Pass rate
88.6%
Above average — 0.7 pts ahead of the 87.9% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 5,473 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £25–£61
2018 Ford Edge MOT pass rate
- 2018
- 2 trims combined
- typical 50,158 mi
Check your postcode
Most common fault
Brakes
34.5% of faults · 20.9% nationally
mostly worn pads and discs, corroded pipes and a handbrake that will not hold.
Part only £25–£40 for Brake pads under 1.5 mm. What fitting it takes →
Which year to buy
- Best 2019 91.0% pass
- Avoid 2016 88.4% pass
Across the 4 years on record, a spread of 2.6 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 87.3%
- Typical mileage
- 50k mi
The 2018 Ford Edge MOT pass rate is 88.6% of its MOT tests — about what its age and mileage predict. Brakes is the biggest single reason it fails, at 34.5% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Brakes: 1.7× the national share
Brakes make up 34.5% of everything recorded on the 2018 Ford Edge, against 20.9% nationally — 13.6 points above. Have the discs and pads measured rather than glanced at, and ask whether the handbrake holds on a slope.
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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Every Ford Edge first registered in 2018 is combined here — 2 trim and body variants in total — so the sample is as large as the DVSA data allows.
How does the 2018 Ford Edge compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 87.9%, so this figure is 0.7 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 87.3%. The median 2018 Ford Edge in this dataset had covered 50,158 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 88.8% of the time, April–September 88.4%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively", noted on 1.63% of tests.
- 5,473 recorded tests behind this page.
- 88.6% overall pass rate, 87.3% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Ford Edge, the average is 88.9% — best year 2019 (91.0%), worst 2016 (88.4%).
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
- 5,473
- Typical mileage (median)
- 50,158 mi
- Make and model
- Ford Edge
- Updated
- 2026-11-07
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Wiper Blade
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Edge MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 73% so small gaps stay visible.
Where the Ford Edge is most common
Across all Edge model years on record (2016–2019): 13,157 Ford Edge cars tested in a recordable postcode area, across 29,298 tests. Nottingham (NG) has the most, with 358 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 | Nottingham (NG) | 358 | 87.1% |
| 2 | Sheffield (S) | 349 | 92.4% |
| 3 | Birmingham (B) | 332 | 89.4% |
| 4 | Peterborough (PE) | 329 | 89.2% |
| 5 | Basildon (SS) | 313 | 91.0% |
| 6 | Chelmsford (CM) | 303 | 89.0% |
| 7 | Derby (DE) | 294 | 91.6% |
| 8 | Leicester (LE) | 290 | 89.8% |
| 9 | Northampton (NN) | 285 | 85.5% |
| 10 | Doncaster (DN) | 245 | 88.9% |
| 11 | Reading (RG) | 238 | 91.4% |
| 12 | Romford (RM) | 232 | 91.4% |
| 13 | Aberdeen (AB) | 211 | 85.4% |
| 14 | Coventry (CV) | 211 | 90.6% |
| 15 | Newcastle upon Tyne (NE) | 206 | 91.6% |
| 16 | Cardiff (CF) | 193 | 86.9% |
| 17 | Glasgow (G) | 185 | 87.4% |
| 18 | Maidstone (ME) | 184 | 90.3% |
| 19 | Warrington (WA) | 174 | 89.0% |
| 20 | Norwich (NR) | 173 | 88.9% |
The twenty areas with the most Ford Edge 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 Edge
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 929 | 88.1% |
| East of England | 756 | 89.6% |
| Scotland | 606 | 88.1% |
| East Midlands | 600 | 89.2% |
| Yorkshire | 571 | 88.4% |
| North West | 556 | 87.8% |
| West Midlands | 458 | 90.2% |
| South West | 393 | 90.1% |
| North East | 229 | 84.7% |
| Wales | 217 | 89.9% |
| London | 158 | 87.3% |
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 2018 Edge
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 Edge
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 wipers and washers 1.6% of tests
“wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively”
Run the wipers with the screen wet: they should clear it in one sweep without smearing or juddering. Top the washer bottle up and check both jets hit the screen.
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Check the lights 1.6% of tests
“stop lamp with a multiple light source up to 1/2 not functioning”
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 brakes 1.5% 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.
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 Edge through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £25–£61 — and 45% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £25–£61
- Cheapest common item: stop lamp with a multiple light source up to…
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: windscreen damaged
- £80–£200
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 80%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 45%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 5,473 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 Edge, side by side
4 model years on record, from 2016 to 2019. Across them the pass rate runs from 88.4% to 91.0% — a spread of 2.6 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2016 88.4% brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick
- 2017 88.9% brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick
- 2018 88.6%wipers does not clear the…
- 2019 91.0% wipers does not clear 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 Ford Edge 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
- Volkswagen Passat 88.6%
- Land Rover Range Rover Velar 88.6%
- BMW 420 88.6%
- BMW X2 SDRIVE20I 88.6%
- Nissan Juke 88.5%
- Hyundai I30 88.5%
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 Ford Edge 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 4,786 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brakes | 1,659 | 34.50% | 20.89% | +13.61 |
| Tyres | 1,524 | 31.70% | 19.76% | +11.94 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 408 | 8.50% | 12.21% | −3.71 |
| Non-component advisories | 359 | 7.50% | 4.18% | +3.32 |
| Visibility | 335 | 7.00% | 4.97% | +2.03 |
| Suspension | 197 | 4.10% | 20.98% | −16.88 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 166 | 3.50% | 5.52% | −2.02 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 97 | 2.00% | 1.76% | +0.24 |
| Road Wheels | 26 | 0.50% | 0.75% | −0.25 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 15 | 0.30% | 0.82% | −0.52 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 1.6% | £8–22 |
| Stop lamp with a multiple light source up to 1/2 not functioning Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 1.6% | £3–12 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 1.6% | £8–22 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Major | 1.5% | £18–45 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 1.2% | £45–95 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 1.2% | £45–95 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 0.99% | £80–200 |
| Headlamp aim too high Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 0.97% | £30–80 |
| Shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak Suspension | Major | 0.73% | £30–75 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 0.60% | £5–20 |
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 | 17.1% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 14.5% | £18–45 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 10.1% | £45–110 |
| Non-component advisories Child Seat fitted not allowing full inspection of adult belt Non-component advisories | Advisory | 2.8% | £20–80 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 2.8% | £45–95 |
| Non-component advisories Nail in tyre Non-component advisories | Advisory | 2.4% | £45–95 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 645 | 92.4% | 23,803 mi |
| 30-60k | 3,066 | 89.6% | 45,166 mi |
| 60-90k | 1,542 | 86.0% | 70,543 mi |
| 90-120k | 205 | 81.0% | 99,729 mi |
| 120k+ | 15 | 100.0% | 132,859 mi |
Source: 5,473 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 Edge MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2018 Ford Edge?
88.6% of the 5,473 2018 Ford Edge tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 87.9% for cars first used in 2018. First-attempt pass rate: 87.3%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2018 Ford Edge?
The three most recorded items are wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively (1.63%), stop lamp with a multiple light source up to 1/2 not functioning (1.57%), wipers blade defective (1.55%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2018 Ford Edge MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 92.4% of the time, falling to 100.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2018 Ford Edge in this dataset had covered 50,158 mi.
Does the season affect the 2018 Ford Edge MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 88.8% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 88.4%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.