Pass rate
89.7%
Above average — 1.8 pts ahead of the 87.9% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 184 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £23–£53
2018 Infiniti Q60 MOT pass rate
- 2018
- typical 38,840 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
42.6% 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 2018 89.7% pass · this year
- Avoid 2017 89.2% pass
Across the 2 years on record, a spread of 0.5 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 88.6%
- Typical mileage
- 39k mi
The 2018 Infiniti Q60 MOT pass rate is 89.7% of its MOT tests — 1.8 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 42.6% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Infiniti Q60 does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 2.2× the national share
Tyres make up 42.6% of everything recorded on the 2018 Infiniti Q60, against 19.8% nationally — 22.8 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.
- Failures here tend to be cheap ones. 58% of the repairs this model fails on cost under £30 in parts. The pass rate matters less than what a bad afternoon at the test centre actually costs you.
- Based on a small sample. 184 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 Infiniti Q60 compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 87.9%, so this figure is 1.8 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 88.6%. The median 2018 Infiniti Q60 in this dataset had covered 38,840 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 88.1% of the time, April–September 91.0%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Wipers blade defective", noted on 4.35% of tests.
- 184 recorded tests behind this page.
- 89.7% overall pass rate, 88.6% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Infiniti Q60, the average is 89.4% — best year 2018 (89.7%), worst 2017 (89.2%).
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
- 184
- Typical mileage (median)
- 38,840 mi
- Make and model
- Infiniti Q60
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
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 Q60 MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 70% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Q60
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 31 | 93.5% |
| Yorkshire | 28 | 92.9% |
| West Midlands | 26 | 92.3% |
| North West | 25 | 84.0% |
| South West | 15 | 80.0% |
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 2018 Q60
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 Q60
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 4.3% of tests
“wipers blade defective”
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 tyre tread 1.6% 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 1.1% of tests
“anti-lock braking system warning lamp indicates an ABS fault”
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.
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 Q60 through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £23–£53 — and 58% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £23–£53
- Cheapest common item: malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or…
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: lever has excessive movement indicating…
- £45–£110
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 100%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 58%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 184 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 Q60, side by side
2 model years on record, from 2017 to 2018. Across them the pass rate runs from 89.2% to 89.7% — a spread of 0.5 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2017 89.2% brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick
- 2018 89.7%wipers blade defective
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 Infiniti Q60 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
- Mazda Cx-5 89.7%
- Kia Rio 89.7%
- Volkswagen Tiguan 89.8%
- BMW 5 Series 89.8%
- Audi Q3 89.8%
- Mercedes-Benz Gle 89.8%
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 Infiniti Q60 10 failure items · 6 advisories · 8 inspection categories · mileage brackets · all of it in the page, none of it above the fold
Every inspection category
Shares of the 162 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 | 42.60% | 19.76% | +22.84 |
| Brakes | 38 | 23.50% | 20.89% | +2.61 |
| Suspension | 25 | 15.40% | 20.98% | −5.58 |
| Visibility | 15 | 9.30% | 4.97% | +4.33 |
| Non-component advisories | 6 | 3.70% | 4.18% | −0.48 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 5 | 3.10% | 5.52% | −2.42 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 3 | 1.90% | 12.21% | −10.31 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 1 | 0.60% | 1.76% | −1.16 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 4.3% | £8–22 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 3.3% | £8–22 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 1.6% | £45–95 |
| Anti-lock braking system warning lamp indicates an ABS fault Brakes | Major | 1.1% | £3–15 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 1.1% | £45–95 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Major | 1.1% | £45–95 |
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 1.1% | £45–95 |
| Lever has excessive movement indicating incorrect adjustment Brakes | Major | 1.1% | £45–110 |
| Malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 1.1% | £3–12 |
| Tyre pressure monitoring system malfunctioning or obviously inoperative Tyres | Rectified | 1.1% | £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 | 22.8% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 10.9% | £45–110 |
| Linkage ball joints ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 7.6% | £18–45 |
| Ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 3.3% | £18–45 |
| Tread depth tread pattern not visible over the whole tread area when minimum depth required is 1.0mm Tyres | Advisory | 3.3% | £45–95 |
| Has a bulge, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 2.2% | £45–95 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 52 | 94.2% | 20,096 mi |
| 30-60k | 101 | 90.1% | 42,230 mi |
| 60-90k | 23 | 78.3% | 67,643 mi |
| 90-120k | 6 | 83.3% | 98,086 mi |
| 120k+ | 1 | 100.0% | 123,385 mi |
Source: 184 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 Q60 MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2018 Infiniti Q60?
89.7% of the 184 2018 Infiniti Q60 tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 87.9% for cars first used in 2018. First-attempt pass rate: 88.6%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2018 Infiniti Q60?
The three most recorded items are wipers blade defective (4.35%), wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively (3.26%), tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm (1.63%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2018 Infiniti Q60 MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 94.2% of the time, falling to 100.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2018 Infiniti Q60 in this dataset had covered 38,840 mi.
Does the season affect the 2018 Infiniti Q60 MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 88.1% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 91.0%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.