Most Expensive MOT? Whats yours

17th May 2012, 20:37

MOT was finally done today and yes it failed

. Failed on way to many things

1) parking brake lever has no reserve travel

2) Offside Steering rack gaiter split

3) Nearside front constant velocity joint gaiter deteriorated to the extent that it no longer prevents the ingrees of dirt etc

4) Offside front constant velocity joint gaiter deteriorated to the extent that it no longer prevents the ingrees of dirt etc

5) NSR rear brake pipe excessively corroded

6) Nearside front headlamp aim beam image obviously incorrect

7) Offside front headlamp aim beam image obviously incorrect

8) brake bulb lol

All in all that cost me £235 to fix

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Whats the most expensive MOT people have had

17th May 2012, 20:38

i ran out of tea bags this one time, so thats was by far the most expensive i've ever had.

17th May 2012, 20:52

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Originally Posted by Tontsy

i ran out of tea bags this one time, so thats was by far the most expensive i've ever had.

mate if you ran out of tea bags, why didnt you ask. im sure someone on here would tea bag you for free!!

17th May 2012, 21:19

Those are all easily fixed though, ones to watch out for are seat belt mounts, inner arches, chassis or subframe mounts "severely corroded", at least on one metro gti Ive had in the past it would have been about 40,000 years of welding

17th May 2012, 21:23

could fix all that for £100 lol

17th May 2012, 21:30

Tbh the stuff in the list is minor & cv gaiters down to wear & tear mate.

17th May 2012, 21:44

ive had close to £500 on my gold vtr, need a full exhasut inc cat, welding underneith and welding the drivers seat, bulbs, cv boots, brake bias valve siezed, all my tires weere bald (however i fitted another set of wheels so that £500 doesnt include new tires)

17th May 2012, 22:02

Mine was about £500 this year... Axle, lower arm, some wiring stuff and the 2 new tyres in preparation for it as doubt my old ones would have passed.

17th May 2012, 22:04

First saxo was something like £400 so i sold it on with 2 weeks mot

Fuck dat for a laugh on a saxo...

17th May 2012, 22:25

my most expensive and only MOT cost me just over 600 quid , fucking french shitty tin.
since then most of spent about 200-300 fixing little things

17th May 2012, 22:28

most expensive mot i have ever seen was on an old ford transit tipper when i worked for atkins in send. ministry mod mot station. it came in and stayed in for 4 weeks for work bill totalled £2500 and the owner wanted it done regardless of cost. mad if you ask me. it was a shed.

17th May 2012, 22:33

10.50 track rod end, 40 pair part worns, 9 inner cv boot, and hand full of bulbs, not bad for a cat d write off to pass an mot lol!! Race car now :-)

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17th May 2012, 23:43

£45 for a suspension arm

17th May 2012, 23:52

Mines just failed because the front brakes are braking unevenly. Any idea if this could be an expensive fix?

17th May 2012, 23:54

Just paid about £340 the other week.

18th May 2012, 11:16

Quote:

Originally Posted by Christian555

Mines just failed because the front brakes are braking unevenly. Any idea if this could be an expensive fix?

shouldnt be that expensive, just change the pads and drain brake fluid then replace fluid and then bleed brakes properly hopefully should sort it might be a sticking caliper

18th May 2012, 12:07

Recently had a £400 odd bill for the saxo (had to pretty much rebuild the inner wing due to rust!) + a few other bits and a service on it. Month before I had to dump about £500 into it due to the gearbox input shaft bearing puking it's guts into the box. Fortunately it didn't seize up at speed though.

306 passed after a bit of work but the brakes were f*cking about so that ended costing me about £350 by the time I'd had the pads and discs, flexi lines and master cylinder replaced. (It was the m/c in the end!)

18th May 2012, 12:14

£35.00

I look after my motors and make sure everything is fine before an mot. You'd be a fool to have a test without checking stupid things like handbrake travel, cv joints etc first.

