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HAHAHA a Free MOT with trustworthy technicians and they are happy to make a loss for the next year?? I think not. I won a whole street of cars from doing one MOT properly a couple of years ago, amongst many others, after they visited a fat fit chain for a free MOT. And were quoted £900 to get the car back to being ‘roadworthy’ and they couldn’t take the car away as it wasn’t safe to drive etc etc… all the usual horse poo they come out with, I re-tested the vehicle PROPERLY…. and found it to need a headlight bulb, a brake light bulb and had an advisory on a misting of oil on a shock absorber.
So i gave them the bulbs for free and just charged him the test fee. He was over the moon.
It didn’t need new discs and pads, and shocks all round, or two tyres…. but then the general public don’t understand this. They just see the car as an iphone on wheels, and getting it serviced or mot’d is just a nuisance, and they don’t want to spend money on cars, as 5 holidays a year is much more important. So they end up going to these chains.. and get completely rogered every time.