Fake Nct Cert?

what the feck

So I was looking at car on donedeal and it claimed to be nct'd today 14-05-12 and picture of the cert shows this

the car is a 2001 and it says the new nct ends on 18-07-13.

How is this right?? if the nct only lasts a year?

Anan1

A year from the expiration of the last NCT.

mgbgt1978

Can't you get your car tested up to 3 months in advance of it's due date...
that would explain it.

edit; Anan beat me to it with much the same answer.

Jarren

All cars four years and older must undergo an NCT. The NCT due date is calculated by reference to the date of first registration of the car with tests due every two years for cars younger than 10 years.

Annual testing is now a legal requirement for vehicles that present for their 10th anniversary test and each subsequent test.

http://www.ncts.ie/faq.html

coylemj

OP, here's how it works for a car registered in July 2001...

He would have done an NCT test in 2009 when the car was 8 years old and gotten a two year cert which expired in July 2011. Whether he did the next test early or not, since the cert. expired after June 1st 2011 and as the car was now 10 years old, he would have received a one year cert when the test was carried out in 2011 and that cert expires in July 2012.

As you are allowed to do second and subsequent NCT tests up to 3 months early, he submitted it for the 2012 test early so that he could offer it for sale with 14 months remaining NCT (07-13), that's about as good as you can get in terms of advance NCT for a car that old.

friarpat

saw another one on Done deal with close up of NCT disc on which the word 'privatte' was quite clear!