Come on admit it - How much have you paid to get through an MOT?

JoeA81

I want to be made to feel better really.

What's the record amount you have ever spent on an MOT, just because you didn't have the time or energy to buy a new car, and sentimentally wanted to keep your current vehicle despite having to pay more than the car is worth to fix it!

I'll start the ball rolling.

I just paid £920 for a 12 year old Golf Gti

Shimrod

I paid £700 to get a car through its MOT that I had previously agreed to sell (to a family member) for £500! Not one of my best ever deals.

catflea

Depends, I spent the best part of £1500 getting a Morris Minor through an MOT (then again, it had been sat in a field for 20 years!)

on a more modern tang, about £150 on a 13yr old fiesta!

Mini_Bear

My Dad had a shocker - paid £3,500 in '97 for MOT/service to keep a volvo 740 (G-reg) on the road, he sold it the next year for £500. Ouch. How we laugh......

catflea

But did he get 3k's worth of value out of it in that year? :beer:

petrolhead69

Most I`ve ever had to spend on an mot is a numberplate or indicator bulb showing a little bit of white.

This will probably be an unpopular thing to say on a thrift website, but if your car needs a lot spent to pass the mot that means the maintenance schedule your doing probably isn`t upto scratch and you`ve been driving with potentially dangerous faults. Theres a time and place to save money but car maintenance isn`t one of them, your putting yours and other peoples lives at risk.

jimbo_the_jetset

£170 today for a 18 year old Peugeot. Still 50mpg!! And now it stops too!! lol

Basically, you'll spend money on any car you get new or old. Some more, some less, you just have to live with it. Although my perception is that 'newer' cars can have expensive repair bills for fancy sensors and ECU's that tend to go wrong. Newer is not always better or cheaper to maintain

mark5

The cost of the MOT about £40-50, never had a failure yet!

In the past I have always changed cars regularly because I fancied a change but have decided to stick with our current cars until they become un-reliable/expensive to maintain so no doubt will have a failure sooner or later.

Shimrod

petrolhead69 wrote: »

Theres a time and place to save money but car maintenance isn`t one of them, your putting yours and other peoples lives at risk.

I quite agree. The car in question for me had probably done about 100 miles in the previous year and spent the rest of the time on the drive. It's the low usage cars that tend to develop the most problems.

petrolhead69

A lot of expensive mot fails can be made up of labour, with a relatively cheap part, £10 on a haynes manual is money well spent,, but pick up on faults/wear at servicing, not the mot and you have more time to get it fixed in a cost effective way.

petrolhead69

jimbo_the_jetset wrote: »

£170 today for a 18 year old Peugeot. Still 50mpg!! And now it stops too!! lol

Basically, you'll spend money on any car you get new or old. Some more, some less, you just have to live with it. Although my perception is that 'newer' cars can have expensive repair bills for fancy sensors and ECU's that tend to go wrong. Newer is not always better or cheaper to maintain

Dodgy flexis? pugs are very bad for that for some reason...
I agree about the older cars being cheaper to maintain, no dual mass flywheels, common rail diesel injectors , control modules etc that cost mental prices.
Even running cheap old bangers i have no qualms about spending more on parts than a car has actually cost me, because once it`s up to scratch its like new again. my £500 15 year old audi a4 drives and runs like it was new.