Cheap MOTs: Southampton, Bournemouth and South of England

bing0

I can fully recommend Carwise on Stoney Lane.(Just next to the vets practice).

In the five years we have used this family run garage,I can truely say not once have I felt I've had the 'wool pulled over my eyes'.They are as honest as the day is long.

They have the cars inspected by an MOT place near the recycling centre,so that part is fixed at £35.00.Carwise just do any work ,if required.And this is the best bit,if there is no work,you only pay the fixed £35.00 still.

I would fully recommend these to anyone.

KeithP

I've been asked, via PM, for the address and postcode of this mot centre.
Thought it might be useful to others, so...

Here is the address with postcode...
Yellow Buses Head Office
Yeoman's Way
Bournemouth
BH8 0BQ

Here is their web page with details about MOTs.
Hope this helps.
p.s. I just googled 'bournemouth buses' to find this info.

My earlier post refers.

Elsterap

Used http://www.yellowbuses.co.uk/mot/default.asp for an MOT in Bournemouth, Poole, Dorset Area. Was £51, but got a free restest as i only had small items which failed.
Was good to know i wasnt having the wool pulled over my eyes and the person who done the MOT even said exactly what i needed to say to any garage i went to. It was along the lines of "Dont let them replace straight away, get them to check if its out of align and get them to fix that first, if its not out of align it will need replacing."


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runmichellerun

Elsterap wrote: »

Used http://www.yellowbuses.co.uk/mot/default.asp for an MOT in Bournemouth, Poole, Dorset Area. Was £51, but got a free restest as i only had small items which failed.
Was good to know i wasnt having the wool pulled over my eyes and the person who done the MOT even said exactly what i needed to say to any garage i went to. It was along the lines of "Dont let them replace straight away, get them to check if its out of align and get them to fix that first, if its not out of align it will need replacing."


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Agreed!!!

I went to yellow buses yesterday and had my MOT done by them. My last MOT was done by the Renault dealer the car was originally bought off of, and they had said my breaks needed doing and were going to charge up a couple of hundred for the privilege.

Needless to say we took the car away and had nothing done to it. That was a year ago.

I was expecting a full-on fail yesterday but in fact it not only passed, it had one less thing wrong with it than last time!! Renault dealers in Wallisdown are a complete rip off I'm afraid. Money grabbing *&^%$£* :mad: . Avoid at all costs.

Go to yellow buses. Kind, quick and unbiased. Perfect

stinky_daddy

jinx_uk_98 wrote: »

Hi,

Did anyone find out where the Portsmouth one was?

Cheers

I have just emailed Portsmouth City Council - I will post any response I get .

stinky_daddy

Hi

thought I had posted this response (but obviously not!), below is the brief communication I got from PCC:

Portsmouth City Council leases most of their cars/vans and therefore uses the leasing company's facilities

andyfras_2

I have used Berkeley MOT Service, Cranford (02087590144) for about 25 years. They are on the A4 near Heathrow.

They are very efficient and have two MOT bays for busy periods.

You can make an appointment or just turn up and wait (free refreshments provided).

They will replace bulbs at cost and do minor adjustments free.

They can supply and fit tyres at good prices.

They can also do motorcycles.

They charge full price but they're not making money out of rip-off repairs.

Even though I have left the area, I still feel it's worth travelling 20 miles to use a place that I trust (and our nearest council test centre is not much nearer).

GabbaGabbaHey

runmichellerun wrote: »

My last MOT was done by the Renault dealer the car was originally bought off of, and they had said my breaks needed doing and were going to charge up a couple of hundred for the privilege.

Needless to say we took the car away and had nothing done to it.

Am I alone in being astonished by this?!

g_attrill

GabbaGabbaHey wrote: »

Am I alone in being astonished by this?!

Presumably it wasn't bad enough to fail the MOT, but they advised that the work needed doing. There are lots of things that a car might "need" which won't necessarily fail an MOT. For some models of car you can't see the brake pads by a visual inspection and can run the brakes right down to the rivets. It will then fail when the braking performance isn't good enough. At that point you will have trashed the rotors and tripled the repair bill!

edit: However for a car > 3 years old I wouldn't use a main dealer anyway, a good independant will most likely be more honest and far cheaper.

dekkard

I recently had an MOT done at Eastleigh borough council's depot in Hedge End.

4 year old car, around 65,000 miles on the clock. Passed the MOT. Good service from the depot guys - £54 for the test. They said that a re-test would have been free provided I returned the car within 10 days.