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Post 1979 NCTs?

  • 21-02-2013 12:15pm
    #1
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,456 ✭✭✭✭


    I'm looking into a classic as a second car and want to buy an '80-'83 car going on the assumption that they might just be young enough to have fewer problems. The problem is that I have yet to find a post 1-1-1980 car (BMW or Merc atm) with an NCT and I'm a bit stumped. What happens if I buy an '81 with no NCT and bring it to be NCT'd? Will I need to NCT it twice to bring it up to legal status? I honestly haven't a clue. Might even need to NCT it 31 times!

    Obviously the ideal would be to buy a '79 at the latest, but that excludes a lot of cars I'd like such as the BMW E30, Merc W124 etc.


Comments

  • #2
    corktina
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,733 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    NCT would be back dated to the last due date irrespective of how many it had missed.


  • #3
    homingbird
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,297 ✭✭✭homingbird


    IF a car nct is in march & you go now with it in feb you will be doing it twice . So wait till the month it is due before you go.


  • #4
    corktina
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,733 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    homingbird wrote: »
    IF a car nct is in march & you go now with it in feb you will be doing it twice . So wait till the month it is due before you go.

    no he wont....you can do it up to 3 months early...


  • #5
    Itsfixed
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 564 ✭✭✭Itsfixed


    Last year I bought a 1980 BMW e12 (an import) from a chap in donegal who had owned it for 18 months but had no NCT. I assumed, wrongly, that the NCT date was based on date of car's first reg, which was August, so i waited until June (about three months after i bought it) to do it three months early and get 15 months NCT, but only got 7 months because date of first reg in Ireland was a Feb. D'oh. If that makes sense.


  • #6
    mattroche
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 380 ✭✭mattroche


    I would suggest that if you find a car that suits you, and you agree a price, make it conditional that there is a new N.C.T. on it. If the seller is not agreeable to that, just walk away. As I do not know your budget, I can not make any further suggestions.I know nothing about B.M.W. buy you would be looking at Merc. W123 & W126.:):)


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  • #7
    corktina
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,733 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    mattroche wrote: »
    I would suggest that if you find a car that suits you, and you agree a price, make it conditional that there is a new N.C.T. on it. If the seller is not agreeable to that, just walk away. As I do not know your budget, I can not make any further suggestions.I know nothing about B.M.W. buy you would be looking at Merc. W123 & W126.:):)

    or that the seller refunds the opurchase porice if it fails the NCT, or the balance of purchase price is not paid until it does pass the test....


  • #8
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,456 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    corktina wrote: »
    or that the seller refunds the opurchase porice if it fails the NCT, or the balance of purchase price is not paid until it does pass the test....

    Probably wouldn't work. How many private sellers would be honest enough to give even a fraction of the purchase price back if the car failed the NCT?


  • #9
    aujopimur
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,953 ✭✭✭aujopimur


    Itsfixed wrote: »
    Last year I bought a 1980 BMW e12 (an import) from a chap in donegal who had owned it for 18 months but had no NCT. I assumed, wrongly, that the NCT date was based on date of car's first reg, which was August, so i waited until June (about three months after i bought it) to do it three months early and get 15 months NCT, but only got 7 months because date of first reg in Ireland was a Feb. D'oh. If that makes sense.

    It changed to due on the Irish reg. date about 4/5 years ago.


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