Nct tonight, a quick Q

monflat

Hi i have nct at 830
Do the water n the wipers have to work ?
Is this a pass r fail

readytosnap

afaik you can fail the NCT if they do not function correctly

MadYaker

Id say wipers not working would probably be a fail alright.

Renegade Mechanic

Windshield washers and wipers must both work Im afraid.

readytosnap

http://www.ncts.ie/NCT%20Manual%20Revise%20May%202012.pdf

its there page 21 section 9

monflat

Renegade Mechanic wrote: »

Windshield washers and wipers must both work Im afraid.

Oh jasus right two outlets from right hand side only one works and left works fine would that suffice ? Wipers are grand

cnoc

monflat wrote: »

Oh jasus right two outlets from right hand side only one works and left works fine would that suffice ? Wipers are grand

Front washers must work. Rear windscreen washer is not checked.

monflat

cnoc wrote: »

Front washers must work. Rear windscreen washer is not checked.

Ok grand thanks the husband is out there now with a needle
No wiper on back
Typical last hour panic .

visual

Sowing needle will unblock nossal

readytosnap

it should pass if it cleans the window adequately.

cnoc

monflat wrote: »

Ok grand thanks the husband is out there now with a needle
No wiper on back
Typical last hour panic .

Good luck with the test:)

Renegade Mechanic

monflat wrote: »

Ok grand thanks the husband is out there now with a needle
No wiper on back
Typical last hour panic .

Good luck with the test:) As mentioned, a sowing needle will unblock the washer jets.

monflat

Renegade Mechanic wrote: »

Good luck with the test:) As mentioned, a sowing needle will unblock the washer jets.

Thanks v much on road now !!

TheBody

Let us know how you get on! Good luck!

Atlantic Dawn

Sometimes using the compressed air from a tyre inflater through the nozzles will clear them too.

monflat

Right o
I have to do a retest wipers etc fine.
The two front side lights are not bright enuf.
I need two flexible brake pipes.

The front passenger tyre
Back pasdenger tyre thread dept not up to scratch.
Got 4 new tyres last july.
Obviously trackin is out or balancing.

Jesus.

Colm, I put my yoke through the test a couple of weeks ago and she failed on a shock and steering rod (also I had one winter and one summer tyre on the front and a back seatbelt clip was stuck under the chair).

I went to the Polish lads near Airside Swords to get it fixed and they discovered the mount for the shocks was busted too. So two shocks, two rods and the mount were done for 440 quid.

Do you think that was a fair price?

(The car has since passed the second time no problem)

Jesus.

Hard luck Monflat.

You must have been driving her quare hard for fairly new tyres to fail?

monflat

Jesus. wrote: »

Hard luck Monflat.

You must have been driving her quare hard for fairly new tyres to fail?

Possibly 144 km round trip to work 3 times a week plus local driving.
It all adds up dosnt it

Jesus.

monflat wrote: »

Possibly 144 km round trip to work 3 times a week plus local driving. It all adds up dosnt it

It all adds up alright but you still should be getting a lot more than 10 months out of them.

dodzy

monflat wrote: »

I need two flexible brake pipes.

Jesus, they are amassing a fortune from retest fees for either rubber or metal brake line replacement. Way OTT on observational fail for either.

monflat

Jesus. wrote: »

It all adds up alright but you still should be getting a lot more than 10 months out of them.

Yes thats what i thought especially as i paid 310 for them. I cud b heard cursing !
The 4 people that were in with me all had to retest.

monflat

Jesus. wrote: »

It all adds up alright but you still should be getting a lot more than 10 months out of them.

Yes thats what i thought especially as i paid 310 for them. I cud b heard cursing !
The 4 people that were in with me all had to retest.

Bpmull

monflat wrote: »

Yes thats what i thought especially as i paid 310 for them. I cud b heard cursing !
The 4 people that were in with me all had to retest.

Just taking your 3 trips to work a week for 10 months that's 17,280km. Add in a bit of local driving you could easily be up to 23k km or so. Still abit early for tyres to be worn so bad they fail but not an unbelievable amount as you'd expect to get 30-40k km out of a set of tyres but then that depends on so many variables. Are the tyres worn evenly or I'd the thread more worn on the inside etc which would suggest tracking is out which could easily cause a set of tyres to wear out in 20k km.

Jesus.

The NCT tester told me my rear tyres are over six years old. My last car I had the same set on for four years.

A lot of it's down to driving style too I think. I've a light right foot so that probably saves on tyres.