Vehicle Repair & MOT succession in South East

Name: Vehicle Repair & MOT business succession in South East
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1,502 of 4,910 vehicle repair & MOT companies in South East — 30.6% — have a director aged 60 or over.

That is the 2nd highest of 9 UK regions for this trade.

Companies measured4,910

Director aged 60+1,502

Exposure rate30.6%

Companies House register·Measured base 3,475,770·Data as at 13 August 2026·Full methodology

4,910

Companies measured

1,502

Director 60+

524

Director 70+

30.6%

Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.5%; vehicle repair & MOT nationally runs at 28.4%.

Measure	Companies
Vehicle Repair & MOT companies in South East measured	4,910
Oldest director aged 60 or over	1,502
Oldest director aged 70 or over	524

Of the 1,502 with a director over 60, 192 score 50 or higher on business quality — an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Vehicle Repair & MOT in other regions

Region	60+	Rate
Wales	452	33.1%
South West	1,012	32.1%
North East	321	30.6%
Scotland	667	30.5%
North West	1,150	29.3%
East of England	971	29.3%
East Midlands	673	26.7%
Northern Ireland	125	26.4%

Other trades in South East

Trade	60+	Rate
Consultancy Services	14,455	41.6%
Lettings	9,873	42.9%
Retail	6,015	26.7%
IT Services / Consultancy	5,392	25.7%
Investment	5,385	33.7%
Other Leisure	5,364	33.2%
Investment / Fund Management	4,380	40.3%
Property Development	4,170	46.3%

Combinations with fewer than 250 measured companies are not listed separately. They are still counted in every total on this page.

Next step

This page counts director ages across the whole register. If you are looking to buy rather than to research, our Automotive pages go further: we score each company on business quality and exit timing, and shortlist the ones worth approaching.

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ExitRadar, "Vehicle Repair & MOT succession in South East", UK Business Succession Index, 13 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/auto-repair/south-east/

Need a cut that is not published here — a different trade grouping, a finer geography, or the underlying distribution? Get in touch and we will usually provide it. Methodology.

Method. Figures cover the 3,475,770 active UK companies where Companies House records an age bracket for at least one serving director — 93.8% of the 3,706,712 companies on the active register. A company counts as succession-exposed when its oldest serving director is 60 or over — not the board average, which would hide a 70-year-old founder sitting alongside younger co-directors. The business-quality figure covers only the subset our model assesses — see the methodology for why that is far smaller than the number with filed accounts. Data as at 13 August 2026; updated quarterly, next update October 2026. Full methodology.