NCT Exempt 2006 VW Passat

inabina · 03-03-2012 9:05pm #1

I was looking at at VW passat for sale. It had an NCT disc on display with expiry date but at the bottom it said EXEMPT/SPECIAL. Any why a 2006 Passat would have this?
thanks!!

MidlandsM · 03-03-2012 9:07pm

yeah, you got one of those special discs when you left €100 in the ashtray? LOL

03-03-2012 9:07pm

inabina wrote: »

I was looking at at VW passat for sale. It had an NCT disc on display with expiry date but at the bottom it said EXEMPT/SPECIAL. Any why a 2006 Passat would have this?
thanks!!

Sure that wasn't the tax disc?

heate · 03-03-2012 9:07pm

MidlandsM wrote: »

Was there €100 in the ashtray?

Haha.
Real answer may have been a car owned by an embassy

mathepac · 03-03-2012 9:10pm

This is probably a bit too obvious but did you ask the seller?

kirving · 03-03-2012 9:10pm

Sounds stange, since it's hardly an ex-Garda/Fire Service/Defence Forces car? Not sure what else is NCT exempt.

Atlantic Dawn · 03-03-2012 9:11pm

Kevin Irving wrote: »

Sounds stange, since it's hardly an ex-Garda/Fire Service/Defence Forces car? Not sure what else is NCT exempt.

Island vehicles are exempt but they wouldn't get a disc to say exempt on it, they simply don't have to do the test and are not required to show a disc.

inabina · 03-03-2012 9:17pm

actually didnt ask the seller since the offer with the trade in wasnt a runner for me. and no, it was not the tax disc! i should have taken a pic of it!

Mint Sauce · 03-03-2012 9:24pm

Have seen this with another car. Cant remember the exact reason, but it didn't require a DOE or an NCT, seemingly could not be identified as either private or commerical for some strange reason.

Dont ask me to explain as was confused enough with the explanation. Was not ex service (as far as I know), or an island car.

CiniO · 03-03-2012 9:49pm

irish-stew wrote: »

Have seen this with another car. Cant remember the exact reason, but it didn't require a DOE or an NCT, seemingly could not be identified as either private or commerical for some strange reason.

No, that's not right.
On every NCT disc is indicated "motor taxation class", which is the same as found in your registration certificate field J.2
In most cases it says "private" and that's exactly what most people have printed on NCT disc.

If someone is exempt from motortax (f.e. Disabled person) then motor taxation class is "exempt/special", and that's why it's written on NCT disc.

However it doesn't mean that car is exempt from NCT.
It's exempt from tax, but NCT must be done the same as with any other car, and if it's got a NCT disc, then surely NCT was done on this car.

rotinaj · 03-03-2012 9:53pm

Could be an ex embassy car. Afaik they are exempt while owen by an embassy.

CiniO · 03-03-2012 10:05pm

rotinaj wrote: »

Afaik they are exempt while owen by an embassy.

Could you support it with any link to the source.

AFAIK this is the list of NCT exempt vehicles
Nothing mentioned about embassy's cars.

(5) This Regulation does not apply to a vehicle—

(a) first registered prior to 1 January 1980,

(b) which is used solely on an off-shore island,

(c) on the day on which a test certificate in respect of the vehicle had been refused, or

(d) which is owned or operated by the Garda Síochána or the Defence Forces.

NCT Exempt 2006 VW Passat

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