Pass rate
94.2%
Above average — 10.2 pts ahead of the 84.0% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 990 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £41–£106
2016 Audi R8 MOT pass rate
- 2016
- 2 trims combined
- typical 28,129 mi
Check your postcode
Most common fault
Tyres
46.6% of faults · 19.8% nationally
mostly tread below the limit, cuts and sidewall bulges.
Which year to buy
- Best 2020 96.5% pass
- Avoid 2008 88.7% pass
Across the 15 years on record, a spread of 7.8 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 94.0%
- Typical mileage
- 28k mi
The 2016 Audi R8 MOT pass rate is 94.2% of its MOT tests — 10.2 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 46.6% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 2.4× the national share
Tyres make up 46.6% of everything recorded on the 2016 Audi R8, 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.
- 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 94.2% — 10.2 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- 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 R8 first registered in 2016 is combined here — 2 trim and body variants in total — so the sample is as large as the DVSA data allows.
How does the 2016 Audi R8 compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 84.0%, so this figure is 10.2 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 94.0%. The median 2016 Audi R8 in this dataset had covered 28,129 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 93.2% of the time, April–September 95.2%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view", noted on 2.12% of tests.
- 990 recorded tests behind this page.
- 94.2% overall pass rate, 94.0% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Audi R8, the average is 92.3% — best year 2020 (96.5%), worst 2008 (88.7%).
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
- 990
- Typical mileage (median)
- 28,129 mi
- Make and model
- Audi R8
- 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 R8 MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 84% so small gaps stay visible.
Where the Audi R8 is most common
Across all R8 model years on record (2007–2021): 6,689 Audi R8 cars tested in a recordable postcode area, across 11,706 tests. Birmingham (B) has the most, with 217 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) | 217 | 94.3% |
| 2 | Swindon (SN) | 180 | 88.5% |
| 3 | Guildford (GU) | 165 | 90.0% |
| 4 | Chelmsford (CM) | 143 | 91.6% |
| 5 | Leicester (LE) | 135 | 94.2% |
| 6 | Derby (DE) | 134 | 98.1% |
| 7 | Ashford (TN) | 127 | 94.6% |
| 8 | Reading (RG) | 124 | 93.7% |
| 9 | High Wycombe (HP) | 117 | 93.2% |
| 10 | Crawley (RH) | 116 | 89.8% |
| 11 | Coventry (CV) | 115 | 93.3% |
| 12 | Peterborough (PE) | 109 | 95.6% |
| 13 | Nottingham (NG) | 106 | 92.5% |
| 14 | Sheffield (S) | 106 | 91.1% |
| 15 | Northampton (NN) | 104 | 92.7% |
| 16 | Milton Keynes (MK) | 102 | 93.9% |
| 17 | Hounslow (TW) | 95 | 91.5% |
| 18 | Leeds (LS) | 94 | 90.2% |
| 19 | Cardiff (CF) | 91 | 94.8% |
| 20 | Glasgow (G) | 90 | 88.2% |
The twenty areas with the most Audi R8 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 R8
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 231 | 93.5% |
| Yorkshire | 122 | 95.9% |
| East of England | 115 | 93.0% |
| North West | 110 | 93.6% |
| West Midlands | 96 | 95.8% |
| East Midlands | 74 | 98.6% |
| South West | 72 | 93.1% |
| London | 54 | 92.6% |
| Wales | 48 | 93.8% |
| Scotland | 48 | 89.6% |
| North East | 20 | 100.0% |
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 2016 R8
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 R8
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 2.1% 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 shock absorbers 1.5% of tests
“shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak”
Press down hard on each corner of the car and let go. It should settle in one bounce; if it keeps rocking, or you can see oil weeping down a shock absorber, that is the fault a tester will find.
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Check the number plates 0.7% of tests
“registration plates does not conform to the specified requirements”
Check both plates are present, legible and correctly spaced, with the postcode of the supplier and the BS AU 145e mark. A private plate in the wrong style is a fail before the car is even looked at.
