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SEAT Toledo
SEAT Toledo MOT pass rate and common problems
The SEAT Toledo passed 68% of its initial MOT tests in 2025, 4.3 percentage points below the 72.3% UK average. The item testers recorded most often was pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn.
Checking a specific car? Its own results, advisories and recorded mileages are in a free MOT history check.
How the Toledo compares
Initial MOT tests in 2025, retests excluded. A car that failed and was repaired at the test station counts as a fail.
74%
SEAT average
72.3%
UK average, all cars
The Toledo runs 6 points behind the SEAT average. It is 7th of the 11 SEAT models in the data. The average Toledo arrived at its test 10.6 years old with 104,898 miles recorded.
A pass rate records whether cars met the roadworthiness standard on test day. It is not a reliability score, and part of any gap reflects how old the tested cars were.
Toledo MOT pass rate by age
The same 2025 tests split by the car's age at test.
SEAT Toledo cars aged 6 to 10 years passed 71.9% of MOT tests. For cars aged 11 years and over that fell to 59.9%, a drop of 12 percentage points.
| Age at test | Tests | Pass rate | vs UK average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 to 5 years (small sample) | 61 | 82% | 9.7 pts above |
| 6 to 10 years | 3,475 | 71.9% | In line |
| 11 years and over | 1,776 | 59.9% | 12.4 pts below |
That is a steep decline with age, so the headline rate flatters older examples. The UK average of 72.3% covers cars of every age, so compare like with like.
Where Toledo failures cluster
Every failure item recorded on SEAT Toledo cars in 2025, grouped into the DVSA's test areas.
Suspension and lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment together account for 44.7% of recorded failure items. These are recorded failures across the model, not faults every car has.
The 10 most common Toledo MOT failures
Specific items recorded on SEAT Toledo cars that failed their 2025 MOT, as a share of all recorded failure items.
Together these 10 items make up 38.8% of everything testers recorded against failed SEAT Toledo cars. The rest is spread across many smaller items, and one failed test often records several at once.
What to look at on a Toledo
The recorded failures above, grouped by area, biggest first.
1
Suspension
Recorded most often: pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn and coil spring fractured or broken. 13.2% of failure items.
2
Tyres
Recorded most often: tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm, condition has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords and condition has ply or cords exposed. 9.5% of failure items.
3
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment
Recorded most often: headlamp aim projected beam image is obviously incorrect and position lamp not working. 6.1% of failure items.
4
Brakes
Recorded most often: brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick. 3.7% of failure items.
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SEAT Toledo MOT FAQs
What is the SEAT Toledo MOT pass rate?
68% of SEAT Toledo cars passed their initial MOT first time in 2025, from 5,312 tests. That is 4.3 percentage points below the 72.3% average for all cars, and ranks 385th of 575 models.
What does a SEAT Toledo most commonly fail its MOT on?
The item testers recorded most often on SEAT Toledo cars failing their 2025 MOT was pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn, on 9.1% of failure items. Next were coil spring fractured or broken (4%) and brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick (3.7%).
Which area causes the most SEAT Toledo MOT failures?
Across every recorded failure item, the largest area was suspension at 26.1%, followed by lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment at 18.6%.
Do older SEAT Toledo cars fail their MOT more often?
SEAT Toledo cars aged 6 to 10 years passed 71.9% of MOT tests in 2025, against 59.9% for cars aged 11 years and over.
Does this mean every SEAT Toledo has these problems?
No. These are the items testers recorded across every SEAT Toledo that failed in 2025. They show where the model most often needs attention, not the condition of any individual car.
How do I see a specific SEAT Toledo's MOT history?
Enter its registration on the free Carpeep MOT history check to see that car's own test results, failures, advisories and recorded mileages.
MOT figures are aggregated from the DVSA MOT Anonymised data set for 2025: class 4 initial tests, retests excluded, with failure items from failed tests (advisories and minor defects excluded), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. MOT results describe roadworthiness at test, not mechanical reliability.