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NCT question

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  • 10-07-2007 12:30pm
    #1
    unkel
    Registered Users Posts: 65,353 ✭✭✭✭
    Chauffe, Marcel, chauffe!


    Does the tyre on the spare wheel have to have the minimum legal thread?

    The spare tyre is a full size one by the way

    I presume the answer is yes, but it would be great if someone could confirm it


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    unkel
    Registered Users Posts: 65,353 ✭✭✭✭unkel
    Chauffe, Marcel, chauffe!


    The NCT Manual says:
    Examination is confined to tyres fitted to the road wheels.
    If, however, any defect on a tyre carried on a spare wheel is seen, the driver should be advised.

    So this means the car passes the NCT with a defective spare wheel?


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    #3
    barryfitz
    Registered Users Posts: 554 ✭✭✭barryfitz


    Well the last time I went for a test he didnt even look at the spare. He lifted the carpet saw that there was a little plastic washer screw holding down the floor cover and didnt bother checking underneath it.


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    #4
    Cionád
    Registered Users Posts: 2,000 ✭✭✭Cionád


    If your in any doubt take out the spare, you dont need one to pass...


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    #5
    OldmanMondeo
    Registered Users Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭OldmanMondeo


    Dont think they check. I brought the Wifes Grand Vitara in and the didn't check the spare, I have left the wheel cover on it.


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    homerjk
    Registered Users Posts: 271 ✭✭homerjk


    I passed my NCT with a flat spare tyre. He even told me at the end.
    He said, "Do you know you have a flat spare tyre?", "Blow it up on your way home". This was the centre in Ballymun.


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    rebel.ranter
    Registered Users Posts: 3,570 ✭✭✭rebel.ranter


    As far as I know you don't have to have a spare, but if you have one they are obliged to check it. Whether they can fail you for it or not that's debatable. Similarly a Garda can haul you up over having a bald spare but not do anything if you fail to carry a spare (it could be in for repair?).

    What about cars with run flat tyres doing the test, they don't have a spare?

    Or some cars pre run flat only came equipped with a can of Tyre Weld?

    So i'd say take it out (for test), buy a can of tyre weld & away you go!!


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    daedalus2097
    Registered Users Posts: 615 ✭✭✭daedalus2097


    I had a buckled, bald and flat spare wheel in for an NCT once, it wasn't even mentioned. From that NCT manual extract you can see they should only advise you about it - it's not a reason for failure.


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    #9
    Stephen
    Registered Users Posts: 18,484 ✭✭✭✭Stephen


    You're not legally obliged to carry a spare wheel at all. New honda civics don't even come with one, as I discovered when I got mine. You get a fag-lighter compressor and a bottle of gunk to repair a puncture with :eek:


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