The hidden costs of an MOT (/Service)

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It was that time of year again, so with my MOT booked online (£35) I headed along to the local Kwik-Fit this morning.

The garage is less than 5 minutes along the road, so the cost of petrol, tyres wear, etc is virtually nothing - and the car passed (with no advisories) so the MOT itself didn’t cost any more than £35.

But what about all the ‘hidden costs’ that I seem to encur each time I hand my keys over a counter? - An MOT takes around an hour, and I dropped it off 15 minutes before my slot, so I had just under 90 minutes to kill, and that’s when the hidden costs kick in. Garages really only get my car for MOTs these days, but my “free” cambelt change just after I got the car ended up much the same.

HMV - £35
Breakfast/lunch - £7
Hair cut (which I would have got at some stage over the next few weeks anyway) - £15
New shoes - £30

So my £35 MOT ended up costing an extra £87 (totalling £122)…

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Well, you know what they say about a free lunch…Wink

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You’re ignoring on all the additional wear-and-tear costs on your clothes, made worse in this case by the garage forcing you to to try on new shoes (huge damage to your socks) and making you have a hair cut and almost certainly causing so much hair to get jammed in your shirt you’ll have to wash it regardless of how smelly it was.

Despicable.

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I did have to bin one of my socks because it had a hole developing when I got home, so I suppose that is another couple of quid to factor in [:)]

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 Damn good job it passed with no advisories, after yesterday Big Smile

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 and all thats without a days wages lost = another   £30 quid  {#emotions_dlg.wink}