Free Halfords MOT

seatbeltnoob

Herzlos said:

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.

Slippery pedals? What car that's not factory fesh doesn't have smoothed out pedals. This was halfords technician looking for any and every "issue" they can find so they can justify to their managers that they have tried hard to find fault. When a car passes an MOT without a fail (that needs rectification), they can demostrate to their managers that they did their best and looked everywhere for issues.

I forgot to mention this, they also put an advisory for a phone mount that was on the windscreen. Big deal, just take the phone mount offf to check for damage to the windscreen.

Al_Ross

So, my local mechanic serviced and replaced the rear discs, pads and shields on my wife’s Audi A3. He also looked over the car.All good apart from the rear tyres are well down but still legal.

The MOT is booked for Thursday, so they will at least be able to give an advisory on rear tyres, as long as that’s all though

Biggus_Dickus

seatbeltnoob said:

Herzlos said:

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.

Slippery pedals? What car that's not factory fesh doesn't have smoothed out pedals. This was halfords technician looking for any and every "issue" they can find so they can justify to their managers that they have tried hard to find fault. When a car passes an MOT without a fail (that needs rectification), they can demostrate to their managers that they did their best and looked everywhere for issues.

I forgot to mention this, they also put an advisory for a phone mount that was on the windscreen. Big deal, just take the phone mount offf to check for damage to the windscreen.

If by ‘issue’ you mean ‘advisory’ isn’t that what a competent MOT tester is supposed to do? 

 

Herzlos

seatbeltnoob said:

Herzlos said:

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.

Slippery pedals? What car that's not factory fesh doesn't have smoothed out pedals. This was halfords technician looking for any and every "issue" they can find so they can justify to their managers that they have tried hard to find fault. When a car passes an MOT without a fail (that needs rectification), they can demostrate to their managers that they did their best and looked everywhere for issues.

I forgot to mention this, they also put an advisory for a phone mount that was on the windscreen. Big deal, just take the phone mount offf to check for damage to the windscreen.

They were advisory, so they didn't fail the car and let you drive away? So what's the problem?

Maybe the pedals were slippery due to wear or dirt or something, and they may have felt that the phone mount may have obscured the windscreen too much and hence mentioned it.

Companies making fraudulent MOT claims can be inspected by VOSA and be fined/prevented from doing MOTs. Halfords wouldn't want to take the risk of being caught faking MOT failures, especially if it was proven to be systematic.

That said, I don't understand how Kwik Fit are still allowed to do MOTs.

phillw

castle96 said:

just received voucher

I haven't received mine, or at least I can't find it.

What was the sender and subject?

Anyone know what I can do if it doesn't arrive?

GrumpyDil

The title will be 
Your free MOT e-voucher is here
And sent from newsletter@email.halfords.com

Came five days after my e receipt..

Oh and last time they had this offer on I contacted their customer services who solved the isuue I gad on the first call

Bigphil1474

Free MOT's aren't that unusual. I bought an 18 plate car in October from a relatively local Peugeot dealership. Came with a free MOT for life. Obviously, they are hoping that I'll also get the car serviced there, and get them to undertake any repairs that may occur. I won't, as I have a good local indy, but they don't know that.

Al_Ross

The car did pass the free MOT,2 advisories as I suspected on rear tyres. One close to the limit and the other one had a small nail which they told me wasn't repairable.

No hard sale on taking new tyres today though.

They highlighted where the nail was on the tyre, it looked repairable to me so took it to another tyre place and was told no problem to repair, cost me £10.00.

Both rear tyres are good for probably at least 2-3 thousand miles yet.

dipsomaniac

Nice to see some positive comments. National tyres for £10 fix?

Al_Ross

dipsomaniac said:

Nice to see some positive comments. National tyres for £10 fix?

Yes thats correct, usually get my tyres from them too as cheapest.