Early NCT on a 13 year old car - pointless/no advantage?

boogaloop

From the NCT site:

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 NCT inspection, the next NCT due date will be calculated on the NCT pass date and not the test by date.

So for an NCT due to be completed by Sep 2015, if I was to get the test done early, say July for sake of argument, I'd only get a cert until July 2016, as opposed to Sep 2016, is that correct?

Atlantic Dawn

boogaloop wrote: »

From the NCT site:

So for an NCT due to be completed by Sep 2015, if I was to get the test done early, say July for sake of argument, I'd only get a cert until July 2016, as opposed to Sep 2016, is that correct?

It would be September 2015. If you did it in May 2015 it would be May 2016 as it would be over 90 days to due date.

Caliden

No advantage.

Best to do it within the 90 days of the retest date instead of outside of 90 days.

boogaloop

Ah ok.......so if I do it within 90 days of the due date, the cert will run to Sep 2016 but if I get it done outside of the 90 days (this week!) then it'll just run for 12 months from pass date?

Atlantic Dawn

boogaloop wrote: »

Ah ok.......so if I do it within 90 days of the due date, the cert will run to Sep 2016 but if I get it done outside of the 90 days (this week!) then it'll just run for 12 months from pass date?

Yes exactly.