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+1@gears303 Don't wait for the NCT, act now. Send a copy of your receipt / booking confirmation for your NCT ASAP to the guard, with a cover note apologising for not having it done at its due time and thanking him for bringing it to your attention. Playing to their egos works wonders.
Better still drop into the station where he is attached to and deliver it by hand. Appear as sincere as possible.
You do get reminder about Car tax but not NCT. Good to know if you input while renewing car tax, they give you a reminder.I got an email re renewal of my motor tax last week, and the email includes the NCT due date (which will be the first NCT for the car).
They use to send reminders but stopped years ago.I always thought that I would be contacted automatically when my car was 4 years old and told that my NCT was due?
They use to send reminders but stopped years ago.
Where does this idea that they don’t issue reminders come from?
This idea comes from a spokeswoman for the NCT. Perhaps they're still issuing some reminders to some people from some database they have - but largely they're relying on motor tax now.I always get an NCT reminder, either for the first one or subsequent ones.
Where does this idea that they don’t issue reminders come from?
I was stopped at a housing estate I was entering while there was a concert on so they were checking for residents so people didn't just park there and block the place up. The Garda asked me I thought it would be a good idea to get the car NCT'd as it was 7 months out of date. I apologised and said I would. He then suggested I should get it taxed as that was 8 months out of date. I asked if I was in trouble and he smiled and said "no, we're not checking that stuff today" but if he saw me the next day I would be. Nice guy. I sorted the tax out that evening and booked my NCT.A few years ago, my NCT ran out by 6 or 7 months before I realised, luckily I wasn't caught.
Yep, I now set reminders in my phone.You were very lucky so . It is very easy to forget these things especially with no reminders .....
That was a sound Guard.I was stopped at a housing estate I was entering while there was a concert on so they were checking for residents so people didn't just park there and block the place up. The Garda asked me I thought it would be a good idea to get the car NCT'd as it was 7 months out of date. I apologised and said I would. He then suggested I should get it taxed as that was 8 months out of date. I asked if I was in trouble and he smiled and said "no, we're not checking that stuff today" but if he saw me the next day I would be. Nice guy. I sorted the tax out that evening and booked my NCT.
Most of them are, in my experience.That was a sound Guard.
While you're right and the email does have the NCT due date on it, if you're looking at the email in your Gmail on a smartphone, there's a very good chance you'll never scroll down far enough to see it. I'm just after taxing my car about 10 minutes ago and when I read your post I said to myself that's funny, I never noticed the NCT due date. So I looked at my reminder email and sure enough, if you scroll down past all of the information pertinent to taxing your car (including the link / button to go pay your motor tax now), then it's there right enough.I've opted for email reminders rather than paper ones from motortax.ie. The email always has the next NCT due date added on.as well. It used to be 27th August, but the latest one says NCT due on 27th December 2021. Obviously, 4 months added due Covid for all vehicles. Presumably Gardai well aware of this.
Fair point! I'm one of those sad obsessives who make a point of reading the small print. I never cease to be amazed that the rest of the world isn't like meWhile you're right and the email does have the NCT due date on it, if you're looking at the email in your Gmail on a smartphone, there's a very good chance you'll never scroll down far enough to see it. I'm just after taxing my car about 10 minutes ago and when I read your post I said to myself that's funny, I never noticed the NCT due date. So I looked at my reminder email and sure enough, if you scroll down past all of the information pertinent to taxing your car (including the link / button to go pay your motor tax now), then it's there right enough.
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