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| Posted: Wed May 11th, 2022 11:32 am |
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Paul S Member 
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| Posted: Sun May 8th, 2022 03:16 pm |
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Paul S Member
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Stop considering 4-2-2 Mot Testing due to massive issues to road safety as well as 45,000 job losses in the industry seems that the Government feel a £27 is good enough to take a life, cars do not go to garages anymore only when broke! Cars need that yearly inspection. This is a massive road safety issue and there is no price on Life but it seems that the Government feel a £27 is good enough to take a life stop considering 4-2-2 Keep the tried and tested MOT system which is good value for money. Do not change the requirement to 2 years with the intention to save households money as it will not have the desired affect. My background is main dealer/independent motor trade having carried out MOT tests for a number of years. Lives will be put at risk due to dangerous defects. Approx. 10% of my customers do not service their vehicles and rely on the MOT every year to make sure their vehicle is safe. The MOT is a very basic check of vehicle roadworthiness and certainly no guarantee that a vehicle will be safe for 3 months let alone 2 years! Jobs will be put at risk in the sector, garages that have recently invested (approx. 30k) to carry out MOTs will be put into a difficult financial position. These petition's were rejected.. There’s already a petition about this issue.. Petition https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/615690 Keep MOT tests as a yearly requirement. We want the Government to maintain the yearly MOT tests for all classes of vehicle that currently require one. Requiring an MOT every 2 years has been suggested as an attempt to reduce the cost of living for U.K. citizens with cars. However with 33% of cars already failing their first MOT, we feel the risk to public safety would be significant. The changes would also be extremely detrimental to the MOT and garage industry and could result in job loses of workers at the estimated 23,000 MOT testing stations, and numerous garages could be forced to close nationally if the demand for the MOT was to drop every 2 years. Don’t risk public safety by cutting safety measures. Meadowfield Auto Centre started this petition https://www.change.org/p/scrap-cost-of-living-2-year-mot-plans Transport secretary Grant Shapps has raised the idea of 2 year MOT testing once again. This proposal will likely result in 3 things: - Higher numbers of dangerous vehicles on the road (which could see higher numbers of accidents leading to repair bills & higher insurance costs) - Higher repairs bills (explained below) - Loss of jobs across the Motor Industry (MOT Testers, Mechanics, Parts Advisors, Parts Delivery Drivers Etc.) Last edited on Sun May 8th, 2022 03:26 pm by Paul S |
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| Posted: Sat Apr 16th, 2022 12:57 pm |
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Paul S Member
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No MOT Fee Increase "until 2015" In 2022 Authorised Examiners and Authorised Examiner Designated Managers get.. Research with MOT garages on connected equipment.. We're carrying out some research with garages around purchasing MOT connected equipment, especially when this decision is made through personal choice. This will help us understand what support and encouragement we can offer to garages to make the move to this equipment. https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/MOTConnectedEquipment/ Obviously we are in a trade that needs investment! With matters of testing it seems a bit one sided!?.The survey questions will ask you about the current level of connected equipment you have in your garage, whilst also exploring why some garages haven’t fully upgraded to this equipment yet and what may motivate them to do so. DVSA the test fee needs to be fixed and increased we can feel ourselves slipping into a lower mood and our mental health feels as though it's declining it has been difficult to make the MOT pay a reasonable return I don’t see chemists discounting prescription charges (which is again, the same item from wherever you get them), it should be the same for MOT tests. Show me another trade where you need to spend so much on tools, continuous training and connected equipment but is so under valued with low wages.
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| Posted: Tue Mar 15th, 2022 07:58 pm |
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Paul S Member
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New diesel emission test equipment? https://www.motester.co.uk/new-diesel-emission-test-equipment/ Which information to use.. Where the plate/sticker is removed, currently we cannot do anything if they go for a test elsewhere as they will not have evidence of the previous value. In this case vehicles will be tested to default, which is why DVSA are looking for a more permanent solution such as the plate values being part of the emissions book. Cancer causing particles Diesel engine exhaust was first classified as carcinogenic by the World Health Organisation in 2012. Research has shown that the chemical coatings on the soot particles can be a cancer trigger and Dr Andreas Mayer, an acknowledged expert in this area has explained during one of our recent WCRAQ meetings about the harmful effects of such coatings called PAHs (Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons) that are found on diesel soot particles. Not only are the particles small enough to penetrate deep into our respiratory system, but such combustion generated nanoparticles are likely to cross into the blood and be carried to areas of disease or promote life-shortening diseases. So here’s the problem
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| Posted: Tue Dec 14th, 2021 03:45 pm |
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merc123 Member
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we have muppets up here doing mots for £20.00 it just makes us look cheap and nasty but vosa is not interested a lot off the small station are closeing were loseing 1 at the start off the year its been a station since the 60s being sold too biuld houses on it 3 lads out off a job and at the age they are not looking too return to the trade
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| Posted: Mon Dec 13th, 2021 08:19 pm |
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Paul S Member
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| Posted: Wed Sep 1st, 2021 06:35 pm |
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Paul S Member
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All the cars which will and won't work if they use new E10 petrol  Skilled labor isn't cheap; cheap labor isn't skilled. Popular emblem for hard hats in .. The original quote is attributed to Sailor Jack, a famous tattoo artist. ... Managers and customers prefer skilled work to not, and usually don't mind paying the skilled worker more. ... DVSA
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| Posted: Fri Aug 6th, 2021 06:37 pm |
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Paul S Member
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A downward spiral is when we can feel ourselves slipping into a lower mood and our mental health feels as though it's declining. They can be hard to handle because we might not really understand why things are sliding again.
