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Early NCT - what happens if you fail?

  • 14-09-2017 11:14am
    #1
    masculinist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,616 ✭✭✭


    Does your current NCT expire if you bring a car to an early NCT and it fails ?


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  • #2
    my3cents
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,764 ✭✭✭my3cents


    Nothing. Your old NCT is still valid unless the fail is for something so serious they won't let you drive it away.


  • #3
    masculinist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,616 ✭✭✭masculinist


    my3cents wrote: »
    Nothing. Your old NCT is still valid unless the fail is for something so serious they won't let you drive it away.

    Thanks. I'm selling my bangernomics range car with 7 and now 6 months NCT. I figure I may as well turn that NCT into 12 months before relaunching a fresh assault onto the small ads. The nice thing about an early NCT is I can proceed at a relaxed pace. It should pass with flying colors but if it failed for something silly and then I was under pressure by law to bring it back on their schedule it would be very annoying.


  • #4
    my3cents
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,764 ✭✭✭my3cents


    The only incentive to bring the car back sooner rather that later after a failed NCT is that is cheaper to do a retest than pay for another full test.


  • #5
    Tiercel Dave
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 797 ✭✭✭Tiercel Dave


    How long have you left on current NCT?
    How old is Car?........


  • #6
    Tigger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,705 ✭✭✭✭Tigger


    my3cents wrote: »
    The only incentive to bring the car back sooner rather that later after a failed NCT is that is cheaper to do a retest than pay for another full test.

    or 2 now years rather than 1 year then


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  • #7
    CiniO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,069 ✭✭✭✭CiniO


    masculinist wrote: »
    Does your current NCT expire if you bring a car to an early NCT and it fails ?

    No. NCT once issued is valid until that date, and I don't think there's any system for revocation.

    If car fails on minor item, it can be driven out of the centre.
    If it fails on something major and is marked by NCT as "fail dangerous" then you can't drive it off the centre - even though it still has valid NCT.
    Reason you can't drive it, is not lack of NCT (as car still has it), but it's a fact that it's dangerously defective and that you were informed about that.
    And it's a offence to drive dangerously defective vehicle.


  • #8
    CiniO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,069 ✭✭✭✭CiniO


    my3cents wrote: »
    Nothing. Your old NCT is still valid unless the fail is for something so serious they won't let you drive it away.

    But even in that case, old NCT is still valid.


  • #9
    elperello
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,138 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    masculinist wrote: »
    Thanks. I'm selling my bangernomics range car with 7 and now 6 months NCT. I figure I may as well turn that NCT into 12 months before relaunching a fresh assault onto the small ads. The nice thing about an early NCT is I can proceed at a relaxed pace. It should pass with flying colors but if it failed for something silly and then I was under pressure by law to bring it back on their schedule it would be very annoying.

    Don't forget that if you re-test on the original failure that's all they test. If you go back for a full test something else might turn up.


  • #10
    Pkiernan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,310 ✭✭✭Pkiernan


    In the event that it fails, will you then sell it on without informing the buyer?

    Low down dirty move and legally actionable when the buyer finds out...


  • #11
    masculinist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,616 ✭✭✭masculinist


    Pkiernan wrote: »
    In the event that it fails, will you then sell it on without informing the buyer?

    Low down dirty move and legally actionable when the buyer finds out...


    Jaysus you're jumping ahead of yourself now . The car has a full service history , 4 brand new tyres and I'm.the second owner . It's gonna pass . I just don't want the hassle of my nct being revoked for something minor and then having to adjust my schedule around it .
    Furthermore , there's two types of people in this world and I'm sitting in the area with the honest ones .


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