I had to pop in to my local Hellfrauds for some coolant this morning. When I was given my receipt, I was given a voucher, which entitles you to a £10 MOT at any Autocentre until May 2020 - the only caveat is that you MUST BOOK by 26th June this year.

I've booked mine in already for the end of this year, £44 discount. Happy days

ANY purchase in-store applies....go any buy an air freshener or something, jobs a good 'un!

https://www.halfordsautocentres.com/mot-offer

Don’t think I’d chance it, sure it’s a good deal but the chance of them finding an issue is high I’d say (call me a cynic I know), maybe they’d like to repair the issue as well ..........TBH I’d prefer to pay full price for the test but have it done by a specialist (who also services/repairs the vehicle and has an interest in it passing first time) who can look at the vehicle first and guarantee a pass, thus keeping the MoT record clean and squeaky looking for resale.

Swings and roundabouts I guess. Regards

David

Lovely i6 has now gone, but not me......

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I think I will stick to my local MOT garage which I trust, for the sake of saving £25.

I took advantage of their free mot offer last year for both our cars, I looked at it as a pre mot inspection if they failed but both sailed through with no problems.

lol geoff wrote:

I took advantage of their free mot offer last year for both our cars, I looked at it as a pre mot inspection if they failed but both sailed through with no problems.

But if it failed the test regardless of timing surely it will be on the DVLC data base when searched for as an MoT history check?

Never failing an MoT to me shows (usually) a well maintained vehicle, a few fails before passes indicates an owner who runs it until his/her luck runs out and it needs maintenance to pass. Regards

David

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Not if you put it through a month early AFAIK MY13 HSE Lux.......faultless since new.

Fair enough......  Regards

David

Lovely i6 has now gone, but not me......

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Boxbrownie wrote:

But if it failed the test regardless of timing surely it will be on the DVLC data base when searched for as an MoT history check?

Never failing an MoT to me shows (usually) a well maintained vehicle, a few fails before passes indicates an owner who runs it until his/her luck runs out and it needs maintenance to pass.

Just for a bit of info, here’s my mot stats for the last month. You can see the national averages on the right against mine on the left. Averages - what do they really show? What, no tyre failures!


 Past: FL2 TD4 HSE Auto
Evoque SD4 Dynamic Lux Auto
Present: Audi A3 S Line.

Made up for it with the seat belts though.

lol geoff wrote:

Boxbrownie wrote:

But if it failed the test regardless of timing surely it will be on the DVLC data base when searched for as an MoT history check?

Never failing an MoT to me shows (usually) a well maintained vehicle, a few fails before passes indicates an owner who runs it until his/her luck runs out and it needs maintenance to pass.

Why bother crawling about under your car to check suspension, exhaust system etc when someone will do it with all the right equipment for nothing?

Don’t be daft....I’m not the one going to be crawling under the car

My local garage will do the pre MoT inspection check for free, and I trust them to find stuff if it really needs doing, I pay the full price for the test (£50 they charge presently) and no doubt they get a cut from the test centre whatever the discount is. Regards

David

Lovely i6 has now gone, but not me......

Please let me know if anything in my post offends you, as I may wish to offend you again......