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How do I get a car back on the road?

  • 02-09-2016 8:44pm
    #1
    Jimmy Garlic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,348 ✭✭✭


    I have a Passat that I declared to be off the road back in 2013, it's NCT expired in 2013 also. I have completed the work that it needed to pass the NCT. My problem is actually getting it to the test center, don't really know how I am going to manage that. Do I declare it to be back on the road first? Or do I get it NCT'ed first? Will I have to get it trailered to the test center? Or would be the best option be to get a mechanic to give it the once over and let him take it to be tested? I am a bit stumped at the moment.


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  • #2
    jca
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,585 ✭✭✭jca


    If it's insured you're allowed to drive to the nct centre and back while on sord, nothing else is permitted.


  • #3
    CiniO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,069 ✭✭✭✭CiniO


    jca wrote: »
    If it's insured you're allowed to drive to the nct centre and back while on sord, nothing else is permitted.

    Indeed you are allowed to drive to NCT centre for prebooked test and back home without tax, provided that vehicle is declared off the road, but it doesn't mean vehicle can be driven without NCT.

    If caught, OP could still be liable for driving without NCT.


  • #4
    JohnBoy26
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,532 ✭✭✭JohnBoy26


    jca wrote: »
    If it's insured you're allowed to drive to the nct centre and back while on sord, nothing else is permitted.

    Driving to a repair center(before a retest)where an appointment is made is also permitted afaik.


  • #5
    savagethegoat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,297 ✭✭✭savagethegoat


    i'm curious to know if you renewed the SORD in 2014/5/6 .


  • #6
    johndaman66
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,100 ✭✭✭johndaman66


    jca wrote: »
    If it's insured you're allowed to drive to the nct centre and back while on sord, nothing else is permitted.


    Is it not the case that any and all Insurance companies/ brokers will insist that the car is nct'd before the insure it though? Any I have dealt with in the last 5 odd years or more would seem to have..


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  • #7
    savagethegoat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,297 ✭✭✭savagethegoat


    johndaman66 wrote: »
    Is it not the case that any and all Insurance companies/ brokers will insist that the car is nct'd before the insure it though? Any I have dealt with in the last 5 odd years or more would seem to have..

    whether or not that's the case, all you need is third party cover to be on the road and any live policy must by Law have that available, so you would be good to go from the point of view of being Road Legal until/unless the Insurance Company cancel the policy.


  • #8
    EllieK2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13 ✭EllieK2


    Jimmy Garlic wrote: »
    I have a Passat that I declared to be off the road back in 2013, it's NCT expired in 2013 also. I have completed the work that it needed to pass the NCT. My problem is actually getting it to the test center, don't really know how I am going to manage that. Do I declare it to be back on the road first? Or do I get it NCT'ed first? Will I have to get it trailered to the test center? Or would be the best option be to get a mechanic to give it the once over and let him take it to be tested? I am a bit stumped at the moment.
    I'd use a trailer if I were you. Sounds like the easiest option.


  • #9
    ShaunieVW
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 585 ✭✭✭ShaunieVW


    johndaman66 wrote: »
    Is it not the case that any and all Insurance companies/ brokers will insist that the car is nct'd before the insure it though? Any I have dealt with in the last 5 odd years or more would seem to have..

    I've never been asked about NCT by any insurance company, nearly 10 years driving now.


  • #10
    CiniO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,069 ✭✭✭✭CiniO


    ShaunieVW wrote: »
    I've never been asked about NCT by any insurance company, nearly 10 years driving now.

    Because insurers only started looking for NCT about 2 years ago.
    That's the time where most policy documents were amended to put valid NCT as a requirement in a policy.
    As well they usually ask for proof of NCT at purchasing of the policy as well as renewal.


  • #11
    JohnBoy26
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,532 ✭✭✭JohnBoy26


    CiniO wrote: »
    Because insurers only started looking for NCT about 2 years ago.
    That's the time where most policy documents were amended to put valid NCT as a requirement in a policy.
    As well they usually ask for proof of NCT at purchasing of the policy as well as renewal.

    I was recently looking for insurance and none of them asked about the nct or looked for proof of an nct. Now I didnt try them all so maybe there is a few that do but the 5 or 6 that I phoned didn't look for it.


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  • #12
    JohnBoy26
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,532 ✭✭✭JohnBoy26


    EllieK2 wrote: »
    I'd use a trailer if I were you. Sounds like the easiest option.

    Driving it to the nct is the easiest option. Just make sure the car is insured and that an appointment has been made with the nct.

