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Passed NCT. But how ?

  • 07-01-2013 4:11pm
    #1
    ZENER
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,163 ✭✭✭


    Car passed the NCT today. Like most expectant fathers . . . sorry . . male car owners, I watched the test through the view windows at the center. I noticed that while other cars were having their brakes tested on the rollers mine did not.

    I thought maybe I'd missed it but when the results were delivered I noticed there were no values in the brakes section other than hand brake !!

    So how did the car pass without a brake test ?

    Ken

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Comments

  • #2
    Wheelsonthebus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 237 ✭✭Wheelsonthebus


    You slipped yer man a fifty?


  • #3
    hardCopy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,969 ✭✭✭hardCopy


    Do you work for RTE?


  • #4
    Lucifer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,467 ✭✭✭Lucifer


    Is it 4wd? If so, they cannot test on the rolling road, so they put a brake force tester on the floor of the car and brake in the carpark to get a reading. They cannot get individual wheel figures.


  • #5
    ZENER
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,163 ✭✭✭ZENER


    Lol . . was expecting those replies alright ;) . Definitely no 50s or brown envelopes and I don't work for RTE !

    Ken


  • #6
    TRS30
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,865 ✭✭✭TRS30


    Maybe when he was driving it in he taped the brakes and nearly went through the windscreen so decided they were grand :)


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  • #7
    ZENER
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,163 ✭✭✭ZENER


    Lucifer wrote: »
    Is it 4wd? If so, they cannot test on the rolling road, so they put a brake force tester on the floor of the car and brake in the carpark to get a reading. They cannot get individual wheel figures.

    That makes sense. The tester seemed to take an age after the test appeared to be over to get back to me. Another owner who I was talking with said he'd seen my car being driven away from the center. Yes it is a 4WD albeit part time.

    Thanks, makes sense now.

    Ken


  • #8
    dancla
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45 ✭dancla


    They don't have the facility to do brake test on 4wd vehicles.!


  • #9
    langdang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,857 ✭✭✭langdang


    Lucifer wrote: »
    Is it 4wd? If so, they cannot test on the rolling road, so they put a brake force tester on the floor of the car and brake in the carpark to get a reading. They cannot get individual wheel figures.
    Correct - Zener's wagon is a Honda CRV. As you say, braketests are not done on the rollers. I don't think they can do the alignment (eg -10m/km) tests either. Well, having looked at the attachment it seems they can do the alignment tests!


  • #10
    wonski
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,685 ✭✭✭✭wonski


    Speechless...
    Brake effort is there, and the rest just empty fields???

    Consider yourself lucky (i believe your brakes where good anyway, but should be tested regardless).
    Are you going to put a formal complaint:D

    Mistery solved, ignore above.


  • #11
    nct tester
    Closed Accounts Posts: 361 ✭✭nct tester


    decelerometer (or tapley) test is done on 4wd's or cars with a welded diff. we have a device made by bowmonk that measures speed and stopping distance.
    http://www.bowmonk.com/automotive/bowmonk-brakecheck.php


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  • #12
    galwaytt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,751 ✭✭✭✭galwaytt


    ...no, they cant' test Audi TT's either, for the same reason !! :)

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