Pass rate
95.6%
Above average — 3.6 pts ahead of the 92.0% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 386 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £31–£75
2022 Audi SQ5 MOT pass rate
- 2022
- typical 28,788 mi
Check your postcode
Most common fault
Tyres
39.9% 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 · this year
- Avoid 2016 84.5% pass
Across the 6 years on record, a spread of 11.1 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 95.4%
- Typical mileage
- 29k mi
The 2022 Audi SQ5 MOT pass rate is 95.6% of its MOT tests — 3.6 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 39.9% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 2.0× the national share
Tyres make up 39.9% of everything recorded on the 2022 Audi Sq5, against 19.8% nationally — 20.1 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 92.0% and this one manages 95.6% — 3.6 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 35% 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 2022 Audi SQ5 compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 92.0%, so this figure is 3.6 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 95.4%. The median 2022 Audi SQ5 in this dataset had covered 28,788 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 95.5% of the time, April–September 95.7%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords", noted on 1.30% of tests.
- 386 recorded tests behind this page.
- 95.6% overall pass rate, 95.4% 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
- 386
- Typical mileage (median)
- 28,788 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
Tyres
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the SQ5 MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 83% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 65 | 90.8% |
| Scotland | 59 | 96.6% |
| East of England | 52 | 96.2% |
| Yorkshire | 40 | 95.0% |
| North West | 39 | 97.4% |
| West Midlands | 30 | 100.0% |
| South West | 27 | 100.0% |
| East Midlands | 25 | 96.0% |
| Wales | 21 | 85.7% |
| North East | 18 | 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 2022 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 2022 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 tyre tread 0.8% 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 lights 0.5% of tests
“headlamp cleaning device for LED or HID headlamp inoperative”
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 number plates 0.5% 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 2022 SQ5 through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £31–£75 — and 35% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £31–£75
- Cheapest common item: malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or…
- £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
- 35%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 386 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 2022 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 2022 cars with a similar record
- Suzuki Vitara 95.6%
- Toyota Corolla Gr 95.5%
- Toyota C-Hr Gr 95.3%
- Porsche Macan 95.3%
- Toyota RAV4 Dynamic 95.9%
- Toyota YARIS 95.2%
Closest pass rates among 2022 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 2022 Audi SQ5 10 failure items · 6 advisories · 9 inspection categories · mileage brackets · all of it in the page, none of it above the fold
Every inspection category
Shares of the 173 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 | 69 | 39.90% | 19.76% | +20.14 |
| Brakes | 54 | 31.20% | 20.89% | +10.31 |
| Non-component advisories | 21 | 12.10% | 4.18% | +7.92 |
| Visibility | 9 | 5.20% | 4.97% | +0.23 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 8 | 4.60% | 1.76% | +2.84 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 7 | 4.00% | 12.21% | −8.21 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 2 | 1.20% | 5.52% | −4.32 |
| Road Wheels | 2 | 1.20% | 0.75% | +0.45 |
| Suspension | 1 | 0.60% | 20.98% | −20.38 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 0.78% | £45–95 |
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 0.52% | £45–95 |
| Headlamp cleaning device for LED or HID headlamp inoperative Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 0.52% | £5–25 |
| Malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 0.52% | £3–12 |
| Registration plates does not conform to the specified requirements Identification of the vehicle | Major | 0.52% | £20–80 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 0.52% | £80–200 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 0.52% | £8–22 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 0.52% | £8–22 |
| Fixing missing Road Wheels | Major | 0.26% | £20–55 |
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 | 9.6% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 6.2% | £45–110 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 3.9% | £18–45 |
| Non-component advisories Child Seat fitted not allowing full inspection of adult belt Non-component advisories | Advisory | 3.1% | £20–80 |
| Brake discs significantly and obviously worn Brakes | Advisory | 2.6% | £45–110 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Advisory | 2.6% | £45–95 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 206 | 97.1% | 21,737 mi |
| 30-60k | 168 | 94.0% | 40,433 mi |
| 60-90k | 12 | 91.7% | 68,035 mi |
Source: 386 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.
2022 SQ5 MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2022 Audi SQ5?
95.6% of the 386 2022 Audi SQ5 tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 92.0% for cars first used in 2022. First-attempt pass rate: 95.4%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2022 Audi SQ5?
The three most recorded items are has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords (1.30%), tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm (0.78%), has ply or cords exposed (0.52%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2022 Audi SQ5 MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 97.1% of the time, falling to 91.7% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2022 Audi SQ5 in this dataset had covered 28,788 mi.
Does the season affect the 2022 Audi SQ5 MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 95.5% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 95.7%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.