Pass rate
92.3%
Above average — 13.7 pts ahead of the 78.6% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 91 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £53–£158
2013 Audi RS MOT pass rate
- 2013
- 3 trims combined
- typical 65,692 mi
Only 91 tests of this exact model and year are in the DVSA data, below the 100 we ask for before a page goes in the index. The figures are still shown, because they are the only ones there are.
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Most common fault
Tyres
31.2% of faults · 19.8% nationally
mostly tread below the limit, cuts and sidewall bulges.
Which year to buy
- Best 2013 92.3% pass · this year
- Avoid 2014 86.7% pass
Across the 6 years on record, a spread of 5.6 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 91.9%
- Typical mileage
- 66k mi
The 2013 Audi RS MOT pass rate is 92.3% of its MOT tests — 13.7 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 31.2% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 1.6× the national share
Tyres make up 31.2% of everything recorded on the 2013 Audi Rs, against 19.8% nationally — 11.4 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 78.6% and this one manages 92.3% — 13.7 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 0% 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 RS first registered in 2013 is combined here — 3 trim and body variants in total — so the sample is as large as the DVSA data allows.
How does the 2013 Audi RS compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 78.6%, so this figure is 13.7 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 91.9%. The median 2013 Audi RS in this dataset had covered 65,692 mi.
The single most recorded failure item is "Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view", noted on 2.20% of tests.
- 91 recorded tests behind this page.
- 92.3% overall pass rate, 91.9% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Audi RS, the average is 91.0% — best year 2013 (92.3%), worst 2014 (86.7%).
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
- 91
- Typical mileage (median)
- 65,692 mi
- Make and model
- Audi RS
- 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 RS MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 77% so small gaps stay visible.
Where the Audi RS is most common
Across all RS model years on record (2013–2023): 6,551 Audi RS cars tested in a recordable postcode area, across 9,516 tests. Birmingham (B) has the most, with 234 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) | 234 | 91.2% |
| 2 | Leicester (LE) | 150 | 87.7% |
| 3 | Reading (RG) | 142 | 90.2% |
| 4 | Glasgow (G) | 132 | 91.2% |
| 5 | Peterborough (PE) | 130 | 92.5% |
| 6 | Chelmsford (CM) | 128 | 88.6% |
| 7 | Sheffield (S) | 124 | 94.2% |
| 8 | Guildford (GU) | 121 | 87.7% |
| 9 | Bradford (BD) | 116 | 96.8% |
| 10 | Leeds (LS) | 114 | 89.0% |
| 11 | Newcastle upon Tyne (NE) | 110 | 91.5% |
| 12 | Hounslow (TW) | 109 | 87.6% |
| 13 | Harrogate (HG) | 109 | 92.6% |
| 14 | Kingston upon Thames (KT) | 108 | 88.8% |
| 15 | High Wycombe (HP) | 106 | 91.5% |
| 16 | Aberdeen (AB) | 101 | 85.6% |
| 17 | Crawley (RH) | 99 | 89.7% |
| 18 | Ashford (TN) | 98 | 89.2% |
| 19 | Milton Keynes (MK) | 94 | 91.8% |
| 20 | Brighton (BN) | 92 | 90.1% |
The twenty areas with the most Audi RS 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 RS
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| Yorkshire | 16 | 87.5% |
| South East | 15 | 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 2013 RS
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 2013 RS
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 2.2% 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 1.1% of tests
“ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt”
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 exhaust and emissions 1.1% of tests
“catalyst emissions carbon monoxide content after 2nd fast idle exceeds manufacturer's specified limits”
Listen for a blow at idle and have someone rev it gently. Then look at the tailpipe smoke: blue is oil, white when warm is coolant, black is over-fuelling. Any of those and the emissions test is the least of it.
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 2013 RS through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £53–£158 — and 0% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £53–£158
- Cheapest common item: ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the…
- £18–£45
- Dearest common item: catalyst emissions carbon monoxide content…
- £60–£250
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 50%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 0%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 91 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 RS, side by side
6 model years on record, from 2013 to 2023. Across them the pass rate runs from 86.7% to 92.3% — a spread of 5.6 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2013 92.3%windscreen damaged but not…
- 2014 86.7% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2020 91.5% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2021 91.2% has a cut in excess of the…
- 2022 91.2% has a cut in excess of the…
- 2023 91.2% has a cut in excess of the…
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 2013 Audi RS 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 2013 cars with a similar record
- Porsche Cayman 92.7%
- Porsche Boxster 93.5%
- Jaguar F-Type 91.0%
- Bentley Continental 93.9%
- Jaguar Xk 90.5%
- Lexus Rx 90.2%
Closest pass rates among 2013 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 2013 Audi RS 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 96 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 | 30 | 31.20% | 19.76% | +11.44 |
| Brakes | 24 | 25.00% | 20.89% | +4.11 |
| Suspension | 22 | 22.90% | 20.98% | +1.92 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 6 | 6.20% | 12.21% | −6.01 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 4 | 4.20% | 5.52% | −1.32 |
| Visibility | 3 | 3.10% | 4.97% | −1.87 |
| Road Wheels | 3 | 3.10% | 0.75% | +2.35 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 2 | 2.10% | 5.57% | −3.47 |
| Non-component advisories | 1 | 1.00% | 4.18% | −3.18 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 1 | 1.00% | 1.76% | −0.76 |
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 | 2.2% | £80–200 |
| Ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Suspension | Major | 1.1% | £18–45 |
| Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension | Minor | 1.1% | £18–45 |
| Catalyst emissions carbon monoxide content after 2nd fast idle exceeds manufacturer's specified limits Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 1.1% | £60–250 |
| Catalyst emissions emissions likely to be affected by an exhaust leak Noise, emissions and leaks | Rectified | 1.1% | £60–250 |
| Door condition cannot be opened from outside the vehicle Body, chassis, structure | Rectified | 1.1% | £80–250 |
| Fixing missing Road Wheels | Major | 1.1% | £20–55 |
| Fuel cap/sealing device ineffective Body, chassis, structure | Rectified | 1.1% | £80–250 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 1.1% | £45–95 |
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 1.1% | £45–95 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 14.3% | £45–110 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 11.0% | £45–95 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 8.8% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 5.5% | £18–45 |
| Coil spring corroded so that its cross sectional area is reduced and seriously weakened Suspension | Advisory | 5.5% | £25–65 |
| Has a bulge, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 5.5% | £45–95 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 6 | 100.0% | 10,190 mi |
| 30-60k | 33 | 93.9% | 47,622 mi |
| 60-90k | 29 | 93.1% | 72,772 mi |
| 90-120k | 16 | 87.5% | 95,079 mi |
| 120k+ | 7 | 85.7% | 145,225 mi |
Source: 91 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.
2013 RS MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2013 Audi RS?
92.3% of the 91 2013 Audi RS tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 78.6% for cars first used in 2013. First-attempt pass rate: 91.9%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2013 Audi RS?
The three most recorded items are windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (2.20%), ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt (1.10%), ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated (1.10%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2013 Audi RS MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 100.0% of the time, falling to 85.7% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2013 Audi RS in this dataset had covered 65,692 mi.