This is a new one on me,
I went to get my car NCT'd this morning and the tester wouldn't rev the engine up because the oil level was low, thus not doing an emissions test which is a fail.
Now I know what you’re thinking, "why didn't you check the oil level yourself" well to be honest, I forgot all about me NCT until 11pm last night because I thought 1 march wasn't for a few days. (28 days in Feb. and all that).
But more importantly I bought the car from a Main Dealer, at the end of January 2006 and the car (according to the sales mans receipts) had gone through a pre NCT check and that the car is covered under 12month warranty anyway so I wasn't to worry.
So, I accepted my NCT failure report and drove off to work.
I dropped into a garage for some oil on the way and to check the level for myself, but the level was fine "half way between max and min".
So, were does this leave me?
I'm down 49 euro on first test (which I had to do anyway)
7 euro for 1 litre of unused oil! (so what)
27.50 ish for a re-test.
Do I,
1. Ring the Dealers garage and get them to pay for retest (which is not covered in their warranties fine print i.e. they'll fix the problem, but not pay for re-test)
2. Top it up when the engine is cold if it needs it, and just pay for a re-test
3. Go back to the NCT garage and complain if the Level is ok when the engine cools (in about 2 hours)
I went to get my car NCT'd this morning and the tester wouldn't rev the engine up because the oil level was low, thus not doing an emissions test which is a fail.
Now I know what you’re thinking, "why didn't you check the oil level yourself" well to be honest, I forgot all about me NCT until 11pm last night because I thought 1 march wasn't for a few days. (28 days in Feb. and all that).
But more importantly I bought the car from a Main Dealer, at the end of January 2006 and the car (according to the sales mans receipts) had gone through a pre NCT check and that the car is covered under 12month warranty anyway so I wasn't to worry.
So, I accepted my NCT failure report and drove off to work.
I dropped into a garage for some oil on the way and to check the level for myself, but the level was fine "half way between max and min".
So, were does this leave me?
I'm down 49 euro on first test (which I had to do anyway)
7 euro for 1 litre of unused oil! (so what)
27.50 ish for a re-test.
Do I,
1. Ring the Dealers garage and get them to pay for retest (which is not covered in their warranties fine print i.e. they'll fix the problem, but not pay for re-test)
2. Top it up when the engine is cold if it needs it, and just pay for a re-test
3. Go back to the NCT garage and complain if the Level is ok when the engine cools (in about 2 hours)