MoT Garage Cambridge area?

**Posted:** Sat Sep 18, 2004 4:06 pm

Can anyone in the Cambridge area recommend a garage to get my F MoT'ed? I did use St Peters Garage in Ely, but as they don't do the Mot themselves and they charged £200 for a service, I thought I'd try somewhere else.

I've heard good things about the Cowley Rd Garage, any thoughts?

Cheers

**Posted:** Thu Sep 23, 2004 12:59 pm

had mine mot'd at barr tech but you have to book it in advance £42.10

so its take your choice time

**Posted:** Thu Sep 23, 2004 1:24 pm

I'd say Barr Tech as well.

I'm currently considering travelling away to have work done on my car as Barr Tech are still £40 + Vat per hour and there are other garages in cheaper parts of the country who only charge £20 and hour.

Depends on the amount of work to be done to make it worth a weekend away!! :lol:

**Posted:** Fri Sep 24, 2004 8:17 am

Or £10

[b]Mark[/b]

**Posted:** Fri Sep 24, 2004 11:30 am

yeah, but that's just cos you're his mate!

**Posted:** Mon Nov 01, 2004 2:43 pm

Went to Barr-Tech... They are now £45 ph and it cost me £650 to get her through!!!!!!!!!!!! Ouch! :cry:

But that included 4 new tyres, both rear coil springs, LHF bottom ball joint, both rear antiroll bar link rods and they did only charge me for the 2.1 hours they the book said it would take, when in actual fact they spend about 6 - 7 hours on her! (Damn Mazda parts!!)

My Lantis is there as we speak having a check up and service. I hope to god she's ok! [-o<

I would definately recommend them as they know their stuff, I waited around while they did the MoT and saw lots of pics of the work they carried out on various Ferraris, Porkers and a rolled Clio V6. Very professional finishes.

**Posted:** Mon Nov 01, 2004 4:21 pm

wondered whos 323 was there on friday
as work opossite them, and they do do a good job, they have worked on 3 cars i have owned and allways work done toa very high standard

John ( work in cambridge)

**Posted:** Mon Nov 01, 2004 5:04 pm

There were both of us last Wednesday!!

**Posted:** Mon Nov 01, 2004 7:29 pm

Just picked up the Lantis - £120 for a service and safety check (I supplied the sparks)

Well chuffed, it cost me £200 to get my 1.5 serviced at St Peters Garage in Ely - avoid!!!

:D:lol:8)8)8)8) \:D/ =D> =D>

**Posted:** Mon Nov 01, 2004 8:26 pm

I serviced my Edith last Saturday - R700 (about £60) for Castrol GTX 20w50 oil, GUD oil filter, Bosch Super plugs and a set of Bougi Cord plug leads (the old ones have done 8 years/170,000 km to the best of my knowledge) and 350ml Pro-Long. I'm not sure if the Pro-Long really works, but lots of people recommend it and I'm sure it can't really do any harm.

Oh yeah; I put in a bottle of Wynns engine flush on Thursday, to clean out all the detrius and the oil really flowed out nicely when I pulled the sump-plug. (I took her for a bit of a ride just before, so it was good and hot and runny)

By the way, it's definately the wheel on the right hand side (facing frontwards) you take off to access the oil filter. Out of interest, I lifted the right side to remove the wheel and to get at the sump plug. On a whim, I lifted the left side while she was draining, and about another half a litre came out ...

Anyway, she's running like a charm now - definately very happy !

**Posted:** Tue Nov 02, 2004 8:38 am

Nice to see your 2 litre there yesterday afternoon

That spoiler is large , i thought the teatray on a 911 was big :roll:

but nice to see it in the flesh so to speak ( my 323f is at home at moment as use other car as more economical on long journeys), hope you have fun with your new toy :twisted:

John

**Posted:** Tue Nov 02, 2004 3:29 pm

£120 for the service?!

Guess I'm going there for my next service then!!

I don't even want to think about how much Mazda would want for the same work as it might get me all p!ssed off again!!:lol:

**Posted:** Tue Nov 02, 2004 4:11 pm

my last service (although was an interim) was 170 quid - and that included changing a CV joint... :lol:

**Posted:** Tue Nov 02, 2004 11:56 pm

[quote]hope you have fun with your new toy[/quote]

Ohh, I am!! On that note what do the brit V6's redline at? mine's marked at 7200rpm! Haven't got it close yet, scary enough at 6,000! :twisted:

[quote]£120 for the service?![/quote] Yep, don't know if they felt sorry for me after the MoT on the other one!?!

**Posted:** Wed Nov 03, 2004 1:20 am

I'm sure that I have hit 7200RPM before, maybe even 7500 when I changed from 5th to 3rd at too high a speed once whilst running Ecotek PowerBoost "through the rev range" ....excellent excuse to have a top speed test!!:lol: 136MPH! (though no idea what the true speed was cos I didn't have any equipment 'cept for the speedo!)

**Posted:** Sat Nov 06, 2004 10:37 pm

Had a closer look today and it redline's at 7400, oh and it turns out it is a Type R!!! :twisted::twisted::twisted::twisted:

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