2020 Volkswagen Golf Style Tdi S-A: MOT pass rate and reliability
92.9% of 2020 Volkswagen Golf Style Tdi S-As pass the MOT first time, measured across 706 DVSA tests on that model year alone. The average one had covered 38,141 miles.
How the 2020 compares
- Against all Volkswagen Golf Style Tdi S-As (92%, 1,405 tests): +0.9 points
- Against all 2020 cars (89.4%): +3.5 points
- National first-time pass rate, all cars and years: 77%
Every Volkswagen Golf Style Tdi S-A model year
Pass rates fall as cars age, so the only fair comparison for a 2020 car is other cars of the same age. The full run for the Volkswagen Golf Style Tdi S-A:
| Year | Pass rate | Tests | Avg mileage |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 92.9% | 706 | 38,141 |
| 2021 | 91% | 689 | 36,431 |
What this means if you are buying a 2020 Golf Style Tdi S-A
The 2020 sits close to the Volkswagen Golf Style Tdi S-A 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 6-year-old car fails on
A 2020 car is 6 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 2020 Volkswagen Golf Style Tdi S-A the average at test was 38,141 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.
2020 is the strongest year on record for this model at 92.9%, ahead of every other year we hold data for.