MOT failed and they wanted £400+, retested at a different garage passed first time.

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TBH i would just use another garage from now on.

report it to vosa, with copies of failure sheet from garage 1 then also attach pass sheet anmd works dont from garage number 2. perhaps this is a garage that trading standards may know about so report it to them as a matter of course.

spiro

Never use a garage to get an MOT, use an MOT testing centre (only do MOTs), that way they have no interested in 'finding' things to fail the car on or overstating advisorys because they will not gain financially. I live in Hertfordshire and a local haulage company has their own MOT centre and loads of people use it for just this reason. The other one we have is In'n'Out Express.

s_b

an mot station cannot look for work on an mot
OP should advise vosa of their concerns via local district manager (google to find who it is or write to vosa bristol soonest)
the garage basically want black balling for what they have done

the upper strut movement when wheels off ground is very common on cars these days and if vauxhall are aware of it on this model then vosa will have sent out an electronic advisory of it to all mot testers and it is their duty (the testers) to read and confirm this before they are allowed to log on to do mots,it therefore follows that this tester is not up to standard and needs retraining,vosa will come down very hard if the facts given are correct

widyboy

to give you an update, i have spoken the [FONT=&quot]grange and they don't really care. they have asked for it in writing.

i have now reported it to trading standards and vosa. only problem with vosa is you need to pay vosa to redone a MOT as the cost of £56 and if you win the case you will get your money back.

i will be putting this is [/FONT][FONT=&quot]writing and will update.
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vaio

Of course it could be that rather than the first garage making things up/looking for work the fault might be with the second garage in that they were unduly lax.

And that’s before you consider the unavoidably subjective nature of many of the items in the test