Pass rate
91.4%
Above average — 3.4 pts behind the 94.8% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 278 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £42–£94
2023 Audi A4 MOT pass rate
- 2023
- typical 24,590 mi
Check your postcode
Most common fault
Tyres
66.7% of faults · 19.8% nationally
mostly tread below the limit, cuts and sidewall bulges.
Part only £55–£85 for Tyre has a tear. What fitting it takes →
2.3 pts down across model years — 4.6% in 2000, 2.3% in 2022.
Which year to buy
- Best 2023 91.4% pass · this year
- Avoid 2000 73.5% pass
Across the 24 years on record, a spread of 17.9 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 90.8%
- Typical mileage
- 25k mi
The 2023 Audi A4 MOT pass rate is 91.4% of its MOT tests — 3.4 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 66.7% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 3.4× the national share
Tyres make up 66.7% of everything recorded on the 2023 Audi A4, against 19.8% nationally — 46.9 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 94.8%; this one manages 91.4% — 3.4 points below. Age is a fair excuse; this is not age.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 13% 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 2023 Audi A4 compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 94.8%, so this figure is 3.4 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 90.8%. The median 2023 Audi A4 in this dataset had covered 24,590 mi.
75% of the tests on this vehicle ran on Petrol, which passed 92.3% of the time. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 90.2% of the time, April–September 94.0%.
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 3.24% of tests.
- 278 recorded tests behind this page.
- 91.4% overall pass rate, 90.8% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Audi A4, the average is 81.0% — best year 2023 (91.4%), worst 2000 (73.5%).
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
- 278
- Typical mileage (median)
- 24,590 mi
- Make and model
- Audi A4
- 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 A4 MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 80% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Petrol is the most common here (75% of tests).
Where the Audi A4 is most common
Across all A4 model years on record (2000–2023): 393,657 Audi A4 cars tested in a recordable postcode area, across 888,010 tests. Birmingham (B) has the most, with 14,329 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) | 14,329 | 86.9% |
| 2 | Sheffield (S) | 8,921 | 83.7% |
| 3 | Peterborough (PE) | 8,586 | 82.1% |
| 4 | Leicester (LE) | 7,606 | 82.0% |
| 5 | Glasgow (G) | 7,286 | 82.0% |
| 6 | Newcastle upon Tyne (NE) | 7,000 | 81.8% |
| 7 | Nottingham (NG) | 6,834 | 79.4% |
| 8 | Manchester (M) | 6,749 | 83.4% |
| 9 | Coventry (CV) | 6,238 | 82.8% |
| 10 | Reading (RG) | 6,121 | 81.5% |
| 11 | Doncaster (DN) | 5,901 | 81.9% |
| 12 | Bristol (BS) | 5,882 | 76.9% |
| 13 | Derby (DE) | 5,511 | 82.0% |
| 14 | Northampton (NN) | 5,442 | 80.4% |
| 15 | Guildford (GU) | 5,421 | 80.1% |
| 16 | Leeds (LS) | 5,078 | 80.3% |
| 17 | Cardiff (CF) | 5,070 | 78.6% |
| 18 | Bradford (BD) | 5,060 | 84.3% |
| 19 | Gloucester (GL) | 4,860 | 77.7% |
| 20 | Norwich (NR) | 4,702 | 79.6% |
The twenty areas with the most Audi A4 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 A4
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| North West | 56 | 94.6% |
| Scotland | 40 | 87.5% |
| South East | 39 | 97.4% |
| East of England | 37 | 89.2% |
| East Midlands | 22 | 81.8% |
| Yorkshire | 18 | 100.0% |
| South West | 16 | 93.8% |
| North East | 15 | 93.3% |
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 2023 A4
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 2023 A4
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 1.1% 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 0.7% of tests
“malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction”
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 shock absorbers 0.7% of tests
“shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak”
Press down hard on each corner of the car and let go. It should settle in one bounce; if it keeps rocking, or you can see oil weeping down a shock absorber, that is the fault a tester will find.
