MOT pass rate · 2025 data
Audi A2 MOT pass rate
The Audi A2 passed 63.16% of its 5,762 initial MOT tests in 2025 — below the 77.3% average across all cars tested that year. That is 14.1 percentage points worse than average.
How the Audi A2 holds up with age
Every car fails the MOT more often as it gets older. What matters when you are buying is how steeply that happens for this particular model. These are the 2025 pass rates for the Audi A2 grouped by the vehicle's age at the time of the test.
| Age at test | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| 6–10 years | 2 | 100% |
| 11 years and over | 5,760 | 63.14% |
Why the Audi A2 fails its MOT
Across every Audi A2 that failed its 2025 MOT, the most common area of failure was brakes, accounting for 23.54% of all recorded failure items. These are the areas worth having checked before you buy, and worth budgeting for on an older example.
| Failure area | Share of failure items | Recorded items |
|---|---|---|
| Brakes | 23.54% | 1,660 |
| Suspension | 22.71% | 1,602 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 19.54% | 1,378 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 8.82% | 622 |
| Tyres | 7.66% | 540 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 6.31% | 445 |
How the Audi A2 compares
Ranked on pass rate, the Audi A2 sits 604th of 651 models in this data , and 21st of the 21 Audi models covered . Audi as a whole averaged 81.59%, so this model runs 18.4 points behind its own brand average.
What this means when buying a used Audi A2
A pass rate is a population average, not a verdict on the specific car in front of you. The average Audi A2 came to its 2025 test at 132,454 miles and 22.1 years old. Most examples tested were diesel.
The useful check is the individual car's own MOT record: how many times it has failed, what for, and whether advisories keep reappearing. A recurring advisory on corrosion, suspension or brakes tells you far more than a model-wide average, and a mileage that does not move consistently between tests is a warning in itself.
Check a specific Audi A2
Run the registration through a free MOT history check to see that car's test results, advisories and recorded mileages. For the risks an MOT never covers — outstanding finance, insurance write-off records, stolen markers and ownership history — a full car history check brings them together in one £15 report.
Also useful: mileage check · write-off check · free car check
Other Audi models
- Audi A3 79.9% pass rate · 418,009 tests
- Audi A4 77.09% pass rate · 238,277 tests
- Audi A1 79.44% pass rate · 233,854 tests
- Audi Q3 84.17% pass rate · 135,125 tests
- Audi A5 80.48% pass rate · 124,402 tests
- Audi A6 83.04% pass rate · 118,740 tests
Models with a similar pass rate
- Renault Clio 62.96% pass rate
- Renault Megane 62.2% pass rate
- Fiat Punto 63.87% pass rate
- Renault Kangoo 61.99% pass rate
- Peugeot 206 62.71% pass rate
- Renault Scenic 62.83% pass rate
Figures aggregated from the DVSA MOT Anonymised data set for 2025, class 4 initial tests only, contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Retests are excluded, so these are first-time pass rates.