MOT - How long does (or should) it take?

[MR UKI (1)]

£27 for what?! Took my SV for its first MOT today, test started at 10.30 by 10.40 I was on the bike and leaving the garage, is this normal?

[socommk23]

yes!

i sit in on my MOTs and it is straight forward! guess the cost pays for their own license to do it in the first place....plus about £25 tax?!!!

lol

[kwak zzr]

the new mot should take 45 mins on a car, because your logged into dvla the system should know how long its taking.

[ASM-Forever]

10 minutes does seem pretty damn quick.

I would say 15-20.

[TEC]

20mins is supposed to be the approved testing time on the computerised system and thats 20 mins doing the MOT, add in the 5 mins logging the bike into the system and then printing cert brings it up to 30mins

[skint]

Mine has always been about 20-30 mins though I haven't actually clock watched, certainly longer than just 10! Doesn't seem long enough to enter the data into the system etc :!:

[stewie]

Mine went from £0 - £646 :smt118 in a shade under 40 mins, I can smile about it now of course, not

[squirrel_hunter]

From what I remember after talking to the guy doing my MOT last year it takes 20 minutes as thats how long the bike is logged on to the computer for. In that time he can't do any other MOT's which has meant that he spends most of his time chatting to the customers waiting for the clock to run out.

But thanks for reminding me I need to get a new one soon.

[kwak zzr]

Mine went from £0 - £646 :smt118 in a shade under 40 mins, I can smile about it now of course, not

thats one expensive 40 mins :(

[markmoto]

Yep the place by me takes all of about 10 minutes to do an mot, checks the lights taps a few things with a plastic hammer check the front and rear bearings headstock and swingarm and thats about it. Oh and not forgeting the horn :-) is a rip off at £25 as i can get a car mot for £30

[stewie]

thats one expensive 40 mins :(
yeah its about the same hourly rate as a flight on concorde,plus the indidcators have now gone as well and I have just retunrened from a run and it now wont start, how happy am I ?

[muffles]

rip off at £25 as i can get a car mot for £30

That must be a special price though, normal car MOT is £50 these days...? I just had it done?

[SV650Racer]

Yep the place by me takes all of about 10 minutes to do an mot, checks the lights taps a few things with a plastic hammer check the front and rear bearings headstock and swingarm and thats about it. Oh and not forgeting the horn :-) is a rip off at £25 as i can get a car mot for £30

MOT should take 30mins including brake testing etc. An Mot max price is set by Vosa at £27.15. If its only taking ten mins then they arent doing it properly.

Log on time is 40 mins so most garages are actually making nothing from doing the straight Mot.

Vosa are actually thinking of raising the cost yet again within the next year.