MOT pass rate · 2025 data
Volvo XC90 MOT pass rate
The Volvo XC90 passed 79.29% of its 70,524 initial MOT tests in 2025 — above the 77.3% average across all cars tested that year. That is 2 percentage points better than average.
How the Volvo XC90 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 Volvo XC90 grouped by the vehicle's age at the time of the test.
| Age at test | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| 3–5 years | 14,576 | 88.52% |
| 6–10 years | 25,902 | 84.79% |
| 11 years and over | 29,948 | 70.01% |
The Volvo XC90 drops 18.5 percentage points between its early years and the 11-plus bracket, which is a steep decline. On an older example, the MOT history is worth reading closely before you buy.
Why the Volvo XC90 fails its MOT
Across every Volvo XC90 that failed its 2025 MOT, the most common area of failure was brakes, accounting for 25.61% 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 | 25.61% | 9,332 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 22.06% | 8,036 |
| Tyres | 18.88% | 6,878 |
| Suspension | 15.44% | 5,626 |
| Steering | 5.21% | 1,899 |
| Visibility | 4.3% | 1,567 |
How the Volvo XC90 compares
Ranked on pass rate, the Volvo XC90 sits 334th of 651 models in this data , and 6th of the 17 Volvo models covered . Volvo as a whole averaged 78.37%, so this model runs 0.9 points ahead of its own brand average.
What this means when buying a used Volvo XC90
A pass rate is a population average, not a verdict on the specific car in front of you. The average Volvo XC90 came to its 2025 test at 95,033 miles and 10.3 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 Volvo XC90
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 Volvo models
- Volvo XC60 82.51% pass rate · 108,847 tests
- Volvo V40 75.14% pass rate · 97,256 tests
- Volvo XC40 91.46% pass rate · 84,677 tests
- Volvo V70 70.32% pass rate · 37,976 tests
- Volvo V60 79.65% pass rate · 35,045 tests
- Volvo V50 61.01% pass rate · 26,134 tests
Models with a similar pass rate
- Volkswagen Golf 79.21% pass rate
- Toyota Yaris 80.34% pass rate
- Audi A3 79.9% pass rate
- Hyundai I10 79.04% pass rate
- Audi A1 79.44% pass rate
- Skoda Octavia 79.8% 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.