Service+mot cost

Strider590

Only advice I can give is DO NOT go for low price MOT deals.

At the standard rate garages make no real profit on doing MOT's, the fee covers the labour and admin costs.
If you get a cheap MOT your car WILL fail because they need to recover their costs. This is where they start failing for daft things like blown bulbs (that blew mysteriously during the test).

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Strider590 wrote: »

Only advice I can give is DO NOT go for low price MOT deals.

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Agreed, use an MOT Station that you can trust to test fairly, even if they charge a bit more for the test.

birkee

Strider590 wrote: »

Only advice I can give is DO NOT go for low price MOT deals.

At the standard rate garages make no real profit on doing MOT's, the fee covers the labour and admin costs.
If you get a cheap MOT your car WILL fail because they need to recover their costs. This is where they start failing for daft things like blown bulbs (that blew mysteriously during the test).

I know where you're coming from, but I don't think price is a fair way of judging.
What you need is a place that has a reputation to protect.

Then again, what I've heard about Quick Fit would certainly prevent ME from using them. Then again (again) the alternative might be no better.

Jameo

Formula One Autocentres are a trusted brand and MOts are half price at the moment you can book mots online too

Evilm

No one has yet said "Don't use Kwik Fit" but it usually remains true dependant on your area.

asbokid

Strider590 wrote: »

Only advice I can give is DO NOT go for low price MOT deals. At the standard rate garages make no real profit on doing MOT's, the fee covers the labour and admin costs. If you get a cheap MOT your car WILL fail because they need to recover their costs. This is where they start failing for daft things like blown bulbs (that blew mysteriously during the test).

Hmmm..

Places that only do MOTs haven't got anything to gain from systematically failing vehicles.

There is a comfortable profit in doing MOTs, hence the price competition. An MOT test centre has to pay VOSA less than £2 for each certificate, and there's no VAT to pay.

The average test takes 53 minutes, but depending on car, a test can take as little as 32 minutes. The MOT tester earns on average £11 an hour before tax, and often much less outside London.

property.advert

Evilm wrote: »

No one has yet said "Don't use Kwik Fit" but it usually remains true dependant on your area.

And yet I understand the allure. You have little time, they are local, they seem a big company with a reputation to protect and suddenly you are going to phone them up and book your motor in even though 95% of posts you read on the net tell you to avoid them like the plague. Yet if they were so bad, wouldn't they have gone bust years ago ?

I don't know but I did know a Ford mechanic who used to work on their top end performance stuff who told people to avoid them like the plague and that was back in the 1990s.

Kilty_2

property.advert wrote: »

And yet I understand the allure. You have little time, they are local, they seem a big company with a reputation to protect and suddenly you are going to phone them up and book your motor in even though 95% of posts you read on the net tell you to avoid them like the plague. Yet if they were so bad, wouldn't they have gone bust years ago ?

I don't know but I did know a Ford mechanic who used to work on their top end performance stuff who told people to avoid them like the plague and that was back in the 1990s.

Biggest problem with KF is that service varies wildly between locations.