Only for when I go to mass
Well wear and safe motoring…
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It would be hard go out on the push bike with that sitting in the driveway.
The roads are so busy it’s a bit frustrating tbh.
A pass tonight in that grim test centre at the Ballymun/The Naul exit on the M50. Last time I was out there in February 2021 we weren’t allowed to sit inside in the waiting area due to the deadly pandemic.
One of the grimmest places on earth that
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I passed over the weekend and due for retest in September. When is the earliest I can book in for another test?
I feel sorry for the staff in these NCT centres. They all seem like they hate their jobs
I never thought much about agricultural machinery and NCT testing.
I mean do you have to bring in a combine harvester for an NCT?
https://www.rte.ie/news/2023/0416/1377358-hsa-inspection-farm-vehicles/
Article doesn’t contain many specifics. There must be some horrendous tractors out there falling apart. Those quad bikes are dangerous too.
You’d imagine banning quad bikes altogether would be handier
My NCT is up with ages and the next appointment isn’t until September, there’s no panic though. It won’t make it past this time. So its a moritorium for it. What’s mental is that if it passes in September, you only get a few months worth of NCT back dated to when it should have been done, but through their fault it isn’t possible. The fucking thing is either safe or it isn’t like. Some money making scam
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I checked most days over a week until I found an appointment. They do come back up on system or else you’ve to go somewhere less convenient.
There’s a potential for penalty points if you don’t have a valid one but I can’t imagine they dish them out too often
Once you only drive it on your own land there’s nothing they can do about.
They’re handy out for feeding sheep and the like. A tractor just rips the ground up.
A very quick google there tells me that if a farm vehicle is capable of 40Km/h or more it has to be NCT’d.
Is that right @farmerinthecity?
I don’t actually want an appointment so the further away the better. I don’t think penalty points would stand up the way things are.
Put mine in the other week - failed on the dip beam on the passenger side but driver side ok. Fixed it, brought it back and they failed on the dip beam on the driver side. Their reasoning was that it wouldn’t have been picked up due to the failure of the passenger side one or something. Another 28 quid for an in lane check and an appointment at 11pm. C**ts
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I don’t know mate.
I’m not a farmer any more.
There was a case last year where a woman did get points, even though her test was only a week ago. But it’s unusual.
The guidance seems to be that if you have a test booked, a guard with any cop-on leaves you off. But nothing booked in is probably a slam dunk for a few points alright. In saying that, I’d say I have gone through one Garda checkpoint in last four or five years.
Here we go
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A grand start to the weekend. A hit and hope and it’s through
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Do they inspect the air vent on the top of a van?
It got a bit of a bang……
It’s not a rotating one or anything fancy like that. Just a filtered vent. Might need to silicone it back in.
It’s going for a retest. Failed on brake pads.