85.9%
Toyota Camry
Toyota Camry MOT pass rate and common problems
The Toyota Camry passed 85.9% of its initial MOT tests in 2025, 13.6 percentage points above the 72.3% UK average. The item testers recorded most often was wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively.
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How the Camry 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 Camry runs 10.8 points ahead of the Toyota average. It is 8th of the 32 Toyota models in the data. The average Camry arrived at its test 10.8 years old with 80,467 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.
Camry MOT pass rate by age
The same 2025 tests split by the car's age at test.
Toyota Camry cars aged 3 to 5 years passed 92.1% of MOT tests. For cars aged 11 years and over that fell to 71.7%, a drop of 20.4 percentage points.
| Age at test | Tests | Pass rate | vs UK average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 to 5 years | 1,012 | 92.1% | 19.8 pts above |
| 6 to 10 years | 152 | 90.8% | 18.5 pts above |
| 11 years and over | 495 | 71.7% | 0.6 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 Camry failures cluster
Every failure item recorded on Toyota Camry cars in 2025, grouped into the DVSA's test areas.
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment and tyres together account for 38.7% of recorded failure items. These are recorded failures across the model, not faults every car has.
The 10 most common Camry MOT failures
Specific items recorded on Toyota Camry cars that failed their 2025 MOT, as a share of all recorded failure items.
Together these 10 items make up 39.3% of everything testers recorded against failed Toyota Camry cars. The rest is spread across many smaller items, and one failed test often records several at once.
What to look at on a Camry
The recorded failures above, grouped by area, biggest first.
1
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. 10.7% of failure items.
2
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment
Recorded most often: position lamp not working, headlamp aim projected beam image is obviously incorrect and headlamp aim too low. 10.6% of failure items.
3
Visibility
Recorded most often: wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively. 8.9% of failure items.
4
Body, chassis, structure
Recorded most often: exhaust system has a major leak of exhaust gases and joints constant velocity boot split or insecure, no longer prevents the ingress of dirt. 6.7% of failure items.
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Toyota Camry MOT FAQs
What is the Toyota Camry MOT pass rate?
85.9% of Toyota Camry cars passed their initial MOT first time in 2025, from 1,699 tests. That is 13.6 percentage points above the 72.3% average for all cars, and ranks 109th of 575 models.
What does a Toyota Camry most commonly fail its MOT on?
The item testers recorded most often on Toyota Camry cars failing their 2025 MOT was wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively, on 8.9% of failure items. Next were position lamp not working (5%) and tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm (4.1%).
Which area causes the most Toyota Camry MOT failures?
Across every recorded failure item, the largest area was lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment at 24.4%, followed by tyres at 14.3%.
Do older Toyota Camry cars fail their MOT more often?
Toyota Camry cars aged 3 to 5 years passed 92.1% of MOT tests in 2025, against 71.7% for cars aged 11 years and over.
Does this mean every Toyota Camry has these problems?
No. These are the items testers recorded across every Toyota Camry 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 Camry'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.