{"id":571310,"date":"2026-07-28T01:24:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T01:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/571310\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T01:24:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T01:24:30","slug":"munster-nct-centre-sees-exhaust-mcgyverd-with-coke-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/571310\/","title":{"rendered":"Munster NCT centre sees exhaust ‘McGyver’d’ with Coke can"},"content":{"rendered":"

15:04, 27 Jul 2026Updated 15:07, 27 Jul 2026<\/p>\n

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That’s one way of stopping it blowing(Image: NCT)<\/p>\n

One Munster motorist who turned up to an NCT to take his test had a bit of a surprise waiting for the examiner, under the floor pan as their exhaust was certainly not the real thing.<\/p>\n

Where a pipe had obviously been blowing, the tester found a Coke can repurposed as a patch, needless to say, it didn’t pass.<\/p>\n

It was a real old-school approach to dealing with a holed exhaust, a throwback to when a baked beans tin would often be used to bodge a banger and get a few more miles out of a rusty backbox.<\/p>\n

The NCT people had to applaud the effort, even if it really wasn’t up to code. Confirming to CorkBeo that this example of DIY mechanics was spotted at a centre in Munster, the NCT said: “This vehicle owner, aka MacGyver, thought using Coke cans for an exhaust repair was a genius move. Always rely on a reputable mechanic for your vehicle repairs!”<\/p>\n

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Ferrari on a flatbed on the Carrigrohane Road in Cork(Image: An GS)<\/p>\n

It’s not even the maddest thing seen at a test centre this month, just last week, we told you about an enterprising driver who had decided he didn’t need to pay attention to his engine warning lights – not when he had some black gaffer tape that could simply delete the warning lights from his sight.<\/a><\/p>\n

Coke Cans and gaffer tape show a creative approach to car maintenance in Munster – but at least both cars had tax and insurance – not like the Ferrari nabbed on the Straight Road in Cork recently.<\/a> That 170kmh supercar didn’t even have a current NCT!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"15:04, 27 Jul 2026Updated 15:07, 27 Jul 2026 That’s one way of stopping it blowing(Image: NCT) One Munster…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-571310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}