have been driving around since June with a broken horn (on my car!!)

    I have a NCT in 2 weeks - will it fail. I am not getting it serviced before hand cos I have no money


Comments

  • #2
    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    Don't think they check the horn.

    Why don't you get it fixed? It might be something simple like a blown fuse.


  • #3
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Lol


    On topic, yes it will fail
    Read the manual
    http://www.ncts.ie/pdf/nctmanual.pdf


  • #4
    JustLen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 634 ✭✭✭JustLen


    It def is a fail. They do check it.

    What kind of car is it? im sure you would pick one up cheap from a scrap yard


  • #5
    CLARiiON
    Closed Accounts Posts: 72 ✭✭CLARiiON


    yeah, they check it..one of the first things they do along with checking the wipers in all modes. That failed me the last time..raging! Ya never know, you could be lucky


  • #6
    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    Show's how bad my attention span is, don't remember ever hearing a horn at a testing centre.


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  • #7
    Mr Magners
    Closed Accounts Posts: 817 ✭✭✭Mr Magners


    MagicMarker wrote: »
    Show's how bad my attention span is, don't remember ever hearing a horn at a testing centre.

    They tend to do it (in any centre I've been in) when they're driving the car in from outside. It's almost like they're beeping to get the shutter door to open.


  • #8
    mozattack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,908 ✭✭✭mozattack


    Ah jesus - that confirms it so.... thanks for that...

    re fixing it, well I want to the doctor and she gave me three tablets and the horn was working for a while... :D

    no, went to advance pitstop and they said they couldn't fix it... wierd eh?


  • #9
    si_guru
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,347 ✭✭✭si_guru


    mozattack wrote: »
    Ah jesus - that confirms it so.... thanks for that...

    re fixing it, well I want to the doctor and she gave me three tablets and the horn was working for a while... :D

    no, went to advance pitstop and they said they couldn't fix it... wierd eh?

    On most modern cars the horn is an absolute pig to get at. This is because of avalanche laws in central Europe. It is easy to build all the cars the same than to fit one off parts for Switzerland!

    Often it is easier to find the wires for the horn, cut them and mount a new horn elsewhere to those wires.

    SG


  • #10
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    486768393_ec070138c0.jpg


  • #11
    dubsuperstar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 159 ✭✭dubsuperstar


    I had a broken horn for ages its gone through 2 NCT's and hasnt been picked up as a fail.


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  • #12
    Anan1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,815 ✭✭✭✭Anan1


    I'd nearly feel safer driving without a seatbelt than without a horn.


  • #13
    taintabird
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 347 ✭✭taintabird


    mozattack wrote: »
    Hi all,

    I have been driving around since June with a broken horn (on my car!!)

    I have a NCT in 2 weeks - will it fail. I am not getting it serviced before hand cos I have no money

    simple answer yes it will fail


  • #14
    sophie1234
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 516 ✭✭✭sophie1234


    they dont check all of them they just kinda beep some as they go around the corner into the test area but i [passed with a non working one! the car infront of me they tested theres but obv not mine?


  • #15
    Max_Damage
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,461 ✭✭✭Max_Damage


    Ha! In all the times I've been to the NCT centres, I've never seen (or heard should I say) them testing the horn!


  • #16
    taintabird
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 347 ✭✭taintabird


    sophie1234 wrote: »
    they dont check all of them they just kinda beep some as they go around the corner into the test area but i [passed with a non working one! the car infront of me they tested theres but obv not mine?
    And why do you think they just kinda beep some as they go around the corner into the test area? its part of the test and you must have been just lucky to pass if its not working.


  • #17
    si_guru
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,347 ✭✭✭si_guru


    You know you don't have wait for the NCT to fix stuff. Or not fix stuff because it is not part of the NCT.


  • #18
    taintabird
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 347 ✭✭taintabird


    Max_Damage wrote: »
    Ha! In all the times I've been to the NCT centres, I've never seen (or heard should I say) them testing the horn!

    Item number 8 page 20 nct manual

    Horn method of testing
    1 check the security of the horn and horn controle
    2 operate the horn controls and note that the horn sounds correctly

    reasons for failure
    1 controls insecure
    2 horn insecurely mounted
    3 not working correctly
    4 not working or not fitted
    www.ncts.ie/pdf/nctmanual.pdf


  • #19
    sophie1234
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 516 ✭✭✭sophie1234


    taintabird wrote: »
    And why do you think they just kinda beep some as they go around the corner into the test area? its part of the test and you must have been just lucky to pass if its not working.


    they just dont test them all i have since gotten it fixed it just some thing that went just a few days before insted of canceling i went with it and it was fixed so cant complain!


  • #20
    taintabird
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 347 ✭✭taintabird


    sophie1234 wrote: »
    they just dont test them all i have since gotten it fixed it just some thing that went just a few days before insted of canceling i went with it and it was fixed so cant complain!

    You were just lucky it is part of the test you can look in the nct manual the link is in my post above


  • #21
    CreepingDeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,015 ✭✭✭CreepingDeath


    mozattack wrote: »
    no, went to advance pitstop and they said they couldn't fix it... wierd eh?

    By any chance do you have an airbag warning light too ?
    I had an airbag warning light and my car horn went.

    It was the spiral cable in the steering wheel, and advance pitstop didn't want to touch the airbag system with a bargepole.

    I ended up getting the spiral cable replaced by a polish mechanic working from his home. (he had the proper Toyota connector for the old non-obd port diagnostics kit)


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