Just a heads up, I was looking for an mot online and noticed nationwide are currently doing mot's for £27.50 for a limited time. Maybe save u guys some pennies.

 

only pay 30 any way

 

Usually places offering cheap MOT's don't usually do free retests etc so could be wortht looking out for!

 

and chances are they will fail it on daft things

 

"Your car needs new * brake pads/brake discs/shock absorbers sir"

*delete as applicable

 

mate of mine paid 30 for a mot at some backstreet garage, thought he had a great deal as he had a free re test and 2 weeks to sort out any problems with it. Surprise surprise they failed it. Told him the underneath had bad corrosion and wouldnt last another year if it didnt get welded.
He was gutted so i got under and had a look for him and couldnt see anything that looked that bad so he took it to another garage for a second opinion and they couldnt find nothing either lol. Looks like they were just out to try and make more money.

 

its 30-35 round here

 

It's a straight 50-55 everywhere decent by me. I'm not too sure they'll find anything to fail on my motor, it's full dealer history and just been serviced. Ah well, it'll save me some pennies anyway!

By the way, if a cars a fail it'll fail anywhere

 

But different garages have a different take on what is a fail!

 

I always get mine done 2 minutes from me at a friend's garage for £29.99. Meant to be £34.99, but I always get a £5 off coupon. And that's a Skoda Dealership.

 

And boy have I seen some stuff pass that should have failed

 

Is that a main dealer or 'all electric' cause I wouldn't let all electric touch my lawnmower lol. Interested to know tho as there aren't many skoda dealers in our neck of the woods

 

To be honest there isn't much room for ambiguity in the rules unless the garage is dodgy IMO

 

It's a main dealer. Faintree Garage.

 

I'm surprised at the prices, most places by me at £40-£50 quid.

 

£30 for me also, no retest fee and he lets me take it away to put things right if it fails

 

Think the place I usually go to charge £65 now..

They only do MOT's though so don't skank you for false labour charges etc..

Big-Dan.

 

Yeah I know that one, good to know you rate them!

 

place next to us at work, do a special rate for my firm (god knows why) £30 gets your MOT done and they valet your car after....plus you can drop it off on the way to work and pick it up after, bonus!

 

30 is very cheap.I'm in the trade and pay 40 but no retest fee and have pretty much open ended time to get them done.boys are fair too but won't dodge emmissions or rust etc.

 

Get to Derby boys, local garage to me charge £20, no retest fee and are dead straight. Fails if needs be but nowt dodgy either

Neil

 

£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

 

mine is 30 from a mate that work at shitron

 

garage I used to work at was 35, no retest fee's all above board too.

same with most garages in my local area, except some dealerships charging almost 50.

 

Nationwide Auto centres = Static Pikeys. They're on about £45 p/h labour rate too!

They'll fail your car on stuff like head light alignment, wipers splitting, hand brake adjustment/low effort and such like. Stuff you can't check without specialist equipment.

 

I hope he reported them to Vosa !

puddy

 

my mate own an mot garage in slough but they are bloody well strict and still only charge 30-35 so im happy with that as i get a great service at a good price and know the car has been checked over properly.

but then i also have another garage locally up my sleeve if things need passing

 

Just MOT'd my wifes and my car for £27.42 each and no fails.

I asked about the retest price and it would have been £13.71

Fucking bargain for those of you who usually have to pay circa £45-£50

 

only pay 30 with free retest but always seem to pass

 

I renewed the insurance on the Rover I use to pull my trailer in March and because More Than wouldn't lower the price (but even so were still cheaper than anywhere else ) they chucked a free MoT into the deal - all I had to do was ring them when it was due and they would book it in.

Rang up last month as MoT was due 9th July, they booked me into Kwik Fit

Must admit though it passed first time so can't complain really...

 

i just mot'd the fez on friday,paid £40 and thats with a free retest !
good job aswel as it failed.