Showing all articles tagged with NCT
Danger on the roads as two-thirds of decade-old cars fail NCT
TWO-THIRDS of cars 10 years or older failed the National Car Test (NCT) on the first attempt this year. Figures provided by the NCT service show that more than 65pc of cars with 2002 or older reg...
Posted 11 years ago
Motorists face €60 fine in faulty lights clampdown
MOTORISTS with missing or broken headlights face the prospect of being hit with a €60 on-the-spot fine from tomorrow.Gardai have announced a major crackdown on defective lighting after it emerged th...
Posted 11 years ago
NCT check will uncover 'clocked' cars in new plan
FIACH KELLY POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT – 01 APRIL 2013 ALL cars undergoing the National Car Test (NCT) will face strict measures to make sure they aren't 'clocked', under new rules being drawn ...
Posted 11 years ago
8,000 cars with 'back-to-front' tyres fail NCT
EDDIE CUNNINGHAM MORE than 8,000 cars have failed the NCT so far this year because their tyres were fitted the wrong way around. Untrained and 'unscrupulous' fitters are being blamed for...
Posted 11 years ago
ITIA clears up NCT confusion on tyre regulations
The Irish Tyre Industry Association (ITIA) has liaised with the Road Safety Authority and NCT management to clear up some confusion in the implementation of tyre regulations at NCT centres, resulting ...
Posted 10 years ago
Over half of cars fail NCT
Linda McGrory Some 2,646 cars tested in the first six months of this year were declared by NCT inspectors as "dangerously unroadworthy". And it emerged more cars failed than passed in that per...
Posted 10 years ago
Thousands Of Cars With No Valid NCT
More than 200 thousand cars are on the roads with no valid NCT. That figure is likely to rise due to a backlog in testing. Tough new laws to be introduced next month will mean that motorists fac...
Posted 10 years ago
New figures reveal which car is most likely to pass the NCT test
New statistics from the Road Safety Authority (RSA) reveal the make of car that is most likely to pass the NCT. Out of over one million cars tested in 2013, the most reliable proved to be the Toyot...
Posted 9 years ago
How 200,000 of us risk our lives in potentially dangerous cars
Last year was the busiest on record for the National Car Test (NCT). A total of 2,026,630 tests were conducted. Two-thirds (66pc were full and the remainder re-tests). Of the 1,344,265 full tests cond...
Posted 9 years ago
3,000 dangerous cars removed from the road by NCT so far this year
More than 3,000 cars have been labelled as dangerous and have been towed away from NCT centres around the country in the first half of 2015, new figures have revealed. The statistic is already on t...
Posted 9 years ago
Serious questions are raised over quality of some pre-NCT checks
Serious question marks are being raised over the extent of some 'pre-NCT' tests and checks. Motorists pay for such tests so their car will get through the NCT without fault or further e...
Posted 7 years ago