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clan chieftain
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Location: Motherwell
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 Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2015 7:10 pm Post subject: The most you have paid to pass MOT. |
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Today it cost me £145 to get my Getz through an MOT and I supplied the parts. It needed 3 brake pipes changing and a new sump fitted and the cost of the MOT.
This is what happens when you are getting on a bit and not fit now to do your own repairs. 
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colwyn500
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Location: Nairn, Scotland
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| Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2015 11:01 pm Post subject: |
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The most I have paid is the cost of the MOT because I am still young enough  (he says as his nose gets even longer) to fix my own car. The least I have paid, on several occasions now, is £30 at Kwik_Fit. I thoroughly recommend them for their fairness and impartiality....honestly! |
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D4B
Joined: 28 Dec 2010
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Location: Hampshire UK
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| Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2015 9:44 am Post subject: |
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| colwyn500 wrote: | | I thoroughly recommend them for their fairness and impartiality....honestly! |
Reeeeaaaaaallly ?  |
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colwyn500
Joined: 21 Oct 2012
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Location: Nairn, Scotland
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| Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2015 1:53 pm Post subject: |
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| D4B wrote: | | colwyn500 wrote: | | I thoroughly recommend them for their fairness and impartiality....honestly! |
Reeeeaaaaaallly ? |
I really do...no tongue in cheek smilies or anything.
I don't know what the arrangement is, but the MOT guys seem scrupulously independent from the fitters. I have also been able to talk in a sensible way directly with the examiner. That's four MOTs on three vehicles with a fail once on unbelievable bad rear discs when I had worn the pads to metal.  , and on a worn anti-roll link on the Panda. No hassle going away and fixing myself with a small retest fee.
They haven't tried to push me on tyres or exhausts and they are really courteous and supply free coffee and newspapers in a bright clean waiting-room. The tester even consoled me that he would treat my little Fiat with care. |
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Penman
Joined: 23 Nov 2007
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Location: Swindon, Wilts.
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| Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2015 2:51 pm Post subject: Re: The most you have paid to pass MOT. |
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| clan chieftain wrote: | Today it cost me £145 to get my Getz through an MOT and I supplied the parts. It needed 3 brake pipes changing and a new sump fitted and the cost of the MOT.
This is what happens when you are getting on a bit and not fit now to do your own repairs. |
I can't remember what it cost, but a couple of years ago I had the Volvo V40 in for it's MoT about 3wks early, everything was going well until the last test, brakes on the rollers, one of the front flexible pipes split while being tested.
It was the garage I use anyway and of course there was no way of getting it out of the there without trailering it.
But within 2 hrs they had got the pipes replaced (I had the other one done as well as a precaution because they were both the same age so the other one could have been on the way out.
I consider the experience to have been both unlucky and lucky at the same time. The pipe could have failed in traffic on the way to the test or on the way home afterwards.
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Riley Blue
Joined: 18 Jun 2008
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Location: Derbyshire
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Highest cost was the price of a tyre for our 'shopping trolley' Fiesta; one of the rears had a bulge on the inside that I couldn't see on my pre-MOT check.
My A8 disgraced itself a couple of weeks back by dumping the contents of its screen wash bottle on the ground when the tester tried the screen washer, fortunately it squirted just enough on the screen to earn a 'pass'; hopefully the cure is an easy one...
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ukdave2002
Joined: 23 Nov 2007
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Location: South Cheshire
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| Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2015 7:12 pm Post subject: |
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Can't remember actual costs probably a few hundered quid, the garage I use for MOT's I really trust, so when ever we take a car for an MOT my instructions are to do what ever need doing to get a pass.
I do this on the basis that with classics I should have picked up any faults so any fails are my fault, moderns that are out of warranty I don't touch and the same garage maintains them, so if something needs doing, it needs doing..
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