Pass rate
86.3%
Above average — 7.7 pts ahead of the 78.6% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 336 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £42–£117
2013 Audi SQ5 MOT pass rate
- 2013
- typical 95,185 mi
Check your postcode
Most common fault
Suspension
29.0% 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 2022 95.6% pass
- Avoid 2016 84.5% pass
Across the 6 years on record, a spread of 11.1 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 84.5%
- Typical mileage
- 95k mi
The 2013 Audi SQ5 MOT pass rate is 86.3% of its MOT tests — 7.7 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Suspension is the biggest single reason it fails, at 29.0% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Suspension: 1.4× the national share
Suspension accounts for 29.0% of everything recorded on the 2013 Audi Sq5, against 21.0% nationally — 8.0 points above. Ask for the front and rear suspension to be checked on a ramp before you buy — worn bushes and broken springs are cheap to look at and expensive to discover at test time.
- 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 86.3% — 7.7 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 11% 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 2013 Audi SQ5 compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 78.6%, so this figure is 7.7 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 84.5%. The median 2013 Audi SQ5 in this dataset had covered 95,185 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 87.0% of the time, April–September 84.8%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view", noted on 5.95% of tests.
- 336 recorded tests behind this page.
- 86.3% overall pass rate, 84.5% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Audi SQ5, the average is 91.3% — best year 2022 (95.6%), worst 2016 (84.5%).
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
- 336
- Typical mileage (median)
- 95,185 mi
- Make and model
- Audi SQ5
- 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 SQ5 MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 75% so small gaps stay visible.
Where the Audi SQ5 is most common
Across all SQ5 model years on record (2013–2022): 1,855 Audi SQ5 cars tested in a recordable postcode area, across 3,036 tests. Aberdeen (AB) has the most, with 65 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 | Aberdeen (AB) | 65 | 87.6% |
| 2 | Birmingham (B) | 53 | 94.7% |
| 3 | Newcastle upon Tyne (NE) | 52 | 96.5% |
| 4 | Chelmsford (CM) | 52 | 97.4% |
| 5 | Reading (RG) | 45 | 89.9% |
| 6 | Sheffield (S) | 43 | 92.6% |
| 7 | Glasgow (G) | 39 | 90.0% |
| 8 | Leicester (LE) | 38 | 92.6% |
| 9 | Swansea (SA) | 35 | 89.7% |
| 10 | Doncaster (DN) | 34 | 97.8% |
| 11 | Derby (DE) | 33 | 93.3% |
| 12 | Cardiff (CF) | 33 | 91.1% |
| 13 | Peterborough (PE) | 33 | 93.9% |
| 14 | Nottingham (NG) | 32 | 93.8% |
| 15 | High Wycombe (HP) | 31 | 89.7% |
| 16 | Oldham (OL) | 30 | 92.3% |
| 17 | Ipswich (IP) | 26 | 87.8% |
| 18 | Wakefield (WF) | 24 | 88.4% |
| 19 | Guildford (GU) | 24 | 89.5% |
| 20 | Stoke On Trent (ST) | 23 | 80.5% |
The twenty areas with the most Audi SQ5 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 SQ5
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| Yorkshire | 46 | 87.0% |
| South East | 44 | 93.2% |
| Scotland | 41 | 75.6% |
| East of England | 41 | 95.1% |
| North West | 36 | 86.1% |
| South West | 33 | 72.7% |
| West Midlands | 33 | 78.8% |
| East Midlands | 28 | 100.0% |
| Wales | 20 | 85.0% |
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 SQ5
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 SQ5
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 6.0% 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 coil springs 4.5% of tests
“coil spring fractured or broken”
Look up inside each wheel arch with a torch, all the way round the spring. A snapped spring usually breaks at the very bottom coil, where a quick glance will not reach.
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Check the suspension joints 3.3% 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 2013 SQ5 through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £42–£117 — and 11% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £42–£117
- Cheapest common item: malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or…
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: joints constant velocity boot severely…
- £80–£250
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 60%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 11%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 336 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 SQ5, side by side
6 model years on record, from 2013 to 2022. Across them the pass rate runs from 84.5% to 95.6% — a spread of 11.1 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2013 86.3%windscreen damaged but not…
- 2014 89.7% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2015 90.8% rear reflectors defective or…
- 2016 84.5% pins and bushes pin or bush…
- 2021 93.9% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2022 95.6% 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 SQ5 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
- Mazda Mx-5 86.3%
- BMW 530 86.3%
- Mercedes-Benz Sl 86.2%
- Mercedes-Benz Ml 86.5%
- MINI Paceman 86.0%
- Toyota Auris 85.9%
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 SQ5 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 372 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 | 108 | 29.00% | 20.98% | +8.02 |
| Brakes | 86 | 23.10% | 20.89% | +2.21 |
| Tyres | 74 | 19.80% | 19.76% | +0.04 |
| Visibility | 32 | 8.60% | 4.97% | +3.63 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 25 | 6.70% | 5.52% | +1.18 |
| Non-component advisories | 15 | 4.00% | 4.18% | −0.18 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 13 | 3.50% | 1.76% | +1.74 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 11 | 2.90% | 12.21% | −9.31 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 6 | 1.60% | 5.57% | −3.97 |
| Steering | 2 | 0.50% | 2.57% | −2.07 |
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 | 6.0% | £80–200 |
| Coil spring fractured or broken Suspension | Major | 4.5% | £25–65 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Major | 3.3% | £40–150 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Major | 1.2% | £18–45 |
| Malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 1.2% | £3–12 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Rectified | 1.2% | £8–22 |
| Ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Suspension | Major | 0.89% | £18–45 |
| Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension | Minor | 0.89% | £18–45 |
| Headlamp aim too low Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 0.89% | £30–80 |
| Joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated Body, chassis, structure | Minor | 0.89% | £80–250 |
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 | 15.2% | £40–150 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 9.8% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 8.9% | £18–45 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 7.4% | £45–110 |
| Engine oil leaks leaking excessively from engine Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 5.7% | £200–700 |
| Non-component advisories Nail in tyre Non-component advisories | Advisory | 3.6% | £45–95 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30-60k | 23 | 91.3% | 49,138 mi |
| 60-90k | 120 | 89.2% | 78,236 mi |
| 90-120k | 126 | 84.1% | 104,784 mi |
| 120k+ | 67 | 83.6% | 135,289 mi |
Source: 336 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 SQ5 MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2013 Audi SQ5?
86.3% of the 336 2013 Audi SQ5 tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 78.6% for cars first used in 2013. First-attempt pass rate: 84.5%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2013 Audi SQ5?
The three most recorded items are windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (5.95%), coil spring fractured or broken (4.46%), pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn (3.27%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2013 Audi SQ5 MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 91.3% of the time, falling to 83.6% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2013 Audi SQ5 in this dataset had covered 95,185 mi.
Does the season affect the 2013 Audi SQ5 MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 87.0% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 84.8%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.