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  • 06-08-2010 8:00pm
    #1
    boxermad
    Registered Users Posts: 179 ✭✭


    Im going about buying a new car on pistonheads, its a trade vehicle (not private). Just wondering does the mot stand as a nct or would i need to nct it when i bring it over the water?


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  • #2
    Gary ITR
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,801 ✭✭✭✭Gary ITR


    The MOT doesn't mean squat over here unfortunately. I wouldn't take and MOT as any sort of guide that the car would sail through an NCT either, I bought a car a couple of years ago(for parts) from the North that had 12 months MOT and there's no way it would have gone through an MOT


  • #3
    Atomic Pineapple
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,272 ✭✭✭✭Atomic Pineapple


    Onkle wrote: »
    The MOT doesn't mean squat over here unfortunately. I wouldn't take and MOT as any sort of guide that the car would sail through an NCT either, I bought a car a couple of years ago(for parts) from the North that had 12 months MOT and there's no way it would have gone through an MOT

    I presume you mean it wouldn't have passed an NCT? :D


  • #4
    Gary ITR
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,801 ✭✭✭✭Gary ITR


    sorry yeah :-)


  • #5
    _Conrad_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,191 ✭✭✭_Conrad_


    boxermad wrote: »
    Im going about buying a new car on pistonheads, its a trade vehicle (not private). Just wondering does the mot stand as a nct or would i need to nct it when i bring it over the water?

    you'll need to re-register it here and put it through the NCT if it's a car or DOE if commercial... MOT's can be ok to indicate it's not about to keel over... but the standard varies, you can buy a car with full test that would have no hope of passing the NCT straight off


  • #6
    drifting
    Closed Accounts Posts: 41 ✭drifting


    _Conrad_ wrote: »
    you'll need to re-register it here and put it through the NCT if it's a car or DOE if commercial... MOT's can be ok to indicate it's not about to keel over... but the standard varies, you can buy a car with full test that would have no hope of passing the NCT straight off
    Why's that?


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  • #7
    Drummerboy08
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,102 ✭✭✭✭Drummerboy08


    drifting wrote: »
    Why's that?

    Why's what?


  • #8
    Graham_B18C
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,620 ✭✭✭Graham_B18C


    drifting wrote: »
    Why's that?

    If you mean why do the standards vary, it's because you can get an MOT done in lots of garages in the UK, over here you've to go to dedicated NCT centres


  • #9
    --Kaiser--
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭--Kaiser--


    As above, the MOT is not as stringent as our NCT, they also use salt on their roads more over there, so look out for rust on sills, wheel arches etc...


  • #10
    _Conrad_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,191 ✭✭✭_Conrad_


    Graham_B18C wrote: »
    If you mean why do the standards vary, it's because you can get an MOT done in lots of garages in the UK, over here you've to go to dedicated NCT centres


    exactly, and while the nct centres can vary little a bit here, at least they're all the one company, in the UK you can get some real dodgy operators who pass stuff that really has no right to, there's far more variation between test cantres.


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