18th May 2012, 12:18

Quote:

Originally Posted by jailbreakvito

MOT was finally done today and yes it failed

. Failed on way to many things

1) parking brake lever has no reserve travel

2) Offside Steering rack gaiter split

3) Nearside front constant velocity joint gaiter deteriorated to the extent that it no longer prevents the ingrees of dirt etc

4) Offside front constant velocity joint gaiter deteriorated to the extent that it no longer prevents the ingrees of dirt etc

5) NSR rear brake pipe excessively corroded

6) Nearside front headlamp aim beam image obviously incorrect

7) Offside front headlamp aim beam image obviously incorrect

8) brake bulb lol

All in all that cost me £235 to fix

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Whats the most expensive MOT people have had

here's mine when saxo went for its MOT, didnt write everything down what it said on the sheets as it would have taken me all day lol, but it came back with 2 fail sheets and 2 advisory sheets....take a look

http://www.saxperience.com/forum/sho...d.php?t=368327

enjoy

18th May 2012, 13:07

That's nothing, most of those area easily fixable

Think yourself luckly your rear beam has no play!

18th May 2012, 13:14

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Originally Posted by devilsadvocate

That's nothing, most of those area easily fixable

Think yourself luckly your rear beam has no play!

If mine came up with "little play in axel" it would be going without a doubt.

I lie.. it wouldnt.

18th May 2012, 13:20

Quote:

Originally Posted by Prickle

If mine came up with "little play in axel" it would be going without a doubt.

Think I would do the same to be honest, could sell mine for more than a grand with 12 months MOT and 6 months tax.

Would be tempted to get a bike for the summer

18th May 2012, 13:36

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Originally Posted by Prickle

If mine came up with "little play in axel" it would be going without a doubt.

mine had ALOT of play in it! was stupid!
but kept it and paid the price

18th May 2012, 13:48

Quote:

Originally Posted by devilsadvocate

Think I would do the same to be honest, could sell mine for more than a grand with 12 months MOT and 6 months tax.

Would be tempted to get a bike for the summer

Id make my money back, id wait for the right buyer!

I mean they're great cars and all that jazz i just cant justify it if it ever went, hopefully not for a few year yet like.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ali123

mine had ALOT of play in it! was stupid!
but kept it and paid the price

Everyones different i suppose, wouldnt be my choice though.

18th May 2012, 14:58

when i had my first vtr i got qouted 380 quid for the first mot. i decided to have a go at most of the things i thought could do and got it down to about 60 quid on top of price of mot. the mots after that were fine just bulbs and tyres. last one cost me a fiver plus mot price. i know someone with a 53 reg mondeo and it just cost em 400 to get it through.

18th May 2012, 15:17

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Originally Posted by vtrmann

when i had my first vtr i got qouted 380 quid for the first mot. i decided to have a go at most of the things i thought could do and got it down to about 60 quid on top of price of mot. the mots after that were fine just bulbs and tyres. last one cost me a fiver plus mot price. i know someone with a 53 reg mondeo and it just cost em 400 to get it through.

This is what I don't ubderstand. Why would you go to an mot without checking that the bulbs and tyres were ok beforehand??

18th May 2012, 15:25

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Originally Posted by holdawayt

This is what I don't ubderstand. Why would you go to an mot without checking that the bulbs and tyres were ok beforehand??

because they lazy shits, people use the MOT to check there car is ok as they don't have a fookin clue about it. Why they don't take it there weeks before hand and get them to do a pre-mot check I don't know.....or better yet, learn!!

18th May 2012, 15:51

About £120 for some welding, wheel bearing and handbrake cable.

18th May 2012, 16:17

£40

Which was the cost for the MOT. Car hasn't failed yet.

18th May 2012, 17:35

Quote:

Originally Posted by Barry123

£40

Which was the cost for the MOT. Car hasn't failed yet.

Same here, except my MOT cost £45...
As said above, I can't see why people put a car into an MOT knowing it will fail. It makes me laugh when I see people spending hundreds on modifications but their cars are in shit mechanical order and have budget tyres etc.

21st February 2013, 11:54

ive had about £250 on an MOT before including the price of the MOT and retest.

21st February 2013, 11:55

Quote:

Originally Posted by m4tt274

ive had about £250 on an MOT before including the price of the MOT and retest.

whoopsie - someone didn't spot the spambot and got suckered in to a reply

21st February 2013, 19:21

My pug failed on a few things totaling £220 ish

21st February 2013, 19:37

Didn't even bother asking how much...

21st February 2013, 19:39

Quote:

Originally Posted by lewismonteith

Didn't even bother asking how much...

Most of that is easy!

But bald tyres

21st February 2013, 19:42

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cam

Most of that is easy!

