Hi. My car is Honda Jazz Automatic 2010 year model.

Back in July 2019, the car passed the MOT at Honda garage with advisory saying:

Repair as soon as possible (minor defects):

Nearside Front Upper Anti-roll bar linkage ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated (5.3.4 (b) (i))

I immediately sent it to another independent garage (the cost is cheaper than Honda garage) to fix it and paid the total cost of £108

Today the car just passed MOT with the same advisory as below:

Repair as soon as possible (minor defects):

Offside Front Anti-roll bar linkage ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Split (5.3.4 (b) (i))

I was shocked to see this.

Why the car had the same problem so fast in 2 years?

Is it wear & tear?

Or the independent garage that I had been to had done a bad job?

Please advise whether should I change to a different independent garage to fix Offside Front Anti-roll bar linkage ball joint dust cover.

Thanks

Edited by hunterex on 09/07/2021 at 17:27