    There is a small chance that a you could still be done for having no nct though but it would take a cop having a really bad day to do that imo. Trailering it would probably be the safest option if you didnt want to take the chance.


  • #13
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 24,713 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    EllieK2 wrote: »
    I'd use a trailer if I were you. Sounds like the easiest option.

    Trying to find someone with a suitable trailer, getting a car that can pull it and managing to arrange it all for what ever random day and time the nct is on doesn't sound easy at all.

    Hopping in the car and driving to the nct sounds very easy. People get far too worried about this stuff. Even if you are stopped which is extremely unlikely it would take an awful whore of a guard to do you for anything. Even getting someone to drive 5 mins ahead of you to spot for you is easier than arranging transport.


  • #14
    CiniO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,069 ✭✭✭✭CiniO


    JohnBoy26 wrote: »
    I was recently looking for insurance and none of them asked about the nct or looked for proof of an nct. Now I didnt try them all so maybe there is a few that do but the 5 or 6 that I phoned didn't look for it.

    Because they don't look for it, when you are "looking for insurance".
    They look for NCT, once you actually purchase a policy.
    They might issue policy but ask you to provide a proof of NCT withing 30 days or something.
    Same thing with renewals.

    Also they usually don't ask driver who actually do have NCT (because they have database) but only those who don't.

    My wife's policy which was due to renewal in January, was on a car which had no NCT and was declared off the road. Aviva sent a letter, that before they can offer renewal, they want proof that vehicle is taxed and NCTed.


  • #15
    JohnBoy26
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,532 ✭✭✭JohnBoy26


    CiniO wrote: »
    Because they don't look for it, when you are "looking for insurance".
    They look for NCT, once you actually purchase a policy.
    They might issue policy but ask you to provide a proof of NCT withing 30 days or something.
    Same thing with renewals.

    Also they usually don't ask driver who actually do have NCT (because they have database) but only those who don't.

    My wife's policy which was due to renewal in January, was on a car which had no NCT and was declared off the road. Aviva sent a letter, that before they can offer renewal, they want proof that vehicle is taxed and NCTed.
    Most of the companies I tried set out their criteria before even giving me a quote. An nct wasn't on any of their lists. Admittedly I didnt try aviva but none, even the company I purchased from didn't ask for it.

    My car at the time was being put back on the road and wasn't yet taxed(which technically you need have insurance for) or nct'd. So if they have a database now(as you say) why didn't any of the companies mention anything about tax or nct to me? and why was aviva sending you a letter looking for proof of tax and test if they have a database they can check?

    Tbh it sounds like your making it up as you go along(contradicting yourself in the process)


  • #16
    jca
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,585 ✭✭✭jca


    JohnBoy26 wrote: »
    Most of the companies I tried set out their criteria before even giving me a quote. An nct wasn't on any of their lists. Admittedly I didnt try aviva but none, even the company I purchased from didn't ask for it.

    My car at the time was being put back on the road and wasn't yet taxed(which technically you need have insurance for) or nct'd. So if they have a database now(as you say) why didn't any of the companies mention anything about tax or nct to me? and why was aviva sending you a letter looking for proof of tax and test if they have a database they can check?

    Tbh it sounds like your making it up as you go along(contradicting yourself in the process)

    He's not. I renewed my policy in May with 123.ie, paid them for the year. I then got an email from them looking for a photo of both the nct and tax discs on the car. The car is taxed until September and nct until October 17, 123 must bother checking database's


  • #17
    CiniO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,069 ✭✭✭✭CiniO


    JohnBoy26 wrote: »
    Most of the companies I tried set out their criteria before even giving me a quote. An nct wasn't on any of their lists.
    Where do they give you those criteria?
    The best criteria is pretty much written in policy document, and afair vast majority of insurer's policy documents were amndede recently to include NCT as a requirement.
    Admittedly I didnt try aviva but none, even the company I purchased from didn't ask for it.

    My car at the time was being put back on the road and wasn't yet taxed(which technically you need have insurance for) or nct'd. So if they have a database now(as you say) why didn't any of the companies mention anything about tax or nct to me?
    Because I don't believe they do the checks like that on cars you are just quoting for.
    and why was aviva sending you a letter looking for proof of tax and test if they have a database they can check?
    Well, they checked in database, found out it didn't have NCT or TAX and that was the reason they asked me for proof of those.
    Makes perfect sense to me.
    Tbh it sounds like your making it up as you go along(contradicting yourself in the process)


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