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Consumer Affairs

Thursday 31st January

NCT tests Last year the number of vehicles put through the NCT test breached the one million threshold, but just over 48% of them passed. At a cost of €55 and €22 for some retests, plus any servicing or repair costs that may be required, it can be a big financial outlay. So, are more cars failing the test now or have those numbers been consistent over the years? What are the main reasons for failing the test and what should you look out for if you need to get your car serviced. Tina Leonard has been looking into it. ...

http://www.rte.ie/radio1/today-with-pat-kenny/programmes/2013/0131/365457-today-with-pat-kenny-thursday-31st-january-2013/?clipid=988321

Consumer Affairs

Thursday 14th February

With Tina Leonard Car Servicing Many of you will be relieved to read this morning that plans to force cars more than six years old to undergo an annual NCT have been dropped. Recently Tina Leonard was here to talk about NCT tests and we discovered, for example, that the pass / fail rate was consistently around 50 / 50 and that the complaint levels were very low at only 0.07%. We received many comments from our listeners so Tina is back to revisit the topic. But if you need to do so, how do you make a complaint about ...

http://www.rte.ie/radio1/today-with-pat-kenny/programmes/2013/0214/367735-today-with-pat-kenny-thursday-14th-february-2013/?clipid=999656

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