Is non-working rear wiper a nct fail?

pump · 11-03-2016 4:11am #1

Just a quick one . . Do they test rear wiper and water jet for the rear window in the nct?

Thanks

Yourmama · 11-03-2016 4:39am

no

pump · 11-03-2016 4:43am

Yourmama wrote: »

no

Thanks for the quick reply.
How sure are you?

Yourmama · 11-03-2016 4:49am

pump wrote:

Thanks for the quick reply. How sure are you?

my headlamp sprinkler doesn't return fully to housing and I have to push it in each time I use sprinklers (it kicks in automatically with windshield sprinklers). didn't have to do it after last nct = it wasn't tested. you need to have two mirrors. if you have two external mirrors then you don't even need window in the back, not to mention wiper.

pump · 11-03-2016 4:54am

Yourmama wrote: »

my headlamp sprinkler doesn't return fully to housing and I have to push it in each time I use sprinklers (it kicks in automatically with windshield sprinklers). didn't have to do it after last nct = it wasn't tested. you need to have two mirrors. if you have two external mirrors then you don't even need window in the back, not to mention wiper.

Thanks for the info. I did not think it was a fail after a quick flick through the 2014 nct manual i found online. But no harm asking as they say

biko · 11-03-2016 9:11am

It's not a fail and as you say, it's in the manual
"This test only applies to front windscreens."
https://www.ncts.ie/media/1004/nct-manual-july-2014.pdf

H3llR4iser · 11-03-2016 10:44am

As per manual, not a failure. Furthermore, personal experience - put a car with the very same issue through the NCT a few years ago and it passed.

pump · 11-03-2016 12:31pm

Thanks lads

Aimeee · 11-03-2016 12:46pm

Definitely a no. My rear wiper not working, passed nct.

eezipc · 11-03-2016 12:50pm

Definitely not.
Also, my old cars front wipers were dodgy in that the different timings did not work. ie, the wipers only worked on one speed. In my case the fast one. Still passed though as the wipers did the job.

14-03-2016 12:06am

pump wrote: »

Just a quick one . . Do they test rear wiper and water jet for the rear window in the nct?

Thanks

VW golf by any chance?

johnciall · 14-03-2016 1:17am

100% no problem, my car went through the NCT in galway with no working rear wiper 2 weeks ago

pump · 14-03-2016 2:47am

9935452 wrote: »

VW golf by any chance?

No was a insignia i put a spoiler on the top section of d window and the wiper is slightly touching under it ment to get a shorter wiper to sort that.

pump · 14-03-2016 2:52am

So nct yesterday morning in arklow, was a pass no issue as expected.

Rear wiper and rear water jet not part of the nct for any one who finds this post in future.

14-03-16

Is non-working rear wiper a nct fail?

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