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

£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?

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

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

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

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

Mine went from £0 - £646 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.

Originally Posted by stewie

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

thats one expensive 40 mins

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