77.3%
Volkswagen Touareg
Volkswagen Touareg MOT pass rate and common problems
The Volkswagen Touareg passed 77.3% of its initial MOT tests in 2025, 5 percentage points above the 72.3% UK average. The item testers recorded most often was coil spring fractured or broken.
Checking a specific car? Its own results, advisories and recorded mileages are in a free MOT history check.
How the Touareg 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 Touareg runs 4.2 points ahead of the Volkswagen average. It is 12th of the 31 Volkswagen models in the data. The average Touareg arrived at its test 10.6 years old with 94,545 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.
Touareg MOT pass rate by age
The same 2025 tests split by the car's age at test.
Volkswagen Touareg cars aged 3 to 5 years passed 89.5% of MOT tests. For cars aged 11 years and over that fell to 70.2%, a drop of 19.3 percentage points.
| Age at test | Tests | Pass rate | vs UK average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 to 5 years | 6,052 | 89.5% | 17.2 pts above |
| 6 to 10 years | 15,265 | 78.5% | 6.2 pts above |
| 11 years and over | 14,687 | 70.2% | 2.1 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 Touareg failures cluster
Every failure item recorded on Volkswagen Touareg cars in 2025, grouped into the DVSA's test areas.
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment and suspension together account for 51.6% of recorded failure items. These are recorded failures across the model, not faults every car has.
The 10 most common Touareg MOT failures
Specific items recorded on Volkswagen Touareg cars that failed their 2025 MOT, as a share of all recorded failure items.
Together these 10 items make up 48.4% of everything testers recorded against failed Volkswagen Touareg cars. The rest is spread across many smaller items, and one failed test often records several at once.
What to look at on a Touareg
The recorded failures above, grouped by area, biggest first.
1
Suspension
Recorded most often: coil spring fractured or broken and pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn. 19.2% of failure items.
2
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. 12.3% of failure items.
3
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment
Recorded most often: rear fog lamp not working, position lamp not working and headlamp aim too high. 10.7% of failure items.
4
Noise, emissions and leaks
Recorded most often: malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction. 3.6% of failure items.
The car's own MOT history matters more than any model average. A free MOT history check shows whether a specific Touareg has failed on these items before, or had them noted as advisories. Buying one? See the used Volkswagen Touareg buying guide.
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Volkswagen Touareg MOT FAQs
What is the Volkswagen Touareg MOT pass rate?
77.3% of Volkswagen Touareg cars passed their initial MOT first time in 2025, from 36,808 tests. That is 5 percentage points above the 72.3% average for all cars, and ranks 235th of 575 models.
What does a Volkswagen Touareg most commonly fail its MOT on?
The item testers recorded most often on Volkswagen Touareg cars failing their 2025 MOT was coil spring fractured or broken, on 16.8% of failure items. Next were tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm (5.6%) and rear fog lamp not working (5.6%).
Which area causes the most Volkswagen Touareg MOT failures?
Across every recorded failure item, the largest area was lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment at 27%, followed by suspension at 24.6%.
Do older Volkswagen Touareg cars fail their MOT more often?
Volkswagen Touareg cars aged 3 to 5 years passed 89.5% of MOT tests in 2025, against 70.2% for cars aged 11 years and over.
Does this mean every Volkswagen Touareg has these problems?
No. These are the items testers recorded across every Volkswagen Touareg 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 Touareg'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.