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Specmaster:

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--- Quote from: Specmaster on June 20, 2018, 05:09:20 pm ---Thats so much better than our crappy system, a test is £54.85 and lasts only 1 year. If it fails and you can repair it and return to the same test centre within 24 hours, the retest is free. 24 hours to 10 days you pay a partial test fee (note that they don't state what that fee is, I expect that to allow the test centre to set their own charges and make more money  :palm: After 10 days your back to the full fee again.

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Last week my car had its MoT (cost £25 inc VAT), and failed, justifiably.

I had it repaired (could have done it myself, probably, but the extra cost wasn't worth it), and took it back within a week. They passed it for zero extra cost, when I was expectign to have to pay another £5.

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How did you get it cheap, check the mot   test site which is where I got the info from.

From mobile device so predictive text might have struck again [emoji83]

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That gives the maximum allowable price. Try contacting the people that actually do the tests, e.g. Kwikfit.

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You are quite correct, it is the maximum charge, but that still kind of shouts out at least to me as "Rip of Britain" as I'm sure that there will be some garages etc that will charge that and there's no way that it costs that much to carry out a test.

tggzzz:

--- Quote from: Specmaster on June 20, 2018, 09:33:37 pm ---
--- Quote from: tggzzz on June 20, 2018, 08:02:30 pm ---
--- Quote from: Specmaster on June 20, 2018, 07:01:52 pm ---
--- Quote from: tggzzz on June 20, 2018, 05:58:38 pm ---
--- Quote from: Specmaster on June 20, 2018, 05:09:20 pm ---Thats so much better than our crappy system, a test is £54.85 and lasts only 1 year. If it fails and you can repair it and return to the same test centre within 24 hours, the retest is free. 24 hours to 10 days you pay a partial test fee (note that they don't state what that fee is, I expect that to allow the test centre to set their own charges and make more money  :palm: After 10 days your back to the full fee again.

--- End quote ---

Last week my car had its MoT (cost £25 inc VAT), and failed, justifiably.

I had it repaired (could have done it myself, probably, but the extra cost wasn't worth it), and took it back within a week. They passed it for zero extra cost, when I was expectign to have to pay another £5.

--- End quote ---
How did you get it cheap, check the mot   test site which is where I got the info from.

From mobile device so predictive text might have struck again [emoji83]

--- End quote ---

That gives the maximum allowable price. Try contacting the people that actually do the tests, e.g. Kwikfit.

--- End quote ---
You are quite correct, it is the maximum charge, but that still kind of shouts out at least to me as "Rip of Britain" as I'm sure that there will be some garages etc that will charge that and there's no way that it costs that much to carry out a test.

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Shrug. Many garages do charge the maximum; no surprises there. Doesn't mean you have to go there!

There is, of course, quite a lot of equipment required (and it is increasing), and some of it takes up significant space - both of which add to the costs.

But there are, of course, more pernicious practices, e.g. failing a car in the expectation that you will pay them to fix the fault. I always make them realise that I will get repairs done elsewhere.

bd139:
To be fair I actually get a decent deal with local Fiat dealer. They pick it up, do the service and MoT at the same time, fix any shit and bring it back. They itemise everything, the labour costs are reasonable, they pick reasonably priced parts, rarely fuck up, give me all the dead bits to take home, fix it bloody quick (48 hour turnaround) and I don’t get charged for picking it up and dropping it off.

Last full service (inc oil+filters), MoT, replacement tyres on front, front arm, light bulb, front pads, tracking and transporting the vehicle cost me 370 fitted. They even cleaned it.

Edit: looked up price. Was 370 not 320. Still pretty good.

Specmaster:
Yeah, that's not bad considering tyres can be around £100 each. My next service is due about the same time as my MOT and its a big service that will involve possibly a new water pump, cambelt change and brakes so it will probably be around the £400 to £500 mark including the MOT which be done at my local Skoda dealer. I don't have a choice with regard to the major work as it will 5 years on the same cambelt and failure to replace them will result in them snapping and that totals the engine and that will be much more costly to replace.

mnementh:
[SLICE OF LIFE Random Mode]





Strange how something so mundane and unremarkable can trigger such a flood of memories...  This has been kept in a motor tube in the back of one tool box or another of mine since I was fourteen; as impossible as it seems, I've owned it for 36 years.

This was the first thing I ever bought by myself at a Radio Shack; I'd just gotten my first street bike and I rode it (Illegal as all hell; no license and the previous owner's plates) 45 minutes from the family farm to Elmira NY to get this thing so I could finish setting up the matchbox and antenna on grandfather's old Yaesu. On the way back, it started to rain... I arrived home soaked to the bone with this, a roll of 60/40, and a bag of salted pistachios in my backpack.

My mother and my grandmother were waiting for me; they both read me the riot act and then mother took my keys for a month. I felt about as big as a beetle; I wished I could shrink away even more and disappear under the pantry door.

After dinner, though, mother promised to give me driving lessons and take me to get my permit on my next birthday.

*Sigh*

I feel so very, very old.


[/SLICE OF LIFE Random Mode]





In other news...

BEHOLD! Gaze on in awe and terror; at the amazing CLEAR SPACE ON MY WORKBENCH! I've been working my tuchus off all week to make this hole; it's for a special project.



 

My father's day present to myself was this; a Tevo Tornado 3D printer. It is based on the popular Tevo Tarantula basic design; with a number of bug-fixes and twice the build volume. More importantly, unlike the Tarantula, there are no acrylic parts and the thing comes 95% assembled out of the box. This is how it looked 3 minutes after I took it out of the box; only a few screws and brackets to attach the two main assemblies together and supposedly it is ready to print. At first I was a bit annoyed to see screw marks and scuffs on the parts; then I looked at the hotbed and I realized... the unit has been assembled, and a leveling/linearity test print done prior to boxing for shipment!

And best of all, a printed, detailed and complete assembly manual. If you've never heard of Tevo, you won't know... but this is a huge change of direction for them. They made their name being the cheapest of the cheap; documentation was a joke, the kits were confusing as hell and your primary source of support was other users on their Facebook page. The printer, once assembled and leveled, was quite good; it was just all the flailing in the dark from point A to point Z that drove you nuts.

A'aight... I've had my little time-out; time to get building.


mnem
I shall print the entire Internet.

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