With the increase of regulatory stuff that has gone into carrying out MOT's recently at least I can kinda see what the higher costs have gone towards.
It's also not the dodgy money spinner that it used to be for garages either - well, not in the sense that it used to be possible to MOT a vehicle in under 20 minutes - so they could stack'em n rack'em.
Now the DVLA-linked computer that all the details have to be entered onto has a minimum test time - so it's impossible to complete the MOT and get the certificate in under (I believe) 45 minutes. So garages can now only book in so many into a working day - and short of blatently sitting on their arses doing nothing, the mechanics are more likely to actually get on and do it right.
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