NCT disc with mileage written on.

Golfgorfield

So i got my wife's car NCTd last night, and upon inspecting the disc it had a record of the mileage on it.
When did this come in? As its great news and should help stop the clockers!

The disc is for Jan 2018 so unless its only coming in for tests listed for 2016 onwards?

colm_mcm

It was on mine last year. They started in July 2014

Silvera

Its a great idea. However, imo it should be printed on the rear of the disc...still easy to check when inspecting a car, but not visible to every tom, dick and harry.

Special Circumstances

Silvera wrote: »

Its a great idea. However, imo it should be printed on the rear of the disc...still easy to check when inspecting a car, but not visible to every tom, dick and harry.

Lol.

La Fenetre

What use is displaying current NCT mileage on the outside of a car ?

This will do nothing to deter clocking, it just means clockers will still get clocked before the NCT (same as they always did)

What's really needed is proper public online access to previous years NCT's, like the UK system. It's about time Irish politicians and civil servants got off their arse and provided it. It's such a simple system to implement.

https://www.gov.uk/check-mot-history

Here's hoping they include as a requirement when the NCT contract is up for review in 2019. It could be provided at little or no cost to the taxpayer by simply making it part of the competitive tender bid requirement.

colm_mcm

The disc will be more likely to be in the car than the cert, having it on the disc might actually put someone off clocking a car that has the real mileage written on the disc.
Agree that the info should be readily available knee like the uk.

ants09

colm_mcm wrote: »

having it on the disc might actually put someone off clocking a car that has the real mileage written on the disc.
Agree that the info should be readily available knee like the uk.

not really.

My car has 140,365 miles on it. And it's recorded on the nct disk, the next disk will have only 140,375 miles on her, guaranteed.

So what stopping some dealer before nct wiping a few miles off the clock ?

LeinsterDub

ants09 wrote: »

not really.

My car has 140,365 miles on it. And it's recorded on the nct disk, the next disk will have only 140,375 miles on her, guaranteed.

So what stopping some dealer before nct wiping a few miles off the clock ?

Dealers are wiping 10s of thousands of miles off. In the grand scheme the mileage you do between this year and next isn't that important

La Fenetre

colm_mcm wrote: »

The disc will be more likely to be in the car than the cert, having it on the disc might actually put someone off clocking a car that has the real mileage written on the disc.
Agree that the info should be readily available knee like the uk.

The problem is it'll be used by some politicians and civil servants as the usual watery Irish pretend/excuse to solve clocking, instead of providing a decent online NCT history check.

ants09

LeinsterDub wrote: »

Dealers are wiping 10s of thousands of miles off. In the grand scheme the mileage you do between this year and next isn't that important

Nct every two years up too a 10 year old car, so say car does 30k in a year so that's 60k and 50k is wiped off before nct.

Putting mileage on disk won't solve the issue, as people still be conned and come on here and complain .

colm_mcm

It's not exactly doing any harm being there though.

Boskowski

Silvera wrote: »

Its a great idea. However, imo it should be printed on the rear of the disc...still easy to check when inspecting a car, but not visible to every tom, dick and harry.

What difference is it compared to every Tom Dick and Harry knowing how old your car is?

Which is the bigger issue IMO.
Back in the home country nobody talks about their car like some folks here do. "I drive a 2012 Mondeo". Back home people just drive a Mondeo. If you drive a really nice car that just happens to be 13 years old you just drive a really nice car. Here you drive a zero-two something something. The fact its a really nice car seems secondary.

La Fenetre

Boskowski wrote: »

What difference is it compared to every Tom Dick and Harry knowing how old your car is?

Which is the bigger issue IMO.
Back in the home country nobody talks about their car like some folks here do. "I drive a 2012 Mondeo". Back home people just drive a Mondeo. If you drive a really nice car that just happens to be 13 years old you just drive a really nice car. Here you drive a zero-two something something. The fact its a really nice car seems secondary.

The other very bizarre thing in Ireland, as well as having to display the year of the car, is having to display the home county of the first owner for the lifetime of the car. None of these things is in any way necessary for a registration number.

The J Stands for Jay

Boskowski wrote: »

What difference is it compared to every Tom Dick and Harry knowing how old your car is?

Which is the bigger issue IMO.
Back in the home country nobody talks about their car like some folks here do. "I drive a 2012 Mondeo". Back home people just drive a Mondeo. If you drive a really nice car that just happens to be 13 years old you just drive a really nice car. Here you drive a zero-two something something. The fact its a really nice car seems secondary.

The radio ads for new cars are crazy too. They'll tell you to come and buy a Renault 161, but there'll be no mention of the model of the car. You'd swear they were actually flogging a car called the Renault 161 (it would greatly amuse me if a manufacturer did start producing a car with a name like that).

CJhaughey

La Fenetre wrote: »

The other very bizarre thing in Ireland, as well as having to display the year of the car, is having to display the home county of the first owner for the lifetime of the car. None of these things is in any way necessary for a registration number.

It is strange and Ireland and the UK are very similar in this regard.
We have the Year-County and Number, UK has Local Memory (place of first registration) then year split from March-Sept, then a number.
They didn't go down the stupid unlucky 13 route either and try and camouflage it with a split in the middle of the year and adding 1 to the year.
We must be the only country in the world to have changed a car registration system based on superstition...

orm0nd

also last test mileage is now on the cert

in time the cert will have up to 4 previous mielage recordings

good move IMO

Wibbs

Boskowski wrote: »

Which is the bigger issue IMO.
Back in the home country nobody talks about their car like some folks here do. "I drive a 2012 Mondeo". Back home people just drive a Mondeo. If you drive a really nice car that just happens to be 13 years old you just drive a really nice car. Here you drive a zero-two something something. The fact its a really nice car seems secondary.

Brought in to stimulate new car sales and it worked. Gets people comparing their "old" car with the Joneses new car next door. And yes, I agree B, it's daft, but that's human nature and consumerism for you. I'm sure the manufacturers were just as happy about it and would bring it in worldwide if they could. And now it's become even dafter with some insurance companies loading, even refusing to insure cars over the ten years old mark. When of course they become instant death traps and yet magically become safer then new cars when they hit the 30 years old mark…