Pass rate
91.3%
Above average — 0.7 pts behind the 92.0% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 1,623 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £43–£99
2022 Audi Q3 Technik MOT pass rate
- 2022
- 2 trims combined
- typical 26,579 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
46.6% 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 2023 95.0% pass
- Avoid 2021 90.7% pass
Across the 3 years on record, a spread of 4.3 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 90.7%
- Typical mileage
- 27k mi
The 2022 Audi Q3 Technik MOT pass rate is 91.3% of its MOT tests — about what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 46.6% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Audi Q3 Technik does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 2.4× the national share
Tyres make up 46.6% of everything recorded on the 2022 Audi Q3 Technik, against 19.8% nationally — 26.8 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.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 16% 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 Q3 Technik first registered in 2022 is combined here — 2 trim and body variants in total — so the sample is as large as the DVSA data allows.
How does the 2022 Audi Q3 Technik compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 92.0%, so this figure is 0.7 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 90.7%. The median 2022 Audi Q3 Technik in this dataset had covered 26,579 mi.
The most common fuel recorded here is Petrol — 65% of tests, with a 92.3% pass rate. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 92.7% of the time, April–September 89.6%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view", noted on 2.65% of tests.
- 1,623 recorded tests behind this page.
- 91.3% overall pass rate, 90.7% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Audi Q3 Technik, the average is 91.1% — best year 2023 (95.0%), worst 2021 (90.7%).
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
- 1,623
- Typical mileage (median)
- 26,579 mi
- Make and model
- Audi Q3 Technik
- 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 Q3 Technik MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 72% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Petrol is the most common here (65% of tests).
Regional pass rates for the Q3 Technik
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 319 | 89.0% |
| North West | 215 | 90.2% |
| East of England | 176 | 93.2% |
| Scotland | 164 | 89.0% |
| West Midlands | 162 | 94.4% |
| South West | 146 | 87.7% |
| East Midlands | 114 | 91.2% |
| Yorkshire | 111 | 94.6% |
| London | 102 | 96.1% |
| North East | 59 | 96.6% |
| Wales | 55 | 89.1% |
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 2022 Q3 Technik
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 2022 Q3 Technik
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 2.6% 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 2.6% 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 brakes 1.4% of tests
“brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick”
Look through the spokes of each wheel at the pad — less than 3mm of friction material, or a lip on the disc edge, is the usual failure. Check the handbrake holds on a slope with a few clicks, not at the top of its travel.
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 2022 Q3 Technik through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £43–£99 — and 16% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £43–£99
- Cheapest common item: washers not working
- £5–£15
- Dearest common item: windscreen damaged
- £80–£200
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 80%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 16%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 1,623 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 Q3 Technik, side by side
3 model years on record, from 2021 to 2023. Across them the pass rate runs from 90.7% to 95.0% — a spread of 4.3 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2021 90.7% has a cut in excess of the…
- 2022 91.3%windscreen damaged but not…
- 2023 95.0% 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 2022 Audi Q3 Technik 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 2022 cars with a similar record
- Peugeot 208 91.3%
- Kia Ceed GT-Line Isg 91.3%
- Vauxhall Grandland Ultimate 91.3%
- Fiat 500E 91.3%
- Volkswagen ID3 91.2%
- BMW 420I 91.2%
Closest pass rates among 2022 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 2022 Audi Q3 Technik 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 1,110 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 | 517 | 46.60% | 19.76% | +26.84 |
| Brakes | 225 | 20.30% | 20.89% | −0.59 |
| Non-component advisories | 125 | 11.30% | 4.18% | +7.12 |
| Suspension | 102 | 9.20% | 20.98% | −11.78 |
| Visibility | 89 | 8.00% | 4.97% | +3.03 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 18 | 1.60% | 1.76% | −0.16 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 16 | 1.40% | 12.21% | −10.81 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 13 | 1.20% | 5.52% | −4.32 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 4 | 0.40% | 5.57% | −5.17 |
| Road Wheels | 1 | 0.10% | 0.75% | −0.65 |
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 | 2.6% | £80–200 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 2.6% | £45–95 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 2.3% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Major | 1.4% | £18–45 |
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 1.2% | £45–95 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 0.62% | £8–22 |
| Washers not working Visibility | Major | 0.55% | £5–15 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 0.49% | £8–22 |
| Washers provides insufficient washer liquid Visibility | Major | 0.37% | £5–15 |
| Headlamp aim too low Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 0.25% | £30–80 |
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 | 17.3% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 7.5% | £18–45 |
| Shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak Suspension | Advisory | 5.3% | £30–75 |
| Non-component advisories Child Seat fitted not allowing full inspection of adult belt Non-component advisories | Advisory | 4.6% | £20–80 |
| Tread depth tread pattern not visible over the whole tread area when minimum depth required is 1.0mm Tyres | Advisory | 2.9% | £45–95 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 2.8% | £45–95 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 978 | 93.1% | 20,045 mi |
| 30-60k | 536 | 88.4% | 40,828 mi |
| 60-90k | 94 | 90.4% | 69,873 mi |
| 90-120k | 15 | 80.0% | 95,558 mi |
Source: 1,623 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.
2022 Q3 Technik MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2022 Audi Q3 Technik?
91.3% of the 1,623 2022 Audi Q3 Technik tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 92.0% for cars first used in 2022. First-attempt pass rate: 90.7%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2022 Audi Q3 Technik?
The three most recorded items are windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (2.65%), tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm (2.59%), has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords (2.34%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2022 Audi Q3 Technik MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 93.1% of the time, falling to 80.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2022 Audi Q3 Technik in this dataset had covered 26,579 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2022 Audi Q3 Technik?
Petrol: 92.3% pass rate across 1,062 tests. Hybrid: 89.6% pass rate across 451 tests. Diesel: 89.1% pass rate across 110 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2022 Audi Q3 Technik MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 92.7% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 89.6%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.