MOT time
24 August 2006, 04:13 PM
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Originally Posted by VTEC to Turbo
£40ish is the going rate mate for a standard MOT no messing with CATs.
f'ing metro now needs £300 ish spent on it! But it was a free car so can't grummble (a year of no trouble motoring & 20k miles).
NS Front Susp arm
NS Rear Brake drum (shoes) but obviously replacing both sides
Front and centre exhaust (hopefully lambda will pass once exhaust is changed)
Oh well
Sure yours will be fine though mate
f'ing metro now needs £300 ish spent on it! But it was a free car so can't grummble (a year of no trouble motoring & 20k miles).
NS Front Susp arm
NS Rear Brake drum (shoes) but obviously replacing both sides
Front and centre exhaust (hopefully lambda will pass once exhaust is changed)
Oh wellSure yours will be fine though mate
susp arm £20
exhaust £100 tops
shoes £20
24 August 2006, 04:20 PM
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Originally Posted by mneame
surely that's no more than £150 for the parts? all easy enough to be done on the driveway. about 3 hours by the time you've skinned a couple of knuckles.
susp arm £20
exhaust £100 tops
shoes £20
susp arm £20
exhaust £100 tops
shoes £20
He did say £300 worst case and that included a possible piston (rear drum)
Susp arm £30 + £30 labour
exhaust £100 ish
He's just round the corner from me so I know him and he did say he'd get the best price on parts he could!
I think it'll be closer to £250. There were also a couple of other minor things (all add up).
It would take me 3 hours+ to do the susp arm LOL
24 August 2006, 08:37 PM
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Originally Posted by 320bhp
£10 for a test!! They must be making a lot of money in repairs and servicing!! There's no way a garage can do mots for £10 without making a loss!!
Pulls the punters in & bites the unwary in the bum.They write off the loss on newer cars like mine & get it back on the less well maintained ones.
Mark
29 August 2006, 08:26 AM
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a big ESC THANKS to Matt (AKA - 320bhp) who sorted my M.O.T on Saturday, car was checked properly and everything passed ok (exhaust bracket will be done soon, honest guv 
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Glad I took Kev B with me, no way would I have found his place on my own, the phraises "no where" and "in the middle of" spring to mind!!
Thanks mate, your a star and you know you are
)Glad I took Kev B with me, no way would I have found his place on my own, the phraises "no where" and "in the middle of" spring to mind!!
Thanks mate, your a star and you know you are
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