Staple Garage
Northcote Road Garage, 1-3 Northcote Road, Southsea, PO4 0LH
DVSA-approved MOT test station in Southsea. Site number 3500BV.
Northcote Road Garage, 1-3 Northcote Road, Southsea, PO4 0LH
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 PO (Portsmouth) postcode area failed 27.5% of first MOT attempts in 2025, 4.9 points above the 22.6% national rate. That’s from 437,758 tests.
What failed most often here, as a share of all tests:
| Area of the car | Here | Nationally |
|---|---|---|
| Lights and electrics | 9.55% | 6.95% |
| Suspension | 9.37% | 8.93% |
| Tyres | 8.45% | 5.95% |
| Brakes | 6.42% | 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.
164 Haslemere Road, Southsea, Portsmouth, PO4 9AS
34b Exmouth Road, Southsea, PO5 2QL
37 Liss Road, Southsea, Portsmouth, PO4 8AP
Unit 1 White Heather Garage, Richmond Road, Southsea, Portsmouth, PO5 2LN
2 Furness Road, Southsea, Portsmouth, PO5 2JL