Council MOT testing centre Rotherham

KaiserBill

Yorkshire_Dad wrote: »

Hi,
I have been using this Rotherham councils MOT center for the last 7 years and have found it to be disgusting, third rate and testers with attitude.


Why do you keep going back there then ?

arcon5

TrickyWicky wrote: »

Why? The council one I used was overly strict, a mechanic who does MOT work will try to cream some repair work from the job and a privately run 'test only' centre won't want you back for a free retest unless its realistically a serious problem because their profit relies on more paying customers coming in.

Which one do you think will give your car the best chance of staying legal? -pairs and they're not quite as strict as the local council MOT centre.

Erm... The first one!!!

Lum

Joe_Horner wrote: »

Flip side of that is a Daf we bought for our step-daughter a few years back. Shiny month-old MOT from an "MOT only, free retest" place, with about 800 miles done since, and some of the faults were:

I realise this post is a year old, but it's still a little unfair, dodgy MOTs have always been a problem.

I remember many years back, when I lived in Liverpool and was much less well off, putting in a car that I knew was going to fail, just to see how bad it was and whether it was worth fixing. It was chucking out black smoke despite being a petrol so probably wasn't going to pass emissions.

To my amazement it passed, and about a month later I noticed that the MOT was stamped with the address of a place in Warrington, quite some distance from where the test actually took place. I mentioned this to a friend who told me that he did wander how it passed as I had a brake light out when I took it in, he just figured that they replaced it for me... nope I replaced that the day after the test when I noticed.

I ended up taking the car somewhere else for a check over and to get the carb tuned.