Kwik-Fit

DM · 8 Jan 2011 at 08:58

Dogbreath said:
I suppose if you are pushing a car onto some punter you wouldn't, but I'd rather it was done properly.

Pushing what car on what punter, what on earth are you on about, i wouldnt in a million years bother with a snide MOT selling a car, whats the point? Do i look like i need to be ****ing people over for a few hundred quid.

Another point to make is this, see Kwik Fit for all their faults, i dont believe for one second that they fail cars that shouldnt fail, they might do a strict test, but a straight test it will be, why would they risk a multi million pound aspect of their business to try to fit you up for a few hundred quid?

They might try it on where there is no come back, ie you need a whole exhaust there love not just a back box, or you need performance tyres on that Corsa 1.1 mate, but with an MOT, not a chance.

CaptainRAVE · 8 Jan 2011 at 09:01

DiamondMark said:
Pushing what car on what punter, what on earth are you on about, i wouldnt in a million years bother with a snide MOT selling a car, whats the point? Do i look like i need to be ****ing people over for a few hundred quid.

Another point to make is this, see Kwik Fit for all their faults, i dont believe for one second that they fail cars that shouldnt fail, they might do a strict test, but a straight test it will be, why would they risk a multi million pound aspect of their business to try to fit you up for a few hundred quid?

They might try it on where there is no come back, ie you need a whole exhaust there love not just a back box, or you need performance tyres on that Corsa 1.1 mate, but with an MOT, not a chance.

The thing is, the service report I got from them was the best I have gotten from any garage. Plus, the advisories they issued I completely agreed with as two out of the three I was fairly certain about anyway. As R420LA6X2/4MNA said, as with any large chain I guess it depends on the garage/shop you go to.

DM · 8 Jan 2011 at 09:05

CaptainRAVE said:
The thing is, the service report I got from them was the best I have gotten from any garage. Plus, the advisories they issued I completely agreed with as two out of the three I was fairly certain about anyway. As R420LA6X2/4MNA said, as with any large chain I guess it depends on the garage/shop you go to.

Dont get me wrong, as i said before i wouldnt dream of having any work carried out there, but an MOT is an MOT.

GeX · 8 Jan 2011 at 13:25

I've just booked mine in, MOT isn't due for a month yet but there is nothing that I expect the car to fail on, it only cost £25 and I could actually get it booked in on a Saturday. I'm not an idiot, if they start telling me x is wrong and y is wrong then I'll ask them to show me. Simples!

Conscript · 8 Jan 2011 at 14:12

Never bothered with Kwik-Fit, but my girlfriend has a mate who works for them and is now the manager of our local depot. He's done us a lot of favours and often does work for us (if we buy the parts) in return for a case of beer, so mighty pleased.

GeX · 23 Jan 2011 at 15:09

Just to follow up, Kwik Fit failed my car.

It failed on emissions (fair enough, they are waaay out atm)
It failed on rear brake pads being < 1.5mm (am yet to confirm this, but am dubious)
It failed on headlight beam being too high (when I got the car back I noticed that the headlights had been set to "0" which was near enough pointing them at the sky.. that is not how I have it set when I drive - so to me that looks like a pure money making scam, I'm sure they'd be happy to charge me a nominal fee to 'realign' them for me)

GolfNovember90 · 23 Jan 2011 at 15:18

only been there once and that was a bad experience, took works van there to get the rear brakes replaced. bout a month later my colleague was using that particular van and the rear breaks completelly failed. turns out theyd put them on the wrong way around.

wouldnt take my own car there after that

shifty_uk · 23 Jan 2011 at 15:41

I'm fortunate enough to have a Kwik Fit and National within walking distance of each other. Despite refusing to trust either of them with mechanical work, I'd take it to national every time for tyre or alignment work. Much more knowledgeable and level headed chaps, not your stereotypical kwik fit monkeys with hammers.

SpazzyCazzy · 23 Jan 2011 at 17:07

I wouldn't recommend them for women personally, but I think it's probably ok for men to take their car there.
I quite fancied their 99 quid for an MOT & service recently, but past experience had me going to Ecotest, I trust them as I put mine in for new break pads when it was squeaking, but they told me the pads were fine, just dust on them, they fixed it up for me. Could have ripped me off & I wouldn't have known any diff. Anyway, Ecotest passed mine friday.
Kwik fit have told me I needed an extra new tyre once, I said I would just have the one for now & come back as I couldn't afford 2 that day. I forgot about it & it had an MOT a couple of weeks later at Ecotest, & passed. So I dont trust Kwik fit anymore tbh.
I think they may take advantage of women as we're not crash hot on cars!

nutcase · 23 Jan 2011 at 20:07

Origin said:
Take it to your local council run MOT Centre if you can. Find your local one here...

Council centres test for pass or fail only. They do not "find work" to be done as they do not do any work on site for the public, but you are allowed to book in for a test there.

My Dad stopped using the council place after they stopped doing them to the public (duh!), he took it to the place I've been using since 1996 and they failed both his cars on major structural rust that had been there a LONG time. Seems the council bods whilst not failing the cars for silly reasons hadn't failed them when they should have done.

Once I found a trustworthy garage I stuck to it. The guy who used to be the tea boy back when I started going there now owns it :cool:

Gtiracer · 23 Jan 2011 at 23:33

I have a friend that works at a kwik fit and quite openly told me they work on commission, so its down to the mechanic who works or decides what work needs doing on your car and how greedy/unethical they are.

Smaller garages that you usually hear about by word of mouth are usually the best ones. Or all else fails Do it yourself

Joshy · 23 Jan 2011 at 23:42

Gtiracer said:
I have a friend that works at a kwik fit and quite openly told me they work on commission, so its down to the mechanic who works or decides what work needs doing on your car and how greedy/unethical they are.

The mechanics are on commission? How the hell does that work? Do they not have the equivalent of 'service advisers'?