KungFooBob wrote: ↑Wed Nov 11, 2020 12:47 pm Got an MOT on the car.
I love my local MOT station, it's run by a family who hire mini buses, coaches and do wedding cars. They took on a unit at a local industrial estate to maintain the fleet and do their own MOT's.
I always take my cars and vans to them, they always fit me in and best of all, they fix the cheap stuff for free and don't even mention it.
Just got home, look at the print outs and the first is a fail for the rear numberplate bulbs, the second is a pass. They just replaced the bulbs and retested. Didn't call to tell me, didn't charge me, they just did it.
The same has happened before on my old Beemer. I guess the bulbs are so cheap for them that they just don't care.
I hate to think what Halfrauds Autocentre where I used to take the cars would have charged to supply and fit a bulb!
They only charge £35 for the test too.
I've been led to believe that some places issue a fail, fix, retest, and then issue a pass because if their pass rate is outwith the norms VOSA take an interest.
True or not, it's plausible. It's still pleasing to have a garage who does these things, the people I use do similar, again family owned.