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MOT stations / Colchester

Ford & Vauxhall Centre

DVSA-approved MOT test station in Colchester. Site number 1ALD84.

Ford & Vauxhall Centre

Unit 23 Waldegraves Bus Park, Waldegraves Lane, West Mersea, Colchester, CO5 8SE

What Ford & Vauxhall Centre can test

  • Class 4: Cars, vans and minibuses

Before you book

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.

MOT results around Colchester

Cars and light vans tested in the CO (Colchester) postcode area failed 23.5% of first MOT attempts in 2025, 0.9 points above the 22.6% national rate. That’s from 245,314 tests.

What failed most often here, as a share of all tests:

Area of the carHereNationally
Suspension8.93%8.93%
Lights and electrics7.69%6.95%
Tyres6.93%5.95%
Brakes5.64%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.

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