67.9%
Volkswagen Touran
Volkswagen Touran MOT pass rate and common problems
The Volkswagen Touran passed 67.9% of its initial MOT tests in 2025, 4.4 percentage points below 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 Touran 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 Touran runs 5.2 points behind the Volkswagen average. It is 22nd of the 31 Volkswagen models in the data. The average Touran arrived at its test 12.7 years old with 109,269 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.
Touran MOT pass rate by age
The same 2025 tests split by the car's age at test.
Volkswagen Touran cars aged 3 to 5 years passed 88.1% of MOT tests. For cars aged 11 years and over that fell to 60.9%, a drop of 27.2 percentage points.
| Age at test | Tests | Pass rate | vs UK average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 to 5 years | 5,071 | 88.1% | 15.8 pts above |
| 6 to 10 years | 19,161 | 78% | 5.7 pts above |
| 11 years and over | 43,687 | 60.9% | 11.4 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 Touran failures cluster
Every failure item recorded on Volkswagen Touran cars in 2025, grouped into the DVSA's test areas.
Suspension and lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment together account for 46.3% of recorded failure items. These are recorded failures across the model, not faults every car has.
The 10 most common Touran MOT failures
Specific items recorded on Volkswagen Touran cars that failed their 2025 MOT, as a share of all recorded failure items.
Together these 10 items make up 41% of everything testers recorded against failed Volkswagen Touran cars. The rest is spread across many smaller items, and one failed test often records several at once.
What to look at on a Touran
The recorded failures above, grouped by area, biggest first.
1
Suspension
Recorded most often: pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn, coil spring fractured or broken, linkage ball joint dust cover ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt and ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt. 18.4% of failure items.
2
Tyres
Recorded most often: condition has ply or cords exposed and tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm. 10.1% of failure items.
3
Body, chassis, structure
Recorded most often: joints constant velocity boot split or insecure, no longer prevents the ingress of dirt. 4.1% of failure items.
4
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment
Recorded most often: stop lamp not working. 3% of failure items.
The car's own MOT history matters more than any model average. A free MOT history check shows whether a specific Touran has failed on these items before, or had them noted as advisories. Buying one? See the used Volkswagen Touran buying guide.
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Volkswagen Touran MOT FAQs
What is the Volkswagen Touran MOT pass rate?
67.9% of Volkswagen Touran cars passed their initial MOT first time in 2025, from 68,286 tests. That is 4.4 percentage points below the 72.3% average for all cars, and ranks 387th of 575 models.
What does a Volkswagen Touran most commonly fail its MOT on?
The item testers recorded most often on Volkswagen Touran cars failing their 2025 MOT was pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn, on 5.4% of failure items. Next were condition has ply or cords exposed (5.2%) and coil spring fractured or broken (4.9%).
Which area causes the most Volkswagen Touran MOT failures?
Across every recorded failure item, the largest area was suspension at 29.1%, followed by lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment at 17.2%.
Do older Volkswagen Touran cars fail their MOT more often?
Volkswagen Touran cars aged 3 to 5 years passed 88.1% of MOT tests in 2025, against 60.9% for cars aged 11 years and over.
Does this mean every Volkswagen Touran has these problems?
No. These are the items testers recorded across every Volkswagen Touran 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 Touran'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.