Hawkins Motorcentre
Woodland Road, St Austell, PL25 4QY
DVSA-approved MOT test station in St Austell. Site number 80063.
Woodland Road, St Austell, PL25 4QY
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 PL (Plymouth) postcode area failed 31.2% of first MOT attempts in 2025, 8.6 points above the 22.6% national rate. That’s from 316,288 tests.
What failed most often here, as a share of all tests:
| Area of the car | Here | Nationally |
|---|---|---|
| Suspension | 13.7% | 8.93% |
| Lights and electrics | 11% | 6.95% |
| Brakes | 10.03% | 6.1% |
| Tyres | 7.6% | 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.
14 Lytton Place, St Austell, PL25 4PE
20 Mount Charles Road, Mount Charles, St Austell, PL25 3LD
37 Mount Charles Road, St Austell, Cornwall, PL25 3LB
East Hill Garage, East Hill, St Austell, PL25 4TR
Unit 2b, Pentewan Road, St Austell, Cornwall, PL25 5BU