What should the labour rate actually be?
Market-rate signals for your postcode, parts-margin recovery, recommended rate band.
GarageSnap is the free UK decision-support app for independent garages and MOT testing stations. Set the right labour rate, model MOT margin, surface the workshop-loading patterns that are bleeding profit, and stay compliant with DVSA changes — built for owner-managed garages of 1-12 bays.
Every Snap is scoped to one operator decision. GarageSnap answers three sub-questions that, together, give you the call you needed to make on garage · mot · auto repair this week.
Market-rate signals for your postcode, parts-margin recovery, recommended rate band.
Real margin per MOT after consumables, technician time, retest economics.
Loading patterns, hold-overs, parts-wait wastage.
Owner-managed UK independent garages, MOT stations (Class IV / VII), and mobile mechanics who set their own labour rate and absorb consumable + technician costs themselves.
Bay count, MOT class, technician headcount, postcode.
Market labour rates, MOT class economics, parts-margin recovery, workshop loading.
Labour-rate recommendation, MOT P&L by class, top 3 leak fixes.
Inline rate-change templates; escalation pack for franchised-network owners.
GarageSnap is one of 22 free Snap apps. If your sector is not on the list, we will build one — scoped, shipped, supervised — in 4 to 8 weeks. Same engineering core, same source-freshness CI, your decision priced against the outcome it produces.