Pass rate
93.9%
Above average — 16.7 pts ahead of the 77.2% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 66 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £40–£102
2012 Lexus GS450H MOT pass rate
- 2012
- typical 97,458 mi
Only 66 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
32.7% 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 2012 93.9% pass · this year
- Avoid 2006 82.0% pass
Across the 6 years on record, a spread of 11.9 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 93.5%
- Typical mileage
- 97k mi
The 2012 Lexus GS450H MOT pass rate is 93.9% of its MOT tests — 16.7 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 32.7% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Lexus GS450H does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 1.7× the national share
Tyres make up 32.7% of everything recorded on the 2012 Lexus Gs450h, against 19.8% nationally — 12.9 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.
- 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 77.2% and this one manages 93.9% — 16.7 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- Based on a small sample. 66 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 2012 Lexus GS450H compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 77.2%, so this figure is 16.7 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 93.5%. The median 2012 Lexus GS450H in this dataset had covered 97,458 mi.
The single most recorded failure item is "Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view", noted on 6.06% of tests.
- 66 recorded tests behind this page.
- 93.9% overall pass rate, 93.5% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Lexus GS450H, the average is 84.0% — best year 2012 (93.9%), worst 2006 (82.0%).
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
- 66
- Typical mileage (median)
- 97,458 mi
- Make and model
- Lexus GS450H
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Windscreen
Typically a garage job — get quotes before committing.
Does mileage affect the GS450H MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 72% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the GS450H
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 17 | 88.2% |
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 2012 GS450H
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 2012 GS450H
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 windscreen 6.1% 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 lights 3.0% of tests
“position 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 discs significantly and obviously worn”
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 2012 GS450H through its MOT
Across the 9 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £40–£102 — and 36% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 9 common items
- £40–£102
- Cheapest common item: wipers not working
- £8–£22
- Dearest common item: windscreen damaged
- £80–£200
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 67%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 36%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 66 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 GS450H, side by side
6 model years on record, from 2006 to 2012. Across them the pass rate runs from 82.0% to 93.9% — a spread of 11.9 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2006 82.0% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2007 83.3% shock absorbers has a serious…
- 2008 84.1% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2009 85.8% shock absorbers has a serious…
- 2010 85.7% headlamp aim too low
- 2012 93.9%windscreen damaged but not…
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 2012 Lexus GS450H 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 2012 cars with a similar record
- Porsche 911 93.4%
- Bentley Continental 93.4%
- Porsche Boxster 91.6%
- Audi A8 90.2%
- Honda Fit 89.3%
- Toyota Estima 88.3%
Closest pass rates among 2012 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 2012 Lexus GS450H 9 failure items · 6 advisories · 6 inspection categories · mileage brackets · all of it in the page, none of it above the fold
Every inspection category
Shares of the 52 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 | 17 | 32.70% | 19.76% | +12.94 |
| Brakes | 14 | 26.90% | 20.89% | +6.01 |
| Suspension | 9 | 17.30% | 20.98% | −3.68 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 6 | 11.50% | 12.21% | −0.71 |
| Visibility | 5 | 9.60% | 4.97% | +4.63 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 1 | 1.90% | 5.57% | −3.67 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 6.1% | £80–200 |
| Position lamp with a multiple light source up to 1/2 not functioning Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 3.0% | £5–25 |
| Rear reflectors defective or damaged by up to 50% of the reflecting surface Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 3.0% | £5–25 |
| Brake discs significantly and obviously worn Brakes | Major | 1.5% | £45–110 |
| Headlamp aim too high Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 1.5% | £30–80 |
| Linkage ball joint dust cover ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension | Minor | 1.5% | £18–45 |
| Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded Brakes | Major | 1.5% | £80–180 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 1.5% | £45–95 |
| Wipers not working Visibility | Rectified | 1.5% | £8–22 |
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 | 12.1% | £45–95 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 9.1% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 6.1% | £45–110 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 4.5% | £18–45 |
| Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded Brakes | Advisory | 4.5% | £80–180 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Advisory | 3.0% | £45–95 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30-60k | 12 | 100.0% | 53,682 mi |
| 60-90k | 12 | 100.0% | 73,076 mi |
| 90-120k | 27 | 96.3% | 102,523 mi |
| 120k+ | 15 | 80.0% | 149,323 mi |
Source: 66 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.
2012 GS450H MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2012 Lexus GS450H?
93.9% of the 66 2012 Lexus GS450H tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 77.2% for cars first used in 2012. First-attempt pass rate: 93.5%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2012 Lexus GS450H?
The three most recorded items are windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (6.06%), position lamp with a multiple light source up to 1/2 not functioning (3.03%), rear reflectors defective or damaged by up to 50% of the reflecting surface (3.03%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2012 Lexus GS450H MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 100.0% of the time, falling to 80.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2012 Lexus GS450H in this dataset had covered 97,458 mi.