According to the news we will now get 5 penalty points for not having or 3 for driving a car which failed the NCT. By the sounds of it outside Deansgrange test centre (and others) will overtake the Stillorgan dual carriage way as the Garda's favourite hotpot issuing tickets!
Agree. It is another revenue generating ploy on the part of the Government. It is a bit ridiculous that a four year old car requires an NCT when it should apply to much older vehicles. Their time would be better spent trying to address the problem of boy racers and their dangerously modified cars.Just another way for the goverment to get more money from the joe public . They are going to force us to buy a new car, like it or not.
Goverment here is only enforcing the law - no car should be on the roads without the appropriate NCT.
The number of cars without NCT is horrendous.
Does this apply to foreign reg cars? presumably not as there is no record of them. It is my understanding that foreign cars belonging to residents in Ireland who have owned the cars for longer than six months overseas, must be registered here in Ireland.
No NCT, 5 points. Hitting a bridge because you can't understand that a 15' tall truck won't fit through a 14' bridge, 3 points. Slight error in the order of priorities IMO.
No NCT does not mean that a car is unsafe, and there's the difference !How do you make that out? Driving an unsafe car is far more likely to result in a fatality than a truck hitting a bridge, I think.
address the problem of boy racers and their dangerously modified cars.
Does this apply to foreign reg cars? presumably not as there is no record of them. It is my understanding that foreign cars belonging to residents in Ireland who have owned the cars for longer than six months overseas, must be registered here in Ireland.
No NCT does not mean that a car is unsafe, and there's the difference !
It's the 3 points for driving a car that failed the NCt that's also a problem. My car failed last year as one of the headlights wasn't correctly aligned. Fixed it that day but took 3 weeks for the retest. I would have been annoyed to get 3 points for that when it's only 2 for speeding.
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