Pass rate
93.9%
Above average — 2.7 pts ahead of the 91.2% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 896 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £52–£125
2021 Audi SQ5 MOT pass rate
- 2021
- typical 31,925 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
36.2% 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 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
- 93.5%
- Typical mileage
- 32k mi
The 2021 Audi SQ5 MOT pass rate is 93.9% of its MOT tests — 2.7 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 36.2% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Audi SQ5 does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 1.8× the national share
Tyres make up 36.2% of everything recorded on the 2021 Audi Sq5, against 19.8% nationally — 16.4 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.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 6% 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 2021 Audi SQ5 compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 91.2%, so this figure is 2.7 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 93.5%. The median 2021 Audi SQ5 in this dataset had covered 31,925 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 93.0% of the time, April–September 94.4%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view", noted on 2.68% of tests.
- 896 recorded tests behind this page.
- 93.9% overall pass rate, 93.5% 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
- 896
- Typical mileage (median)
- 31,925 mi
- Make and model
- Audi SQ5
- 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 SQ5 MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 81% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the SQ5
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 148 | 91.9% |
| Scotland | 138 | 92.8% |
| East of England | 125 | 94.4% |
| Yorkshire | 100 | 91.0% |
| West Midlands | 86 | 94.2% |
| North West | 82 | 96.3% |
| East Midlands | 52 | 98.1% |
| North East | 51 | 94.1% |
| South West | 46 | 93.5% |
| London | 35 | 100.0% |
| Wales | 33 | 93.9% |
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 2021 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 2021 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 2.7% 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 0.7% 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 number plates 0.6% 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 2021 SQ5 through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £52–£125 — and 6% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £52–£125
- Cheapest common item: wipers blade defective
- £8–£22
- Dearest common item: windscreen damaged
- £80–£200
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 80%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 6%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 896 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 2021 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 2021 cars with a similar record
- Citroen C1 93.9%
- Land Rover Defender 93.9%
- Hyundai Tucson N 93.9%
- Toyota Aygo 94.0%
- Jaguar I-Pace 94.0%
- Toyota Corolla Gr 94.0%
Closest pass rates among 2021 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 2021 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 445 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 | 162 | 36.20% | 19.76% | +16.44 |
| Brakes | 140 | 31.30% | 20.89% | +10.41 |
| Non-component advisories | 49 | 11.00% | 4.18% | +6.82 |
| Visibility | 34 | 7.60% | 4.97% | +2.63 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 17 | 3.80% | 1.76% | +2.04 |
| Suspension | 15 | 3.40% | 20.98% | −17.58 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 15 | 3.40% | 12.21% | −8.81 |
| Road Wheels | 7 | 1.60% | 0.75% | +0.85 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 3 | 0.70% | 5.52% | −4.82 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 3 | 0.70% | 0.82% | −0.12 |
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 | 2.7% | £80–200 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 1.3% | £45–95 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 0.67% | £45–95 |
| Has a bulge, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Major | 0.56% | £45–95 |
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 0.56% | £45–95 |
| Registration plates does not conform to the specified requirements Identification of the vehicle | Major | 0.56% | £20–80 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 0.45% | £8–22 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Major | 0.22% | £18–45 |
| Has a lump, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Major | 0.22% | £45–95 |
| Headlamp aim too high Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 0.22% | £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 | 9.9% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 8.3% | £45–110 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 3.8% | £18–45 |
| Non-component advisories Nail in tyre Non-component advisories | Advisory | 3.2% | £45–95 |
| Non-component advisories Child Seat fitted not allowing full inspection of adult belt Non-component advisories | Advisory | 2.0% | £20–80 |
| Tread depth tread pattern not visible over the whole tread area when minimum depth required is 1.0mm Tyres | Advisory | 1.7% | £45–95 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 395 | 94.2% | 21,372 mi |
| 30-60k | 453 | 94.0% | 41,435 mi |
| 60-90k | 47 | 89.4% | 69,947 mi |
| 90-120k | 1 | 100.0% | 93,703 mi |
Source: 896 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.
2021 SQ5 MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2021 Audi SQ5?
93.9% of the 896 2021 Audi SQ5 tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 91.2% for cars first used in 2021. First-attempt pass rate: 93.5%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2021 Audi SQ5?
The three most recorded items are windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (2.68%), has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords (1.34%), tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm (0.67%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2021 Audi SQ5 MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 94.2% of the time, falling to 100.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2021 Audi SQ5 in this dataset had covered 31,925 mi.
Does the season affect the 2021 Audi SQ5 MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 93.0% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 94.4%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.