Your Bangernomics successes

mcjordi

£500 for a tyre? what they made of unobtainium ? lol

anyway mot booked in for 2 weeks.. always nervous times.. hopefully it doesnt cost me anything other than the test fee

Alias_Omega

^^

Ive used the "No Pass, No Pay" MOT stations before. The one local to me does not have a garage attached. It just does MOT's

BeenThroughItAll

Alias_Omega wrote: »

^^

Ive used the "No Pass, No Pay" MOT stations before. The one local to me does not have a garage attached. It just does MOT's

No pass no pay? Doesn't that rather encourage the issue of certificates based on a lower level of subjectivity than somewhere that gets paid regardless of outcome?

Farzackerly

BeenThroughItAll wrote: »

No pass no pay? Doesn't that rather encourage the issue of certificates based on a lower level of subjectivity than somewhere that gets paid regardless of outcome?

I would think the owners of such places would be keen to avoid suspicion of that, as the level of inspection by the agency is pretty high compared to what it used to be. If the main /only income stream is coming from testing you wouldn't want to kill the golden goose by shoddy passes.

skivenov

BeenThroughItAll wrote: »

No pass no pay? Doesn't that rather encourage the issue of certificates based on a lower level of subjectivity than somewhere that gets paid regardless of outcome?

I use one of these places. If it needs to fail, it fails, but if it can be considered an advisory, it is. They're also very keen on advisorys generally.

mcjordi

where i usually go it used to be a pass and advise kinda place.. not sure on attitude now as they changed management etc still the same owner although hes now hands off.
they have contracts for major hauliers and arent fussed if they get the work for cars or not.

westwood68

I can't believe it...This is the Bangernomics thread and people are buying new tyres instead of good quality wheels+tyres from eBay...

Wash you mouth out

PS & before anyone freaks about safety, have bought wheels + good tyres that way for at least the last 8 years and never had any problems

mcjordi

i used to buy a full wheel including tyre with decent tread and usually a decent make for around a tenner a corner.. most scrappies now fit the tyres etc my bargains gone lol

CKhalvashi

skivenov wrote: »

I use one of these places. If it needs to fail, it fails, but if it can be considered an advisory, it is. They're also very keen on advisorys generally.

We had an advisory for a sidelight for one of the Focii, which was repaired there and then.

Common sense IMO, as it's a case of replacing a bulb and the entire car doesn't need a retest.

Speaking of which, the 'W' is legal for another year now. Just dreading the '02' now!

[Deleted User]

^ That's a nice clean MOT sheet you have there

Reminds me of a local MOT place that passed my sister's car with no advisories after Kwik Fit filled the page up.