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by GaryFromWirral - 9th Jan 2024 6:30pm
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I stopped taking my cars to walsh's years ago because they were getting too fickle.
The only thing going for them is you dont have to pre book. One of the young lads is a pain there, I've driven round the block to avoid him the last two times I used them and got two passes. I disagree with retest fees, they give the garage an incentive to fail if they are a bit slack, retest is really easy money.
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i go to my old work with my cars, no retest fees regardless of fail seeyou monday karl 
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I hate asking what the retest fees are - its like saying "I know there is something that should fail"
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stay away from walsh`s,, i took a car there once with brakes and it came off the ramps without brakes so i couldnt drive it away and a £400 repair bill
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stay away from walsh`s,, i took a car there once with brakes and it came off the ramps without brakes so i couldnt drive it away and a £400 repair bill You may notice their signs are red - don't take a car in with EFC stickers on it 
There's a real danger that the left will drag Britain back to the 1970s, with secure well-paid jobs, ample housing, properly-funded NHS and social care, free tuition, student grants, final salary pensions, affordable rail fares and fabulous films and music. David Osland 2025 We don't do charity in Germany, we pay taxes. Charity is a failure of governments' responsibilities - Henning Wehn https://ddue.uk
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stay away from walsh`s,, i took a car there once with brakes and it came off the ramps without brakes so i couldnt drive it away and a £400 repair bill You may notice their signs are red - don't take a car in with EFC stickers on it maybe so but they do one car a day with a made up mot failure and a £400 bill,, that works out at 2k a week and 100k a year,,, nice money if you can get it
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If this is the place where they have another garage over the road (or use to) I have a story:
My dad put his car in for the mot inn the mid 90's and it failed on the emissions, he took it a few yards to their other garage to have the emissions sorted got the paperwork and went back all in about 10 minutes . . . and it failed on the emissions again. They said it was HIS fault and took no responsability until he threatened legal action, all in all it took them 3 goes and around an hour of pi55ing around to get it right, needless to say no family member has been there since.
Also if they really are this bad I feel sorrty for taxi drivers as I believe it's the only place that can mot taxis, maybe I am wrong?
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I've seen other places that do taxi's, but it seems to be the most popular. They're not that bad there tbh.
I don't like the idea of MOT stations having a garage alongside it = we fail it, and then we fix it.
You don't pay a retest fee if you bring the car back before the end of the next working day.
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They are the only VOSA Test station for Taxis on the Wirral....
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Walsh's don't charge for a retest... I've taken 3 cars there in the past 4 months and I've found them very fair
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Walsh's don't charge for a retest... I've taken 3 cars there in the past 4 months and I've found them very fair Same, they charge a fair whack as they will see your car with no notice in under an hour.
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weve taken our car to walshes mainly cos they were taxis in the past. we had a shogun that got through ok & a citroen which got through just had to get a new tyre there was no retest fee cos we took it back next day,although cos the citroen was a taxi over 8 years old it had to go through every 6 months council licensing rules.
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just to let you all know it passed this morning on its retest after chris gilly worked his magic on it
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Great news! 
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by GaryFromWirral - 28th Dec 2023 8:49pm
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by GaryFromWirral - 28th Dec 2023 8:49pm
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