Originally Posted by Graceland

£30 is very cheap for an MOT - Government rate is something like £56 or thereabouts now?

I pay £40 but I reccomend a lot of work the way of the garage I use and they are friends of the family too so win win


Mate of mine took his Mk3 (51 plate) TDCI Mondeo for a £30 National MOT with that special offer and they said it needed new brake discs (excessive corrosion) all round along with new pads (below prescribed level) and a new exhaust (unable to test emissions due to leaking).


Strange that - I had fitted new discs and pads a week earlier to it and the exhaust was new last year

I went down with him and pointed out that the things it "failed" on were brand new items and after 10 mins the nugget on the counter booked it in immediately for a retest and amazingly it passed

Sort of proved my point that they will try and fail it on things that the average man in the street won't dare touch/won't know about