But bald tyres

On the other page there was loads about corrosion and chassis damage, poor thing!

21st February 2013, 20:27

On my Corsa had a load of problems, externally car was so clean, went in for MOT and was a diff story! the list was stupid but came to like £400

Nearside Coil Spring incomplete
Offside Coil Spring Incomplete
Nearside Track Rod End
Offside Track Rod End
loads of other bits...
STEERING RACK!

Labour was a bitch on that took em ages to fit!

21st February 2013, 21:01

Had a customer that had a £1700 quid mot failure sheet pretty much everything that was tested failed.

Needless to say the car went to scrap and paid him £100.

21st February 2013, 21:40

my most expensive was £120

because i got the garage to fit a new lambda sensor during the test to pass emissions which was £75

plus the £45 for the test.

apart from that, the cars ive taken for MOT have all passed first time because i look after them.

22nd February 2013, 10:12

Never paid more than £39.99 in 20 years of Mot's!

22nd February 2013, 10:43

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jack

Same here, except my MOT cost £45...
As said above, I can't see why people put a car into an MOT knowing it will fail. It makes me laugh when I see people spending hundreds on modifications but their cars are in shit mechanical order and have budget tyres etc.

I guess it's because (as I will on the Range Rover at the end of the month) want to know what it would fail on, without giving it a huge once over (which I haven't got the room or time to do really). Stick it in for a test, see what it fails on, then repair the bits that need doing at home. Use the free re-test, sorted

22nd February 2013, 10:45

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ross

whoopsie - someone didn't spot the spambot and got suckered in to a reply

i still havent. :O where?

4th June 2013, 00:23

Paying £180 On Sisters 02 Saxo 1.1 Desire Tomorrow

Also Paid £66 On Saturday For 2 New Front Tyres.

Arnt I A Good Brother Lol

4th June 2013, 06:00

Mines just cost just under £700...

Awful, but nice to have the car back

4th June 2013, 08:22

£40 in Wrexham, Wales
£50 in Helensburgh, Scotland

Few hundred pounds when repairs needed.

7th June 2013, 10:20

Would you guys agree that an MOT only test station are less likely to 'find' things that need doing as apposed to a garage/MOT station.

My Saxo went through the test last week and failed on a fuse, break lights weren't working. Lucky for a change!

7th June 2013, 12:00

Quote:

Originally Posted by billpine

Would you guys agree that an MOT only test station are less likely to 'find' things that need doing as apposed to a garage/MOT station.

My Saxo went through the test last week and failed on a fuse, break lights weren't working. Lucky for a change!

I always go over my car with the MOT tester, At an MOT specific garage.
My car is always well looked after, clean tidy and in good condition, I would rather he told me if something needs fixing, rarely it does because i always go over the car before.

I've taken my previous car to quick fit once for an MOT, They go over the car so thoroughly because they want to fix it... I dont mind them going over them properly, but failures for things which obviously arent failures... I wouldnt use them again.

The most expensive MOT i had was from quick fit, for about £700 on a Zetec-S. Needless to say, I never coughed up, sorted the issues that were actually MOT failures and took it somewhere else.

7th June 2013, 13:06

Failed MOT - excessive corrosion (+ 17 other things) - How much £ for welding? PASSED :-)

Failed on 23 things and got it through for about £250.

MOTs are that inconsistent now from place to place, its just another money making thing. Obvious safety related stuff fair dos, but whatever car you take for a test these days you just have a feeling it will fail on summut. My dad said it never used to be like this, if your car wasnt clearly a shit box - it would pass.

8th June 2013, 00:23

106 Quicksilver It was over £250 need new brake discs and pads and drums! Also kept failing on emissions and a few lights :/

8th June 2013, 01:46

Mines passed 3 years running with only advisories each time, thats in the 3 years i have owned it. I like to look after my car and keep up with the repairs. Oh and im a mechanic which always helps

10th June 2013, 17:51

mine was £545 this year

10th June 2013, 17:52

Quote:

Originally Posted by jgb-furio

mine was £545 this year

On what?!

10th June 2013, 17:53

Last year, my MOT cost me £45 for the test.

Advisory on the rear axle. I've spent £70 on bearings and fuel pipe, so this year it'll cost me £115

my most expensive MOT to date.

