MOT....cost?
25 February 2012, 06:41 PM
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MOT....cost?
I paid £49 yesterday thought it was bloody expensive..
25 February 2012, 06:48 PM
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Yep i had to cancel my renewal insurance today,they were offering me a free MOT with Kwik fit worth £54.00
Had to renew my tax today also,has gone up £15.00 also.
What is going on with motoring in this country.
25 February 2012, 07:14 PM
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MOT £30 for me, road tax £30
25 February 2012, 07:20 PM
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MOT £35 road tax £150
Soon to be road tax £16
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25 February 2012, 07:24 PM
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I paid £49 yesterday thought it was bloody expensive..
That does seem a lot. You should have shopped around. £35 seems the norm.
25 February 2012, 07:35 PM
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I can get it as cheap as £35, but tend to go to the garage I know and pay £45.
25 February 2012, 07:41 PM
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I pay 50 plus but they are very fair and will take the time with the emissions knowing it needs to be piping hot with only one cat to pass.
25 February 2012, 08:04 PM
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I normally pay 50 but changed where I go today and paid 45 and it passed with no advisorys
25 February 2012, 08:44 PM
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25 February 2012, 08:45 PM
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£40 for me last month
25 February 2012, 08:47 PM
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MOT's range from £29.95 up to £54.85 which is the highest vosa allow any test station to charge and the test station itself gets to make there own price within the bracket
25 February 2012, 09:31 PM
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25 February 2012, 09:35 PM
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£40, free retest within 2 weeks if it fails.
25 February 2012, 10:03 PM
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£26.00......mr clutch in bromley,,,,sorted
26 February 2012, 08:14 AM
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£50 for me, but have always taken mine and the other halfs cars there and they do let a few things slide, if there a bit close to the mark.
26 February 2012, 08:16 AM
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£26.00......mr clutch in bromley,,,,sorted
Sounds like a top place and BELOW the lowest price threshold
26 February 2012, 08:27 AM
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ranges for £30 to £55 round here, however the £55 one will sit and have a coffee for 30 minutes of the mot and the rest just waddles round and check the "important" bits lol if it fails there its bad!
26 February 2012, 08:35 AM
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i pay £28.50, they dont do repairs either so they will only fail it if its broke.
26 February 2012, 08:41 AM
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If you pre-book online with Kwik-Fit, it's £35.00.
I used to pay for £54 for the convenience of getting it done at 6pm. Now I just go on my lunch at work or on a Saturday.
26 February 2012, 09:15 AM
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Not being funny but i wouldn't let a Kwik-Fit monkey anywhere near my car, even for an MOT.
26 February 2012, 09:47 AM
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£33 in Swindon two weeks ago - at the same place last time it was £44. Hoping its £22 next time :-)
26 February 2012, 09:49 AM
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26 February 2012, 09:52 AM
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when you pay a main dealer £35.00 to change a lightbulb, the MOT has always seemed good value to me
26 February 2012, 09:53 AM
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I paid £49 yesterday thought it was bloody expensive..
Does it include a free retest?
Some cheaper places don't give free retests.
In the end of the day its an hour's labour (i.e you have to pay someone to totter round a car for an hour) plus the overhead costs for equipment and regular calibration checks, inspections and training as well as the usual stuff in a workshop environment (insurance, heating, eleccy, rates, phone lines etc).
Obviously if the business model is geared around fixing the cars that do "fail" MOT then the MOT itself can be made cheaper as an offset to lure people in through the gates
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26 February 2012, 10:34 AM
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It was a MoT only place.The car passed so i dont know about retest fee.
26 February 2012, 11:04 AM
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Not being funny but i wouldn't let a Kwik-Fit monkey anywhere near my car, even for an MOT.
You mean "
especially for an MOT" ....
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26 February 2012, 11:40 AM
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Not being funny but i wouldn't let a Kwik-Fit monkey anywhere near my car, even for an MOT.
I would never let them actually work on my car, but an MOT is just an inspection. Plus I insist that I watch.
26 February 2012, 04:05 PM
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halfords autocentres are doing half price on MOTs at the mo and you can pay with Tesco clubcard vouchers
26 February 2012, 04:19 PM
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Going rate is around £30 up here. However one place is doing a promotion (which has been running a while) at £19.99! Not seen anyone cheaper.
26 February 2012, 05:47 PM
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A friends wife recently went to a kwik fit and they claimed she needed four new tyres for a pass, they soon changed their mind when her husband turned up and pointed out all four tyres probably had 10k's worth of driving left before they were even close to the legal limit. . Same kwikfit had billed for a new injection system on a Frontera I purchased, not only did they not change the injectors for new ones they missed a clip off one of them. I would rather eat my own **** than send a car there for anything.