MOT DAY

[LLamaFarm]

the e30's in for a good motting today i hope it passes.. i wish i knew an "old car friendly" garage in the nottingham area though

[bigwinn]

which side of notts are you?

[daimlerman]

http://www.weonlymot.co.uk/

Any use?

I use the Lincoln branch for my cars.The big advantage is that they do exactly what they say,not a regular MoT garage looking for work.

[LLamaFarm]

im north, i hate mot time they seam to be quite strict near me

[LLamaFarm]

^ not that i advocate unsafe cars btw, just last year they tried to fail it for corroded fuel lines, which turned out to be soil/mud on them as i only replaced them 3 months prior !

[magpie]

i like mot time.i stay with the car and talk the inspector through it .

headlight aim was a problem once ,then the nice man let me aim them up on the beam machine thing .

i wont leave without a ticket

[bigredbmw]

hence why micky has more than just a smile on his face hahahahaha

[turkeysneck]

You'll be surprised but most test stations don't want the work. When a test is £54.85 and usually takes no more than 40 minutes why would they want the work especially when the hourly rate is usually cheaper than a test (depending where you are located of course ). So a busy station doing up to 20 tests a day is not interested in the work the testing is where the money is. So every failure is aggro, it's more paperwork and generally more hassle. A pass is easier for everyone. It's a myth that testers want to fail cars. The stations to be wary of are the ones that offer heavily discounted tests.

[daimlerman]

You'll be surprised but most test stations don't want the work. When a test is £54.85 and usually takes no more than 40 minutes why would they want the work especially when the hourly rate is usually cheaper than a test (depending where you are located of course ). So a busy station doing up to 20 tests a day is not interested in the work the testing is where the money is. So every failure is aggro, it's more paperwork and generally more hassle. A pass is easier for everyone. It's a myth that testers want to fail cars. The stations to be wary of are the ones that offer heavily discounted tests.

This just why I use the outfit I linked to further up the page.

I know my fleet is safe,and that I have not been ripped off by a dude looking to earn money!

[LLamaFarm]

good call daimler man, excerlent service and no BS advisorys