new to commercial vehicle

They weren't obliged to do this, but you as the buyer should have made yourself aware of the requirement before making your purchase. At this point, it's no big deal, once you book it in to a test centre and they don't find anything serious.

Its yearly as its a commercial, I forget the cost, you can book it in on that site.

Did you tax if privately, normally there are a lot off hoops to jump through for first commercial taxing by a new owner, but each council has their own take on it so you might have gotten lucky?

Any issues with insurance, there can sometimes be hassle transferring NCB between private/commercial depending on company policy.

Unfortunately with the garage not CVRTing it before purchase, it will now cost you €111 and you will probably only get a 6 months long test if it's expired.

It wouldn't inspire much confidence that the sales person doesn't know the testing requirements for commercials, giving them the benefit of the doubt that they didn't deliberately lie to you. You did ask them that specific question and at best they told you incorrect information so misrepresented the vehicle to you so if it was me I'd be going back to them looking for them to test it/pay for the test at the very least.

This is presumably a dealer and not a private sale so once the OP asked about it they we're obliged to give her the correct information and not mislead her by telling her she was covered with no test requirement for 4 years when it's actually only 1 year from new for commercials. The OP could potentially have been driving around for a long time unaware that she wasn't legal.

So now the OP will be stung for €111 and another €111 in 6 months because of the dealers misrepresentation of the vehicle, for me if I was spending the presumably large amount of € they have on a 221 vehicle it would be a big deal.

Regardless of what they told you, you would have needed to DOE the van around this time anyway

The vendor shouldn't have told her the test wasn't due until 2026.

He is in the trade, the customer is not.

If he didn't know the right answer he should have checked.

I did and specifically about “being a girl”. When the OP started out on the van buying journey , CVRT is literally one of the main concerns. The 4 years before first thing is a NCT thing not CVRT. Why didn’t she check it herself the same as buying a car.

She did check herself by specifically asking the 'professional' motor dealer about the test. One of the main reasons people buy from dealers is because you're supposed to be able to trust them with the stuff like this. The dealer is supposed to be the 'expert' in this situation and should know what they're selling.

I know that and while legally it's true the dealer in this case led the customer astray.

I often defended dealers on here but telling a customer that they don't need a CVRT until the van is four years old is indefensible.

The op said it was a recent purchase.

Possible explanation that he was a trainee winging it.

A free test would be a fair outcome.

Sorry for your bad experience OP. CVRT.ie is the RSA site for this and has loads of info on it.

Depending on where you are based, some of these centres are ‘old school’ so are better to ring for an appointment.

If you have your own company you can claim the cost of the test and any maintenance or repairs as expenses against tax. Hopefully as a fairly new van it is in good condition.

Best of luck with the van and throw anymore questions you have up here.

You might just want to move on with things now but I’d be tempted to ask the dealer to cover the cost of the test for you at least. You have evidence there of them representing it as being tested when it was not.