Halfords Autocentre
90 Salamander Street, Leith, Edinburgh, EH6 7LA
DVSA-approved MOT test station in Edinburgh. Site number 1AME50.
90 Salamander Street, Leith, Edinburgh, EH6 7LA
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 EH (Edinburgh) postcode area failed 27.3% of first MOT attempts in 2025, 4.7 points above the 22.6% national rate. That’s from 387,496 tests.
What failed most often here, as a share of all tests:
| Area of the car | Here | Nationally |
|---|---|---|
| Suspension | 11.79% | 8.93% |
| Brakes | 8.52% | 6.1% |
| Lights and electrics | 7.21% | 6.95% |
| Tyres | 6.71% | 5.95% |
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.
Unit 4b, Carron Place, Leith, Edinburgh, EH6 7RE
Seafield Road, Edinburgh, EH6 7LD
109 Restalrig Road, Edinburgh, EH6 7NY
64 Seafield Road, Edinburgh, EH6 7LQ
118 Duke Street, Edinburgh, EH6 8HR