2021 Audi A7: MOT pass rate and reliability
85.8% of 2021 Audi A7s pass the MOT first time, measured across 388 DVSA tests on that model year alone. The average one had covered 31,728 miles.
How the 2021 compares
- Against all Audi A7s (86.1%, 16,353 tests): -0.3 points
- Against all 2021 cars (90%): -4.2 points
- National first-time pass rate, all cars and years: 77%
Every Audi A7 model year
Pass rates fall as cars age, so the only fair comparison for a 2021 car is other cars of the same age. The full run for the Audi A7:
| Year | Pass rate | Tests | Avg mileage |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 83.5% | 1,549 | 118,961 |
| 2012 | 84.7% | 1,262 | 115,870 |
| 2013 | 83.9% | 1,880 | 104,053 |
| 2014 | 85% | 1,918 | 93,589 |
| 2015 | 87.4% | 2,009 | 84,531 |
| 2016 | 85.5% | 2,367 | 76,928 |
| 2017 | 86% | 1,681 | 66,322 |
| 2018 | 89.3% | 1,414 | 57,359 |
| 2019 | 90.9% | 1,409 | 49,027 |
| 2020 | 87.9% | 347 | 36,947 |
| 2021 | 85.8% | 388 | 31,728 |
What this means if you are buying a 2021 A7
The 2021 sits close to the Audi A7 average, so there is no strong model-year signal either way. Judge the individual car on its own history. Check the exact car with the free MOT history checker before you buy, and run its VIN and mileage through our free VIN decoder and clocking check.
What a 5-year-old car fails on
A 2021 car is 5 years old now, and age drives the failure mix more than the badge does. Across all cars tested, these are the categories that actually cause failures:
- Lights and electrical: 10.36% of all cars tested
- Suspension: 8.65% of all cars tested
- Tyres: 6.23% of all cars tested
- Brakes: 6.1% of all cars tested
- Visibility: wipers, washers, glass: 4.65% of all cars tested
- Body, chassis and structure: 3.18% of all cars tested
That is below average for a car this age, worth a mileage-consistency check since an unusually low reading is sometimes clocking rather than luck. On a 2021 Audi A7 the average at test was 31,728 miles, so treat anything far above that as a car that has worked harder than its peers, and anything far below as one worth checking for the faults that come from standing still.
The strongest year for this model is 2019 at 90.9%, and the weakest in our data is 2011 at 83.5%. That 7.4 point spread across the model's life is why comparing a 2021 car against a newer one tells you very little.
Nearby model years
- 2018 Audi A7 - 89.3%
- 2019 Audi A7 - 90.9%
- 2020 Audi A7 - 87.9%