Eltham Test Centre
1 Avery Hill Road, New Eltham, London, SE9 2BD
DVSA-approved MOT test station in London. Site number 25573.
1 Avery Hill Road, New Eltham, London, SE9 2BD
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 SE (London) postcode area failed 15% of first MOT attempts in 2025, 7.6 points below the 22.6% national rate. That’s from 241,762 tests.
What failed most often here, as a share of all tests:
| Area of the car | Here | Nationally |
|---|---|---|
| Lights and electrics | 5.64% | 6.95% |
| Tyres | 4.55% | 5.95% |
| Suspension | 4.14% | 8.93% |
| Brakes | 2.92% | 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.
Rear of 369 Footscray Road, New Eltham, London, SE9 2EH
729 Sidcup Road, New Eltham, London, SE9 3AQ
701-725 Sidcup Road, New Eltham, London, SE9 3AQ
214-226 Main Road, Sidcup, DA14 6RR
4-6 Halfway Street, Sidcup, DA15 8LL