Rusty car and NCT

Cobi15

Hi all !

Just wondering if anyone has any idea on rust on a car and how you go on with passing your nct ?

punisher5112

Cobi15 wrote: »

Hi all !

Just wondering if anyone has any idea on rust on a car and how you go on with passing your nct ?

More info needed.

If it's only body work and no major holes or sharp edges should be ok but structural or break lines etc it would be a fail.

Put up a pic.

Interslice

Cobi15 wrote: »

Hi all !

Just wondering if anyone has any idea on rust on a car and how you go on with passing your nct ?

Depends on where it is and how deep its going.

Cobi15

How do I add pictures to this ?

Toyotafanboi

If you Google the NCT manual, pages 56-62 go into good detail on what kinds and quantity of rust are ok and in what areas.

Wibbs

You can't as there's a post limit for new user cos of spammers in the past. If you like and you have a link to pics then maybe put that in a post but take out the www. part of it and I can add it so it shows up for you.

Cobi15

The pictures are on my phone, so wouldn’t be able to link them

bessboroughboy

Cobi15 wrote: »

Hi all !

Just wondering if anyone has any idea on rust on a car and how you go on with passing your nct ?

In my experience (rusty sills) I suspect that they won't "test tap" the area unless they know that it can be easily broken through and proved to be badly corroded.

In other words, it it looks "delicate" they'll "test tap" it but they won't want to cause obvious damage that only serves to show that the area was structurally sound after all.

Sometimes you can take a chance on a second opinion by simply waiting more than 4 weeks and going for a retest.

lalababa

If you have trusted independent garage put in for check OR do test, if fail on rust, put into independent garage and ask them repairs, if not too much to do on underside body, they will just wire brush or clean a little and paint a black tar like paint on and bobs your uncle.

lalababa

Because there is AFAIK structural rust fail..ie something is actually very weak AND visual body rust fail..ie alot of body looks rusty -surface rust.

lalababa

Or if body rust is painted over and looks fair...they won't 'tap' it to see.

biko

Go do the test.
Fix what they fail it on.
If it is not structural rust then might not need to fix it.


What car is it?
Year?
Where is the rust?

lawred2

Wouldn't go covering up rust to pass a test unless you were 100% sure that it was not structural

kadman

lawred2 wrote: »

Wouldn't go covering up rust to pass a test unless you were 100% sure that it was not structural

And not within 300mm of any structural element.

Isambard

if you get repairs after a fail, don't paint the welded area, leave it so they can see how it was done.

Think yourself lucky, with a CVRT you'd need an engineers report on repairs, in which case it makes sense to get them done before the test. With an NCT I'd do the test first as suggested.

PCX

A few years ago I had a car fail on rust on bottom of car in the area of the front foot wells.

I watched the test through the window in the centre and it was a very young guy doing the test and he took much longer than the guys on the other lanes - my guess was that he was new or an apprentice.

Brought the car to the mechanic who put it up and had a look. He was shocked it failed. There was a brown colour partly from surface rust and partly dirt. Mechanic hit it with a hammer to show me and nowhere was it even nearly rusted through. He gave it a rub with a wire brush and applied some paint to the area. I brought it back - different tester- and it passed despite there being no structural repairs made to the car.

I suppose the point is it might depend on which tester you get as to whether it'll pass or fail.

kadman

Bringing a car to the NCT with a rust blemish is always inviting a fail option.

Visuals are always going to be a gamble. If you suspect any aspect of your car is going to be

questionable for passing, then you should strongly consider fixing it before the NCT.

Bringing a potential issue for testing, is like giving the buggers a stick to beat you.