Pass rate
87.3%
Above average — 0.6 pts behind the 87.9% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 63 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £42–£105
2018 BMW 216D Luxury MOT pass rate
- 2018
- typical 65,641 mi
Only 63 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.
Most common fault
Tyres
50.0% 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 2019 90.8% pass
- Avoid 2018 87.3% pass · this year
Across the 3 years on record, a spread of 3.5 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 85.5%
- Typical mileage
- 66k mi
The 2018 BMW 216D Luxury MOT pass rate is 87.3% of its MOT tests — about what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 50.0% of what testers record.
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Expert verdict
Tyres: 2.5× the national share
Tyres make up 50.0% of everything recorded on the 2018 BMW 216d Luxury, against 19.8% nationally — 30.2 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 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.
- Based on a small sample. 63 tests back this page. That is enough to publish and to index, not enough to treat the decimal places as precise — read the pattern, not the second digit.
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 2018 BMW 216D Luxury compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 87.9%, so this figure is 0.6 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 85.5%. The median 2018 BMW 216D Luxury in this dataset had covered 65,641 mi.
The single most recorded failure item is "Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm", noted on 3.17% of tests.
- 63 recorded tests behind this page.
- 87.3% overall pass rate, 85.5% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the BMW 216D Luxury, the average is 89.8% — best year 2019 (90.8%), worst 2018 (87.3%).
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
- 63
- Typical mileage (median)
- 65,641 mi
- Make and model
- BMW 216D Luxury
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
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 216D Luxury MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 72% so small gaps stay visible.
What fails a 2018 216D Luxury
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 2018 216D Luxury
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 3.2% 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 brakes 1.6% of tests
“brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick”
Look through the spokes of each wheel at the pad — less than 3mm of friction material, or a lip on the disc edge, is the usual failure. Check the handbrake holds on a slope with a few clicks, not at the top of its travel.
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Check the suspension joints 1.6% 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 2018 216D Luxury through its MOT
Across the 6 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £42–£105 — and 0% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 6 common items
- £42–£105
- Cheapest common item: brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick
- £18–£45
- Dearest common item: windscreen damaged
- £80–£200
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 67%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 0%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 63 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 216D Luxury, side by side
3 model years on record, from 2018 to 2020. Across them the pass rate runs from 87.3% to 90.8% — a spread of 3.5 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2018 87.3%tread depth below requirements of…
- 2019 90.8% brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick
- 2020 89.9% 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 2018 BMW 216D Luxury 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 2018 cars with a similar record
- Nissan X-Trail 87.3%
- Fiat Panda 87.3%
- Volvo S60 87.2%
- Renault Captur 87.4%
- Audi A5 87.4%
- Volkswagen Touran 87.4%
Closest pass rates among 2018 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 2018 BMW 216D Luxury 6 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 44 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 | 22 | 50.00% | 19.76% | +30.24 |
| Brakes | 12 | 27.30% | 20.89% | +6.41 |
| Suspension | 4 | 9.10% | 20.98% | −11.88 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 1 | 2.30% | 5.57% | −3.27 |
| Visibility | 1 | 2.30% | 4.97% | −2.67 |
| Non-component advisories | 1 | 2.30% | 4.18% | −1.88 |
| Steering | 1 | 2.30% | 2.57% | −0.27 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 1 | 2.30% | 0.82% | +1.48 |
| Road Wheels | 1 | 2.30% | 0.75% | +1.55 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 3.2% | £45–95 |
| Badly distorted Road Wheels | Major | 1.6% | £20–55 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Major | 1.6% | £18–45 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 1.6% | £45–95 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Major | 1.6% | £40–150 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 1.6% | £80–200 |
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 | 17.5% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 9.5% | £45–110 |
| Brake discs significantly and obviously worn Brakes | Advisory | 6.3% | £45–110 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 6.3% | £45–95 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 4.8% | £40–150 |
| Tread depth tread pattern not visible over the whole tread area when minimum depth required is 1.0mm Tyres | Advisory | 4.8% | £45–95 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 5 | 100.0% | 25,463 mi |
| 30-60k | 22 | 86.4% | 48,045 mi |
| 60-90k | 20 | 80.0% | 74,541 mi |
| 90-120k | 14 | 92.9% | 105,869 mi |
| 120k+ | 2 | 100.0% | 132,078 mi |
Source: 63 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.
2018 216D Luxury MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2018 BMW 216D Luxury?
87.3% of the 63 2018 BMW 216D Luxury tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 87.9% for cars first used in 2018. First-attempt pass rate: 85.5%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2018 BMW 216D Luxury?
The three most recorded items are tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm (3.17%), badly distorted (1.59%), brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick (1.59%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2018 BMW 216D Luxury MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 100.0% of the time, falling to 100.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2018 BMW 216D Luxury in this dataset had covered 65,641 mi.