It must have sounded like it was falling apart if all that was worn enough to fail an MOT there!

Seriously, for the most part the MOT over here is actually harder work than you seem to think.  The issue comes with back street garages who also sell cars sticking MOTs on them to get them out of the door.  At the moment they are clamping down on those though, at least 2 garages round me have lost their testing certificate for doing it!

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It must have sounded like it was falling apart if all that was worn enough to fail an MOT there!

Seriously, for the most part the MOT over here is actually harder work than you seem to think.  The issue comes with back street garages who also sell cars sticking MOTs on them to get them out of the door.  At the moment they are clamping down on those though, at least 2 garages round me have lost their testing certificate for doing it!

Ive yet to see a good one! Well actually, I have seen ONE good one - Im sure there have to be some honest ones.

Thats in 10 years of bringing maybe 25-30 cars over a year.

been doing abit more work on the car tonight, the rear brakes where an advisory on the MOT I think this follows the thread nicely.

The Worse Brake Discs Ever!

My car failed the MOT today. Ive got one little hole about the size of a 5p in the exhaust where the centre pipe joins the rear silencer. £350 notes the garage wants to replace it. They can f**k right off, c**ts.

Pepsi can and gun-gum time?

The rear discs on my Focus were noted on my latest MOT advisory as well and they do look simular to the ones on the photos but not as bad but people have said to me that they are still good for at least another year.

Liam

I love advisories.  Last time I used a different garage than I normally do they told me I needed new shocks, springs and axle bushes.  Perhaps looking at them first before deciding to try and rip me off would have been intelligent.  They must not have actually put the car on the ramps, they were a couple of weeks old at most.  I pointed this out and took the car after paying them the MOT price.  Took it to my normal garage rather than taking it back there, and they picked out a bit of welding that needed doing.  I showed the guy the advisory notice, and he went ballistic.  

You should have shopped them straight to trading standards. Garages and mechanics are SCUM in general.

Guy at the MOT station took it off me, and said hed be forwarding it on.  

That is why I use MOT garages that dont do any of the repairs. Nothing in it for them if it fails.

Can work the other way, I know testers who would pass a car because they didnt fancy the repairs needed, if they dont do repairs they dont care how hard the repair is, theyve not got to do it.