Pass rate
81.1%
Around average — 6.4 pts ahead of the 74.7% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 206 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £43–£108
2010 Lexus IS200 MOT pass rate
- 2010
- typical 113,586 mi
Check your postcode
Most common fault
Brakes
29.7% of faults · 20.9% nationally
mostly worn pads and discs, corroded pipes and a handbrake that will not hold.
Part only £25–£55 for Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded. What fitting it takes →
1.9 pts up across model years — 3.1% in 2000, 5.0% in 2011.
Which year to buy
- Best 2010 81.1% pass · this year
- Avoid 2007 76.5% pass
Across the 13 years on record, a spread of 4.6 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 77.3%
- Typical mileage
- 114k mi
The 2010 Lexus IS200 MOT pass rate is 81.1% of its MOT tests — 6.4 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Brakes is the biggest single reason it fails, at 29.7% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Brakes: 1.4× the national share
Brakes make up 29.7% of everything recorded on the 2010 Lexus Is200, against 20.9% nationally — 8.8 points above. Have the discs and pads measured rather than glanced at, and ask whether the handbrake holds on a slope.
- 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 74.7% and this one manages 81.1% — 6.4 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 18% 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 2010 Lexus IS200 compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 74.7%, so this figure is 6.4 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 77.3%. The median 2010 Lexus IS200 in this dataset had covered 113,586 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 79.8% of the time, April–September 82.8%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view", noted on 3.88% of tests.
- 206 recorded tests behind this page.
- 81.1% overall pass rate, 77.3% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Lexus IS200, the average is 77.9% — best year 2010 (81.1%), worst 2007 (76.5%).
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
- 206
- Typical mileage (median)
- 113,586 mi
- Make and model
- Lexus IS200
- Updated
- 2026-11-07
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 IS200 MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 69% so small gaps stay visible.
Where the Lexus IS200 is most common
Across all IS200 model years on record (2000–2012): 9,038 Lexus IS200 cars tested in a recordable postcode area, across 20,777 tests. Ipswich (IP) has the most, with 422 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 | Ipswich (IP) | 422 | 60.5% |
| 2 | Birmingham (B) | 292 | 81.3% |
| 3 | London (E) | 210 | 89.6% |
| 4 | Manchester (M) | 176 | 80.5% |
| 5 | Hounslow (TW) | 175 | 86.4% |
| 6 | London (NW) | 174 | 82.5% |
| 7 | Middlesbrough (TS) | 171 | 90.7% |
| 8 | Guildford (GU) | 166 | 81.5% |
| 9 | Cambridge (CB) | 160 | 72.4% |
| 10 | Reading (RG) | 160 | 81.0% |
| 11 | Leicester (LE) | 147 | 81.3% |
| 12 | Sheffield (S) | 146 | 81.8% |
| 13 | Peterborough (PE) | 146 | 78.0% |
| 14 | Croydon (CR) | 144 | 86.9% |
| 15 | London (SE) | 143 | 85.1% |
| 16 | Bristol (BS) | 141 | 74.4% |
| 17 | Blackburn (BB) | 141 | 89.4% |
| 18 | London (N) | 140 | 84.8% |
| 19 | Nottingham (NG) | 137 | 74.6% |
| 20 | Wembley (HA) | 127 | 82.4% |
The twenty areas with the most Lexus IS200 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 IS200
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| North West | 35 | 85.7% |
| Yorkshire | 31 | 83.9% |
| West Midlands | 27 | 88.9% |
| South East | 26 | 73.1% |
| East Midlands | 22 | 77.3% |
| Scotland | 21 | 81.0% |
| East of England | 17 | 76.5% |
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 2010 IS200
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 2010 IS200
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 3.9% 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 2.9% of tests
“track rod end ball joint dust cover damaged or 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.
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Check the shock absorbers 2.4% 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.
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 2010 IS200 through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £43–£108 — and 18% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £43–£108
- Cheapest common item: wipers blade defective
- £8–£22
- Dearest common item: windscreen damaged
- £80–£200
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 40%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 18%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 206 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 IS200, side by side
13 model years on record, from 2000 to 2012. Across them the pass rate runs from 76.5% to 81.1% — a spread of 4.6 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2000 77.7% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2001 77.6% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2002 77.2% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2003 78.0% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2004 77.7% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2005 77.4% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2006 77.2% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2007 76.5% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2008 78.3% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2009 78.9% rear reflectors defective or…
- 2010 81.1%windscreen damaged but not…
- 2011 80.4% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2012 79.1% 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 2010 Lexus IS200 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 2010 cars with a similar record
- Honda Jazz 81.0%
- Land Rover Range Rover 81.0%
- Honda Insight 80.9%
- Honda Cr-Z 80.9%
- Toyota Hi-Ace 80.8%
- Subaru Impreza 81.4%
Closest pass rates among 2010 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 2010 Lexus IS200 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 343 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 | 102 | 29.70% | 20.89% | +8.81 |
| Tyres | 82 | 23.80% | 19.76% | +4.04 |
| Suspension | 57 | 16.60% | 20.98% | −4.38 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 39 | 11.30% | 12.21% | −0.91 |
| Visibility | 17 | 4.90% | 4.97% | −0.07 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 11 | 3.20% | 5.57% | −2.37 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 11 | 3.20% | 5.52% | −2.32 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 9 | 2.60% | 1.76% | +0.84 |
| Non-component advisories | 8 | 2.30% | 4.18% | −1.88 |
| Steering | 7 | 2.00% | 2.57% | −0.57 |
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 | 3.9% | £80–200 |
| Service brake performance excessively fluctuating Brakes | Major | 2.9% | £60–150 |
| Track rod end ball joint dust cover damaged or deteriorated, but preventing the ingress of dirt Steering | Minor | 2.9% | £18–45 |
| Service brake performance excessively binding Brakes | Major | 2.4% | £60–150 |
| Shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak Suspension | Major | 2.4% | £30–75 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 2.4% | £8–22 |
| Headlamp aim projected beam image is obviously incorrect Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 1.9% | £30–80 |
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 1.9% | £5–25 |
| Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded Brakes | Major | 1.9% | £80–180 |
| Headlamp aim too low Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 1.5% | £30–80 |
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 | 24.8% | £45–95 |
| Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded Brakes | Advisory | 14.1% | £80–180 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 10.2% | £45–110 |
| Shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak Suspension | Advisory | 7.3% | £30–75 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 6.8% | £45–95 |
| Sub-frame corroded and seriously weakened Suspension | Advisory | 4.8% | £180–450 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30-60k | 4 | 100.0% | 34,989 mi |
| 60-90k | 45 | 86.7% | 79,839 mi |
| 90-120k | 74 | 77.0% | 107,186 mi |
| 120k+ | 83 | 80.7% | 153,076 mi |
Source: 206 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.
2010 IS200 MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2010 Lexus IS200?
81.1% of the 206 2010 Lexus IS200 tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 74.7% for cars first used in 2010. First-attempt pass rate: 77.3%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2010 Lexus IS200?
The three most recorded items are windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (3.88%), service brake performance excessively fluctuating (2.91%), track rod end ball joint dust cover damaged or deteriorated, but preventing the ingress of dirt (2.91%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2010 Lexus IS200 MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 100.0% of the time, falling to 80.7% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2010 Lexus IS200 in this dataset had covered 113,586 mi.
Does the season affect the 2010 Lexus IS200 MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 79.8% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 82.8%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.