Pass rate
88.0%
Above average — 4.0 pts ahead of the 84.0% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 37,615 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £51–£143
2016 Audi Q5 MOT pass rate
- 2016
- typical 70,952 mi
Check your postcode
Most common fault
Tyres
31.1% 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 →
2.1 pts down across model years — 6.6% in 2009, 4.5% in 2022.
Which year to buy
- Best 2023 97.0% pass
- Avoid 2009 78.0% pass
Across the 16 years on record, a spread of 19 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 86.5%
- Typical mileage
- 71k mi
The 2016 Audi Q5 MOT pass rate is 88.0% of its MOT tests — 4.0 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 31.1% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 1.6× the national share
Tyres make up 31.1% of everything recorded on the 2016 Audi Q5, against 19.8% nationally — 11.3 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 84.0% and this one manages 88.0% — 4.0 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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How does the 2016 Audi Q5 compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 84.0%, so this figure is 4.0 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 86.5%. The median 2016 Audi Q5 in this dataset had covered 70,952 mi.
The most common fuel recorded here is Diesel — 93% of tests, with a 88.3% pass rate. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 88.1% of the time, April–September 87.9%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view", noted on 3.05% of tests.
- 37,615 recorded tests behind this page.
- 88.0% overall pass rate, 86.5% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Audi Q5, the average is 87.6% — best year 2023 (97.0%), worst 2009 (78.0%).
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
- 37,615
- Typical mileage (median)
- 70,952 mi
- Make and model
- Audi Q5
- Updated
- 2026-11-07
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 Q5 MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 76% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Diesel is the most common here (93% of tests).
Where the Audi Q5 is most common
Across all Q5 model years on record (2008–2023): 172,363 Audi Q5 cars tested in a recordable postcode area, across 358,898 tests. Birmingham (B) has the most, with 4,806 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) | 4,806 | 90.0% |
| 2 | Leicester (LE) | 3,967 | 86.2% |
| 3 | Peterborough (PE) | 3,492 | 89.2% |
| 4 | Reading (RG) | 3,142 | 87.8% |
| 5 | Sheffield (S) | 3,129 | 89.7% |
| 6 | Glasgow (G) | 3,017 | 86.4% |
| 7 | Newcastle upon Tyne (NE) | 3,008 | 88.0% |
| 8 | Chelmsford (CM) | 2,897 | 89.3% |
| 9 | Nottingham (NG) | 2,808 | 86.1% |
| 10 | Guildford (GU) | 2,779 | 86.0% |
| 11 | Kingston upon Thames (KT) | 2,522 | 88.9% |
| 12 | High Wycombe (HP) | 2,372 | 89.0% |
| 13 | Coventry (CV) | 2,341 | 88.2% |
| 14 | Manchester (M) | 2,305 | 88.9% |
| 15 | Derby (DE) | 2,229 | 88.6% |
| 16 | Hounslow (TW) | 2,228 | 89.8% |
| 17 | Cardiff (CF) | 2,216 | 86.1% |
| 18 | Ashford (TN) | 2,204 | 87.9% |
| 19 | Aberdeen (AB) | 2,170 | 83.1% |
| 20 | Gloucester (GL) | 2,058 | 86.8% |
The twenty areas with the most Audi Q5 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 Q5
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 7,596 | 88.8% |
| East of England | 4,370 | 89.1% |
| North West | 4,126 | 88.4% |
| Scotland | 3,798 | 84.5% |
| South West | 3,632 | 87.3% |
| West Midlands | 3,292 | 90.0% |
| Yorkshire | 3,068 | 87.8% |
| East Midlands | 2,215 | 87.9% |
| London | 2,108 | 87.9% |
| Wales | 1,766 | 88.7% |
| North East | 1,628 | 86.8% |
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 2016 Q5
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 2016 Q5
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 3.0% 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 1.3% 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 suspension joints 1.3% 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 2016 Q5 through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £51–£143 — and 20% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £51–£143
- Cheapest common item: malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or…
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: joints constant velocity boot split or…
- £80–£250
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 60%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 20%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 37,615 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 Q5, side by side
16 model years on record, from 2008 to 2023. Across them the pass rate runs from 78.0% to 97.0% — a spread of 19 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2008 80.0% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2009 78.0% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2010 79.2% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2011 80.8% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2012 83.0% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2013 85.0% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2014 86.1% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2015 86.9% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2016 88.0%windscreen damaged but not…
- 2017 86.3% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2018 90.4% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2019 92.3% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2020 93.2% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2021 92.6% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2022 94.0% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2023 97.0% 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 2016 Audi Q5 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 2016 cars with a similar record
- Jaguar Xf 88.0%
- Land Rover Range Rover Evoque 88.1%
- Subaru Outback 88.1%
- BMW 3 Series 88.2%
- Volkswagen Tiguan 87.8%
- BMW 120 87.8%
Closest pass rates among 2016 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 2016 Audi Q5 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 36,415 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 | 11,386 | 31.10% | 19.76% | +11.34 |
| Brakes | 8,134 | 22.20% | 20.89% | +1.31 |
| Suspension | 6,082 | 16.60% | 20.98% | −4.38 |
| Non-component advisories | 2,815 | 7.70% | 4.18% | +3.52 |
| Visibility | 2,224 | 6.10% | 4.97% | +1.13 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 1,802 | 4.90% | 5.57% | −0.67 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 1,492 | 4.10% | 12.21% | −8.11 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 1,136 | 3.10% | 1.76% | +1.34 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 868 | 2.40% | 5.52% | −3.12 |
| Steering | 476 | 1.30% | 2.57% | −1.27 |
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 | 3.0% | £80–200 |
| Joints constant velocity boot split or insecure, no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Body, chassis, structure | Major | 2.3% | £80–250 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 1.4% | £45–95 |
| Malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 1.3% | £3–12 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Major | 1.3% | £40–150 |
| Joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated Body, chassis, structure | Minor | 1.0% | £80–250 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 0.87% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Major | 0.86% | £18–45 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 0.78% | £8–22 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 0.64% | £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 | 16.2% | £45–95 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 11.0% | £40–150 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 10.8% | £18–45 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 4.9% | £45–110 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 4.8% | £45–95 |
| Non-component advisories Child Seat fitted not allowing full inspection of adult belt Non-component advisories | Advisory | 3.9% | £20–80 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 887 | 94.3% | 23,374 mi |
| 30-60k | 10,868 | 90.5% | 48,917 mi |
| 60-90k | 17,309 | 87.4% | 73,964 mi |
| 90-120k | 6,747 | 86.0% | 101,521 mi |
| 120k+ | 1,801 | 84.0% | 139,200 mi |
Source: 37,615 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.
2016 Q5 MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2016 Audi Q5?
88.0% of the 37,615 2016 Audi Q5 tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 84.0% for cars first used in 2016. First-attempt pass rate: 86.5%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2016 Audi Q5?
The three most recorded items are windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (3.05%), joints constant velocity boot split or insecure, no longer prevents the ingress of dirt (2.28%), has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords (1.43%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2016 Audi Q5 MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 94.3% of the time, falling to 84.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2016 Audi Q5 in this dataset had covered 70,952 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2016 Audi Q5?
Diesel: 88.3% pass rate across 35,163 tests. Petrol: 84.5% pass rate across 2,452 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2016 Audi Q5 MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 88.1% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 87.9%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.