NCT - Early Voluntary Testing System (only valid 365 days?)

Posada · 03-03-2015 3:37pm #1

I applied for an NCT today and I'm wondering if the system has changed a bit since I last did it. I was going to apply for an early appointment (April 2015) even though my NCT is up in June.

The website suggests that I can now only get an NCT from April 2015 - April 2016 rather than to the birthdate of the car (June) meaning from April 2015 - June 2016?

They say:

"Completing an NCT more than 90 days prior to its NCT test due date/certificate expiration now falls under the NCT early voluntary testing. When the vehicle passes under the early voluntary inspection, the next NCT due date will be calculated on the NCT pass date and not on the test by date."

billbond4 · 03-03-2015 3:39pm

Its not worth doing it, I thought the same but all it does will change your due date to April 2016 instead of June 2016...

Posada · 03-03-2015 3:41pm

Thanks. I asked a mechanic friend of mine about it earlier and he said it was the first he'd heard of it. There was a time when you would get 15 months out of it by going early.

I'll be booking it for June so.

goldenhoarde · 03-03-2015 3:42pm

Yup its changed all right Any more than 90 days changes the date of the next NCT to that date in the future rather than the day of registration

Under ten years its valid for 2 years

4 6 or eight years old get a two year cert and then it is every year

What year is your car?

use http://www.timeanddate.com/date/duration.html to get the test 89 days before the registration date and it won't change

Posada · 03-03-2015 3:44pm

It's a 2002 motor - so I'm safely in the 10 years + category.

cml387 · 03-03-2015 3:44pm

April to June should be just within the 90 days, surely?

goldenhoarde · 03-03-2015 3:48pm

cml387 wrote: »

April to June should be just within the 90 days, surely?

Should be from the first April to the 30th June is 91 days including the 30th

So from the 3rd onwards it should not change the date of the next test

Posada · 03-03-2015 3:48pm

Are you sure goldenhoarde? The bit I quoted above makes me think it will go from the new date the cert is issued (12 months only from that date).

Posada · 03-03-2015 3:50pm

Sorry. I just re-read your post.

More than 90 days is the important bit. I get you now. Thanks.

mickdw · 03-03-2015 3:50pm

The system so far had been operating like this :

More than 90 days early, get 1 year test

During 90 days, get 1 year plus number of days early ( to birthday of car).

voluntary rules dont apply to cars without valid test.

goldenhoarde · 03-03-2015 3:53pm

http://www.ncts.ie/q23voluntaryearlytesting.html

and click on the image and it show be clear

edit: just seen your reply

Posada · 03-03-2015 3:54pm

I get yis now. 89 days early is still grand.

mickdw · 03-03-2015 4:02pm

Posada wrote: »

I get yis now. 89 days early is still grand.

Just to further complicate things, if someone had a car approaching is 10th birthday, availing of the early test , more than 90 days early means you get 2 years from test date.

the phantom worker · 03-03-2015 4:04pm

mickdw wrote: »

The system so far had been operating like this :

More than 90 days early, get 1 year test

During 90 days, get 1 year plus number of days early ( to birthday of car).

voluntary rules dont apply to cars without valid test.

test on my 02 a4 ran out on 26/05/14. I booked it in for 26.02.2015 and passed and they gave me cert until 26.05.2016

mickdw · 03-03-2015 4:13pm

the phantom worker wrote: »

test on my 02 a4 ran out on 26/05/14. I booked it in for 26.02.2015 and passed and they gave me cert until 26.05.2016

Ya you were just within the 90 days of birthday.
If you were a day earlier, you would only have got a cert til 26 may 15.
They wouldn't have given a year from test date as you didn't have a valid test.

the phantom worker · 03-03-2015 4:14pm

yup, must remember to get it something nice this year

CiniO · 03-03-2015 6:30pm

goldenhoarde wrote: »

Should be from the first April to the 30th June is 91 days including the 30th

It's not.
It's 90.
Count it again.

So from the 3rd onwards it should not change the date of the next test

Why from 3rd?
Even if it was 91 days from 1st April to 30th June (which is isn't), it would still be the 2nd April the earliest day you could do the test without falling under voluntary early test.
And because it's 90 days, then you can do it on 1st April if NCT was due 30th June.

NCT - Early Voluntary Testing System (only valid 365 days?)

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