Pass rate
87.4%
Above average — 3.3 pts behind the 90.7% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 3,632 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £40–£90
2020 Audi A3 E-Tron MOT pass rate
- 2020
- typical 33,607 mi
Check your postcode
Most common fault
Tyres
48.9% of faults · 19.8% nationally
mostly tread below the limit, cuts and sidewall bulges.
Part only £55–£85 for Tread depth below 1.6 mm. What fitting it takes →
Which year to buy
- Best 2020 87.4% pass · this year
- Avoid 2020 87.4% pass · this year
Across the 1 years on record, a spread of 0 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 85.6%
- Typical mileage
- 34k mi
The 2020 Audi A3 E-Tron MOT pass rate is 87.4% of its MOT tests — 3.3 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 48.9% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 2.5× the national share
Tyres make up 48.9% of everything recorded on the 2020 Audi A3 E-Tron, against 19.8% nationally — 29.1 points above. Check all four tyres yourself, including the inner shoulders, and look at the date stamp — a tyre can pass on tread and still be six years old.
- Falls short of its own age and mileage. Like-for-like, cars this age and mileage expect about 90.7%; this one manages 87.4% — 3.3 points below. Age is a fair excuse; this is not age.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 25% of this model’s typical repairs come in under £30 in parts — the failures here tend to be the kind that need a garage rather than a bulb.
Written from this page's own figures: fault shares against the national composition, the like-for-like pass rate, and the priced repair list. How these are worked out
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How does the 2020 Audi A3 E-Tron compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 90.7%, so this figure is 3.3 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 85.6%. The median 2020 Audi A3 E-Tron in this dataset had covered 33,607 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 88.2% of the time, April–September 86.7%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords", noted on 2.40% of tests.
- 3,632 recorded tests behind this page.
- 87.4% overall pass rate, 85.6% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Audi A3 E-Tron, the average is 87.4% — best year 2020 (87.4%), worst 2020 (87.4%).
Figures count every completed test on this vehicle-year in the dataset, including retests. See methodology for the exact definition.
This page's data
- Tests analysed
- 3,632
- Typical mileage (median)
- 33,607 mi
- Make and model
- Audi A3 E-Tron
- Updated
- 2026-11-07
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Tyres
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the A3 E-Tron MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 72% so small gaps stay visible.
Where the Audi A3 E-Tron is most common
Across the year on record: 2,122 Audi A3 E-Tron cars tested in a recordable postcode area, across 3,632 tests. Birmingham (B) has the most, with 63 cars tested there. Cars are counted by the postcode area of the MOT station, so this is where they were tested, not necessarily where their owners live.
| # | Postcode area | Cars | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Birmingham (B) | 63 | 88.1% |
| 2 | Northampton (NN) | 62 | 86.0% |
| 3 | Leicester (LE) | 55 | 84.1% |
| 4 | Leeds (LS) | 52 | 82.6% |
| 5 | London (NW) | 45 | 89.7% |
| 6 | Nottingham (NG) | 42 | 90.5% |
| 7 | Doncaster (DN) | 42 | 79.7% |
| 8 | Peterborough (PE) | 40 | 87.0% |
| 9 | Reading (RG) | 39 | 81.8% |
| 10 | Milton Keynes (MK) | 39 | 86.9% |
| 11 | Coventry (CV) | 39 | 88.1% |
| 12 | Glasgow (G) | 37 | 82.5% |
| 13 | Sheffield (S) | 37 | 92.1% |
| 14 | Newcastle upon Tyne (NE) | 33 | 85.0% |
| 15 | Manchester (M) | 32 | 78.7% |
| 16 | Kingston upon Thames (KT) | 31 | 89.8% |
| 17 | Southampton (SO) | 31 | 88.7% |
| 18 | Oxford (OX) | 31 | 94.9% |
| 19 | Wakefield (WF) | 30 | 84.0% |
| 20 | Hounslow (TW) | 29 | 97.8% |
The twenty areas with the most Audi A3 E-Tron cars in the record, sorted by car count — sort the columns for a different question. Cars tested at a station whose postcode area could not be resolved are counted in the model's total but in no area, so the shares add up to slightly under 100% even across every area, and an area's cars are a subset of the model's. Pass rate is blank below 30 tests in an area, where a percentage is noise rather than a finding. How this model's pass rate varies by postcode →
Regional pass rates for the A3 E-Tron
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 856 | 87.9% |
| North West | 433 | 87.3% |
| Yorkshire | 369 | 87.3% |
| East of England | 330 | 87.0% |
| East Midlands | 327 | 85.3% |
| West Midlands | 297 | 89.6% |
| London | 289 | 90.3% |
| South West | 247 | 85.4% |
| Scotland | 209 | 85.6% |
| Wales | 150 | 85.3% |
| North East | 125 | 88.0% |
Regions come from the postcode area recorded at the test station. Areas on region borders are assigned to the region with the majority of their population.
What fails a 2020 A3 E-Tron
Everything a tester recorded on this vehicle, grouped into the inspection sections that produced it. The notch on each bar is the national share, so you can see at a glance whether this car is unusual or just ordinary.
A test can record several items, so these percentages do not add up to 100%. The exact strings, with prices, are in the full DVSA record at the bottom of this page.
