Pass rate
72.7%
Below average — 0.3 pts ahead of the 72.4% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 231 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £46–£141
2005 Audi Allroad MOT pass rate
- 2005
- typical 152,313 mi
Check your postcode
Most common fault
Brakes
26.8% of faults · 20.9% nationally
mostly worn pads and discs, corroded pipes and a handbrake that will not hold.
Which year to buy
- Best 2011 81.6% pass
- Avoid 2002 68.9% pass
Across the 12 years on record, a spread of 12.7 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 65.0%
- Typical mileage
- 152k mi
The 2005 Audi Allroad MOT pass rate is 72.7% of its MOT tests — about what its age and mileage predict. Brakes is the biggest single reason it fails, at 26.8% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Brakes: 1.3× the national share
Brakes make up 26.8% of everything recorded on the 2005 Audi Allroad, against 20.9% nationally — 5.9 points above. Have the discs and pads measured rather than glanced at, and ask whether the handbrake holds on a slope.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 31% 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.
- Based on a small sample. 231 tests back this page. That is enough to publish and to index, not enough to treat the decimal places as precise — read the pattern, not the second digit.
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 2005 Audi Allroad compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 72.4%, so this figure is 0.3 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 65.0%. The median 2005 Audi Allroad in this dataset had covered 152,313 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 72.6% of the time, April–September 72.9%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated", noted on 10.39% of tests.
- 231 recorded tests behind this page.
- 72.7% overall pass rate, 65.0% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Audi Allroad, the average is 79.5% — best year 2011 (81.6%), worst 2002 (68.9%).
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
- 231
- Typical mileage (median)
- 152,313 mi
- Make and model
- Audi Allroad
- Updated
- 2026-11-07
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Body Panel Repair
Typically a garage job — get quotes before committing.
Does mileage affect the Allroad MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 62% so small gaps stay visible.
Where the Audi Allroad is most common
Across all Allroad model years on record (2001–2012): 2,634 Audi Allroad cars tested in a recordable postcode area, across 5,706 tests. Birmingham (B) has the most, with 94 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) | 94 | 89.9% |
| 2 | Peterborough (PE) | 71 | 84.9% |
| 3 | Reading (RG) | 57 | 78.9% |
| 4 | Gloucester (GL) | 56 | 73.0% |
| 5 | Nottingham (NG) | 52 | 75.6% |
| 6 | Guildford (GU) | 52 | 75.0% |
| 7 | Southampton (SO) | 49 | 82.0% |
| 8 | Exeter (EX) | 47 | 68.7% |
| 9 | Leicester (LE) | 46 | 79.3% |
| 10 | Northampton (NN) | 46 | 80.0% |
| 11 | Crawley (RH) | 44 | 77.1% |
| 12 | Newcastle upon Tyne (NE) | 44 | 82.4% |
| 13 | Sheffield (S) | 44 | 82.0% |
| 14 | Norwich (NR) | 41 | 74.8% |
| 15 | Ashford (TN) | 40 | 75.8% |
| 16 | Yeovil (BA) | 39 | 70.9% |
| 17 | Derby (DE) | 39 | 81.9% |
| 18 | Oxford (OX) | 38 | 80.0% |
| 19 | Plymouth (PL) | 38 | 79.5% |
| 20 | Bristol (BS) | 37 | 78.9% |
The twenty areas with the most Audi Allroad 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 Allroad
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 61 | 75.4% |
| South West | 46 | 69.6% |
| North West | 26 | 65.4% |
| East of England | 24 | 75.0% |
| Scotland | 19 | 68.4% |
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 2005 Allroad
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 2005 Allroad
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 lights 8.2% of tests
“headlamp lens slightly defective”
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 suspension joints 7.8% of tests
“pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn”
With the car parked on level ground, rock the top of each front wheel in and out while someone watches the suspension arm. Clunks, or rubber boots split and greasy, are what testers record here.
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Check the windscreen 7.8% 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.
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 2005 Allroad through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £46–£141 — and 31% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £46–£141
- Cheapest common item: rear fog lamp not working
- £3–£15
- Dearest common item: joints constant velocity boot severely…
- £80–£250
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 50%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 31%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 231 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 Allroad, side by side
12 model years on record, from 2001 to 2012. Across them the pass rate runs from 68.9% to 81.6% — a spread of 12.7 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2001 75.5% rear fog lamp not working
- 2002 68.9% ball joint excessively worn
- 2003 75.6% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2004 79.0% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2005 72.7%joints constant velocity boot…
- 2006 79.0% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2007 80.4% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2008 80.4% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2009 79.8% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2010 79.8% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2011 81.6% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2012 78.2% windscreen damaged but not…
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 2005 Audi Allroad 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 2005 cars with a similar record
- Suzuki Jimny 72.7%
- Nissan Primera 72.7%
- Honda Civic 72.8%
- Nissan Almera 72.6%
- Volvo V70 72.9%
- Chrysler Grand Voyager 72.5%
Closest pass rates among 2005 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 2005 Audi Allroad 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 795 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brakes | 214 | 26.80% | 20.89% | +5.91 |
| Suspension | 182 | 22.80% | 20.98% | +1.82 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 118 | 14.80% | 12.21% | +2.59 |
| Tyres | 79 | 9.90% | 19.76% | −9.86 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 67 | 8.40% | 5.57% | +2.83 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 60 | 7.50% | 5.52% | +1.98 |
| Visibility | 29 | 3.60% | 4.97% | −1.37 |
| Steering | 24 | 3.00% | 2.57% | +0.43 |
| Non-component advisories | 12 | 1.50% | 4.18% | −2.68 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 10 | 1.30% | 1.76% | −0.46 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated Body, chassis, structure | Minor | 10.4% | £80–250 |
| Joints constant velocity boot split or insecure, no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Body, chassis, structure | Major | 10.0% | £80–250 |
| Headlamp lens slightly defective Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 8.2% | £5–25 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Major | 7.8% | £40–150 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 7.8% | £80–200 |
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 5.6% | £5–25 |
| Headlamp aim projected beam image is obviously incorrect Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 3.9% | £30–80 |
| Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension | Minor | 2.6% | £18–45 |
| Rear fog lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 2.6% | £3–15 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 2.6% | £5–20 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 22.1% | £40–150 |
| Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded Brakes | Advisory | 19.9% | £80–180 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 19.1% | £45–110 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 18.6% | £45–95 |
| Engine oil leaks leaking excessively from engine Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 18.2% | £200–700 |
| Flexible brake hoses excessively deteriorated Brakes | Advisory | 14.3% | £25–70 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 3 | 100.0% | 15,667 mi |
| 60-90k | 20 | 70.0% | 74,192 mi |
| 90-120k | 27 | 74.1% | 104,861 mi |
| 120k+ | 181 | 72.4% | 169,014 mi |
Source: 231 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.
2005 Allroad MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2005 Audi Allroad?
72.7% of the 231 2005 Audi Allroad tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 72.4% for cars first used in 2005. First-attempt pass rate: 65.0%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2005 Audi Allroad?
The three most recorded items are joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated (10.39%), joints constant velocity boot split or insecure, no longer prevents the ingress of dirt (9.96%), headlamp lens slightly defective (8.23%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2005 Audi Allroad MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 100.0% of the time, falling to 72.4% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2005 Audi Allroad in this dataset had covered 152,313 mi.
Does the season affect the 2005 Audi Allroad MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 72.6% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 72.9%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.