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Buying a used car with no tax or NCT

  • 23-06-2013 11:45am
    #1
    Pov06
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,487 ✭✭✭


    As in the title; how would one go about buying a car with no tax or NCT?


    Assuming I have third party extension on my insurance, what do I do if I get pulled over when I'm driving it home after I buy it?

    Thanks in advance.


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  • #2
    L-M
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,694 ✭✭✭✭L-M


    You have a good excuse ready.

    Without beating about the Bush if you drive a car without NCT you can be fined, same goes for tax.


  • #3
    CiniO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,069 ✭✭✭✭CiniO


    Legally you load in on the towing truck and bring it home.
    Then you bring it again on towing truck to NCT centre for a test, organising tax in the mean time.
    After you passed your test and have valid tax disc, you can finally drive your car legally.


    In practive you just drive it home and keep driving. If stopped by gards, you say you just bought it. Then you book NCT and keep booking confirmation with you in case you get pulled over again and asked why you don't have NCT.


  • #4
    swarlb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,244 ✭✭✭swarlb


    CiniO wrote: »
    Legally you load in on the towing truck and bring it home.
    Then you bring it again on towing truck to NCT centre for a test, organising tax in the mean time.
    After you passed your test and have valid tax disc, you can finally drive your car legally.


    In practive you just drive it home and keep driving. If stopped by gards, you say you just bought it. Then you book NCT and keep booking confirmation with you in case you get pulled over again and asked why you don't have NCT.

    This is very odd advice coming from you, in a previous thread you said it was fine to drive a car with no road tax. Now you are using the word 'legally'...I'm completely confussed at this stage.


  • #5
    CiniO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,069 ✭✭✭✭CiniO


    swarlb wrote: »
    This is very odd advice coming from you, in a previous thread you said it was fine to drive a car with no road tax. Now you are using the word 'legally'...I'm completely confussed at this stage.

    I explained to OP how it generally works in Ireland.

    I never said it was "fine to drive a car with no road tax".
    I said it's understandable why people don't pay it and drive without it (unrealistic prices mixed with lack of enforcement).

    I doesn't matter really for OP though.
    He want's to buy a car which is not road legal.
    So legally he can't drive it home as well as he can't drive it for next few weeks or months before he will be able to arrange NCT.
    In practice we all know how it works.


  • #6
    discombobulate
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,846 ✭✭✭discombobulate


    Pov06 wrote: »
    As in the title; how would one go about buying a car with no tax or NCT?


    Assuming I have third party extension on my insurance, what do I do if I get pulled over when I'm driving it home after I buy it?

    Thanks in advance.

    You may have issues switching your insurance over. I changed mine over for a week recently and it had to have NCT although they didn't look for proof. They may though if its a permanent switch.


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