MOT & free NCT or not

Laura.2222

I just brought in a car from Northern Ireland that had just passed MOT on the day I bought it ie a few days ago. I'm due to have it go through VRT check in a few weeks.

My question is that I heard somewhere when you have just had an MOT done that you can get a free NCT... is this a rumour or true does anyone know?

Toyotafanboi

really doubt that's true.

shooter88

Just a rumor unfortunately

kona

Laura.2222 wrote: »

I just brought in a car from Northern Ireland that had just passed MOT on the day I bought it ie a few days ago. I'm due to have it go through VRT check in a few weeks.

My question is that I heard somewhere when you have just had an MOT done that you can get a free NCT... is this a rumour or true does anyone know?

Bull****. Mot is a bigger joke than nct

CiniO

Hopefully in some foreseeable future it will be true, as EU commission might eventually force Ireland to accept foreign test certificates, as all other EU countries do.
But at the moment, it doesn't work like this, so you have to do full NCT, no matter if vehicle had it's test abroad or not.

kona

CiniO wrote: »

Hopefully in some foreseeable future it will be true, as EU commission might eventually force Ireland to accept foreign test certificates, as all other EU countries do.
But at the moment, it doesn't work like this, so you have to do full NCT, no matter if vehicle had it's test abroad or not.

Haha if that happend I'd find a "friendly" garage up north!

guttenberg

kona wrote: »

Haha if that happend I'd find a "friendly" garage up north!

You'd need to get the boat to England to find a "friendly" garage, the North have dedicated MOT centres.

peter barrins

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CiniO

kona wrote: »

Haha if that happend I'd find a "friendly" garage up north!

No.
Nowhere in EU you can test a car in different state to which it's registered in.

Only thing which I meant was in case vehicle being imported. Then test certificate from country of origin, must be accepted in country where you are registering the vehicle.

kona

CiniO wrote: »

No.
Nowhere in EU you can test a car in different state to which it's registered in.

Only thing which I meant was in case vehicle being imported. Then test certificate from country of origin, must be accepted in country where you are registering the vehicle.

Oh right! Thought happy days there!!

unkel

CiniO wrote: »

Hopefully in some foreseeable future it will be true, as EU commission might eventually force Ireland to accept foreign test certificates

Hopefully not, unless testing is unified

Ireland was very late to the game of car testing, but the system in place now is independent, uniform, objective and also good value for money. Many other EU states can't claim that!

Voodoomelon

peter barrins wrote: »

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They do if they can't supply you with a test date within 4 weeks.

S28382

Voodoomelon wrote: »

They do if they can't supply you with a test date within 4 weeks.

Is it free if they cant give you a date within 4 weeks im waiting about that for mine.

CiniO

S28382 wrote: »

Is it free if they cant give you a date within 4 weeks im waiting about that for mine.

It's only free if you request a test within 4 weeks and they can't provide it.
I believe it doesn't really happen, as once you request it, they will always provide it within 4 weeks.

CiniO

unkel wrote: »

Hopefully not, unless testing is unified

Ireland was very late to the game of car testing, but the system in place now is independent, uniform, objective and also good value for money. Many other EU states can't claim that!

I agree with you that Irish NCT system is good, and objective, and leaves very little backdoors for cheaters, (I wouldn't 100% agree with value for money) but I think you went too far with your statement.

Ireland volunteered to be part of EU, and I think it was a good step, because of which Ireland made big progress. However as there is plenty of advantages of being in an Union, there are also disadvantages.
No system can be 100% uniform across all EU countries, but we need mutual recognition.

No state can play the cowboy and say - no, we won't accept you as your procedures are worse than ours.


Would you like other EU states to prohibit you driving a car on your Irish licence, as they could say Irish driver licencing system is crap? So many people got their licences in the past without even ever driving a car. Theory tests were introduced not that long time ago, and obligatory lessons are only a thing of last few years.
Surely a German people would be happy to say - we don't want Irish drivers here, as their driver testing is completely joke comparing to our strict drivers training in Germany.

aujopimur

The NI MOT is done on much stricter basis than the UK MOT.
It's run much the same as the NCT here, there's very little dodgy MOT issued in NI since it was taken out of the hands of garages, which were under the control of certain criminal organisations