72.8%
Toyota Land Cruiser
Toyota Land Cruiser MOT pass rate and common problems
The Toyota Land Cruiser passed 72.8% of its initial MOT tests in 2025, 0.5 percentage points above the 72.3% UK average. The item testers recorded most often was position lamp not working.
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How the Land Cruiser 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 Land Cruiser runs 2.3 points behind the Toyota average. It is 20th of the 32 Toyota models in the data. The average Land Cruiser arrived at its test 17.9 years old with 133,035 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.
Land Cruiser MOT pass rate by age
The same 2025 tests split by the car's age at test.
Toyota Land Cruiser cars aged 3 to 5 years passed 88.9% of MOT tests. For cars aged 11 years and over that fell to 68.1%, a drop of 20.8 percentage points.
| Age at test | Tests | Pass rate | vs UK average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 to 5 years | 1,534 | 88.9% | 16.6 pts above |
| 6 to 10 years | 2,916 | 85.1% | 12.8 pts above |
| 11 years and over | 15,880 | 68.1% | 4.2 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 Land Cruiser failures cluster
Every failure item recorded on Toyota Land Cruiser cars in 2025, grouped into the DVSA's test areas.
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment and suspension together account for 42.9% of recorded failure items. These are recorded failures across the model, not faults every car has.
The 10 most common Land Cruiser MOT failures
Specific items recorded on Toyota Land Cruiser cars that failed their 2025 MOT, as a share of all recorded failure items.
Together these 10 items make up 30.1% of everything testers recorded against failed Toyota Land Cruiser cars. The rest is spread across many smaller items, and one failed test often records several at once.
What to look at on a Land Cruiser
The recorded failures above, grouped by area, biggest first.
1
Body, chassis, structure
Recorded most often: chassis condition or chassis has excessive corrosion, seriously affecting its strength within 30cm of a body mounting, joints constant velocity boot split or insecure, no longer prevents the ingress of dirt and exhaust system has a major leak of exhaust gases. 8.8% of failure items.
2
Suspension
Recorded most often: component mounting prescribed areas prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength and pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn. 5.8% of failure items.
3
Brakes
Recorded most often: brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick and rigid brake pipes excessively corroded. 5.4% of failure items.
4
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment
Recorded most often: position lamp not working. 4.2% of failure items.
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Toyota Land Cruiser MOT FAQs
What is the Toyota Land Cruiser MOT pass rate?
72.8% of Toyota Land Cruiser cars passed their initial MOT first time in 2025, from 21,087 tests. That is 0.5 percentage points above the 72.3% average for all cars, and ranks 296th of 575 models.
What does a Toyota Land Cruiser most commonly fail its MOT on?
The item testers recorded most often on Toyota Land Cruiser cars failing their 2025 MOT was position lamp not working, on 4.2% of failure items. Next were chassis condition or chassis has excessive corrosion, seriously affecting its strength within 30cm of a body mounting (3.6%) and component mounting prescribed areas prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength (3.4%).
Which area causes the most Toyota Land Cruiser MOT failures?
Across every recorded failure item, the largest area was lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment at 21.6%, followed by suspension at 21.3%.
Do older Toyota Land Cruiser cars fail their MOT more often?
Toyota Land Cruiser cars aged 3 to 5 years passed 88.9% of MOT tests in 2025, against 68.1% for cars aged 11 years and over.
Does this mean every Toyota Land Cruiser has these problems?
No. These are the items testers recorded across every Toyota Land Cruiser 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 Land Cruiser'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.