Price survey 2013

£27.42 booked online.
Various ways to get discounts ending up with £29.95,£35, £36.45, £39.95,
and I did one full price this week.
Auto-windscreens customers get a voucher for a free test and we get £15 from AW for that!!!
Nearly all retests are free, unless customer gets arsey when they get charged half the original fee. No charge for beamsets or PRS bulbs.

Discounting does us no favours. I didn't pass any today, 8 fails, (two beyond economical repair and two were just PRS bulbs)but none stayed with us for repair. Customers who come to us for a cheap MOT have already got their own cheap mechanic and don't want to pay our repair prices. One guy even complained that I put in a sidelight bulb FOC because he's sure "there's no such thing as free, I bet you've put it in the price already" That's a case of "OK sir, just give us the £27.42 and ____ off"

We charge full price.   Although the boss has just had a load of leaflets printed for December.  With the voucher from the leaflet it will be £40.
The garage down road is advertising MOTs for £25 in December.  We only found this out after the leaflets were printed.

I am with Tim and Billyloadsamud, we charge £54, and i feel to charge any less is under valuing your time and effort learned in becoming a tester. I understand where you are coming from Baz657 and Aylesburyjock. We also test taxis for our local council and this week we tested a vehicle that failed on a track rod end,wheel bearing loose, lower ball joint worn and hand brake 13% and both rear link arms worn. This vehicle had been mot'd the week befor at an astonishing cost of £30, the owners comment was I suppose you get what you pay for ......a poor reflection on the rest of us testers or true words spoken in jest, you make your own minds up.

£35 flat fee with a 5 working day free retest.

My tests are down on last year.

Closest competitor to me is in at £25 and free retest and the cheapest in town is £19.99 with a free retest - Both are fast fit independents. We also have two kwik fit and Halfords centres doing half price tests - Even the main dealers do half price offers around here

It is very competitive for a small town.

Ten pound

Thanks to the 21 (so far) members that have voted. Don't forget to add yours.

£30 class 4/7 £35 class 5 doing 5 to 9 tests 6 days a week .tests only no remedial work except bulbs wipers and water for washers .too cheap i dont think so. also free re tests .

Just in case anybody's missed this I'll add a reminder. I'll keep the poll open for a while longer but please leave a comment as well.

£50 class 4 I charge & the garage down the road is £35 I don't think I have lost any to them, I know I get customers driving past them, what I found years ago was when I did cheap mot's you get sheds.