Pass rate
73.1%
Below average — 0.9 pts ahead of the 72.2% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 17,430 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £34–£107
2004 Audi Tt MOT pass rate
- 2004
- typical 105,432 mi
Check your postcode
Most common fault
Suspension
26.6% 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 →
7.9 pts down across model years — 8.5% in 2000, 0.6% in 2015.
Which year to buy
- Best 2023 97.2% pass
- Avoid 2002 71.9% pass
Across the 24 years on record, a spread of 25.3 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 65.6%
- Typical mileage
- 105k mi
The 2004 Audi Tt MOT pass rate is 73.1% of its MOT tests — about what its age and mileage predict. Suspension is the biggest single reason it fails, at 26.6% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Suspension: 1.3× the national share
Suspension accounts for 26.6% of everything recorded on the 2004 Audi Tt, against 21.0% nationally — 5.6 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.
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
Watching a Audi Tt? Get an email when these numbers change .
How does the 2004 Audi Tt compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 72.2%, so this figure is 0.9 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 65.6%. The median 2004 Audi Tt in this dataset had covered 105,432 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 72.9% of the time, April–September 73.3%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated", noted on 7.75% of tests.
- 17,430 recorded tests behind this page.
- 73.1% overall pass rate, 65.6% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Audi Tt, the average is 82.7% — best year 2023 (97.2%), worst 2002 (71.9%).
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
- 17,430
- Typical mileage (median)
- 105,432 mi
- Make and model
- Audi Tt
- Updated
- 2026-11-07
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Body Panel Repair
Typically a garage job — get quotes before committing.
Does mileage affect the Tt MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 61% so small gaps stay visible.
Where the Audi Tt is most common
Across all Tt model years on record (2000–2023): 178,394 Audi Tt cars tested in a recordable postcode area, across 393,652 tests. Birmingham (B) has the most, with 5,490 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) | 5,490 | 86.8% |
| 2 | Sheffield (S) | 3,529 | 85.4% |
| 3 | Nottingham (NG) | 3,442 | 83.2% |
| 4 | Peterborough (PE) | 3,421 | 83.8% |
| 5 | Leicester (LE) | 3,291 | 82.3% |
| 6 | Derby (DE) | 3,080 | 84.4% |
| 7 | Reading (RG) | 3,067 | 84.2% |
| 8 | Guildford (GU) | 2,944 | 82.8% |
| 9 | Chelmsford (CM) | 2,821 | 84.2% |
| 10 | Coventry (CV) | 2,819 | 84.4% |
| 11 | Newcastle upon Tyne (NE) | 2,812 | 84.9% |
| 12 | Glasgow (G) | 2,700 | 83.2% |
| 13 | Bristol (BS) | 2,648 | 78.0% |
| 14 | Cardiff (CF) | 2,544 | 80.7% |
| 15 | Northampton (NN) | 2,457 | 81.1% |
| 16 | Ashford (TN) | 2,433 | 80.1% |
| 17 | Milton Keynes (MK) | 2,430 | 84.2% |
| 18 | Norwich (NR) | 2,416 | 80.7% |
| 19 | Gloucester (GL) | 2,335 | 80.5% |
| 20 | Portsmouth (PO) | 2,308 | 78.8% |
The twenty areas with the most Audi Tt 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 Tt
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 3,727 | 74.7% |
| South West | 2,255 | 69.4% |
| East of England | 2,223 | 74.8% |
| West Midlands | 1,807 | 74.2% |
| Yorkshire | 1,502 | 73.2% |
| North West | 1,489 | 74.3% |
| East Midlands | 1,210 | 73.6% |
| Scotland | 1,116 | 68.1% |
| Wales | 761 | 70.8% |
| London | 716 | 77.4% |
| North East | 624 | 71.6% |
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 2004 Tt
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 2004 Tt
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.
-
Check the lights 5.2% of tests
“registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources”
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.
-
Check the coil springs 3.9% 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.
-
Check the suspension joints 3.5% 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 2004 Tt through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £34–£107 — and 50% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £34–£107
- 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
- 50%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 17,430 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 Tt, side by side
24 model years on record, from 2000 to 2023. Across them the pass rate runs from 71.9% to 97.2% — a spread of 25.3 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2000 72.2% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2001 72.2% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2002 71.9% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2003 72.4% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2004 73.1%joints constant velocity boot…
- 2005 73.6% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2006 74.6% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2007 77.1% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2008 78.3% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2009 80.3% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2010 80.6% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2011 82.6% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2012 86.1% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2013 87.4% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2014 87.6% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2015 88.8% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2016 90.6% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2017 91.3% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2018 92.1% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2019 93.0% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2020 93.0% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2021 92.6% tread depth below requirements of…
- 2022 93.3% tread depth below requirements of…
- 2023 97.2% headlamp aim too high
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 2004 Audi Tt 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 2004 cars with a similar record
- Mercedes-Benz A-Class 73.1%
- BMW 316 73.1%
- Suzuki Wagon-R+ 73.2%
- Mercedes-Benz Ml 72.9%
- SEAT Arosa 72.8%
- Toyota YARIS 72.7%
Closest pass rates among 2004 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 2004 Audi Tt 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 49,399 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 | 13,336 | 26.60% | 20.98% | +5.62 |
| Brakes | 11,310 | 22.60% | 20.89% | +1.71 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 6,615 | 13.20% | 12.21% | +0.99 |
| Tyres | 5,753 | 11.50% | 19.76% | −8.26 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 4,599 | 9.20% | 5.57% | +3.63 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 3,981 | 8.00% | 5.52% | +2.48 |
| Visibility | 1,301 | 2.60% | 4.97% | −2.37 |
| Steering | 1,186 | 2.40% | 2.57% | −0.17 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 697 | 1.40% | 0.82% | +0.58 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 621 | 1.20% | 1.76% | −0.56 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated Body, chassis, structure | Minor | 7.8% | £80–250 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 5.2% | £5–20 |
| Malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 4.8% | £3–12 |
| Headlamp lens slightly defective Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 4.8% | £5–25 |
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 4.4% | £5–25 |
| Coil spring fractured or broken Suspension | Major | 3.9% | £25–65 |
| Joints constant velocity boot split or insecure, no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Body, chassis, structure | Major | 3.6% | £80–250 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Major | 3.5% | £40–150 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 3.3% | £80–200 |
| Srs malfunction indicator lamp warning lamp indicates a fault Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | Major | 2.6% | £3–12 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded Brakes | Advisory | 21.7% | £80–180 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 21.3% | £40–150 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 15.7% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 14.0% | £45–110 |
| Coil spring corroded so that its cross sectional area is reduced and seriously weakened Suspension | Advisory | 10.8% | £25–65 |
| Engine oil leaks leaking excessively from engine Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 9.3% | £200–700 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 176 | 90.3% | 22,505 mi |
| 30-60k | 1,338 | 82.7% | 48,317 mi |
| 60-90k | 4,094 | 76.7% | 76,969 mi |
| 90-120k | 6,112 | 71.4% | 105,295 mi |
| 120k+ | 5,660 | 69.7% | 142,415 mi |
Source: 17,430 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.
2004 Tt MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2004 Audi Tt?
73.1% of the 17,430 2004 Audi Tt tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 72.2% for cars first used in 2004. First-attempt pass rate: 65.6%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2004 Audi Tt?
The three most recorded items are joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated (7.75%), registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources (5.24%), malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction (4.83%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2004 Audi Tt MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 90.3% of the time, falling to 69.7% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2004 Audi Tt in this dataset had covered 105,432 mi.
Does the season affect the 2004 Audi Tt MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 72.9% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 73.3%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.