I used to fear the MOT man, now it’s someone else’s problem, send the bill to the boss.
Once I sheepishly booked an old Golf in, bought the cheapest on Autotrader, great start, 3 weeks MOT left, even better.
Waited and waited – finally I saw one of the mechanics heading towards the waiting, yeah before he came he one of his mates shouted “[Gosh, and don’t be rude] John, has you SEEN the state of the floor in that golf ha ha” “Yeah mate, it’s scrap, poor sod” with that he opened the door and put on his best ‘customer facing’ voice and said “Mr. Jones? I’m afraid there’s a few issues”.
I left after he gave me a polite warning to not drive too recklessly or it may snap and begged my super-welder mate to fix it, which he did 🙂