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Fri 31 Mar 2006 12:54
mot - willboy

My daughter has just had an MOT on her car---£44.15--it failed.
retest £44.15. Took hours getting sorted,garage said problem was getting on to computer. Apparently the days of just turning up at a test station and waiting while the test is done, are gone. Is this just another computer fiasco like the CSA and shortly the NHS thought by this big brother government.
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Fri 31 Mar 2006 13:04
mot - Group B
If you shop around you might get it cheaper. The place I use is a testing station only, not a garage. Under the new system they now charge £35, including one free retest if you take it back within 7 days. Which is disappointing, on the old system they only charged £25...
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Fri 31 Mar 2006 13:04
mot - L'escargot
<< Apparently the days of just turning up at a
test station and waiting while the test is done, are gone.


Yep, and in a similar vein you can't just go to the barber's and wait your turn any more either! ;-)
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L\'escargot.
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Fri 31 Mar 2006 13:15
mot - Group B
I took my girlfriends car in last week, and they didnt seem to have a problem with the computer, but I know people have reported problems. I was kept waiting nearly an hour, but from me getting there it was 20 mins. before they started the test, and 5 mins. afterwards doing the paperwork. The woman said, "Oh, are you waiting for it?", she expected me to disappear and come back for it later.

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Fri 31 Mar 2006 13:33
mot - Chad.R
Took SWMBO's Yaris for it's 2nd MOT this Monday to my regular test station. They've employed a new person (probably the owner's wife?) to complete the "paperwork". To their credit it only took 5-10 minutes longer than perhaps usual and I was still out within the hour.

However, all I heard while I was waiting (right next to the computer terminal) was under-the-breath mutterings of "..this is quite concerning..." and "...I can't make sense of this....". Also, for whatever reason they were printing out all the logs from a few days back "just in case". I didn't try and spark up a conversation as they all seemed really stressed out!

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