Early NCT a mistake - lost 4 months

Cymini Sectores

Hello,
My NCT is due on 23/01/17. I passed my NCT yesterday after a retest thinking I'd get it up to 23/01/18. However I was given until 1/10/17. When I complained, they ignored me. I have lost 4 months. Is there anything I can do?

PS - I have made up my mind to to NCT my car until 1/10/2018.

DakarVert

Nope... Came under voluntary early testing.

You can only test up to 90days before due date!

Although if your car is on its 10th year, You need to test it 90 days BEFORE expiry to get 2 years. (From date of test) otherwise it'll get it till the following year.


Confusing?

tuisginideach

I thought their radio ad said you would get the extra months ?

B-D-P--

Afraid you can only get a 2 year test, Or 1 year if your car is over 10 years old.
They done forward date it., its a common misunderstanding that if you early test you get extra, its just you get a lesser waiting period for the test.

Padraig Mor

Cymini Sectores wrote: »

Hello,
My NCT is due on 23/01/17. I passed my NCT yesterday after a retest thinking I'd get it up to 23/01/18. However I was given until 1/10/17. When I complained, they ignored me. I have lost 4 months. Is there anything I can do?

PS - I have made up my mind to to NCT my car until 1/10/2018.

How old is your car? If it's ten years in January, you should have got a two year cert.

adocholiday

Ignore, I read the OP wrong

Cymini Sectores

Padraig Mor wrote: »

How old is your car? If it's ten years in January, you should have got a two year cert.

My car is a 05.

Cymini Sectores

What if I take my car to NCT, a year without NCT, what happens?

Just wanna get them back, I was really pissed off yesterday!

Cymini Sectores

Still pissed off

Atlantic Dawn

You didn't listen to the ad on the radio as to what was on offer.

Driving with no NCT is a penalty points offence...
http://www.rsa.ie/Documents/Licensed%20Drivers/Penalty%20Point%20offences%20as%20of%2017%20April%202016.pdf

Cymini Sectores

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

You didn't listen to the ad on the radio as to what was on offer.

True that!

Feel I have been ripped off. Being human, I will have to respond some how.

savagethegoat

J.pilkington wrote: »

I think you need to do some research before burning their office down.

The most a >10 year old car can get is a 1 year NCT

surely it's the case that if you test up to 3 months before the due date you get one year from the anniversary date?

Atlantic Dawn

savagethegoat wrote: »

surely it's the case that if you test up to 3 months before the due date you get one year from the anniversary date?

If it's within 3 months yes, if it's before 3 months no it's a year from the test date.

Cymini Sectores

savagethegoat wrote: »

surely it's the case that if you test up to 3 months before the due date you get one year from the anniversary date?

Yeah clear ripping off!

On my dash board NCT expires 23/01/2017

Yet I have a piece of paper lying on back sit giving me up to 1/10/2017

I renewed in Nov 2015 even though it was due on 23/01/2016 and they gave me till 23/01/2017.

emeldc

Cymini Sectores wrote: »

Hello,
My NCT is due on 23/01/17. I passed my NCT yesterday after a retest thinking I'd get it up to 23/01/18. However I was given until 1/10/17. When I complained, they ignored me. I have lost 4 months. Is there anything I can do?

PS - I have made up my mind to to NCT my car until 1/10/2018.

Had you waited until Oct 24th to test your car you would have obtained a 15 month NCT as you were testing within 90 days. The only advantage to testing outside the 90 days is if you are selling a car with just 4 or 5 months remaining on the NCT. You can then test early and get a 12 month NCT, thus making the car 'easier' to sell.

Atlantic Dawn

Cymini Sectores wrote: »

Yeah clear ripping off!

On my dash board NCT expires 23/01/2017

Yet I have a piece of paper lying on back sit giving me up to 1/10/2017

I renewed in Nov 2015 even though it was due on 23/01/2016 and they gave me till 23/01/2017.

That was correct as you were inside the 3 month window.

Cymini Sectores

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

That was correct as you were inside the 3 month window.

If a car has no NCT a year and you take it down to get NCT'd, what happens?

emeldc

Cymini Sectores wrote: »

If a car has no NCT a year and you take it down to get NCT'd, what happens?

Then it goes on the anniversary date. E.g. due Jan '16, tested July '16, NCT will be to Jan '17

Atlantic Dawn

Cymini Sectores wrote: »

If a car has no NCT a year and you take it down to get NCT'd, what happens?

Apparently once you go over the year out of date you get the NCT from that date so if your car was due NCT in January 2017 and you didn't get it done until February 2018 your NCT would then be valid until February 2019.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056653269

Cymini Sectores

emeldc wrote: »

Then it goes on the anniversary date. E.g. due Jan '16, tested July '16, NCT will be to Jan '17

Say due 1/10/2017 but I take it to NCT on 1/10/2018.

emeldc

Cymini Sectores wrote: »

Say due 1/10/2017 but I take it to NCT on 1/10/2018.

As long as it's a full year out you don't have to back date it.

jca

You weren't ripped off, you brought the car in too early and got a years test. As someone else stated you should have waited until you were within 90 days of the expiry date i.e anytime after the 23/10/16

emeldc

jca wrote: »

You weren't ripped off, you brought the car in too early and got a years test. As someone else stated you should have waited until you were within 90 days of the expiry date i.e anytime after the 23/10/16

There is no doubt it is confusing though, especially when the car hits the 10th anniversary and then it needs to be tested outside the 90 days rather than inside. IMO that's a bit of a con as lots of people get caught with it, myself included . I think it would be helpful if on the online booking page there was a section which read, 'Should you be successful in your NCT your new certificate will expire on 1/01/2018' or such like. This would surely eliminate any confusion.

Smoked Tuna

Cymini Sectores wrote: »

True that!

Feel I have been ripped off. Being human, I will have to respond some how.

Yes, but listen to your Human, not your chimp. Take a deep breadth, and respond with your human.

jca

emeldc wrote: »

There is no doubt it is confusing though, especially when the car hits the 10th anniversary and then it needs to be tested outside the 90 days rather than inside. IMO that's a bit of a con as lots of people get caught with it, myself included . I think it would be helpful if on the online booking page there was a section which read, 'Should you be successful in your NCT your new certificate will expire on 1/01/2018' or such like. This would surely eliminate any confusion.

That's a very good idea.

mickdw

jca wrote: »

That's a very good idea.

Not so good when someone fails and comes back for retest inside 90 days on a car approaching 10 years. They will then try to argue that website told them cert would be to x date.

Special Circumstances

mickdw wrote: »

Not so good when someone fails and comes back for retest inside 90 days on a car approaching 10 years. They will then try to argue that website told them cert would be to x date.

Come on now, "should your car pass on date X it will be given an nct until Y".

Do we need "should your car fail and should your cat have kittens in the boot the day before your retest and you subsequently postpone it until the next thursday...." and every variation....

Senecio

My wife's car is approaching it 10th anniversary so we booked it in early to get 2yrs from date of test. About 3 days after we made the booking we got a reminder in the mail from the NCT telling we could take advantage of an early booking for 2yrs from test.

Thought that was pretty sound of them.

LariToper

Did you book it on the website? As soon as you select your booking date/time it tells you it'll be a voluntary test and a paragraph explaining what it means.

I admit the rules are confusing, but I think they've made this part as clear as they could have