Free £20 voucher off MOT at Nationwide Autocentres

yezdi wrote: »

I wouldnt go to "rip-off" Nationwide even if I had a totally free MOT there. They always seem to find all sorts of problems when others cannot find...and this is not just my experience. Several colleagues have had the same experience too.

Ive been to Nationwide Autocentres three years running, including using the August Sun 50% off MOT voucher, found them excellent every year, one year not one thing needed doing to pass the MOT and that was with a Car 10+ years old.

Horace wrote: »

Don't apply for it then - If they are finding problems that you state that other garages cannot find, then perhaps they are doing their job properly! You see there are two ways of looking at your statement.:D

Actually he is 100% correct. I wouldn't touch Nationwide Autocentres with a barge pole.

I have a friend who works there & even he is disallusioned by the practices that go on.

They don't find things that others have missed, they 'find' items that are hardly worn at all & "recommend" that they are replaced with new, this way they stay within the law and it's the customer who ultimately decides to replace an otherwise perfectly acceptable/serviceable part.

It is likely to cost you more in the long run, you've been warned.
Classic case of spending a £1 in petrol to travel to a forecourt saving you 80p!

how much do they charge for a MOT?

I felt compelled to report a very poor experience with Nationwide Autocentres.

We needed an MOT on our son's car and were using them for the second year principally because we had taken out an MOT Guarantee with them.

Last year's experience wasn't brilliant and very expensive but I put that down to our inital purchase error with the car.This year started with their telephone reminder about the MOT and 'their' special offer of a discounted MOT price.A week later later I rang to book in, and no one recognises this offer not even the Manager.I must have dreamt it up......He advises an online booking to acheive 10% off.So we try that and it doesn't exist!! Ring back and another person tells us there is no such offer but if we have an RAC,Matalan or Tesco card there is a discount.:rolleyes:

Anyway the car fails on a most marginal basis of slight windscreen damage.There is also a bulb not working in the front headlamp.They can't repair or replace the windscreen and I have to press them to look at the bulb( it has come loose). I am told I need to pay a retest fee of
£27 because the vehicle will have to leave the premises !! So they can't do the repair and charge you to look at it when someone else has replaced it.Mmmmm:eek:

Eventually he saw sense and waived the charge but not without extraordinary attitude and disdain.The bulb resettling cost £11 and you are left feeling a might irritated.

As for the guarantee it naturally doesn't cover any of the problems we are told.

So in summary,avoid NA like the plague unless you like your customer service served up with misinformation,pedantic Inspectors and Service staff who would have been trained at the Reggie Kray Charm School.:rotfl:

Which branch Albion? You are likely to be close to me if you are a Baggies fan.