NCT

sallyod

Hi wondering if anyone can help. My granny gave me her old car (which had been off the road for about a year) just recently. The car is in good condition and perfectly drivable but failed the nct last week on a couple of minor things. The original nct was up on it in about november of last year so the nct is completely out by about 8 months. It's currently in a garage being fixed and waiting to get the car back before I book the retest. The tax and insurance are all up to date otherwise. My question is - am I ok to drive the car with a failed nct while I am waiting for the nct retest? Or is this illegal? I cant seem to find a straight answer online and people keep telling me different things.

punisher5112

sallyod wrote: »

Hi wondering if anyone can help. My granny gave me her old car (which had been off the road for about a year) just recently. The car is in good condition and perfectly drivable but failed the nct last week on a couple of minor things. The original nct was up on it in about november of last year so the nct is completely out by about 8 months. It's currently in a garage being fixed and waiting to get the car back before I book the retest. The tax and insurance are all up to date otherwise. My question is - am I ok to drive the car with a failed nct while I am waiting for the nct retest? Or is this illegal? I cant seem to find a straight answer online and people keep telling me different things.

No you can't legally, it's all over the place and NCT is a legal requirement. You can receive a fine and points, the car will also be taken.

Legally you trailer it to NCT or get garage with garage plates to do for you.

Of course you can take a chance and Garda can use discretion but as it's out so long it would be an issue imo.

The car could have been signed off the road to get around the tax issues.

Would I chance driving to booked test, I would, but I wouldn't be driving it around otherwise if possible.

snickers

No you are not allowed to drive without an nct .

Del2005

punisher5112 wrote: »

No you can't legally, it's all over the place and NCT is a legal requirement. You can receive a fine and points, the car will also be taken.

Legally you trailer it to NCT or get garage with garage plates to do for you.

Of course you can take a chance and Garda can use discretion but as it's out so long it would be an issue imo.

The car could have been signed off the road to get around the tax issues.

Would I chance driving to booked test, I would, but I wouldn't be driving it around otherwise if possible.

Even a, garage would need to trailer a car without an NCT, trade plates cover tax not NCT.

punisher5112

Del2005 wrote: »

Even a, garage would need to trailer a car without an NCT, trade plates cover tax not NCT.

Well I was never questioned, brought many to NCT years back.

Sure how could a garage test the car to be sure.
Imo most Garda would use discretion

brianc27

you might get away with it now even if stopped by gards, nct dates were pushed out by months because of the backlog caused by the pandemic, mine was due end of jan and was pushed til the middle of june, i got no updated disc so the disc in the window says jan 2021 for my nct, i went through a check point last week and nothing was said

Del2005

punisher5112 wrote: »

Well I was never questioned, brought many to NCT years back.

Sure how could a garage test the car to be sure.
Imo most Garda would use discretion

We don't enforce the majority of our laws. No NCT is driving illegally except for a few exemptions. Check your insurance documents. While most Gardaí might use discretion when you need your insurance there won't be any discretion.

They should use private property to check vehicles that don't have a valid road worthiness test

Ubbquittious

Del2005 wrote: »

Even a, garage would need to trailer a car without an NCT, trade plates cover tax not NCT.

It's horsesh1t.


I've never ever heard of a garage doing this, never seen a car on a trailer at a NCT centre



It's up there with needing a fella walk a few miles ahead carrying a red flag when you drive your motor-car down the road unpaved dirt path

punisher5112

Ubbquittious wrote: »

It's horsesh1t.


I've never ever heard of a garage doing this, never seen a car on a trailer at a NCT centre



It's up there with needing a fella walk a few miles ahead carrying a red flag when you drive your motor-car down the road unpaved dirt path

I get it but it is law just discretion can be used of course.

grogi

Ubbquittious wrote: »

I've never ever heard of a garage doing this, never seen a car on a trailer at a NCT centre.

I repeat it every second day. Sole fact that everybody does it doesn't make it ok! If I don't get a fine for illegal parking it doesn't suddently make said parking legal.

Car without NCT legally cannot be driven and should be towed to have the test done. There is no gray area here. Gardai will use their discretion though and don't want to alienate regular citizens: if the car looks well, it indeed has a booked test and seems on route to the centre - one should be fine. YMMV

Ubbquittious

grogi wrote: »

I repeat it every second day. Sole fact that everybody does it doesn't make it ok! If I don't get a fine for illegal parking it doesn't suddently make said parking legal.

Car without NCT legally cannot be driven and should be towed to have the test done. There is no gray area here. Gardai will use their discretion though and don't want to alienate regular citizens: if the car looks well, it indeed has a booked test and seems on route to the centre - one should be fine. YMMV

Look if I ever see a perfectly good car arriving on a trailer to be tested at a NCT centre I'll believe that this is a thing. Until then tis nothing more than boardsian sh1tetalk

DaSchmo

Ubbquittious wrote: »

Look if I ever see a perfectly good car arriving on a trailer to be tested at a NCT centre I'll believe that this is a thing. Until then tis nothing more than boardsian sh1tetalk

In the real world the vast majority of NCT fails drive to the test. OK there's a miniscule chance that if you bumped into a guard who was having a bad day with proof you were going to get it tested, that they would do you. In reality it's unlikely to bump into that and if you did they'd typically let you go to the test centre so long as everything else was in order. Also arriving on a trailer to the NCT is an automatic "look through this with a fine tooth comb for problems" flag. Why would you?

grogi

Ubbquittious wrote: »

Look if I ever see a perfectly good car arriving on a trailer to be tested at a NCT centre I'll believe that this is a thing. Until then tis nothing more than boardsian sh1tetalk

You don't believe in law or it being properly enforced? Two completely different things.

Del2005

Ubbquittious wrote: »

Look if I ever see a perfectly good car arriving on a trailer to be tested at a NCT centre I'll believe that this is a thing. Until then tis nothing more than boardsian sh1tetalk

Just like unaccompanied learner drivers driving illegally for years nothing will be done till someone is killed, then they'll start enforcing it. The law is clear, our enforcement is a joke.

Ubbquittious

Del2005 wrote: »

Just like unaccompanied learner drivers driving illegally for years nothing will be done till someone is killed, then they'll start enforcing it. The law is clear, our enforcement is a joke.

Ah yes very risky tying a car down to a trailer, any number of things can go wrong, those lidl rachet straps could fail, bearing might go and a wheel fall off or the hitch might go. Only need one eejit to have a bad accident and all this silly talk of cars on traillers to the NCT will be gone.


I wonder if anyone has actually brought their car on a trailer to be tested. If he does exist he is probably the same kind of halfwit who will stand idle going down with a sinking ship miles out at sea because he doesn't have his GMDSS certificate and isn't actually allowed to radio for help

grogi

Ubbquittious wrote: »

Ah yes very risky tying a car down to a trailer, any number of things can go wrong, those lidl rachet straps could fail, bearing might go and a wheel fall off or the hitch might go. Only need one eejit to have a bad accident and all this silly talk of cars on traillers to the NCT will be gone.


I wonder if anyone has actually brought their car on a trailer to be tested. If he does exist he is probably the same kind of halfwit who will stand idle going down with a sinking ship miles out at sea because he doesn't have his GMDSS certificate and isn't actually allowed to radio for help

When arguments end, name calling starts. Classy.