2020 Volkswagen Tiguan Life Tsi S-A: MOT pass rate and reliability
90.9% of 2020 Volkswagen Tiguan Life Tsi S-As pass the MOT first time, measured across 232 DVSA tests on that model year alone. The average one had covered 31,601 miles.
How the 2020 compares
- Against all Volkswagen Tiguan Life Tsi S-As (91.2%, 2,755 tests): -0.3 points
- Against all 2020 cars (89.4%): +1.5 points
- National first-time pass rate, all cars and years: 77%
Every Volkswagen Tiguan Life Tsi 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 Tiguan Life Tsi S-A:
| Year | Pass rate | Tests | Avg mileage |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 90.9% | 232 | 31,601 |
| 2021 | 91.2% | 2,439 | 27,130 |
What this means if you are buying a 2020 Tiguan Life Tsi S-A
The 2020 sits close to the Volkswagen Tiguan Life Tsi 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 Tiguan Life Tsi S-A the average at test was 31,601 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 2021 at 91.2%, and the weakest in our data is 2020 at 90.9%. That 0.3 point spread across the model's life is why comparing a 2020 car against a newer one tells you very little.