10th June 2013, 17:57

Quote:

Originally Posted by MartinObviously

Advisory on the rear axle.

See this is strange and a grey area, i've had 2 axles fail MOT's for play.
One was litrally the tinyest ammount ever but the other one was shoot was put as a advisory but failed on the retest.

I'm on my 4th Saxo now and my S had 114k miles when i got it since 09 it had advisory for play in the axle, i bought the car as it was cheap but litrally the axle play was crazy.

Had 1 owner from new (a old man) and was serviced and MOT'd at Citreon themself.

10th June 2013, 17:59

My van is due, we'll see lol

If it fails ive no doubt it'll be the most expensive yet

10th June 2013, 18:02

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cam

See this is strange and a grey area, i've had 2 axles fail MOT's for play.
One was litrally the tinyest ammount ever but the other one was shoot was put as a advisory but failed on the retest.

I'm on my 4th Saxo now and my S had 114k miles when i got it since 09 it had advisory for play in the axle, i bought the car as it was cheap but litrally the axle play was crazy.

Had 1 owner from new (a old man) and was serviced and MOT'd at Citreon themself.

Mine didn't have play, but you could see the camber and wear pattern on the tyre. So my tester put it as an advisory.

It's really hard to feel for play when the shocks are still connected.

10th June 2013, 18:11

Quote:

Originally Posted by MartinObviously

Mine didn't have play, but you could see the camber and wear pattern on the tyre. So my tester put it as an advisory.

It's really hard to feel for play when the shocks are still connected.

Not on my last fucked one lol

10th June 2013, 18:12

Quote:

Originally Posted by blackie_2k5

Not on my last fucked one lol

You should feel the play on the axle I got off my 1.5D.

I've still got it. No joke the whole trailing arm vibrated going over 45mph.

still managed off the clocks going down a hill like that.

10th June 2013, 18:15

Quote:

Originally Posted by MartinObviously

You should feel the play on the axle I got off my 1.5D.

I've still got it. No joke the whole trailing arm vibrated going over 45mph.

still managed off the clocks going down a hill like that.

Fuck that lol,

I thought mine was bad when you jacked it up and wobbled it was like donk donk and if you look where the arm goes on the axle it was rocking

10th June 2013, 18:16

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cam

Fuck that lol,

I thought mine was bad when you jacked it up and wobbled it was like donk donk and if you look where the arm goes on the axle it was rocking

tyre started to create hot spots on the metal for the wheel arch as well

10th June 2013, 18:20

Quote:

Originally Posted by MartinObviously

tyre started to create hot spots on the metal for the wheel arch as well

Lol.

And you toke it off the clock

Y0 crazy dawg.

10th June 2013, 18:25

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cam

Lol.

And you toke it off the clock

Y0 crazy dawg.

Went over a bump at the bottom of the hill and got air, that's what finished the axle off :o

10th June 2013, 18:27

Furio my brother had was the worst I've seen, no joke I don't know how it never come off, tyre was ruined and the whole inner arch was polished metal with wear holes in places

If it wasn't for the arch holding the tyre against it, it would of been horizontal! Lol

12th June 2013, 12:10

Two balljoints, two brake hoses and a few tightening up jobs.

Otherwise it was absolutely.....

fucking rotten. First quote was £700 to get the welding done. He said just to buy a new car. Managed to get a quote for £300 but still dunno what to do.

12th June 2013, 12:30

Cost you more than 300 for a new motor. If the rest of the cars solid just get it done.

12th June 2013, 13:11

Quote:

Originally Posted by blackie_2k5

My van is due, we'll see lol

If it fails ive no doubt it'll be the most expensive yet

Passed this morning with just a few advisories

12th June 2013, 21:05

My last MOT on my VTR was about £600. Had all the work done, then rolled the bloody thing 2 weeks later and wrote it offf.

Well pissed off.

12th June 2013, 22:10

can honestly say no car I've owned has ever cost me much to 'mot'
only failure I've ever had was 'unable to open passenger door from the inside', i'd had the door card off the day before and forgot to reconnect the door handle.

13th June 2013, 11:17

How much should they cost anyway, as in just the mot itself? What's the going rate?

13th June 2013, 16:26

Quote:

Originally Posted by HD7

How much should they cost anyway, as in just the mot itself? What's the going rate?

Round my way its £29-£50 odd.