The deal at kwik fit now-MOT and service for £100?

Question

usually when you have an MOT if it fails its free, what happens in this deal, if it fails is the second one following the work included in the £100??? the website isnt loading

Answer 1

How much has the TV advert cost?

They have to get the money back somehow!

My advice is to always go to a place which does not do repairs.

You often find that local council  or ambulance garages do MOT's and are straight fair and honest.

Souce :- 40 years in the trade!

Answer 2

ditto what hyper said I'd just be repeating them. I don't trust kwik fit. I once took a car in for 2 tyres and as they took it in they crashed into the ramp and wrote it off  

Answer 3

Hi

Go to an independent M.O.T centre one that doesn't do repairs, £100 you say? I bet there's not many that only pay that, 'well now madam, we've found this wrong and that's wearing out, oh and you'll soon need another one of those fitting, we advise you have it done now', it'll be more like 'thank you madam now lets see...that's £100 for the M.O.T and service and a further £200 for the extra work "you needed", wake up love. My friends son was offered a job at one of those places some time back (and I say a job not an apprenticeship)  he was eighteen and he'd never worked on a car in his life, in fact he didn't even own a push-bike, they don't repair things at those places they swap them for new ones

Ray. West York's. U.K.

P.S

If thats you in the avetar, I've just fallen in love.

Answer 4

With any MOT Testing station VOSA stipulates that there are only two sets of re-Test circumstances where the price for a re-Test is  'Free'.

* If the vehicle has failed the MoT and is left at the Testing Station for repair and re-Test and does not leave the Testing Station, then the re-Test is free.

* If the vehicle fails because of one or more items on the list of specific items below, provided the vehicle is returned for re-Test by the end of the next working day, then no fee applies.

Bonnet

Boot lid

Brake pedal anti-slip device

Direction indicators

Doors

Drop-sides

Fuel Filler Cap

Hazard Warning

Horn

Lamps

Loading door

Mirrors

Rear reflectors

Registration plates

Seat belts (but not anchorages)

Seats

Sharp edges or projections

Steering wheel

Tailboard

Tailgate

Tyres

Vehicle Identification Number (VIN)

Windscreen and glass

Windscreen washer and wipers

Wheels

So if you car falls into one of them categories then yes.

Answer 5

If your car fails it's MOT, it isn't usually free, the fee still stands - there's a free retest if you leave it at the same garage for repairs, or a half price test if you have repairs done elsewhere, then take it back to the MOT station.

I would therefore assume that the £100 will include the retest, but obviously not the cost of any work required.

(I've always found Kwik Fit to be rip off merchants)

Answer 6

TOTAL RIP OFF the mark up on the parts req. for the service on top of the £100 makes it an expensive job and once its in their workshop they swarm all over it looking for the slightest problem and insisting that any warranty offered is dependant on them doing all the work they say needs doing. KEEP CLEAR OF KWIK FIT KNOWN IN THE TRADE AS RIP OFF MERCHANTS.

Answer 7

Kwik fit failed our car, then said they couldnt carry out the work as they didn't do bodywork after having some welding done, and paying £15 for them to retest it they failed it again on 1 tenth of a inch that "Wasnt welded correctly" the guy at kwik fit said "Now you might just think im being picky BUT"

d**n right he was being picky, it was passed by the next garage(a different one to where we had the work done), no way was i gunna give them another £40 to get another test done on it.

Answer 8

Don't know why Daniel P's answer has got so many thumbs down, he and J G are totally, spot on correct. I won't bother repeating what they have already as there's no point but they definitely have the answer you need (and I know this cos I work for VOSA who enforce the MOT regulations).