Do you think this is a fair price?

[tigwig]

My friend has just had their car in for a service, MOT, 2 new tyres, brake pads and discs. Not at a main dealer but a well known chain of garages. They were charged £890! Fair or ripped off?

[R1Geezer]

It's not that dear, even for a family Saloon:
Tyres branded £200
MOT: £50
2 discs £100
2 set's pads £40
Labour
Vat
all adds up

[yobanfa]

What car was it? was it a major service, how many miles had the car done. did the garage do other work to get the car through the mot? £54.85 is the real price of a mot, how much did the garage cost?

[TWR]

£ to a penny it was K.F? Any bets?

[joeluke]

£54.85 for an MOT?

Garage I go to charges only £30

Why pay well over the odds when it's just a basic MOT?

[ChuckFickens]

The suggested (maximum) price for an MOT is £54.85, some garages will do it cheaper though, think I paid £45 for my last one (but that did include collecting the car from work and returning it)

[R1Geezer]

sorry I missed off the service on the list above.

[tigwig]

Right it's my friends OH's car, a saab saloon. Charlie Browns garage, think they are part of Kwik Fit actually. (well I has my tyres done at KF and booked online and had the option to go there anyway) I dont know about mileage, not even sure how old car is but he has only had it about a year. Not much help I know, just wanted opinions on price as I wouldnt have bloody paid it lol.

[derekpara]

No-one can call it a rip-off without knowing much more detail, as some of the more sensible posters have said.

[R1Geezer]

thanks derek, I don't often get accused of being sensible!

[rov1100]

What puts the price up is where the driver is too lazy to get his pads changed soon enough. This results in metal against metal and scores the discs. A scored disc will ruin any future brake pad so they have to be changed also. You get a warning when this is happening as you hear a distinctive ear splitting screech and is probably too late. The bill for these runs into hundreds.

[yobanfa]

Saabs arent cheap as i had 1, but i deffo wont pay that much for that little amount of work done on my car, i had the cam belt and other belts and a service done in my local garage and it was a lot cheaper that what you put on here.

[AlBags]

Well if it was a GTR or an Audi quattro .. it would probably be right.

No car make and model .. How are we supposed to know?

[cathfromsaron]

yes a rip off! call trading standards! xx