The MOT retest rule most drivers never use
Leave the car with us and the retest is free. Take it away and you have until the end of the next working day.
Read itClass 4 and Class 7 testing on site, with the retest done here rather than sent away.
024 7496 0114
bookings@haldenmotorworks.co.uk
Torrington Avenue, Coventry CV4
Mon–Fri 08:00–17:30 · Sat 08:30–13:00
Independent garage · Coventry CV4
Trusted MOT and repair specialists
MOT testing, servicing, diagnostics and repairs from a proper workshop on Torrington Avenue. We tell you what the car needs, what it does not, and what it will cost before we start.
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Approved and accredited:
DVSA MOT centre
IMI accredited
Motor Ombudsman
Good Garage Scheme
RMI member
About us
Driven by diagnostics,
Driven by diagnostics,
not guesswork
MOT testing on site
Free retest if it stays
Engine diagnostics
Air conditioning
Brakes & suspension
Four-wheel alignment
We are an independent garage, which means we work for you rather than a manufacturer’s sales target. Servicing here keeps a manufacturer warranty intact under Block Exemption rules, provided the right parts go in and the book gets stamped — and we do both.
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18+Years of experience
Our services
Trusted car care, from
Trusted car care, from
an MOT to a cambelt
Everything a modern car needs in one workshop, with the awkward jobs done here rather than sent out to a third party.
All services18Years on Torrington Avenue
11K+MOTs carried out
4.9Google rating
3Ramps, no queue
MOT due-date checker
When is your MOT due?
Put your registration in and we will tell you the date, what happened last time and what the tester flagged — straight from the DVSA record.
MOT valid
2 Nov 2026
That is 37 days away
Your vehicle
Ford Focus
Petrol · 1800cc · Yellow
Last test
Passed
3 Nov 2025 at 47,125 miles
Flagged at the last test
MOT information comes from the DVSA record for your vehicle. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Why Halden
Clean, documented work
Clean, documented work
by people you can name
4
Four technicians, all directly employed. Nobody subcontracts your car out to a unit down the road.
11K+MOTs carried out
18Years on Torrington Avenue
Same dayOn most diagnostics
4.9Google rating
The team
Meet the technicians
The people who look after your car. Ask for any of them by name.
Steve HaldenOwner · since 2008
Lee CarverTechnician · 2012
Amrit SohalDiagnostics · 2017
Nicola PriceService desk · 2019
How it works
Four steps, no surprises
01
Book in
Call the workshop or book online. Tell us the reg and what the car is doing.
02
We look properly
On a ramp, with the fault read rather than guessed. You get photographs of anything we find.
03
You decide
We ring with the cost split into what it needs now and what can wait. Nothing goes ahead without a yes.
04
Done and logged
Work carried out, service book stamped, old parts kept for you to see if you want them.
Reviews
What Coventry drivers
What Coventry drivers
say about us
Pulled live from the Google Business Profile.
Book your car inSarah GillEarlsdon · MOT
Darren MossTile Hill · service
Priya SandhuCanley · brakes
Our work
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Jobs through the workshop
Reliable repairs start here
Tell us the registration and what the car is doing. We will come back the same working day with a realistic price and the next free slot.
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Pricing
Published prices, no surprises
The DVSA caps a Class 4 MOT at £54.85 and has done since 2010. We charge less than the cap, and the retest is free if the car stays with us.
Legal test
MOT
£45Class 4 · cap is £54.85
- Class 4 and Class 7 on site
- Free retest if it stays with us
- Advisories explained, not listed
Most booked
Full service & MOT
£189Saves against booking separately
- Full service to schedule
- MOT the same day
- Service book stamped
- Courtesy car if you need one
Warning light
Diagnostics
£54Refunded against the repair
- Fault read and interpreted
- Written explanation, plain English
- Fee comes off the repair bill
Where we work
Coventry and the villages around it
The workshop is on Torrington Avenue in Tile Hill, off the A45. Collection and delivery across the CV postcodes, and a mobile mechanic for the jobs that do not need a ramp.
From the workshop
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Things worth knowing
Written by the people doing the work, not a marketing agency.
Why cars actually fail the MOT
Lighting and suspension account for nearly half of all recorded defects. One is a £5 bulb. The other is not.
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A service and an MOT are not the same thing
One is a legal test with a pass or fail. The other is maintenance. Confusing them costs people money.
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Tell us the reg and what it’s doing
We will come back the same working day with what we think it is, what it will cost to look at properly, and the next slot we have free.
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