65.5%
Toyota Avensis
Toyota Avensis MOT pass rate and common problems
The Toyota Avensis passed 65.5% of its initial MOT tests in 2025, 6.8 percentage points below the 72.3% UK average. The item testers recorded most often was position lamp not working.
Checking a specific car? Its own results, advisories and recorded mileages are in a free MOT history check.
How the Avensis compares
Initial MOT tests in 2025, retests excluded. A car that failed and was repaired at the test station counts as a fail.
75.1%
Toyota average
72.3%
UK average, all cars
The Avensis runs 9.6 points behind the Toyota average. It is 29th of the 32 Toyota models in the data. The average Avensis arrived at its test 15 years old with 123,064 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.
Avensis MOT pass rate by age
The same 2025 tests split by the car's age at test.
Toyota Avensis cars aged 6 to 10 years passed 78.1% of MOT tests. For cars aged 11 years and over that fell to 62.1%, a drop of 16 percentage points.
| Age at test | Tests | Pass rate | vs UK average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 to 10 years | 11,752 | 78.1% | 5.8 pts above |
| 11 years and over | 43,387 | 62.1% | 10.2 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 Avensis failures cluster
Every failure item recorded on Toyota Avensis cars in 2025, grouped into the DVSA's test areas.
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment and brakes together account for 51.4% of recorded failure items. These are recorded failures across the model, not faults every car has.
The 10 most common Avensis MOT failures
Specific items recorded on Toyota Avensis cars that failed their 2025 MOT, as a share of all recorded failure items.
Together these 10 items make up 36.7% of everything testers recorded against failed Toyota Avensis cars. The rest is spread across many smaller items, and one failed test often records several at once.
What to look at on a Avensis
The recorded failures above, grouped by area, biggest first.
1
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment
Recorded most often: position lamp not working, headlamp aim projected beam image is obviously incorrect, stop lamp not working, headlamp not working on dipped beam and registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of a single lamp or all lamps. 19.5% of failure items.
2
Suspension
Recorded most often: coil spring fractured or broken and linkage ball joint dust cover ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt. 6.9% of failure items.
3
Tyres
Recorded most often: tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm. 3.7% of failure items.
4
Visibility
Recorded most often: wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively. 3.5% of failure items.
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Toyota Avensis MOT FAQs
What is the Toyota Avensis MOT pass rate?
65.5% of Toyota Avensis cars passed their initial MOT first time in 2025, from 55,139 tests. That is 6.8 percentage points below the 72.3% average for all cars, and ranks 424th of 575 models.
What does a Toyota Avensis most commonly fail its MOT on?
The item testers recorded most often on Toyota Avensis cars failing their 2025 MOT was position lamp not working, on 8.5% of failure items. Next were coil spring fractured or broken (4.3%) and tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm (3.7%).
Which area causes the most Toyota Avensis MOT failures?
Across every recorded failure item, the largest area was lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment at 33.4%, followed by brakes at 17.9%.
Do older Toyota Avensis cars fail their MOT more often?
Toyota Avensis cars aged 6 to 10 years passed 78.1% of MOT tests in 2025, against 62.1% for cars aged 11 years and over.
Does this mean every Toyota Avensis has these problems?
No. These are the items testers recorded across every Toyota Avensis 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 Toyota Avensis'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.