Pass rate
94.6%
Above average — 5.1 pts ahead of the 89.5% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 2,283 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £43–£101
2019 Audi A8 MOT pass rate
- 2019
- 2 trims combined
- typical 45,859 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
44.7% 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 →
4.0 pts down across model years — 9.4% in 2005, 5.4% in 2020.
Which year to buy
- Best 2021 95.0% pass
- Avoid 2000 74.8% pass
Across the 23 years on record, a spread of 20.2 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 94.3%
- Typical mileage
- 46k mi
The 2019 Audi A8 MOT pass rate is 94.6% of its MOT tests — 5.1 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 44.7% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Audi A8 does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 2.3× the national share
Tyres make up 44.7% of everything recorded on the 2019 Audi A8, against 19.8% nationally — 24.9 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.
- Beats its own age and mileage. Once you allow for how old and how far these cars have been driven, the expected pass rate is 89.5% and this one manages 94.6% — 5.1 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 20% 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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Every Audi A8 first registered in 2019 is combined here — 2 trim and body variants in total — so the sample is as large as the DVSA data allows.
How does the 2019 Audi A8 compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 89.5%, so this figure is 5.1 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 94.3%. The median 2019 Audi A8 in this dataset had covered 45,859 mi.
The most common fuel recorded here is Diesel — 85% of tests, with a 94.2% pass rate. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 94.8% of the time, April–September 94.4%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view", noted on 1.53% of tests.
- 2,283 recorded tests behind this page.
- 94.6% overall pass rate, 94.3% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Audi A8, the average is 90.2% — best year 2021 (95.0%), worst 2000 (74.8%).
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
- 2,283
- Typical mileage (median)
- 45,859 mi
- Make and model
- Audi A8
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Windscreen
Typically a garage job — get quotes before committing.
Does mileage affect the A8 MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 84% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Diesel is the most common here (85% of tests).
Regional pass rates for the A8
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 526 | 95.2% |
| North West | 261 | 93.1% |
| East of England | 240 | 95.0% |
| London | 230 | 99.1% |
| West Midlands | 216 | 93.1% |
| Yorkshire | 184 | 95.7% |
| Scotland | 179 | 89.4% |
| East Midlands | 154 | 92.2% |
| South West | 112 | 95.5% |
| North East | 98 | 98.0% |
| Wales | 83 | 94.0% |
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 2019 A8
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 2019 A8
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 1.5% 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 tyre tread 0.7% 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.
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Check the wipers and washers 0.5% of tests
“wipers blade defective”
Run the wipers with the screen wet: they should clear it in one sweep without smearing or juddering. Top the washer bottle up and check both jets hit the screen.
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 2019 A8 through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £43–£101 — and 20% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £43–£101
- 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
- 20%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 2,283 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 A8, side by side
23 model years on record, from 2000 to 2022. Across them the pass rate runs from 74.8% to 95.0% — a spread of 20.2 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2000 74.8% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2001 81.6% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2002 82.6% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2003 81.2% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2004 82.8% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2005 83.9% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2006 84.1% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2007 84.3% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2008 87.0% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2009 87.1% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2010 88.2% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2011 90.3% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2012 90.2% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2013 91.0% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2014 92.8% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2015 92.7% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2016 92.7% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2017 93.8% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2018 93.9% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2019 94.6%windscreen damaged but not…
- 2020 93.4% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2021 95.0% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2022 93.5% 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 2019 Audi A8 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 2019 cars with a similar record
- Lexus Nx 94.5%
- Toyota RAV4 94.7%
- Honda Jazz 94.8%
- Porsche Macan 94.8%
- Suzuki Jimny 94.8%
- Porsche Cayenne 94.3%
Closest pass rates among 2019 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 2019 Audi A8 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 1,009 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 | 453 | 44.70% | 19.76% | +24.94 |
| Brakes | 317 | 31.30% | 20.89% | +10.41 |
| Visibility | 76 | 7.50% | 4.97% | +2.53 |
| Non-component advisories | 56 | 5.50% | 4.18% | +1.32 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 30 | 3.00% | 12.21% | −9.21 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 28 | 2.80% | 1.76% | +1.04 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 20 | 2.00% | 5.52% | −3.52 |
| Suspension | 16 | 1.60% | 20.98% | −19.38 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 7 | 0.70% | 5.57% | −4.87 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 6 | 0.60% | 0.82% | −0.22 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 1.5% | £80–200 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 1.2% | £45–95 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 0.74% | £45–95 |
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 0.66% | £45–95 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 0.48% | £8–22 |
| Brake pads worn down to wear indicator Brakes | Major | 0.35% | £18–45 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Major | 0.31% | £18–45 |
| Washers provides insufficient washer liquid Visibility | Rectified | 0.26% | £5–15 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Rectified | 0.26% | £8–22 |
| Malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction Noise, emissions and leaks | Rectified | 0.22% | £3–12 |
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 | 11.0% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 6.0% | £18–45 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 4.3% | £45–110 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 3.2% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs significantly and obviously worn Brakes | Advisory | 2.1% | £45–110 |
| Non-component advisories Nail in tyre Non-component advisories | Advisory | 1.7% | £45–95 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 483 | 95.4% | 22,011 mi |
| 30-60k | 1,137 | 94.4% | 44,066 mi |
| 60-90k | 444 | 94.6% | 72,398 mi |
| 90-120k | 129 | 92.2% | 102,439 mi |
| 120k+ | 89 | 96.6% | 157,898 mi |
Source: 2,283 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.
2019 A8 MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2019 Audi A8?
94.6% of the 2,283 2019 Audi A8 tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 89.5% for cars first used in 2019. First-attempt pass rate: 94.3%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2019 Audi A8?
The three most recorded items are windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (1.53%), has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords (1.23%), tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm (0.74%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2019 Audi A8 MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 95.4% of the time, falling to 96.6% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2019 Audi A8 in this dataset had covered 45,859 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2019 Audi A8?
Diesel: 94.2% pass rate across 1,939 tests. Petrol: 97.1% pass rate across 343 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2019 Audi A8 MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 94.8% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 94.4%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.