Pass rate
79.0%
Around average — 6.5 pts ahead of the 72.5% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 709 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £22–£65
2006 Audi Allroad MOT pass rate
- 2006
- typical 159,809 mi
Check your postcode
Most common fault
Suspension
26.2% of faults · 21.0% nationally
mostly worn arm bushes, split ball-joint boots and broken coil springs.
Part only £35–£75 for Suspension pin or bush excessively worn. What fitting it takes →
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
- 74.4%
- Typical mileage
- 160k mi
The 2006 Audi Allroad MOT pass rate is 79.0% of its MOT tests — 6.5 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Suspension is the biggest single reason it fails, at 26.2% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Lamps & electrics: 1.5× the national share
Lamps & electrics make up 17.9% of everything recorded on the 2006 Audi Allroad, against 12.2% nationally — 5.7 points above. Suspension is still the single largest share at 26.2%, but at 21.0% nationally that one is ordinary. Walk round the car with the lights on before the test: bulbs, indicators and number-plate lamps are the cheapest failures to prevent and among the most common.
- 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 72.5% and this one manages 79.0% — 6.5 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- Failures here tend to be cheap ones. 58% of the repairs this model fails on cost under £30 in parts. The pass rate matters less than what a bad afternoon at the test centre actually costs you.
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 2006 Audi Allroad compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 72.5%, so this figure is 6.5 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 74.4%. The median 2006 Audi Allroad in this dataset had covered 159,809 mi.
The most common fuel recorded here is Diesel — 99% of tests, with a 79.0% pass rate. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 77.1% of the time, April–September 82.0%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources", noted on 10.44% of tests.
- 709 recorded tests behind this page.
- 79.0% overall pass rate, 74.4% 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
- 709
- Typical mileage (median)
- 159,809 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
Number Plate Lamp
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Allroad MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 69% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Diesel is the most common here (99% of tests).
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 West | 121 | 74.4% |
| South East | 116 | 81.9% |
| East of England | 73 | 86.3% |
| West Midlands | 71 | 88.7% |
| Scotland | 68 | 72.1% |
| East Midlands | 66 | 78.8% |
| Yorkshire | 64 | 71.9% |
| North West | 52 | 76.9% |
| Wales | 34 | 70.6% |
| London | 28 | 89.3% |
| North East | 16 | 81.3% |
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 2006 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 2006 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 10.4% of tests
“registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources”
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 windscreen 5.5% 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 suspension joints 3.0% 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.
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 2006 Allroad through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £22–£65 — and 58% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £22–£65
- 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
- 80%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 58%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 709 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 2006 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 2006 cars with a similar record
Closest pass rates among 2006 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 2006 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 1,556 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Suspension | 413 | 26.20% | 20.98% | +5.22 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 283 | 17.90% | 12.21% | +5.69 |
| Brakes | 280 | 17.70% | 20.89% | −3.19 |
| Tyres | 234 | 14.80% | 19.76% | −4.96 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 89 | 5.60% | 5.52% | +0.08 |
| Visibility | 76 | 4.80% | 4.97% | −0.17 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 63 | 4.00% | 5.57% | −1.57 |
| Non-component advisories | 41 | 2.60% | 4.18% | −1.58 |
| Steering | 40 | 2.50% | 2.57% | −0.07 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 37 | 2.30% | 1.76% | +0.54 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 10.4% | £5–20 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 5.5% | £80–200 |
| Headlamp lens slightly defective Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 3.5% | £5–25 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Major | 3.0% | £40–150 |
| Position lamp with a multiple light source up to 1/2 not functioning Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 2.7% | £5–25 |
| Ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Major | 2.3% | £18–45 |
| Track rod end ball joint has excessive play Steering | Major | 2.0% | £18–45 |
| Malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 1.8% | £3–12 |
| Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension | Minor | 1.7% | £18–45 |
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 1.7% | £5–25 |
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 | 20.0% | £40–150 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 19.5% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 9.7% | £45–110 |
| Engine oil leaks leaking excessively from engine Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 9.3% | £200–700 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 9.0% | £18–45 |
| Linkage pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 5.8% | £40–150 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 6 | 100.0% | 18,524 mi |
| 30-60k | 5 | 100.0% | 51,102 mi |
| 60-90k | 10 | 100.0% | 79,224 mi |
| 90-120k | 79 | 83.5% | 107,998 mi |
| 120k+ | 609 | 77.7% | 172,497 mi |
Source: 709 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.
2006 Allroad MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2006 Audi Allroad?
79.0% of the 709 2006 Audi Allroad tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 72.5% for cars first used in 2006. First-attempt pass rate: 74.4%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2006 Audi Allroad?
The three most recorded items are registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources (10.44%), windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (5.50%), headlamp lens slightly defective (3.53%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2006 Audi Allroad MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 100.0% of the time, falling to 77.7% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2006 Audi Allroad in this dataset had covered 159,809 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2006 Audi Allroad?
Diesel: 79.0% pass rate across 699 tests. Petrol: 80.0% pass rate across 10 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2006 Audi Allroad MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 77.1% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 82.0%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.