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 R8 through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £41–£106 — and 16% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £41–£106
- Cheapest common item: srs malfunction indicator lamp warning lamp…
- £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
- 16%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 990 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 R8, side by side
15 model years on record, from 2007 to 2021. Across them the pass rate runs from 88.7% to 96.5% — a spread of 7.8 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2007 89.3% rear fog lamp not working
- 2008 88.7% rear fog lamp not working
- 2009 90.5% rear fog lamp not working
- 2010 90.9% rear fog lamp not working
- 2011 91.2% rear fog lamp not working
- 2012 90.8% rear fog lamp not working
- 2013 93.5% rear fog lamp not working
- 2014 95.0% shock absorbers has a serious…
- 2015 93.5% shock absorbers has a serious…
- 2016 94.2%windscreen damaged but not…
- 2017 94.7% shock absorbers has a serious…
- 2018 95.7% shock absorbers has a serious…
- 2019 95.0% has a cut in excess of the…
- 2020 96.5% has a cut in excess of the…
- 2021 92.7% registration plates does 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 R8 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
- Lexus Rx 94.4%
- Jaguar F-Type 93.9%
- Porsche Boxster 94.6%
- Porsche Cayman 94.8%
- Bentley Continental 95.2%
- Porsche 911 95.7%
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 R8 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 290 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 | 136 | 46.60% | 19.76% | +26.84 |
| Suspension | 48 | 16.40% | 20.98% | −4.58 |
| Brakes | 27 | 9.20% | 20.89% | −11.69 |
| Visibility | 25 | 8.60% | 4.97% | +3.63 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 19 | 6.50% | 1.76% | +4.74 |
| Non-component advisories | 14 | 4.80% | 4.18% | +0.62 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 7 | 2.40% | 12.21% | −9.81 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 7 | 2.40% | 5.52% | −3.12 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 4 | 1.40% | 0.82% | +0.58 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 3 | 1.00% | 5.57% | −4.57 |
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 | 2.1% | £80–200 |
| Shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak Suspension | Major | 1.5% | £30–75 |
| Registration plates does not conform to the specified requirements Identification of the vehicle | Major | 0.71% | £20–80 |
| Tyre pressure monitoring system malfunctioning or obviously inoperative Tyres | Major | 0.51% | £45–95 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 0.40% | £45–95 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 0.40% | £5–20 |
| Srs malfunction indicator lamp warning lamp indicates a fault Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | Major | 0.40% | £3–12 |
| Coil spring fractured or broken Suspension | Major | 0.30% | £25–65 |
| Malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 0.30% | £3–12 |
| Registration plates missing Identification of the vehicle | Major | 0.30% | £20–80 |
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 | 6.4% | £45–95 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 2.9% | £45–95 |
| Shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak Suspension | Advisory | 2.8% | £30–75 |
| Tread depth tread pattern not visible over the whole tread area when minimum depth required is 1.0mm Tyres | Advisory | 1.5% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 1.1% | £18–45 |
| Non-component advisories Nail in tyre Non-component advisories | Advisory | 1.1% | £45–95 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 558 | 95.5% | 19,915 mi |
| 30-60k | 406 | 92.6% | 39,755 mi |
| 60-90k | 26 | 92.3% | 67,627 mi |
Source: 990 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 R8 MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2016 Audi R8?
94.2% of the 990 2016 Audi R8 tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 84.0% for cars first used in 2016. First-attempt pass rate: 94.0%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2016 Audi R8?
The three most recorded items are windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (2.12%), shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak (1.52%), registration plates does not conform to the specified requirements (0.71%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2016 Audi R8 MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 95.5% of the time, falling to 92.3% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2016 Audi R8 in this dataset had covered 28,129 mi.
Does the season affect the 2016 Audi R8 MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 93.2% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 95.2%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.