NCT tech just ripped bits off a car

Xcellor

Brought a car in for NCT that previously had some rust underneath the doors repaired using fibre glass and resprayed. It had passed last time no problem.

Took the car in last week and it failed on some Secondary rust in a couple of other areas and both doors. When I was driving away I looked down in the foot well and basically the fella had ripped the previous repair job off both doors.

When he was giving report in the centre he said rust cant be repaired like that and it needed to be welded. It's uneconomical to repair as car is 2000.

Was a bit pissed off tbh is this a common thing?

Donal55

NCT mechanics coming in for a fair bit of stick over the last week or so. Its getting to the stage that ye will have to get your car checked by a mechanic on exiting the centres.

rex-x

They are on the lookout for bodge jobs like that, to be fair he is right, you cant just slap a load of fiberglass in and paint over it. might be time for the car to meet its maker?

Wibbs

Xcellor wrote: »

When he was giving report in the centre he said rust cant be repaired like that and it needed to be welded.

TBH X he's right.

Xcellor

rex-x wrote: »

They are on the lookout for bodge jobs like that, to be fair he is right, you cant just slap a load of fiberglass in and paint over it. might be time for the car to meet its maker?

Im sure it wasn't the finest of jobs but the rust was gone and the hole was covered and and spray painted. NCT should be about safety and this wasn't a matter of safety.

But yeah seems like everything is forcing old cars off the road, tax, NCT, insurance. Shame.

bucketybuck

If he was easily able to remove a body repair from the footwell then it wasn't worth a **** in the first place.

CalamariFritti

He wouldn't have just hacked into the car unless it was visibly not right though, no?

Xcellor

CalamariFritti wrote: »

He wouldn't have just hacked into the car unless it was visibly not right though, no?

If it was so ****e the door wouldnt have closed as it was right underneath it. The colour used to respray wasn't an exact match but it would not have been easy to rip off unless you got a screw driver pushed it through and pulled down.

All in all, ****ty thing to do and didn't highlight any safety concern.

mikeecho

If the metal of a car can be ripped off by hand, then your car shouldn't be on the road.

Scrap that baby

Jack the Stripper

The country is swamped in used cars that are rust free. It's not worth doing the dell boy and fibre glossing a scrapper any more.

BlinkingLights

Sadly, it might be time to part with the car.
If you can put your hand through a repair or remove it without an angle grinder, it's not a repair.

It's just a superficial patch up job to make the car look OK cosmetically.

The guy is 100% correct to fail it.

The car's just not roadworthy by the sounds of it.

Xcellor

Car is going in the bin.

Jack the Stripper

It's the right thing to do, they are only machines. Once you hadn't a name for it you will be grand.

magentis

With corrosion like that,you just don't know what way other parts of the car may be.Think of what would happen in the event of a serious accident.It might be the difference between walking away and not.

colm_mcm

What car was it?

Is the rust on the sills or the doors themselves?

bazz26

Cowboys Ted!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUHunfH0XbI

casscass4444

Don't just scrap it.give it to some mad young lad for a field car and let her retire in style.a ball of flames.its what she would want for sure

Isambard

colm_mcm wrote: »

What car was it?

Is the rust on the sills or the doors themselves?

+1. The doors aren't structural and wouldn't be a fail, but the area underneath the doors sounds like the sills which have to be sound metal.

A patch welded on the outside of the sill would pass even if it doesn't look pretty. his would not be expensive.

Cee-Jay-Cee

You repaired metal bodywork with fibreglass which is a bodge job which was found out and rightly so! If the body work couldn't be repaired properly then it's obviously not safe. You are in the wrong for trying to bluff them with a poor repair job so don't blame the NCT tester for finding you out.

boardsuser1

I agree that the tester is right.

My own Puma has issues with rust, she's going in to be plated properly in 2 weeks. Was quoted €6/700 for it all it and there is a nice bit of work involved.

Only for I love the car I'd scrap it.

What type of car is yours OP?

jimmycrackcorm

After the recent convictions of the fraudulent NCT staff following the RTE expose, it's heartwarming that some are doing their best to make sure cars are roadworthy.

Whether or not his rust made it unroadworthy or the NCT fault finding in general has very little to do with road safety is another matter.

Perhaps a proper weld job would have been a better repair.