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Car Impounded No NCT

  • 23-06-2014 1:34pm
    #1
    vandriver
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,472 ✭✭✭


    Hi,a friend of mine(honest!) got his car taken off him yesterday for no nct.His tax and insurance were up to date.TBH the car is an 07 and I don't think its ever had an nct!
    Anyway,my question is what happens now?Do you go into the Garda Station with an nct booking printout pay the impound fee and off you go,or how does it work.


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  • #2
    Henry Ford III
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 17,861 Mod ✭✭✭✭Henry Ford III


    Not being smart here but would the Gardai not be best able to answer that?


  • #3
    pippip
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,249 ✭✭✭pippip


    vandriver wrote: »
    Hi,a friend of mine(honest!) got his car taken off him yesterday for no nct.His tax and insurance were up to date.TBH the car is an 07 and I don't think its ever had an nct!
    Anyway,my question is what happens now?Do you go into the Garda Station with an nct booking printout pay the impound fee and off you go,or how does it work.

    For a start they will need to get it towed from the impound lot. Unless they collect the car on the day of the nct test, then they can legally drive it out of there to the test with no valid NCT and then on home.


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


    Off you go? Mandatory Court appearance...5 points and up to €1500 fine on conviction


  • #5
    pippip
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,249 ✭✭✭pippip


    corktina wrote: »
    Off you go? Mandatory Court appearance...5 points and up to €1500 fine on conviction

    Sounds like it will be the full €1500 if they prove its never been NCT'd


  • #6
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    How can you insure it without a valid NCT?


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  • #7
    pippip
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,249 ✭✭✭pippip


    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    How can you insure it without a valid NCT?

    You can insure it no problem. Its when you make a claim your possibly screwed.


  • #8
    godtabh
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 23,243 Mod ✭✭✭✭godtabh


    pippip wrote: »
    You can insure it no problem. Its when you make a claim your possibly screwed.

    third party will always be insured


  • #9
    pippip
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,249 ✭✭✭pippip


    godtabh wrote: »
    third party will always be insured

    Yeh but the owner won't be.


  • #10
    slimjimmc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,786 ✭✭✭slimjimmc


    pippip wrote: »
    For a start they will need to get it towed from the impound lot. Unless they collect the car on the day of the nct test, then they can legally drive it out of there to the test with no valid NCT and then on home.
    That permission was removed a few years ago. If I remember correctly the new wording makes it subject to "having been refused a test certificate" so without a cert you no longer can legally drive to the centre, only away.
    pippip wrote: »
    Yeh but the owner won't be.
    My insurer does not stipulate an NCT as a condition of insurance, only that the car be road worthy. A blown parking lamp, or obscured number plate or expired motor tax will make a car legally not road worthy but your insurer will still pay. You should of course check the policy terms but generally if the car is mechanically sound the insurer will pay a valid claim regardless of a NCT.


  • #11
    Knob Longman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 326 ✭✭Knob Longman


    corktina wrote: »
    Off you go? Mandatory Court appearance...5 points and up to €1500 fine on conviction

    Not if he has a bit of savvy :pac:


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