Free Halfords MOT

justworriedabit

Herzlos said:

dipsomaniac said:

Why is that a 'incredible statement'. The more you earn the less likely you are to worry about wasting money because you have more to waste

You'd think that, but your outgoings usually expand to fill your salary and there's no reason someone on £80k wouldn't be as frugal as someone on £20k. Someone on £80k/week may not need to worry quite so much, admittedly.

You don't get to be rich by wasting money - just look at all the old money driving around in bangers.

Thank you very much as you've saved me the response to the other MSE, poster.

ontheroad1970

justworriedabit said:

Herzlos said:

dipsomaniac said:

Why is that a 'incredible statement'. The more you earn the less likely you are to worry about wasting money because you have more to waste

You'd think that, but your outgoings usually expand to fill your salary and there's no reason someone on £80k wouldn't be as frugal as someone on £20k. Someone on £80k/week may not need to worry quite so much, admittedly.

You don't get to be rich by wasting money - just look at all the old money driving around in bangers.

Thank you very much as you've saved me the response to the other MSE, poster.

Aren't you the one with the expensive cars that never need an MOT or do I have you mixed up with another person, just so I undersand....

cymruchris

Al_Ross said:

If it does fail, they will be conning it, but they will get zero business from me.

Surely it depends on why it fails - you may get your brakes sorted out and your oil changed before you go - but who knows what they might pick up that could very well be genuinely a fault? An MOT is about the basic safety of a car - and yes - they will make money out of the offer repairing those cars that fail and the owners choose to have them repaired on site - but the offer doesn't mean mass failures to get their money back on the promo. That's not how MOT's work. They'll have priced in the voucher uptake with the average spend of an MOT failure to ensure that overall the promotion is profitable. They won't go around your car willy-nilly failing things just to hit targets. 

seatbeltnoob

I would advise against it. 

They found 4 advisories on the car, including dumb things like slippery pedals, crack on rear taillights and other things. Tyres were also an advisory.

I took the car to ATS euromaster to get tyres changed (great deal on michelin + free kindle fire) and the guys there who put new tyres in said the tyres had enough life in them to do at least 10K miles.

Never been issues with mots before or after this. Aprt from the halfords MOT, the car had an unblemished MOT history. By taking it to halfords has cost me. If you're car is absolutely mint and 100% certain to pass MOT - take it. Otherwise take it to your ususal garage, support small business and honest independant mechanics.

cymruchris

seatbeltnoob said:

They found 4 advisories on the car, including dumb things like slippery pedals, crack on rear taillights and other things. Tyres were also an advisory.

Advisories don't fail a car - they are areas where things are pointed out as warning - so if there was a crack, there was a crack - that can't be denied. You are now aware of it - you can keep an eye on it - if it gets worse and water starts to seep in - you can replace it in time for the next MOT. You don't need to get them fixed to pass an MOT.

Tyres might have life in them yet  - as in they'll last a while before getting to the legal limit - but again an advisory tells you that they are getting towards nearing replacing - and the blokes from ATS might have said that 'they could do 10k yet' - but at 2am on a wet winters night going around a corner - I'd rather be gripping the road with 3mm on my tyres rather than the legal 1.6mm, the extra rubber does make a difference.

It's all about interpretation - you see it as them 'trying to rip you off' - I see it as fair warning that things are ok right now, but will need attention at some point in the future.

Biggus_Dickus

seatbeltnoob said:

I would advise against it. 

They found 4 advisories on the car, including dumb things like slippery pedals, crack on rear taillights and other things. Tyres were also an advisory.

I took the car to ATS euromaster to get tyres changed (great deal on michelin + free kindle fire) and the guys there who put new tyres in said the tyres had enough life in them to do at least 10K miles.

Never been issues with mots before or after this. Aprt from the halfords MOT, the car had an unblemished MOT history. By taking it to halfords has cost me. If you're car is absolutely mint and 100% certain to pass MOT - take it. Otherwise take it to your ususal garage, support small business and honest independant mechanics.

On the face of it that seems to be a competently performed MOT test. 

Herzlos

seatbeltnoob said:

I would advise against it. 

They found 4 advisories on the car, including dumb things like slippery pedals, crack on rear taillights and other things. Tyres were also an advisory.

...said the tyres had enough life in them to do at least 10K miles.

Advisories are things that won't fail you but you should keep an eye on for the future. What was the actual wording about the tyres? Because having an estimated 10K miles left potentially means you'll need to replace them by the next MOT depending on how you feel about tyre tread and the whole safe Vs legal thing.

BOWFER

cymruchris said:

seatbeltnoob said:

They found 4 advisories on the car, including dumb things like slippery pedals, crack on rear taillights and other things. Tyres were also an advisory.

Advisories don't fail a car - 

No, but they do put doubt in people's minds.
Doubt that the garage can possibly cash in on.

cymruchris

BOWFER said:

cymruchris said:

seatbeltnoob said:

They found 4 advisories on the car, including dumb things like slippery pedals, crack on rear taillights and other things. Tyres were also an advisory.

Advisories don't fail a car - 

No, but they do put doubt in people's minds.
Doubt that the garage can possibly cash in on.

I disagree - a large swathe of the general motoring public tend to drive their cars until something goes bang and then wonder why it happened. Advisories are there for a reason - to advise - it's ok for today - it'll pass the MOT - it's not a problem - but you need to know that at some point over the coming months it potentially will be a problem, so keep an eye on it. The customer can then make a decision as to whether to address it there and then, or wait, monitor and deal with it at the appropriate time. Advisories come from all MOT centres. 

castle96

MOT booked for 30/4. Just 3 yrs old. 5000 miles. Will give good run before (re emissions). Would not expect a fail on anything else... but who knows. They aren't called Halfrau"s for nothing, so we will see. Probable rebook at usual place shortly after ah?