Reply To: Halfords promotes FREE MOT to customers

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Independent garages always suffer when national chains make offerings like this, but I’m surprised its taken a national chain so long to offer free MOTs.

Although car owners aren’t required to, most garages know that once the car’s in for test, invariably if it fails the owner will leave the car with the garage to have work done, so it’s clearly a calculated decision from Halfords. Whilst I don’t disagree with this method, what I would object to is garages offering free or reduced price MOTs where they intend to fail a car that is safe in order to generate work.