Toyota Auris: MOT pass rate and reliability data

The Toyota Auris passes its MOT first time more often than the average UK car, by 3.8 percentage points. These figures come from the DVSA's full year of anonymised MOT results, covering 154,727 individual Toyota Auris tests. Nothing here is an estimate or a survey.

The numbers

What this means if you are buying one

A 80.5% first-time pass rate means roughly 20 in every 100 Toyota Auris presented for MOT fail on the first attempt. That is better than average, so a well-kept example is a reasonably safe used buy. The average Toyota Auris tested had covered 89,672 miles and was built around 2013.

What this means at salvage auction

Pass rate is a proxy for what a car costs to keep on the road. On a Toyota Auris bought as a repairable salvage, the mechanical side is less likely to spring surprises, so your repair estimate should hold up reasonably well.

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Most common MOT failures on a Toyota Auris

1. Brake pipe damaged or excessively corroded, 1.7% of tests (2.1x the national rate for this defect)
2. A headlamp or light source missing, inoperative or more than ½ not functioning in the case of LED, 1.7% of tests (1.86x the national rate for this defect)
3. A suspension joint dust cover missing or no longer prevents the ingress of dirt etc, 2.5% of tests (1.82x the national rate for this defect)
4. Stop lamp missing, inoperative or in the case of a multiple light source more than 1/2 not functioning, 1.6% of tests (1.61x the national rate for this defect)
5. A rear registration plate lamp or light source missing or inoperative in the case of a single lamp or all lamps, 1% of tests (1.61x the national rate for this defect)
6. Parking brake efficiency below minimum requirement, 1.5% of tests (1.5x the national rate for this defect)
7. A lamp missing, inoperative or in the case of a multiple light source more than 1/2 not functioning, 2.3% of tests (1.43x the national rate for this defect)
8. A tyre seriously damaged, 2% of tests
9. Tyre tread depth not in accordance with the requirements, 1.9% of tests
10. A suspension pin, bush or joint excessively worn, 1.8% of tests

From 208,784 DVSA-tracked Toyota Auris tests, 2024. DVSA testers marked 4.31% of these flagged Toyota Auris defects as "dangerous", meaning the tester judged the car unsafe to drive away, against 4.97% nationally.

Toyota Auris pass rate by model year

Pass rates fall steadily as cars age, so the model year matters as much as the model. First-time pass rate for each Toyota Auris year:

• 2007 Toyota Auris - 69.8% first-time pass, 10,636 tests
• 2008 Toyota Auris - 70.3% first-time pass, 11,338 tests
• 2009 Toyota Auris - 73.7% first-time pass, 10,881 tests
• 2010 Toyota Auris - 74.2% first-time pass, 9,592 tests
• 2011 Toyota Auris - 75.2% first-time pass, 9,429 tests
• 2012 Toyota Auris - 76.4% first-time pass, 8,443 tests
• 2013 Toyota Auris - 83.6% first-time pass, 13,771 tests
• 2014 Toyota Auris - 83.8% first-time pass, 17,125 tests
• 2015 Toyota Auris - 85.5% first-time pass, 17,503 tests
• 2016 Toyota Auris - 86.6% first-time pass, 15,820 tests
• 2017 Toyota Auris - 87.8% first-time pass, 14,253 tests
• 2018 Toyota Auris - 89% first-time pass, 13,822 tests
• 2019 Toyota Auris - 89% first-time pass, 1,233 tests

Toyota Auris by fuel type

Diesel and petrol versions of the same car fail on different things, so the fuel type moves the number:

• Petrol Toyota Auris - 78.1% first-time pass, 68,572 tests
• Hybrid Toyota Auris - 85.3% first-time pass, 67,303 tests
• Diesel Toyota Auris - 75.4% first-time pass, 13,819 tests
• Electric Toyota Auris - 74.4% first-time pass, 2,240 tests

Other Toyota models

• Toyota Yaris - 78.6%
• Toyota Aygo - 80.9%
• Toyota Prius - 86%
• Toyota Rav4 - 84.3%
• Toyota C-Hr - 90.6%
• Toyota Corolla - 75.3%
• Toyota Hilux - 73%
• Toyota Avensis - 73.7%

Models with a similar pass rate

• Ford Allied - 80.6%
• Mercedes-Benz Cl - 80.6%
• Maserati Quattroporte - 80.6%
• Peugeot Traveller - 80.5%
• Morris Minor 1000 - 80.5%
• Citroen Dispatch 1400 En-Prise Bhdi Ss - 80.5%

If this car is a salvage or write-off

• What does Cat N mean? Category N explained
• What does Cat S mean? Category S explained
• Cat S vs Cat N: the real differences

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