Knightsmead Garage
185 Castle Road, Bedford, MK40 3RX
DVSA-approved MOT test station in Bedford. Site number 5143B8.
185 Castle Road, Bedford, MK40 3RX
The maximum fee for a class 4 car MOT is £54.85 and £29.65 for a motorcycle; many garages charge less. You can book up to a month (minus a day) before the current certificate runs out and keep the same renewal date. Take the registration; you don’t need the V5C.
Details are from the DVSA register published 30 Sep 2026 (source). Phone numbers and ownership change, so ring first.
Cars and light vans tested in the MK (Milton Keynes) postcode area failed 20.4% of first MOT attempts in 2025, 2.2 points below the 22.6% national rate. That’s from 325,169 tests.
What failed most often here, as a share of all tests:
| Area of the car | Here | Nationally |
|---|---|---|
| Suspension | 7.47% | 8.93% |
| Lights and electrics | 6.3% | 6.95% |
| Tyres | 5.66% | 5.95% |
| Brakes | 4.67% | 6.1% |
From DVSA’s anonymised MOT results for 2025, by the postcode area of the test station. The data has no garage identifier, so these are figures for the area, not for any one garage. An area with older cars fails more for that reason alone. Every area compared.
175 Goldington Road, Bedford, MK40 3EL
Unit 2, Dean Street, Bedford, MK40 3EQ
Barkers Lane, Bedford, MK41 9SD
30 Brunel Road, Bedford, MK41 9TJ
35 Brunel Road, Bedford, MK41 9TJ