why shouldnt garda cars be nct'd?

jamesr123 · 21-05-2014 01:36AM #1

I know that they don't have to be but why? Those cars are on the road a lot more than regular cars, they carry passengers and people who are in distress,drunk ect.. I mean who's to say their not driving death traps around? (and from what I hear they are)

Surely they should set an example for the rest of us and get them tested. Why is it ok for them to drive a dangerous car but not for the rest of the public.

Before anyone asks my car is currently nct'd.....

Wishiwasa Littlebitaller · 21-05-2014 01:38AM

I'd personally be more concerned with the fact they quite often drive branch cars while nattering away on a phone.

ryan101 · 21-05-2014 01:39AM

In Soviet Russia Police Car NCT YOU!

wazky · 21-05-2014 01:41AM

Bit awkward at the checkpoint if the gardas car has a more out of date Nct then your own I would imagine.

pablo128 · 21-05-2014 01:41AM

Garda vehicles are brought to main dealers for servicing. Main dealers are not the kind to overlook the chance to make some money so you can be reasonably reassured that they are in ok nick. The same with tyres, they are fitted with good brands.

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy · 21-05-2014 01:42AM

Who'd enforce it? You gonna drag the cop out of his nct-less car and perform a citizens arrest, until another cop comes along and arrests him? Or just ring the police and report him?

Witcher · 21-05-2014 01:43AM

Garda cars are actually quite well maintained, you don't get the mileage the guards get out of a car unless it's looked after.

anto9 · 21-05-2014 06:45AM

^What milage do they typically get .Lots of them look quite bashed up body wise.

wendell borton · 21-05-2014 07:34AM

It's got a cop motor, a four hundred and forty cubic inch plant, it's got cop tires, cop suspension, cop shocks, it's a model made before catalytic converters, so it'll run good on regular gas

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shteve · 21-05-2014 07:37AM

wendell borton wrote: »

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and a broken cigarette lighter... :P :P

oldyouth · 21-05-2014 07:41AM

pablo128 wrote: »

Garda vehicles are brought to main dealers for servicing. Main dealers are not the kind to overlook the chance to make some money so you can be reasonably reassured that they are in ok nick. The same with tyres, they are fitted with good brands.

Using that logic, many private car owners should be able to bring their service records to the NCT Centre and just pick up a disc

The J Stands for Jay · 21-05-2014 07:44AM

They run them until they hit 300,000km, I believe.

Boombastic · 21-05-2014 07:52AM

nct's are the least of their problems

did they ever discover which one was the thief or are they all at it?stealing evidence is a crime, you wouldn't steal a car, you wouldn't download an illegal movies

don't dip your hands in to the money

whisky_galore · 21-05-2014 08:05AM

ryan101 wrote: »

In Soviet Russia Police Car NCT YOU!

In Putin Russia, car drive to another country and try to establish dealership.

Teyla Emmagan · 21-05-2014 08:52AM

Garda cars aren't NCT'd? You mean legally exempt or habitually?

First I have heard of it.

anncoates · 21-05-2014 09:27AM

All those skids in garbage strewn alleyways and perp apprehension across the bonnets must take its toll.

mad muffin · 21-05-2014 10:02AM

ryan101 wrote: »

Donuts. mmmmmmm.

Doughnuts.

:pac:

21-05-2014 10:06AM

anncoates wrote: »

All those skids in garbage strewn alleyways and perp apprehension across the bonnets must take its toll.

Or chasing a car into a goal net. The good ole days, when real men didn't wear seat-belts, there was no such thing as an innocent bystander, and NCT's were for sissies.

Heisenberg1 · 21-05-2014 10:08AM

Sure why bother with an NCT on a Garda car when most of them that drive them don't even have a full license.

jimgoose · 21-05-2014 10:15AM

Oi!! I'll 'ave that git round your manor, guv'nor!

catallus · 21-05-2014 10:22AM

It's probably not worth starting a thread on this but as I sit here with my breakfast it occurs to me that there is a strange usurpation of the designation of doughnuts/donuts happening these days. I have an cream eclair here and the box says they're "donuts" but when I google images of doughnuts/donuts I get pictures of the normal round cake type thingy with the hole in the middle and the icing on top, but not a picture of an eclair, the proper picture of an eclair comes up when I google "eclair" so I'm left in the perplexing situation of having an eclair which is called a doughnut. Maybe the bakery needs to be informed of this?

As for NCT's for the po-po cars? Isn't this the case for all state-owned cars, I think?

racso1975 · 21-05-2014 10:22AM

Heisenberg1 wrote: »

Sure why bother with an NCT on a Garda car when most of them that drive them don't even have a full license.

Wow that is a serious statement. Care to back it up?

jimgoose · 21-05-2014 10:25AM

racso1975 wrote: »

Wow that is a serious statement. Care to back it up?

Apparently they don't need a driving license while on duty. Go figure:

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/garda-in-fatal-crash-didnt-have-a-driving-licence-inquest-told-26582819.html

whiskeyman · 21-05-2014 10:26AM

anncoates wrote: »

All those skids in garbage strewn alleyways and perp apprehension across the bonnets must take its toll.

Don't forget the boxes.

Damn boxes...

racso1975 · 21-05-2014 10:28AM

jimgoose wrote: »

Apparently they don't need a driving license while on duty. Go figure:

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/garda-in-fatal-crash-didnt-have-a-driving-licence-inquest-told-26582819.html

Do they still have to under go a special driving course? For high speed driving etc?

foxy farmer · 21-05-2014 10:28AM

Maybe should be doe tested. Used for commercial professional duties. Providing public service duties. At least fit them with bluetooth.

jimgoose · 21-05-2014 10:29AM

racso1975 wrote: »

Do they still have to under go a special driving course? For high speed driving etc?

It wouldn't appear so. My brother-in-law was torpedoed amidships in Limerick City a couple of years ago by two young bucks with too much engine up front and bugger-all between the ears, speeding through a red light in the city-centre without even a sniff of an emergency going on.

Chips Lovell · 21-05-2014 10:53AM

So the cops knew that internal affairs were setting them up?

smellmepower · 21-05-2014 11:04AM

Anyone applying for the current phase of recruitment had to have a full license I believe.

In the past they didn't necessarily have to do the advanced driving course to drive on blues,as Guards without it could get special dispensation from the chief super if they were short of drivers.

Garball · 21-05-2014 11:12AM

garda cars are well maintained. they get a complete make over also when they hit 200,000km. the bodes of the vehicles may be bashed and bent, but the engine, brakes and suspension are kept really well.

Larbre34 · 21-05-2014 11:13AM

jimgoose wrote: »

It wouldn't appear so. My brother-in-law was torpedoed amidships in Limerick City a couple of years ago by two young bucks with too much engine up front and bugger-all between the ears, speeding through a red light in the city-centre without even a sniff of an emergency going on.

Can't have been a Garda vehicle so. They wouldnt pull you out of bed.

The sight of the new small Hyundai estate patrol car around my way is putting the fear of God in me I must say.

why shouldnt garda cars be nct'd?

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