MOT charge querie

losgiganteskid

Just taken car for MOT - garage advertising 15% discount.

Car passed MOT and charged a total of £52.10

as follows Labour £14.25 (MOT charge as per VAT office instructions) Deliver car for MOT = FOC

Vat £2.85

MOT £35

Total £52.10

does that sound right ???

mcjordi

labour charge for a mot? ive never been charged that.. anything from £30-£40 for a mot thats it.. no vat added on no labour added on.

It is an all inclusive fee. They can make that fee anything up to the maximum of £54.85 and there is no VAT on MoT's. They can charge less if they like to attract customers, but still no VaT. What they cannot do is charge a fee for MoT then charge an extra fee for labour and Vat to top it up to or above the maximum fee. They can charge for labour & vat on the labour if they do work to pass the MoT with your permission and knowledge, ie headlamp adjust perhaps.

so id be asking for my other £17.10 back if there was no work needed to pass mot that they did

fivetide

As above - you've been diddled!

5t.

losgiganteskid

There was no work done whatsoever on the car to enable it to pass MOT

Is there a government body or some such oversee'er of garages that operate a licence to MOT vehicles that I can contact ??

mcjordi

VOSA
http://www.dft.gov.uk/vosa/contactus/contactus.htm

may be worth a word in the shell of the garage owner first tho

colino

Either they picked the car up from you, or they don't do MOTs themselves and charged a labour rate for taking it to the tester.
1 x 0.25Hr labour = £14.25 (£57/Hr x 0.25)
VAT @20% =£2.85 (£14.25 x 20%)
1 x MOT (No VAT) = £35
Total =£52.10

OR, really rubbish come on advertising promising a discount that isn't there at all!

notbritishgas

losgiganteskid wrote: »

Just taken car for MOT - garage advertising 15% discount.

Car passed MOT and charged a total of £52.10

as follows Labour £14.25 (MOT charge as per VAT office instructions) Deliver car for MOT = FOC

Vat £2.85

MOT £35

Total £52.10

does that sound right ???

Did you take your car for a "pre MOT check" to a garage that did not carry out MOT's and they then had to take it to an MOT garage for the test?

Incidentally, 15% discount off the test fee of £54.85 leaves £46.63 and that figure does not show on your invoice.

mcjordi

colino- it says in OP that they picked the car up FOC for the mot

losgiganteskid

Thanks for the link - I prefer to contact VOSA first so i'm sure of my ground

waynedance

Your post makes no sense?

Did you take it to a garage that does MOT's or did the place you took it take it to an MOT station?

fivetide

Not sure if it is a VOSA issue. They didn't charge you more than they are allowed to for an MOT and VOSA set a max price. They'd be interested if you thought they had carried out unnecessary work but I can't see them stepping in here.

I'd speak to the garage about their maths in the first instance.

5t.