Pass rate
83.9%
Around average — 5.6 pts behind the 89.5% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 465 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £41–£102
2019 BMW 530E MOT pass rate
- 2019
- typical 50,846 mi
Check your postcode
Most common fault
Tyres
48.3% 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 2024 98.8% pass
- Avoid 2019 83.9% pass · this year
Across the 6 years on record, a spread of 14.9 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 81.2%
- Typical mileage
- 51k mi
The 2019 BMW 530E MOT pass rate is 83.9% of its MOT tests — 5.6 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 48.3% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 2.4× the national share
Tyres make up 48.3% of everything recorded on the 2019 BMW 530e, against 19.8% nationally — 28.5 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.
- Falls short of its own age and mileage. Like-for-like, cars this age and mileage expect about 89.5%; this one manages 83.9% — 5.6 points below. Age is a fair excuse; this is not age.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 8% 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 2019 BMW 530E compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 89.5%, so this figure is 5.6 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 81.2%. The median 2019 BMW 530E in this dataset had covered 50,846 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 82.1% of the time, April–September 87.2%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Fractured", noted on 2.80% of tests.
- 465 recorded tests behind this page.
- 83.9% overall pass rate, 81.2% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the BMW 530E, the average is 89.3% — best year 2024 (98.8%), worst 2019 (83.9%).
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
- 465
- Typical mileage (median)
- 50,846 mi
- Make and model
- BMW 530E
- Updated
- 2026-11-07
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Wheel Hub Bearing Kit
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the 530E MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 74% so small gaps stay visible.
Where the BMW 530E is most common
Across all 530E model years on record (2019–2024): 1,732 BMW 530E cars tested in a recordable postcode area, across 2,728 tests. London (E) has the most, with 78 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 | London (E) | 78 | 98.1% |
| 2 | London (NW) | 72 | 98.3% |
| 3 | Birmingham (B) | 68 | 83.5% |
| 4 | Ilford (IG) | 46 | 96.2% |
| 5 | Glasgow (G) | 37 | 86.8% |
| 6 | Guildford (GU) | 36 | 86.8% |
| 7 | Manchester (M) | 35 | 87.5% |
| 8 | Slough (SL) | 35 | 89.4% |
| 9 | Sheffield (S) | 33 | 79.6% |
| 10 | Hounslow (TW) | 33 | 93.0% |
| 11 | Romford (RM) | 31 | 90.6% |
| 12 | Coventry (CV) | 31 | 89.4% |
| 13 | Crawley (RH) | 31 | 91.1% |
| 14 | Enfield (EN) | 31 | 93.2% |
| 15 | Peterborough (PE) | 29 | 86.0% |
| 16 | Leicester (LE) | 28 | 86.7% |
| 17 | Nottingham (NG) | 28 | 94.1% |
| 18 | London (SE) | 27 | 90.7% |
| 19 | Hayes (UB) | 26 | 97.7% |
| 20 | Northampton (NN) | 25 | 80.5% |
The twenty areas with the most BMW 530E 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 530E
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 102 | 84.3% |
| Yorkshire | 75 | 81.3% |
| London | 73 | 90.4% |
| North West | 42 | 88.1% |
| West Midlands | 40 | 75.0% |
| East of England | 31 | 83.9% |
| Scotland | 31 | 77.4% |
| East Midlands | 27 | 88.9% |
| South West | 17 | 76.5% |
| North East | 16 | 81.3% |
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 2019 530E
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 2019 530E
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 shock absorbers 1.5% of tests
“shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak”
Press down hard on each corner of the car and let go. It should settle in one bounce; if it keeps rocking, or you can see oil weeping down a shock absorber, that is the fault a tester will find.
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Check the tyre tread 1.3% 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.
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 2019 530E through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £41–£102 — and 8% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £41–£102
- Cheapest common item: side repeaters not working
- £5–£25
- Dearest common item: joints constant velocity boot severely…
- £80–£250
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 80%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 8%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 465 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 530E, side by side
6 model years on record, from 2019 to 2024. Across them the pass rate runs from 83.9% to 98.8% — a spread of 14.9 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2019 83.9%fractured
- 2020 89.7% has a cut in excess of the…
- 2021 89.5% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2022 87.7% has a cut in excess of the…
- 2023 96.2% buckle not functioning as intended
- 2024 98.8% ball joint dust cover severely…
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 2019 BMW 530E 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 2019 cars with a similar record
- Nissan Navara 84.0%
- Isuzu D-Max 84.2%
- Tesla Model 3 Performance 84.2%
- Mercedes-Benz Vito 83.5%
- Renault Clio 84.4%
- Vauxhall Combo 83.4%
Closest pass rates among 2019 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 2019 BMW 530E 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 288 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 | 140 | 48.30% | 19.76% | +28.54 |
| Suspension | 33 | 11.40% | 20.98% | −9.58 |
| Non-component advisories | 30 | 10.30% | 4.18% | +6.12 |
| Brakes | 22 | 7.60% | 20.89% | −13.29 |
| Road Wheels | 18 | 6.20% | 0.75% | +5.45 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 13 | 4.50% | 12.21% | −7.71 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 13 | 4.50% | 1.76% | +2.74 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 10 | 3.40% | 5.57% | −2.17 |
| Visibility | 7 | 2.40% | 4.97% | −2.57 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 2 | 0.70% | 0.82% | −0.12 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fractured Road Wheels | Major | 2.8% | £20–55 |
| Has a bulge, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Major | 2.4% | £45–95 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 2.1% | £45–95 |
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 1.5% | £45–95 |
| Shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak Suspension | Major | 1.5% | £30–75 |
| Side repeaters not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 1.3% | £5–25 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 1.3% | £45–95 |
| Joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated Body, chassis, structure | Minor | 1.1% | £80–250 |
| Joints constant velocity boot split or insecure, no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Body, chassis, structure | Major | 1.1% | £80–250 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Major | 0.65% | £45–95 |
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 | 10.5% | £45–95 |
| Shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak Suspension | Advisory | 5.6% | £30–75 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Advisory | 5.2% | £45–95 |
| Non-component advisories Nail in tyre Non-component advisories | Advisory | 4.1% | £45–95 |
| Registration plates inscription illegible Identification of the vehicle | Advisory | 2.6% | £20–80 |
| Has a bulge, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 2.4% | £45–95 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 53 | 84.9% | 23,865 mi |
| 30-60k | 250 | 84.4% | 44,131 mi |
| 60-90k | 112 | 82.1% | 71,129 mi |
| 90-120k | 34 | 82.4% | 99,951 mi |
| 120k+ | 16 | 87.5% | 143,730 mi |
Source: 465 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.
2019 530E MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2019 BMW 530E?
83.9% of the 465 2019 BMW 530E tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 89.5% for cars first used in 2019. First-attempt pass rate: 81.2%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2019 BMW 530E?
The three most recorded items are fractured (2.80%), has a bulge, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure (2.37%), has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords (2.15%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2019 BMW 530E MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 84.9% of the time, falling to 87.5% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2019 BMW 530E in this dataset had covered 50,846 mi.
Does the season affect the 2019 BMW 530E MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 82.1% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 87.2%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.