Mclaren friendly/Trusted Mot garage

[andyscoobs]

Anyone recommend a Mclaren friendly (trusted) MOT garage in Berkshire ?

[PoorCarCollector]

Which part of Berksire? It's a wide county!

V Engineering the obvious choice

Knowl Hill Garage

Mclaren Ascot

[davek_964]

PoorCarCollector said:

Which part of Berksire? It's a wide county!

V Engineering the obvious choice

Knowl Hill Garage

Mclaren Ascot

V will get you an MOT with a service, but you can't just take a car to them for an MOT. Same for Ascot.
McLaren Guildford (Bell and Colville) do have their own onsite MOT centre though

[andyscoobs]

Yep.

Just the MOT

Berkshire isn’t that big.

Anywhere in Berkshire is fine

[Bispal]

andyscoobs said:

Anyone recommend a Mclaren friendly (trusted) MOT garage in Berkshire ?

Make sure they don't do what my local Mc Dealer did and MOT my car with advisories! A £220k car with advisories because they didn't service the car and replace worn parts before the MOT. I now pay for 2 MOT's for all my cars. One as an unofficial 'test run' then another after any work is completed, so there are no stupid advisories or fails. I can't believe a main dealer with their own MOT station did that. Needless to say I don't go there anymore.

[ex-devonpaul]

Bispal said:

Make sure they don't do what my local Mc Dealer did and MOT my car with advisories! A £220k car with advisories because they didn't service the car and replace worn parts before the MOT. I now pay for 2 MOT's for all my cars. One as an unofficial 'test run' then another after any work is completed, so there are no stupid advisories or fails. I can't believe a main dealer with their own MOT station did that. Needless to say I don't go there anymore.

I gather that is the official line now - DfT want cars tested as they arrive at the workshop so they get better data on what faults people are driving around with.

Simlarly the dealer doesn't do the service, then find the car fails the MOT with teminally corroded sills and tell the owner they owe them £500 instead of £55 before scrapping the car.

[r o n n i e]

McLaren Ascot (now in Bracknell) do on site MOT.

I find them excellent for separate annual service as well. Covid lockdown knocked my annual service out of kilter with MOT cycle for that car.

Always friendly respectful staff.

Technician will let you under the car and answer questions whilst they carry out your MOT.

[ajm_ph]

r o n n i e said:

McLaren Ascot (now in Bracknell) do on site MOT.

I find them excellent for separate annual service as well. Covid lockdown knocked my annual service out of kilter with MOT cycle for that car.

Always friendly respectful staff.

Technician will let you under the car and answer questions whilst they carry out your MOT.

Maybe it's just me, but if mine was out of sync like this I'd just get it MOT'd at the next service whether it was needed or not just so I don't need to take it in twice every year. Surely the extra convenience is worth the cost of getting an MOT done a few months early.

[ajm_ph]

OP, if you want a solid gold recommendation then I know that one of the garages V Engineering take cars to for MOT is Station Tyres in Thatcham. If they are good enough for V then they are good enough for anyone.

Edited by ajm_ph on Friday 27th February 07:45

[Bispal]

ajm_ph said:

r o n n i e said:

McLaren Ascot (now in Bracknell) do on site MOT.

I find them excellent for separate annual service as well. Covid lockdown knocked my annual service out of kilter with MOT cycle for that car.

Always friendly respectful staff.

Technician will let you under the car and answer questions whilst they carry out your MOT.

Maybe it's just me, but if mine was out of sync like this I'd just get it MOT'd at the next service whether it was needed or not just so I don't need to take it in twice every year. Surely the extra convenience is worth the cost of getting an MOT done a few months early.

Thats exactly what I do. A second MOT at the service so they are synced.

[Bispal]

ex-devonpaul said:

Bispal said:

Make sure they don't do what my local Mc Dealer did and MOT my car with advisories! A £220k car with advisories because they didn't service the car and replace worn parts before the MOT. I now pay for 2 MOT's for all my cars. One as an unofficial 'test run' then another after any work is completed, so there are no stupid advisories or fails. I can't believe a main dealer with their own MOT station did that. Needless to say I don't go there anymore.

I gather that is the official line now - DfT want cars tested as they arrive at the workshop so they get better data on what faults people are driving around with.

Simlarly the dealer doesn't do the service, then find the car fails the MOT with teminally corroded sills and tell the owner they owe them £500 instead of £55 before scrapping the car.

Not sure how DfT can force a dealer to do an MOT before they service a car? Especially if they don't have an onsite MOT facility?

More likely the dealer can't be arsed looking for & diagnosing faults so its easier and cheaper to get the MOT first. Gives them an easy tick list of work to offer as 'must be done' and 'recommended to do' ?

[ex-devonpaul]

Bispal said:

Not sure how DfT can force a dealer to do an MOT before they service a car? Especially if they don't have an onsite MOT facility?

More likely the dealer can't be arsed looking for & diagnosing faults so its easier and cheaper to get the MOT first. Gives them an easy tick list of work to offer as 'must be done' and 'recommended to do' ?

They're not forced exactly, however the MOT rules require a vehicle to be tested "as presented". So if there is an on-site tester then there is a view that taking the vehicle for "Service and MOT" is the owner presenting the vehicle for a test, so it is carried out before all other work.

At this level of car value it is largely moot, but as above for daily snotters being given a service bill then told the car needs new suspension and welding before you can drive it away might not endear you to a customer.

[andyscoobs]

Thank you for all the replies