Pass rate
85.8%
Above average — 9.9 pts ahead of the 75.9% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 12,888 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £20–£53
2011 Lexus Ct MOT pass rate
- 2011
- 5 trims combined
- typical 100,370 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
23.4% of faults · 19.8% nationally
mostly tread below the limit, cuts and sidewall bulges.
Which year to buy
- Best 2021 95.9% pass
- Avoid 2011 85.8% pass · this year
Across the 11 years on record, a spread of 10.1 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 83.8%
- Typical mileage
- 100k mi
The 2011 Lexus Ct MOT pass rate is 85.8% of its MOT tests — 9.9 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 23.4% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Lexus Ct does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Beats its own age and mileage
Once you allow for how old and how far these cars have been driven, the expected pass rate is 75.9% and this one manages 85.8% — 9.9 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
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 Lexus Ct first registered in 2011 is combined here — 5 trim and body variants in total — so the sample is as large as the DVSA data allows.
How does the 2011 Lexus Ct compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 75.9%, so this figure is 9.9 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 83.8%. The median 2011 Lexus Ct in this dataset had covered 100,370 mi.
The most common fuel recorded here is Hybrid — 54% of tests, with a 85.7% pass rate. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 85.9% of the time, April–September 85.7%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources", noted on 5.69% of tests.
- 12,888 recorded tests behind this page.
- 85.8% overall pass rate, 83.8% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Lexus Ct, the average is 89.9% — best year 2021 (95.9%), worst 2011 (85.8%).
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
- 12,888
- Typical mileage (median)
- 100,370 mi
- Make and model
- Lexus Ct
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Number Plate Lamp
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Ct MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 76% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Hybrid is the most common here (54% of tests).
Regional pass rates for the Ct
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 4,340 | 86.0% |
| London | 2,374 | 88.1% |
| North West | 1,137 | 87.4% |
| East of England | 1,002 | 83.6% |
| West Midlands | 961 | 86.5% |
| East Midlands | 911 | 84.9% |
| South West | 807 | 81.0% |
| Yorkshire | 731 | 86.9% |
| Scotland | 260 | 80.0% |
| Wales | 219 | 81.7% |
| North East | 144 | 83.3% |
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 2011 Ct
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 2011 Ct
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 lights 5.7% 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.
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Check the windscreen 2.2% of tests
“windscreen damaged”
Check the driver’s side of the screen within the swept area for chips and cracks; anything larger than 10mm in the driver’s central view is a fail. Most chips can be resin-repaired for far less than a new screen.
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Check the suspension joints 2.2% of tests
“linkage ball joint dust cover ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated”
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 2011 Ct through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £20–£53 — and 53% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £20–£53
- Cheapest common item: registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the…
- £5–£20
- Dearest common item: windscreen damaged
- £80–£200
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 90%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 53%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 12,888 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 Ct, side by side
11 model years on record, from 2011 to 2021. Across them the pass rate runs from 85.8% to 95.9% — a spread of 10.1 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2011 85.8%registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2012 86.8% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2013 87.3% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2014 90.3% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2015 90.4% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2016 91.9% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2017 92.5% wipers blade defective
- 2018 93.2% wipers blade defective
- 2019 93.2% wipers blade defective
- 2020 95.0% wipers blade defective
- 2021 95.9% 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 2011 Lexus Ct 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 2011 cars with a similar record
Closest pass rates among 2011 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 2011 Lexus Ct 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 19,147 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 | 4,512 | 23.40% | 19.76% | +3.64 |
| Brakes | 4,183 | 21.70% | 20.89% | +0.81 |
| Suspension | 3,475 | 18.00% | 20.98% | −2.98 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 2,563 | 13.30% | 12.21% | +1.09 |
| Non-component advisories | 1,475 | 7.60% | 4.18% | +3.42 |
| Visibility | 967 | 5.00% | 4.97% | +0.03 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 666 | 3.40% | 1.76% | +1.64 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 625 | 3.20% | 5.57% | −2.37 |
| Steering | 430 | 2.20% | 2.57% | −0.37 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 251 | 1.30% | 5.52% | −4.22 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 5.7% | £5–20 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 2.2% | £80–200 |
| Linkage ball joint dust cover ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension | Minor | 2.2% | £18–45 |
| Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension | Minor | 2.0% | £18–45 |
| Linkage ball joint dust cover ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Suspension | Major | 1.7% | £18–45 |
| Headlamp not working on dipped beam Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 1.5% | £5–25 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 1.2% | £45–95 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 1.2% | £8–22 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 1.2% | £8–22 |
| Headlamp lens slightly defective Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 1.2% | £5–25 |
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 | 13.6% | £45–95 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 9.5% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 8.2% | £45–110 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 8.1% | £18–45 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 7.3% | £40–150 |
| Registration plates inscription illegible Identification of the vehicle | Advisory | 4.7% | £20–80 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 158 | 95.6% | 22,846 mi |
| 30-60k | 1,459 | 89.8% | 48,381 mi |
| 60-90k | 3,405 | 87.0% | 75,874 mi |
| 90-120k | 3,610 | 84.1% | 103,909 mi |
| 120k+ | 4,235 | 84.6% | 154,075 mi |
Source: 12,888 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.
2011 Ct MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2011 Lexus Ct?
85.8% of the 12,888 2011 Lexus Ct tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 75.9% for cars first used in 2011. First-attempt pass rate: 83.8%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2011 Lexus Ct?
The three most recorded items are registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources (5.69%), windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (2.23%), linkage ball joint dust cover ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated (2.21%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2011 Lexus Ct MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 95.6% of the time, falling to 84.6% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2011 Lexus Ct in this dataset had covered 100,370 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2011 Lexus Ct?
Hybrid: 85.7% pass rate across 6,987 tests. Other: 85.5% pass rate across 2,392 tests. Electric: 84.8% pass rate across 1,821 tests. Petrol: 87.8% pass rate across 1,676 tests. Diesel: 75.0% pass rate across 12 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2011 Lexus Ct MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 85.9% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 85.7%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.