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 2023 A4 through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £42–£94 — and 13% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £42–£94
- Cheapest common item: malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or…
- £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
- 13%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 278 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 →
Every year of the A4, side by side
24 model years on record, from 2000 to 2023. Across them the pass rate runs from 73.5% to 91.4% — a spread of 17.9 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2000 73.5% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2001 74.5% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2002 73.6% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2003 74.1% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2004 74.2% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2005 75.1% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2006 75.5% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2007 76.1% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2008 76.3% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2009 77.2% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2010 78.2% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2011 79.7% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2012 81.0% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2013 81.6% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2014 81.9% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2015 82.8% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2016 84.4% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2017 85.6% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2018 86.6% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2019 88.7% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2020 90.3% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2021 90.0% has a cut in excess of the…
- 2022 90.7% has ply or cords exposed
- 2023 91.4%has a cut in excess of the…
Colour is the pass rate on a fixed scale, so a block means the same thing on any model. Each year links to its own page with the full fault breakdown.
Compare the 2023 Audi A4 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 2023 cars with a similar record
- Tesla Model Y 92.9%
- Polestar Polestar 94.6%
- Kia Niro 95.5%
- Toyota Corolla 95.7%
- Mercedes-Benz Eqe 96.5%
- Ford Puma 96.5%
Closest pass rates among 2023 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 2023 Audi A4 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 101 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 | 68 | 66.70% | 19.76% | +46.94 |
| Non-component advisories | 7 | 6.90% | 4.18% | +2.72 |
| Suspension | 6 | 5.90% | 20.98% | −15.08 |
| Brakes | 6 | 5.90% | 20.89% | −14.99 |
| Visibility | 5 | 4.90% | 4.97% | −0.07 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 3 | 2.90% | 12.21% | −9.31 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 2 | 2.00% | 5.52% | −3.52 |
| Road Wheels | 2 | 2.00% | 0.75% | +1.25 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 1 | 1.00% | 5.57% | −4.57 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 1 | 1.00% | 1.76% | −0.76 |
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 | 3.2% | £45–95 |
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 1.8% | £45–95 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 1.1% | £80–200 |
| Has a bulge, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Major | 0.72% | £45–95 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Major | 0.72% | £45–95 |
| Malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 0.72% | £3–12 |
| Shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak Suspension | Major | 0.72% | £30–75 |
| Size/type of different sizes are fitted on the same axle. Tyres | Major | 0.72% | £45–95 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 0.72% | £45–95 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 0.72% | £8–22 |
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 | 8.3% | £45–95 |
| Non-component advisories Nail in tyre Non-component advisories | Advisory | 2.5% | £45–95 |
| Tread depth tread pattern not visible over the whole tread area when minimum depth required is 1.0mm Tyres | Advisory | 2.5% | £45–95 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Advisory | 2.2% | £45–95 |
| Has a bulge, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 1.8% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 1.4% | £18–45 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 188 | 92.0% | 18,981 mi |
| 30-60k | 75 | 88.0% | 38,861 mi |
| 60-90k | 9 | 100.0% | 70,731 mi |
| 90-120k | 4 | 100.0% | 105,925 mi |
Source: 278 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.
2023 A4 MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2023 Audi A4?
91.4% of the 278 2023 Audi A4 tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 94.8% for cars first used in 2023. First-attempt pass rate: 90.8%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2023 Audi A4?
The three most recorded items are has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords (3.24%), has ply or cords exposed (1.80%), windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (1.08%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2023 Audi A4 MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 92.0% of the time, falling to 100.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2023 Audi A4 in this dataset had covered 24,590 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2023 Audi A4?
Petrol: 92.3% pass rate across 209 tests. Diesel: 88.2% pass rate across 68 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2023 Audi A4 MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 90.2% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 94.0%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.