Nct failure on dip headlights

reubenreuben

bizbus

Atlantic Dawn

Who is the con artists? NCT or garage?

Special Circumstances

reubenreuben wrote: »

Sorry but this is a con. Its impossible to get this right without the professional equipment.
Comparing to uk as a guide, if your car fails on the headlights either too low or too high they will adjust them for free and you pass.
Here in ripoff ireland, you have to pay a garage 20 euros and then another 28 euros retests.

con artists

I've adjusted lights up or down 4 or 5 times with a wall, a spanner and some cop on.

A load of places set them way way down. So I bring them up to a safer but not obnoxious or ignorant level. Never had a fail on lights.

Left or right adjustment might be trickier.

barneygumble99

reubenreuben wrote: »

Sorry but this is a con. Its impossible to get this right without the professional equipment.
Comparing to uk as a guide, if your car fails on the headlights either too low or too high they will adjust them for free and you pass.
Here in ripoff ireland, you have to pay a garage 20 euros and then another 28 euros retests.

con artists

So bring them to a professional with their professional equipment to get them aligned correctly instead of blinding other drivers?

reubenreuben

scapsus

reubenreuben

skimp

reubenreuben

rabit

NiallBoo

So if you're sure that it's all a government scam, can you provide info on what their profits are from testing?

reubenreuben

jespes

Del2005

reubenreuben wrote: »

Sorry but this is a con. Its impossible to get this right without the professional equipment.
Comparing to uk as a guide, if your car fails on the headlights either too low or too high they will adjust them for free and you pass.
Here in ripoff ireland, you have to pay a garage 20 euros and then another 28 euros retests.

con artists

Wth the MOT you get a lot more dodgy places failing you and charging you for the repair, which is why across the border they followed our method for their MOT, or worse the joke that was commercial vehicle testing here the DOE, which took VOSA to inform us how dangerously corrupt it was.

reubenreuben

Del2005 wrote: »

Wth the MOT you get a lot more dodgy places failing you and charging you for the repair, which is why across the border they followed our method for their MOT, or worse the joke that was commercial vehicle testing here the DOE, which took VOSA to inform us how dangerously corrupt it was.

Agree

John T Carroll

reubenreuben wrote: »

they were low

There used to be knurled wheel on most cars for headlight adjustment on most cars, on my cars its called the Headlight Range Control, it can only be adjusted while on dipped beams and I think its supposed be set at max height before the NCT. Its purpose is for different vehicle loading but I suppose self levelling lights are out now for years.

Seth Brundle

Have i got this right - OP's car not roadworthy but those responsible for testing the car are at fault, not those who were supposed to look after it?

reubenreuben

damascus

Tails142

I found out recently that self levelling lights are not in fact self levelling

They will self-adjust for a varying passenger/cargo load, based usually from a sensor on the suspension but if you take the headlamp out and reseat it, you will still need to adjust it to a 2% fall or whatever is specified.

As someone else mentioned, this doesn't require specialist equipment and can be done against a wall, you can google how. Left/right adjustment is a little harder but again also possible.

reubenreuben

Ignore those mesages, someone has been at my pc at work, the monkeys

biko

We'll leave it here, good luck on the re-test.