71.2%
Toyota Proace
Toyota Proace MOT pass rate and common problems
The Toyota Proace passed 71.2% of its initial MOT tests in 2025, 1.1 percentage points below 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 Proace 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 Proace runs 3.9 points behind the Toyota average. It is 23rd of the 32 Toyota models in the data. The average Proace arrived at its test 5.8 years old with 70,730 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.
Proace MOT pass rate by age
The same 2025 tests split by the car's age at test.
Toyota Proace cars aged 3 to 5 years passed 76.4% of MOT tests. For cars aged 11 years and over that fell to 52%, a drop of 24.4 percentage points.
| Age at test | Tests | Pass rate | vs UK average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 to 5 years | 6,343 | 76.4% | 4.1 pts above |
| 6 to 10 years | 6,288 | 65% | 7.3 pts below |
| 11 years and over | 575 | 52% | 20.3 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 Proace failures cluster
Every failure item recorded on Toyota Proace cars in 2025, grouped into the DVSA's test areas.
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment and brakes together account for 51.2% of recorded failure items. These are recorded failures across the model, not faults every car has.
The 10 most common Proace MOT failures
Specific items recorded on Toyota Proace cars that failed their 2025 MOT, as a share of all recorded failure items.
Together these 10 items make up 50.6% of everything testers recorded against failed Toyota Proace cars. The rest is spread across many smaller items, and one failed test often records several at once.
What to look at on a Proace
The recorded failures above, grouped by area, biggest first.
1
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment
Recorded most often: position lamp not working, registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of a single lamp or all lamps, headlamp not working on dipped beam, stop lamp not working and headlamp aim projected beam image is obviously incorrect. 24.2% of failure items.
2
Visibility
Recorded most often: wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively. 7.8% of failure items.
3
Body, chassis, structure
Recorded most often: joints constant velocity boot split or insecure, no longer prevents the ingress of dirt. 7.1% of failure items.
4
Tyres
Recorded most often: tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm and condition has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords. 6.6% of failure items.
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Toyota Proace MOT FAQs
What is the Toyota Proace MOT pass rate?
71.2% of Toyota Proace cars passed their initial MOT first time in 2025, from 16,170 tests. That is 1.1 percentage points below the 72.3% average for all cars, and ranks 332nd of 575 models.
What does a Toyota Proace most commonly fail its MOT on?
The item testers recorded most often on Toyota Proace cars failing their 2025 MOT was wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively, on 7.8% of failure items. Next were joints constant velocity boot split or insecure, no longer prevents the ingress of dirt (7.1%) and position lamp not working (6.1%).
Which area causes the most Toyota Proace MOT failures?
Across every recorded failure item, the largest area was lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment at 37.2%, followed by brakes at 14.1%.
Do older Toyota Proace cars fail their MOT more often?
Toyota Proace cars aged 3 to 5 years passed 76.4% of MOT tests in 2025, against 52% for cars aged 11 years and over.
Does this mean every Toyota Proace has these problems?
No. These are the items testers recorded across every Toyota Proace 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 Proace'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.