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Still worth reporting the sharp practice to the VOSA inspector for the area . Local trading standards would be another good place to visit .
This is straightforward dishonesty , the garage clearly tried to give the impression the car had faults it did not , either to drum up unnecessary work , or to try to give the impression the car was worthless and obtain it below market value .
If this story corroborates other similar complaints , VOSA will sometimes submit a pre-checked test vehicle anonymously ; if it is not dealt with correctly the garage can be struck off .
I can guarantee VOSA would be very interested to hear of this complaint .
d name and shame or PM me as I work in that areaspanner said:MOTs are a lottery. There's a garage on the main road between Richmond and Mortlake that offers FREE mot with an already very cheap service. I know where they take the cars for MOTs and I know what goes on. That garage is making a fortune through dishonesty and I seriously hope that those who realise they've been ripped off do indeed report it to trading standards. trading Standards will only get involved once they receive multiple complaints so everyone who feels they've had a poor service at whatever garage should ALWAYS report it to TS in case other are affected too.
When my car is serviced at PCS Olly takes it to the MOT station opposite his workshop. Never had a problem. Then again, nobody knows a Merc like Olly. As I do very few miles each year, and my car only asks for a service every two years I take my car to my work, BT Fleet, for every other MOT and they certainly aren't trying to drum up business as they can barely cope with fixing our own fleet of thrashed and abused vehicles
I can guarantee VOSA would be very interested to hear of this complaint .
The last MoT I had done was on my Porsche and it was priced at £27. It ended up costing me over £40k! It was at my local MB dealer in Peterborough. They treated me very well, and didn't suggest any work needed on the Porsche, so I was happy to go back to them to buy my new C350.
I'm sorry, I don't understand. They didn't suggest any work needed, but it cost £40K? It does not compute, Captain I'm missing something, I think.
I took advantage of free MOT offered by Mercedes Stratford for my very old E230 210 estate .. it was worth around £700.
Mercedes told me it needed £4000 worth of work to pass MOT.
I took the car somewhere else, all it needed was some welding on an exhaust bracket to pass the MOT.
Personally, I can thoroughly recommend Punters in Hillingdon. I've taken all my cars and bikes there for the last twenty years, and before that, on and off (depending on where I was posted) since 1978. They've never tried to rip me off, ever.
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