To NCT or not to NCT?

dceire

I have a 2002 Clio with the NCT up next month and my insurance up in March. I've no intention of keeping the car beyond March; I'm not sure if I'll replace it or not as I've to decide if I'm going to move abroad or not. Anyway, while it'd be nice to keep the car until March, would I be best advised to try and sell the car now or put it through the NCT first and sell then in March?

Also, if I am to NCT it, should I have it checked over by a mechanic beforehand? My housemate got his Fiesta NCT'd recently and put it in without getting it checked over; his point being, if it failed he'd know what needed to be fixed and then only have to pay a retest fee.

Stheno

You can NCT it now as it's less than three months due.

It will be easier to sell with an NCT.

I'd not bother with a pre NCT check to be honest.

Wicklowandy

Stheno wrote: »

You can NCT it now as it's less than three months due.

It will be easier to sell with an NCT.

I'd not bother with a pre NCT check to be honest.

Obviously just check lights, levels and tyres

joujoujou

I'd recommend to NCT it - it'll be easier to sell with NCT.

Also - don't get it checked by a mechanic - it'll cost you more than retest.

In case of fail they give you detailed description what's wrong - easy to sort out then.

mullingar

Thete is no point doing a pre-nct as the tester could find something the mechanic missed or vise-verse.

Just throw it through the test and see what needs fixing, if anything.

awec

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Zeek12

You're probably best to do the NCT.
I was selling an 8 yr old car a few years back where NCT was due in a couple of months, but I decided to try and sell before it was due. It wasn't easy to sell - I managed to do so eventually, but had to take a substantial drop on my sale price. In hindsight, I should have done NCT before putting up for sale.

JohnBoy26

Nct it and see what it fails on. If it's only small things that need fixing it would be worth getting it fixed. If you nct it now and it passes you will get your full year as you can nct a car up to three months before the due date.

I would not bother with those pre test places as these do not have the same equipment as the nct so cannot guarantee it will pass or fail.

djimi

The difference in selling price between an NCTd and non-NCTd car is more than the €50 it costs to put it through the test.

awec

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Deco99

Similar enough story so not goin to open a new thread. Car went for NCT yesterday 99' punto, failed, two things to fix which will cost around 300 euro. Car cost 600 a year ago so prob not worth fixing it and doin the retest, , what i'm wondering is can i get anything for the car now? Scrapping probably 100 quid, if i was to sell it for parts (only put a new battery in a month ago) where would i go and would there be much point?

Nissan doctor

awec wrote: »

Indeed, when someone is looking for a car and they want it to be NCT'd it's not so they can save themselves the cost of an NCT test. It's the reassurance that there is no unknown horror awaiting them in the near future.

An NCT disk in the window means slightly less chance of any unknown horrors in the near future...at best.