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is £45 for an mot about right? im sure i only paid about 30 sniffs last year
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It's just over £50 now.
It was £44.15 at the end of 2005.
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It went up just before my car's last MOT at the end of November last year.
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The above inflationary increases must be to be for the time the mechanic spends trying access the new computerised MOT system and filling it in and then loading the printer with the form and lining it up...
On the plus side, it means you can get your Tax via the internet now.
S.
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Those are the maximum prices, they are alowed to do it cheaper if they want, although it is a case of are they inticing you with the cheap MOT so they can make money on the repairs. Not always the case as last year I paid £35 when the goverment set rate was £45, and the place I use only does MOT's and transmissions, so no way they can generate work from MOT's.
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Had one of ours done 2 weeks ago, cost £50 from my local independent, I could have got it £5-10 cheaper elsewhere but trust the guy where it went - and he does all our servicing as well so feel pretty sure I would not get hit with work that was not needed.
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My friend Terry is currently doing them for £25....
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My friend Terry is currently doing them for £25....
How much do VOSA get from an MOT?
Terry must be eating grass for dinner ;O)
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When looking for a price for the MOT on my car, I found £44.15 was the most common price but at a local VW specialist charged me £34. It depends how much a tenner means to you!!
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VOSA actually take very very little; almost all the fee stays with the testing centre. There's a few places near me doing 'half price' MoT's and a few doing them at £30.
MoT's are good way of getting work in and the trade is pretty quiet at the moment, hence the offers. If you look hard you'll find somewhere doing them cheap - all depends if you think you can trust them. I take a lot of cars to Terry and he does a very honest test. There's also another guy I use who is honest. There's one or two places I won't go though........
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At one time of day, around six years back all the garage actually paid VOSA (or whatever they called themselves then) for the book of pass certificates. This if I recall correctly was just over fifty quid for a pad of 100. So thus the garage could charge as little as they liked but obviously they had to offset the cost of the equipment such as the gas analyser (petrol & diesel), the lift, brake rollers and the headlamp aligner etc. Obviously there were your other costs such as staff wages, administration, building costs, but you could rattle through as many MOT's as you could physically manage.
Nowadays I would assume that it all works in a similar fashion but there is a lot more investment in the VOSA approved computer system, better and more up to date equipment plus the fact that each MOT is timed and you can now only do so many in each day. Thus the costs of this new system has eventually caught up with itself and it is now the motorist who is footing the bill.
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I used to take up National's offer of half-price MOTs when they were £40 full price.
I never had a failure, so I can truthfully state that it was to engineer some additional work to make up the difference.
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