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My NCT is at 11pm tonight !

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  • 03-11-2015 10:42pm
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    Ally Dick
    Registered Users Posts: 12,668 ✭✭✭✭


    What is the world coming to ? Never thought they would do them so late ! It's in Kells Co Meath. The times I could have gone for today were either 7am or 11pm ! Poor staff. It's a long day !


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    GardeningGirl
    Registered Users Posts: 84 ✭✭GardeningGirl


    Janey mac!
    Good luck with it


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    The Backwards Man
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    Fairly sure it's not the same lads at 7am as it is at 11pm.

    It's like the man (or woman) flying the plane to San Francisco doesn't just jump out and fuel up and then head her for home again.


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    Stheno
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    They operate 24/7 in Ballymun


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    Atlantic Dawn
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    11pm today is better than 3 pm in January :D


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    The Backwards Man
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    Stheno wrote: »
    They operate 24/7 in Ballymun
    Scared to close the place in case it gets robbed.


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    listermint
    Registered Users Posts: 33,692 ✭✭✭✭listermint


    Why wouldn't they its a money printing machine


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    cantdecide
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    A lady where I work had hers at 2:30am or something close to it. I bet it's a handy number for the lads at that hour.


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    Atlantic Dawn
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    listermint wrote: »
    Why wouldn't they its a money printing machine

    Yes all these people with non working lights and bald tyres are being ripped off.


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    Stheno
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    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    Scared to close the place in case it gets robbed.

    You've obviously never been there :p

    A lot of the Dublin Centres are now 24/7


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    Nib
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,088 ✭✭✭Nib


    It's very handy. It used to be a pain in the arse having to take time off work for it.

    €58 a pop is a total rip off though.


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    antodeco
    Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 13,434 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    It's be gas if you went up and said you don't own a car, and then just go through making revving noises.


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    listermint
    Registered Users Posts: 33,692 ✭✭✭✭listermint


    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    Yes all these people with non working lights and bald tyres are being ripped off.

    Yep that's right all the price increase to the test are all about saving people from those bald tires.

    It's a money printing machine .that is factual which is why there was a clamber for the contract.


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    Atlantic Dawn
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    listermint wrote: »
    Yep that's right all the price increase to the test are all about saving people from those bald tires.

    It's a money printing machine .that is factual which is why there was a clamber for the contract.

    It's €55 for a comprehensive test of the car, you won't find many places if you will find any that will do such a certified test of your car with printout of various results for €55.


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    The Backwards Man
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    Stheno wrote: »
    You've obviously never been there :p

    A lot of the Dublin Centres are now 24/7


    Haha, was there once with a load of fish in a wagon that some eejit lost the keys of, (started with a screwdriver, no way of locking it), so when I was out the back unloading I left a sports bag with a crab with the bands pulled off in the front seat. Sure enough the bag was gone when I got back in, I'd say they got some shock!

    That was twenty years ago now mind you


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    RayM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    listermint wrote: »
    It's a money printing machine .that is factual which is why there was a clamber for the contract.

    Maybe, but it also keeps a lot of crap cars off the roads.


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    ygolometsipe
    Registered Users Posts: 882 ✭✭✭ygolometsipe


    If you don't pass, ask the instructor out for a beer,
    tell him the guards never work at night :)


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    the groutch
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    RayM wrote: »
    Maybe, but it also keeps a lot of crap cars off the roads.

    pity it doesn't keep crap drivers off the roads.


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    kneemos
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    How come they're all so busy,working all hours and weekends. Is there a shortage of test centres?


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    Ally Dick
    Registered Users Posts: 12,668 ✭✭✭✭Ally Dick


    A €50 note in the glove used to work in some test centres, but Primetime Investigates sorted that out


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    biko
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    That's service for ya, then head to Tesco 24/7 for some late shopping.


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    deco nate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,340 ✭✭✭deco nate


    kneemos wrote: »
    How come they're all so busy,working all hours and weekends. Is there a shortage of test centres?
    Retests ... ....:)


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    Tarzana2
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    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    Fairly sure it's not the same lads at 7am as it is at 11pm.

    It's like the man (or woman) flying the plane to San Francisco doesn't just jump out and fuel up and then head her for home again.

    Stop talking sense, man. :pac:


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    Sky King
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    antodeco wrote: »
    It's be gas if you went up and said you don't own a car, and then just go through making revving noises.

    I wouldn't pass the emissions test.


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    kirving
    Registered Users Posts: 5,909 ✭✭✭kirving


    It should be every year for all cars.

    On a 30 min drive into Galway the other evening, I counted 39 cars with a front light out, and that was just cars coming against me.

    That's just people not giving a **** about their car, so I wonder what else is dodgy too.


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    carzony
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    Kevin Irving wrote: »
    It should be every year for all cars.

    On a 30 min drive into Galway the other evening, I counted 39 cars with a front light out, and that was just cars coming against me.

    That's just people not giving a **** about their car, so I wonder what else is dodgy too.

    More enforcement from the Gardai is needed not an NCT every year.


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    donegaLroad
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    Kevin Irving wrote: »
    It should be every year for all cars.

    On a 30 min drive into Galway the other evening, I counted 39 cars with a front light out, and that was just cars coming against me.

    That's just people not giving a **** about their car, so I wonder what else is dodgy too.

    I bet over half of them were Volvos. If the headlight relay goes in some Volvos, a new bulb or fuse wont fix the problem. A new relay has to be soldered onto the central electronics module of the car. I have performed this operation twice with a wood engraver that I bought in Lidl as a soldering iron, because the point was accurate enough for the job.


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    The Randy Riverbeast
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    Sky King wrote: »
    I wouldn't pass the emissions test.

    You're a Volkswagen?


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    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users Posts: 9,167 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    Ally Dick wrote: »
    A €50 note in the glove used to work in some test centres, but Primetime Investigates sorted that out

    Well, did she pass?


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    petrolcan
    Registered Users Posts: 898 ✭✭✭petrolcan


    listermint wrote: »
    Why wouldn't they its a money printing machine

    How so? I assume it's similar to the MOT in the UK making sure that your car is actually safe and legal to be on the road.

    Maybe you'd rather be back in the late 80s when cars were riddled with rust and held together with twine.


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    jimgoose
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    carzony wrote: »
    More enforcement from the Gardai is needed not an NCT every year.

    I think both are needed. I think the NCT is quite good, in fairness.


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