75.4%
Volkswagen Amarok
Volkswagen Amarok MOT pass rate and common problems
The Volkswagen Amarok passed 75.4% of its initial MOT tests in 2025, 3.1 percentage points above 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 Amarok compares
Initial MOT tests in 2025, retests excluded. A car that failed and was repaired at the test station counts as a fail.
73.1%
Volkswagen average
72.3%
UK average, all cars
The Amarok runs 2.4 points ahead of the Volkswagen average. It is 14th of the 31 Volkswagen models in the data. The average Amarok arrived at its test 8.8 years old with 101,310 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.
Amarok MOT pass rate by age
The same 2025 tests split by the car's age at test.
Volkswagen Amarok cars aged 3 to 5 years passed 84.4% of MOT tests. For cars aged 11 years and over that fell to 68.2%, a drop of 16.2 percentage points.
| Age at test | Tests | Pass rate | vs UK average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 to 5 years | 3,468 | 84.4% | 12.1 pts above |
| 6 to 10 years | 11,660 | 75.6% | 3.3 pts above |
| 11 years and over | 4,562 | 68.2% | 4.1 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 Amarok failures cluster
Every failure item recorded on Volkswagen Amarok cars in 2025, grouped into the DVSA's test areas.
Brakes and lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment together account for 54.1% of recorded failure items. These are recorded failures across the model, not faults every car has.
The 10 most common Amarok MOT failures
Specific items recorded on Volkswagen Amarok 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 Volkswagen Amarok cars. The rest is spread across many smaller items, and one failed test often records several at once.
What to look at on a Amarok
The recorded failures above, grouped by area, biggest first.
1
Brakes
Recorded most often: rbt (sp) efficiency below requirements, service brake performance excessively binding, parking brake performance inoperative on one side and brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick. 15.3% of failure items.
2
Suspension
Recorded most often: pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn, shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak and coil spring fractured or broken. 12.9% of failure items.
3
Noise, emissions and leaks
Recorded most often: malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction. 5.3% of failure items.
4
Tyres
Recorded most often: tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm. 2.7% of failure items.
The car's own MOT history matters more than any model average. A free MOT history check shows whether a specific Amarok has failed on these items before, or had them noted as advisories. Buying one? See the used Volkswagen Amarok buying guide.
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Volkswagen Amarok MOT FAQs
What is the Volkswagen Amarok MOT pass rate?
75.4% of Volkswagen Amarok cars passed their initial MOT first time in 2025, from 19,695 tests. That is 3.1 percentage points above the 72.3% average for all cars, and ranks 261st of 575 models.
What does a Volkswagen Amarok most commonly fail its MOT on?
The item testers recorded most often on Volkswagen Amarok cars failing their 2025 MOT was pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn, on 5.8% of failure items. Next were malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction (5.3%) and rbt (sp) efficiency below requirements (4.4%).
Which area causes the most Volkswagen Amarok MOT failures?
Across every recorded failure item, the largest area was brakes at 30.9%, followed by lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment at 23.2%.
Do older Volkswagen Amarok cars fail their MOT more often?
Volkswagen Amarok cars aged 3 to 5 years passed 84.4% of MOT tests in 2025, against 68.2% for cars aged 11 years and over.
Does this mean every Volkswagen Amarok has these problems?
No. These are the items testers recorded across every Volkswagen Amarok 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 Volkswagen Amarok'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.