" Free " MOT at Halfords!

[geoff]

Not spam ..... look here ....

  https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/deals/...nt=5#50547

 Should be useful for some folks

[cancunia]

Like you say, maybe useful for some. I saw this on another website earlier in the week, many posts were understandably cynical about Halfords' motives for doing this but overall the comments were positive. There are a lot of plusses to getting your car checked for free, the only downsides are the time you take out doing it & the small possibility of getting an unwarranted 'dangerous' test result. If your car fails at Halfords' MOT, you may need a large pinch if salt to judge if it's worth taking somewhere else, AFAIK there's no obligation to get it fixed there.

[cancunia]

Pardon my paranoia, but I wondered if anyone took the free MOT offer and got a 'Dangerous' fail? I got a voucher last week and have my MOT booked for the 31st, but the nearest test centre is about 25 miles away. I've had a look through the things that can be classed as dangerous and am pretty sure I'm ok. The only thing I can see on the car that's slightly worrying is the brake discs are worn, but they're not broken or loose.

[polar]

Keep away! you have been warned

[cancunia]

Keep away! you have been warned

Care to say why?

[polar]

Keep away! you have been warned

Care to say why?

No 

Lets just say they were over the moon with the last mot revamp.

[cancunia]

Anyone had a Halfords MOT in the past few weeks?

[V6BOY]

Hard to beat a council run MOT station.

[cancunia]

Hard to beat a council run MOT station.

Hard to beat my local garage who are always helpful.
It's just that I have a free (well it cost 50p) voucher from Halfords, but have seen a few stories on review web sites claiming that faults have been created. I can't find anything to suggest that the local branches have done anything dodgy and guess the examples are a tiny minority, but all the same it would be good to get a feel for things.

[geoff]

For 50p what have you got to lose ?