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| Posted: Fri Aug 6th, 2021 08:48 am |
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martins Administrator 
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It's been a long time, and still no joy: https://www.motester.co.uk/mot-slot-fee-increase/
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| Posted: Mon Mar 17th, 2014 06:34 pm |
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billyloadsamud Member
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Doesn't always work this discounting fees, we charge full fee, I did 7 tests today and an abort(water leak), so took £383.95, a few bulbs/wipers also, one smallwelding job, and some pads/discs and others coming back, so generated approx £1000+ today, the customers want GOOD SERVICE, reliability, and do not look for discounts. Most fails have the work done. 2 other test centres locally I speak to charge £27.50, they do 10/11 tests a day so(wear and tear on equipment is 40% higher) generate £275 for 4 more tests, get very few staying on site for repair, so generate little more £££s. I know what I prefer, and I average 5 tests a day for the three days I test, and 4/5 from the other tester. Quality and service DO win out in the end.
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| Posted: Mon Mar 17th, 2014 11:13 am |
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Stealth Super Moderator 
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Catch 22 in my opinion. There's no 'fixed fee' on the horizon but how can the government justify an increase when so many sites are discounting the current fee and doing free retests.
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| Posted: Sun Mar 16th, 2014 05:27 pm |
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DB9 Member
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Not very often but when I have talked about this subject with DVSA in the past when they were called VOSA,they advised that if the fee was fixed TESCO would jump on the band wagon and apparently the only thing stopping TESCO moving into the MOT Trade is the low charge out rates and cut price/free retesting that is rife in the market place. The problem to me seems to be that if there are ten mot stations in a local town (statistically speaking),the customer knows this and asks how much are YOUR MOT's, interestingly they are still DVSA MOT's not ours? So the customer does a shop around, but in the mean time some MOT garages are not getting the work through the door, so the look at prices and attitudes of what goes on at other MOT garages to try and steal the customers away if you like, so competition begins, the prices drop lower and lower until an average is found in the market place, then overheads go up and the MOT scheme start wanting this test fee increase, but DVSA and Government are not daft, they have the records from your site visits, which show them that you already cut the test fee, you already giveaway the retest free, and some garages even stoop so low that to get people through the door, they say FREE MOT with a service. There is room for an increase in revenue from what already exists in my understanding, if the test is charged out at £40 then there is a potential to increase it towards the current test fee of £54.85, that's an increase of up to £14.85, then there is the retest fee up to £27.45, these revenue losses in business are a lot, and I can't see the Government ever setting a new fee level when they can see from the site visits that the scheme don't need the increased revenue based on your price charges you provide to DVSA.
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| Posted: Fri Oct 25th, 2013 07:56 pm |
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castrolrob Trade Member
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while there aint many stations that just do tests and nothing else they do exist,mainly flow lanes and the like but they are out there.freezing the price is probably gonna hurt em,cutting it could kill em.
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| Posted: Fri Oct 25th, 2013 12:52 pm |
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martins Administrator
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I believe it is more likely that any fixed fee (and it seems to be a long way from happening, if ever at all) would be at a significantly lower level.
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| Posted: Fri Oct 25th, 2013 12:42 pm |
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Favell Trade Member
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If the fee became a fixed fee, with no discounting allowed that would effectively give us all a rise in the fee without the government putting up prices. But then the 'chains' would give a free service with a MOT.
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| Posted: Thu Oct 24th, 2013 11:39 pm |
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martins Administrator
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If you mean Halfords, I understand the person you are referring to (Bill Duffy?) is no longer with them. In any case it's not really the point. In a market where discounting is rife, it would be foolish not to. In fact it could be argued that a company in a dominant market position could and should out-discount smaller rivals in order to put them out of business and having done that restore full price.
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| Posted: Thu Oct 24th, 2013 11:45 am |
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baz657 Member
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Isn't it true though that some members of the trade bodies that have been negotiating for a fee increase are top executives at the companies that are offering and heavily advertising MOT test discounts?
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| Posted: Thu Oct 24th, 2013 07:36 am |
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martins Administrator
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The real slap in the face is the way that the announcement was made out of the blue after suddenly withdrawing from well developed negotiations with the MOT Trade Forum. It seems an opportunity was seen to lump an MOT fee freeze in with a clampdown on fraudulent whiplash claims to give an overall impression of acting in the motorist's interest. The MOT is an easy target. As you say, the fact that discounting is so widespread inevitably makes the DfT assume that there's plenty of scope to cut in that direction. So all the hard work the trade bodies go to to to negotiate a proper fee is undermined by widespread discounting.
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| Posted: Wed Oct 23rd, 2013 09:40 pm |
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castrolrob Trade Member
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yeah heard that on the news this morning,stop me if im wrong but hasnt it already been frozen for a few years now?dont most garages already discount tests to some extent?dont most garages already offer free retest or similar which effectively means some punters are already getting their test at half price?if the answer to all the above is yes then said minister is already pissing up a rope before he started.why not get him to suggest vosa do their tests at the sort of rates that us stitch up merchants are obviously charging.what do you reckon your hopes?you got bob hope and no hope,my names bob,guess that leaves you with no hope....
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| Posted: Tue Oct 22nd, 2013 08:04 pm |
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martins Administrator
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In the interests of "saving the motorist money" Roads Minister Robert Goodwill has announced that there will be no MOT Fee increase until 2015. A very disappointing announcement, in view of the ever increasing list of items to be inspected emanating from the EU and VOSA. More here: http://www.motester.co.uk/mot-news/mot-news/mot-fee-frozen-until-2015 MOT Testing Magazine Editor Jim Punter will be expanding on this in the November edition of MOT Testing Magazine. Last edited on Thu Oct 24th, 2013 07:26 am by martins |
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