swapping registration to spouse

piperh

I'm curious after having a conversation with a neighbour earlier today and perhaps somebody can help my fuddled Sunday morning after brain . We'd noticed that their 06 car had no nct on it the other week and while we were talking they'd said it was due its first one this year, we thought it was wrong but they assured us it was right. Turns out talking them today that they have indeed been driving around the last 2 yrs with no nct, Their excuse was well we never got a letter telling us we needed one.

Now their plan is to swap it to his name so they don't end up with only a few mnths nct before having to do it again. Will this work? I'd have said somebody will cop on that its in the same house and is the spouse.

guil

they will get 2 years if they nct upto 90 days before the due date of the 2nd nct, doesn't matter who's name it's in either

dahamsta

It's not like motor tax, the test is the test, so even if they chance their arm it won't make any difference

I doubt anyone involved would be diligent enough to give a crap either way though.

OldmanMondeo

Car is 2 years over due it's first test. Swapping register owner will not change this. The only thing swapping owners will do is add ownership to the car so the car will look like a lot of different people owned the car.

Read the following as Beavis & Butthead,

"Those people are dumb"

piperh

dahamsta wrote: »

I doubt anyone involved would be diligent enough to give a crap either way though.

Haha yeah your probably right.

OldmanMondeo wrote: »

Car is 2 years over due it's first test. Swapping register owner will not change this. The only thing swapping owners will do is add ownership to the car so the car will look like a lot of different people owned the car.

Read the following as Beavis & Butthead,

"Those people are dumb"

Very true i never even thought of the extra owner angle, couldn't believe they didn't know the car had to be nct'd before now.

dahamsta

I don't understand why they were allowed stop sending reminders. People expect them. We get some form of reminder for everything else, even if it's in the form of a renewal notice, so why not this? Just so NCTS can save themselves a few quid?

OldmanMondeo

My car was booked for a test next Friday by the NCT. Never got around to cancel it.

wonski

I did get reminder on tax renewal form, the same happened with the last car...
Maybe i am special, or something, but i assume they put the note on everyone's renewal form, when nct is about to expire?

bazz26

There is a reminder, in the shape of the NCT disc on the windscreen telling you when it expires. I don't see why people need to be led by the hand to the NCT centre. Knowing when your car is due it's NCT is part and parcel of car ownership. We don't need a Nanny State, we have enough of that already.

wonski

bazz26 wrote: »

There is a reminder, in the shape of the NCT disc on the windscreen telling you when it expires. I don't see why people need to be led by the hand to the NCT centre. Knowing when your car is due it's NCT is part and parcel of car ownership. We don't need a Nanny State, we have enough of that already.

The op's neighbour didn't have one(NCT disc i mean), but even if we assume that he was always driving new cars, and shifting them before nct became due, i can't believe he never heard of nct, not to mention that some garage would point it out to him after service...
You are totally right - every driver knows what the car needs, but it is very convenient to say that you did not get notice, so you didn't know...

None of us is saint, but to drive 2 years with no test - no excuse there.

bazz26

I get the feeling some people will still ignore it even it they did get a notice. They know they will get away with because the enforcement just isn't there or the punishment isn't severe enough.

ABajaninCork

He's lucky he and the car haven't been lifted by the Gards!

I can't believe he's been (apparently) driving about for two years with no NCT, and (allegedly) was unaware the car had been due for one for some time...:rolleyes:

Methinks he's trying - not very successfully to pull one here.

piperh

bazz26 wrote: »

There is a reminder, in the shape of the NCT disc on the windscreen telling you when it expires. I don't see why people need to be led by the hand to the NCT centre.

No disc as he bought it from new.

wonski wrote: »

The op's neighbour didn't have one(NCT disc i mean), but even if we assume that he was always driving new cars, and shifting them before nct became due, i can't believe he never heard of nct, not to mention that some garage would point it out to him after service...
You are totally right - every driver knows what the car needs, but it is very convenient to say that you did not get notice, so you didn't know...

None of us is saint, but to drive 2 years with no test - no excuse there.

Don't know if the garage mentioned it to him but we certainly did and he insisted it was 6 yrs and they'd tell him when he needed to take it :rolleyes: No amount of us saying otherwise would convince him. Agree there is no excuse and can't believe a 50+ yr old man whose been driving for 30yrs didn't realise.

ABajaninCork wrote: »

He's lucky he and the car haven't been lifted by the Gards!

I can't believe he's been (apparently) driving about for two years with no NCT, and (allegedly) was unaware the car had been due for one for some time...:rolleyes:

Methinks he's trying - not very successfully to pull one here.

He's very lucky and i can't understand it either as i'm sure at some point they've mentioned going through stop checks(but i could be wrong).

He really has been driving it, and been using it most days to go to work too.