Palace Garage
Palace Road, Kingston Upon Thames, KT1 2LG
MOT stations / Kingston Upon Thames
DVSA-approved MOT test station in Kingston Upon Thames. Site number 5514BK.
Palace Road, Kingston Upon Thames, KT1 2LG
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 KT (Kingston Upon Thames) postcode area failed 16.4% of first MOT attempts in 2025, 6.2 points below the 22.6% national rate. That’s from 256,336 tests.
What failed most often here, as a share of all tests:
| Area of the car | Here | Nationally |
|---|---|---|
| Lights and electrics | 5.28% | 6.95% |
| Tyres | 4.7% | 5.95% |
| Suspension | 4.57% | 8.93% |
| Brakes | 3.39% | 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.
19 Southsea Road, Kingston Upon Thames, KT1 2EH
Kwik-Fit, 81 - 87 Brighton Road, Surbiton, KT6 5NF
44 Mill Place, Kingston Upon Thames, KT1 2RL
42 Portsmouth Road, Long Ditton, Surbiton, KT6 5PZ
167 Surbiton Hill Park, Surbiton, KT5 8EJ