Kwik Fit Service and MOT

FinanciallyChallenged

Kwik Fit offer a full service and MOT for £165. This sounds really cheap to me. Is it good value for money or do they cut lots of corners to get it that cheap? Does anyone have any experience of their service?

My car is 10 years old, so it's well out of manufacturer warranty.

I can't post a link sorry.

Thanks!

dresdendave

Ring around a few local independents to get a feel for what the going rate is. Generally the reason garages will offer MOTs at a reduced rate is because they plan on finding lots of faults, which you will then pay them to repair.

If your local council has an MOT testing centre they are usually the best place for an honest MOT. They don't normally carry out repairs so have no incentive to find faults that aren't really there.

gardner1

FinanciallyChallenged wrote: »

Kwik Fit offer a full service and MOT for £165. This sounds really cheap to me. Is it good value for money or do they cut lots of corners to get it that cheap? Does anyone have any experience of their service?

My car is 10 years old, so it's well out of manufacturer warranty.

I can't post a link sorry.

Thanks!

£165 isnt that cheap

skivenov

That and Kwikfit do have a bit of a reputation for telling you your car needs work doing that it probably doesn't.

olias

I had the interim service and mot for £100 done recently which I thought was a decent enough price - they didn't try and sell me further work, despite the fact that with several 'advisories' on the MOT, they quite easily could have.

TBH, with a ten year old car, unless you are trying to maintain a FSH, for future sale value etc, I would just have an oil and filter change.

Olias

red_eye

FinanciallyChallenged wrote: »

Kwik Fit offer a full service and MOT for £165. This sounds really cheap to me. Is it good value for money or do they cut lots of corners to get it that cheap? Does anyone have any experience of their service?

My car is 10 years old, so it's well out of manufacturer warranty.

I can't post a link sorry.

Thanks!

they give you a tick sheet showing what they have checked but my experience they dont check every thing but still tick the sheet.
this was the free mot with service or something, the car failed the mot came to me for repair. what they should of done was told the customer what work was needed before they put it though the mot instead of giving the customer a fail sheet and a quote for the work.

red_eye

skivenov wrote: »

That and Kwikfit do have a bit of a reputation for telling you your car needs work doing that it probably doesn't.

to be fair not all of them are like that, some are decent helpful chaps

red_eye

olias wrote: »

I had the interim service and mot for £100 done recently which I thought was a decent enough price - they didn't try and sell me further work, despite the fact that with several 'advisories' on the MOT, they quite easily could have.

TBH, with a ten year old car, unless you are trying to maintain a FSH, for future sale value etc, I would just have an oil and filter change.

Olias

what about the brakes or the brake and fuel lines and maybe the gearbox oil level?

red_eye

dresdendave wrote: »

Ring around a few local independents to get a feel for what the going rate is. Generally the reason garages will offer MOTs at a reduced rate is because they plan on finding lots of faults, which you will then pay them to repair.

If your local council has an MOT testing centre they are usually the best place for an honest MOT. They don't normally carry out repairs so have no incentive to find faults that aren't really there.

but they charge for a retest if the repair work takes longer then the free retest window and some garages charge a reduced rate for the work.

End of the day it is your car, if the tester does not call you off your comfy seat in the warm waiting room to show you any issues then you need to get off your backside and ask the tester to show you. You also have the right to take your car else were to be repaired.

its like electronic ignition, there's no point standing there with your thumb up your @$$:D

FinanciallyChallenged

Thanks everyone. Helpful points.

It sounded cheap to me - but my last service was about £400 so perhaps I've been overpaying!

Maybe I could get the MOT at a council centre and get the service at KwikFit

r748spx

£165 is a good price kwik fit use very good quality mobil oil better than most independent garages use and unipart filters same as most independent garages use. check what is included in the price as different garages change different items some will include in the price a fuel filter and pollen filter some places wont.

what car is it?