Orchard View Garage Limited
Twyford Court, Hampstead Lane, Yalding, Maidstone, ME18 6HG
DVSA-approved MOT test station in Maidstone. Site number 1ALR41.
Twyford Court, Hampstead Lane, Yalding, Maidstone, ME18 6HG
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 ME (Maidstone) postcode area failed 19.1% of first MOT attempts in 2025, 3.5 points below the 22.6% national rate. That’s from 330,105 tests.
What failed most often here, as a share of all tests:
| Area of the car | Here | Nationally |
|---|---|---|
| Suspension | 6.52% | 8.93% |
| Lights and electrics | 6.21% | 6.95% |
| Tyres | 5.41% | 5.95% |
| Brakes | 4.11% | 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.
49 Branbridges Road, East Peckham, TN12 5HD
Waterside Garage, Branbridges Road, East Peckahm, Tonbridge, TN12 5HH
Front Rhs, 104 Branbridges Road, East Peckham, Tonbridge, TN12 5HH
115 Tonbridge Road, Wateringbury, Maidstone, ME18 5NS
Collier Street, Marden, Tonbridge, TN12 9RR