Kwik Fit MOT for £35- too good to be true?

[Vvroom]

I'm thinking about booking mine in. I know Kwik Fit have taken a bit of a beating on here of late, but cheap MOT should be ok shouldn't it?

[Ritchie335is]

I still wouldnt touch it. You can be sure they are going to try and flog you loads of crap that you dont need.

[Pints]

Expect to be failed for a thousand and one items for which they can quote you a really good price.

I recommend you RUN AWAY!

[topless_mx5]

Since when was £35 for an MOT considered cheap? That's about average really, a bit on the pricey side if anything. There are plenty of independant garages offering an MOT for £25/30, even seen one offering it at £20 and they actually do a good job.

Wouldn't touch Kwik Fit with a barge pole. Even if they offered it for £10 I still wouldn't go there, not a chance.

[Rubin215]

I believe they are very thorough on the old mot, so your car may fail...

[BDR529]

Don't go there.

[JB!]

A local garage's regular rate is £35, which is decent.

[Karlos69]

JB! said:

A local garage's regular rate is £35, which is decent.

Isn't £54 the standard rate for MOTs these days?

[Kinky]

It's not a place I would ever consider for an MOT - even for free!

[mybrainhurts]

Not Kwik Fit, but my daughter presented her car to a well known competitor, who wanted £613 for a rear brake repair.

She got it done by a Peugeot independent for £75.

They really try it on.

It might be fun to get an MoT somewhere else, then present it to KF and complain to VOSA when they fail it.

[Matt UK]

Kinky said:

It's not a place I would ever consider for an MOT - even for free!

[Kinky]

mybrainhurts said:

It might be fun to get an MoT somewhere else, then present it to KF and complain to VOSA when they fail it.

Interesting point .... if they did fail it .... would that mean the vehicle is not legally and technically roadworthy, as I'd guess the KF MOT failure would override the pass received

Edited by Kinky on Friday 1st October 22:46

[JB!]

Karlos69 said:

JB! said:

A local garage's regular rate is £35, which is decent.

Isn't £54 the standard rate for MOTs these days?

not there it isn't

[littlebasher]

You can pretty much guarantee that they'll be looking to fail it on Tyres, Brakes, exhaust and Shock absorbers.

It's the same when you go in there for anything - you'll get their 'free' safety check i.e. frighten you into a new set of disks because yours are rusty after sitting in their carpark in the rain.

I only find them useful because they're opposite my work, and price match any bullst figure i claim to have found elsewhere.

Edited by littlebasher on Friday 1st October 22:27

[TheEnd]

My brother had his Ford Escort MOT'd at a Kwikfit and they had no problem with the dirty lines from the backing coming off the rear numberplate.

I guess that's not what they sell.

[ian_touring]

www.direct.gov.uk/en/Motoring/ says:

"Class 4
Vehicle type
Fee
Cars (up to 8 passenger seats)


£54.85"

They are effectively losing out.

Use a local council facility if you want a cheap MOT, it is not in their interest to fail the vehicle, unlike other places...
A local council station actually put some gungum on my leaky exhaust to help it pass!

[nerfherder]

topless_mx5 said:

Since when was £35 for an MOT considered cheap? That's about average really, a bit on the pricey side if anything. There are plenty of independant garages offering an MOT for £25/30, even seen one offering it at £20 and they actually do a good job.

Wouldn't touch Kwik Fit with a barge pole. Even if they offered it for £10 I still wouldn't go there, not a chance.

Considering you can get an MOT done at a Porsche main dealer for £45, £35 doesn't seem that much of a saving!

[Cost Captain]

If all of you are so sure Kwik fit are doing dodgy MOTs why don't you take your cars there, let them try to flog you all this stuff then ask for a VT17 and make a complaint about the tester since you are so sure they are trying to rip you off.

There are so many people who are utterly full of st on here, do any of you actually know about Kwik fits internal auditing? Because an MOT tester is acting on behalf of VOSA they are so tightly audited I wouldn't be surprised if Kwik fit MOT testers are the straightest in the business. Especially since I'm on first name terms with the national MOT coordinator of Kwik fit.

[BMR]

Had my car from new and it's 3 MOT's have all been at Kwik Fits...

Only had two advisories, one was for a leaky exhaust, which is fair enough considering it snapped last year at one of the silencers and I had it welded up.

Never ever had them try to tell me my car needs anything!

Edited by BMR on Friday 1st October 22:51

[Spitfire2]

Cost Captain said:

If all of you are so sure Kwik fit are doing dodgy MOTs why don't you take your cars there, let them try to flog you all this stuff then ask for a VT17 and make a complaint about the tester since you are so sure they are trying to rip you off.

There are so many people who are utterly full of st on here, do any of you actually know about Kwik fits internal auditing? Because an MOT tester is acting on behalf of VOSA they are so tightly audited I wouldn't be surprised if Kwik fit MOT testers are the straightest in the business. Especially since I'm on first name terms with the national MOT coordinator of Kwik fit.

I wouldn't be surprised if you are correct. However the quality of the tester sadly doesn't reduce the odds of a ridiculous quote for items which do fail.

I still say that KF branches vary considerably - some good(ish) some awful. Having to take my Company car there for tyres I would not consider ever returning to one branch in particular - but the one 10 miles down the road actually compared pretty well with the local tyre place I use for my own cars.