How much would you pay to get your car through its MOT?

liuhut

I always take my car to a MOT centre that dont do any work themselves. Sometimes they point out a few bits that might need doing through the year but my cars have always passed. I just feel that sometimes garages will say things need doing to make a few extra quid

Dan29

Agree with this - I have my car MoTed by the local council. The only downside is that if/when it fails the council here don't do free retests like some garages do. However they also don't have an ulterior motive for saying that work is needed

billlew

My son took his Citroen Xantia (R reg) to a Citroen main dealers for MOT, failed on loads of things. He was quoted £2000 labour charges plus parts costs including renewing all the braking system. He took it 1 week later to a small garage in another town, which I've used, it failed but was out the same day with MOT after repairs. Total cost £136.
Was the next move by Citroen to offer a "good" trade in price to encourage him to trade in?

mr_accountant

billlew wrote:

My son took his Citroen Xantia (R reg) to a Citroen main dealers for MOT, failed on loads of things. He was quoted £2000 labour charges plus parts costs including renewing all the braking system. He took it 1 week later to a small garage in another town, which I've used, it failed but was out the same day with MOT after repairs. Total cost £136.
Was the next move by Citroen to offer a "good" trade in price to encourage him to trade in?

maybe worth contacting vosa, im sure they would be interested simply because the variatons are so large.

Zoetoes

Hi

I've tried using the MOT check thing but it's saying incorrect details, which numbers should I be putting in? I've tried a few times

Zoetoes

Done it, but no information available