Before your test
Three checks worth doing on a 2020 A3 E-Tron
These are not generic tips — they are the faults recorded most often on this exact model, rewritten as things you can check yourself. All three take about ten minutes and cost nothing.
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Check the windscreen 1.8% of tests
“windscreen damaged”
Check the driver’s side of the screen within the swept area for chips and cracks; anything larger than 10mm in the driver’s central view is a fail. Most chips can be resin-repaired for far less than a new screen.
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Check the lights 1.2% of tests
“stop lamp not working”
Switch everything on and walk round the car: both headlamps on dip and main, every indicator, both brake lights, reverse, fog and the two number-plate lamps. A bulb is a few pounds and a five-minute job.
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Check the tyre tread 0.8% of tests
“tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm”
Check all four tyres cold, including the inner shoulder where wear hides — 1.6mm across the central three-quarters is the legal limit, and most testers fail at 1.6mm without argument.
Shares are the proportion of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item, so they overlap: one test can record several.
What it costs to get a 2020 A3 E-Tron through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £40–£90 — and 25% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £40–£90
- Cheapest common item: stop lamp not working
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: windscreen damaged
- £80–£200
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 90%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 25%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 3,632 MOT tests on this vehicle. They exclude diagnostics, retest fees and garage labour where the part is a DIY fit, and they are not figures from the DVSA dataset. Older and higher-mileage examples cost more than the average. How these estimates are built → · All MOT repair costs → · Cheapest cars to put through a test →
Compare the 2020 Audi A3 E-Tron with another year
The raw pass rate mostly measures age. The year comparison adds the like-for-like figure, the mileage bands and the repair bill.
Other 2020 cars with a similar record
- Ford Allied 87.3%
- Ford Galaxy 87.6%
- DS DS3 87.2%
- Volvo V90 Momentum + 87.2%
- Land Rover Discovery 87.7%
- Mercedes-Benz E 87.7%
Closest pass rates among 2020 cars with at least 2,000 tests, so a small sample cannot flatter itself into the list. See the full rankings: best and worst MOT pass rates.
The full DVSA record for the 2020 Audi A3 E-Tron 10 failure items · 6 advisories · 10 inspection categories · mileage brackets · all of it in the page, none of it above the fold
Every inspection category
Shares of the 2,809 individual items recorded on this vehicle, and the same share across all cars nationally. A single test can record several items, so a row is not a percentage of tests.
| Category | Items | This car | Nationally | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tyres | 1,380 | 48.90% | 19.76% | +29.14 |
| Suspension | 462 | 16.40% | 20.98% | −4.58 |
| Brakes | 322 | 11.40% | 20.89% | −9.49 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 187 | 6.60% | 12.21% | −5.61 |
| Non-component advisories | 186 | 6.60% | 4.18% | +2.42 |
| Visibility | 167 | 5.90% | 4.97% | +0.93 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 44 | 1.60% | 1.76% | −0.16 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 26 | 0.90% | 5.52% | −4.62 |
| Road Wheels | 18 | 0.60% | 0.75% | −0.15 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 17 | 0.60% | 0.82% | −0.22 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 2.4% | £45–95 |
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 2.2% | £45–95 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 1.8% | £80–200 |
| Has a bulge, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Major | 1.5% | £45–95 |
| Stop lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 1.2% | £3–12 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 0.85% | £45–95 |
| Stop lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 0.69% | £3–12 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 0.66% | £8–22 |
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 0.52% | £5–25 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Major | 0.50% | £45–95 |
Severity is as recorded: Major and Dangerous fail the test outright; Minor and Advisory do not. Costs are estimates from typical UK parts prices — see how they are built.
What testers noted without failing the car
Advisories are the early warnings — the same parts a year or two before they fail. Reading them is how you tell a car that has been maintained from one that has been patched.
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 13.0% | £45–95 |
| Shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak Suspension | Advisory | 11.3% | £30–75 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 10.9% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 6.4% | £45–110 |
| Non-component advisories Child Seat fitted not allowing full inspection of adult belt Non-component advisories | Advisory | 2.6% | £20–80 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Advisory | 2.3% | £45–95 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 1,508 | 88.8% | 20,776 mi |
| 30-60k | 1,633 | 87.0% | 41,972 mi |
| 60-90k | 381 | 84.3% | 70,762 mi |
| 90-120k | 89 | 84.3% | 101,562 mi |
| 120k+ | 20 | 80.0% | 131,877 mi |
Source: 3,632 recorded tests on this vehicle-year. Every row above is recomputed from the same DVSA extract as the rest of the page — see the methodology.
2020 A3 E-Tron MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2020 Audi A3 E-Tron?
87.4% of the 3,632 2020 Audi A3 E-Tron tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 90.7% for cars first used in 2020. First-attempt pass rate: 85.6%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2020 Audi A3 E-Tron?
The three most recorded items are has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords (2.40%), has ply or cords exposed (2.20%), windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (1.76%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2020 Audi A3 E-Tron MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 88.8% of the time, falling to 80.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2020 Audi A3 E-Tron in this dataset had covered 33,607 mi.
Does the season affect the 2020 Audi A3 E-Tron MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 88.2% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 86.7%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.