Change description : 2025-11-18 10:25:00: Updated ‘Individual Vehicle Approval (IVA) test centre locations’. Noise testing for exhaust modifications over 2 metres in height is now available at:Livingston (Edinburgh)Avonmouth (Bristol)GillinghamDerbyChadderton [Guidance and regulation]
Find a vehicle approval and specialist test centre
Find a test centre where you can get an Individual Vehicle Approval (IVA), Motorcycle Single Vehicle Approval (MSVA) or Certificate of Initial Fitness (COIF) test.
Removed Chelmsford from the list of Motorcycle Single Vehicle Approval (MSVA) test centre locations.
16 April 2024
Updated the lists of Individual Vehicle Approval (IVA) and Motorcycle Single Vehicle Approval (MSVA) test centre locations to include Castle Donington (My Vehicle Import).
30 November 2023
Added Peterborough (Aebi Schmidt UK Limited) to the list of Individual Vehicle Approval (IVA) test centre locations.
14 July 2023
Added Purfleet (Ensign Bus Company) to the list of Certificate of Initial Fitness (COIF) test centre locations.
Updated the vehicle categories information for Purfleet (Ensign Bus Company) in the list of Individual Vehicle Approval (IVA) test centre locations.
19 May 2023
Updated the Individual Vehicle Approval (IVA) test centre locations to include the types of vehicles that can be tested at Southampton (Northam) from 1 June 2023.
3 March 2023
Updated the list of Motorcycle Single Vehicle Approval (MSVA) test centre locations to show that 2-wheeled vehicles can now be tested at Yeading.
15 February 2023
Removed Southampton (Empress Road) from the list of Individual Vehicle Approval (IVA) test centre locations.
Removed content about weight restrictions at Exeter, Derby, Nottingham and Leighton Buzzard.
Updated 'passenger cars' to 'passenger vehicles (including motor caravans, ambulances and hearses)'.
20 September 2022
Removed Bournemouth from the list of Certificate of Initial Fitness (COIF) test centres.
13 May 2022
Removed Andover (J and J Conversions Ltd) from Individual Vehicle Approval (IVA) test centre locations.
10 December 2021
Removed weight restrictions at Yeading.
30 September 2021
Removed Aberdeen from list of IVA, MSVA and COIF testing sites.
17 September 2021
Updated IVA vehicle categories information about Southampton (Bitterne Road West).
22 April 2021
Replaced the map with 3 separate attachments so you can find a test centre location by test type.