Pass rate
87.9%
Above average — 14.9 pts ahead of the 73.0% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 298 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £66–£181
2007 Lexus LS600H MOT pass rate
- 2007
- typical 116,085 mi
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Most common fault
Brakes
24.8% 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 →
Which year to buy
- Best 2011 94.2% pass
- Avoid 2009 85.9% pass
Across the 6 years on record, a spread of 8.3 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 86.6%
- Typical mileage
- 116k mi
The 2007 Lexus LS600H MOT pass rate is 87.9% of its MOT tests — 14.9 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Brakes is the biggest single reason it fails, at 24.8% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Fewer problems with lamps & electrics
Lamps & electrics are 6.4% of this car’s recorded faults, against 12.2% nationally — the mirror image of the usual story on a car of this age.
- 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 73.0% and this one manages 87.9% — 14.9 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 13% 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 2007 Lexus LS600H compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 73.0%, so this figure is 14.9 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 86.6%. The median 2007 Lexus LS600H in this dataset had covered 116,085 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 89.2% of the time, April–September 86.4%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated", noted on 5.70% of tests.
- 298 recorded tests behind this page.
- 87.9% overall pass rate, 86.6% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Lexus LS600H, the average is 88.3% — best year 2011 (94.2%), worst 2009 (85.9%).
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
- 298
- Typical mileage (median)
- 116,085 mi
- Make and model
- Lexus LS600H
- Updated
- 2026-11-07
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Body Panel Repair
Typically a garage job — get quotes before committing.
Does mileage affect the LS600H MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 77% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the LS600H
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 95 | 89.5% |
| London | 35 | 94.3% |
| South West | 32 | 84.4% |
| North West | 30 | 83.3% |
| East of England | 29 | 93.1% |
| West Midlands | 19 | 89.5% |
| East Midlands | 18 | 77.8% |
| Scotland | 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 2007 LS600H
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 2007 LS600H
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 2.4% 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 brake pipes 1.7% of tests
“rigid brake pipes excessively corroded”
Brake pipes run under the car, usually in front of the rear wheels. Flaking or crusty metal is what fails; a light dusting of surface rust does not. Worth asking a garage to look while it is on a ramp.
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Check the suspension joints 1.7% 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.
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 2007 LS600H through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £66–£181 — and 13% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £66–£181
- Cheapest common item: wipers blade defective
- £8–£22
- Dearest common item: component mounting prescribed areas…
- £180–£450
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 50%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 13%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 298 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 LS600H, side by side
6 model years on record, from 2007 to 2012. Across them the pass rate runs from 85.9% to 94.2% — a spread of 8.3 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2007 87.9%joints constant velocity boot…
- 2008 88.5% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2009 85.9% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2010 88.5% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2011 94.2% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2012 88.2% ball joint dust cover severely…
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 2007 Lexus LS600H 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 2007 cars with a similar record
- Porsche Boxster 87.3%
- Porsche 911 89.7%
- Mercedes-Benz Sl 85.5%
- Porsche Cayman 85.3%
- Aston Martin DB9 91.4%
- Bentley Continental 92.1%
Closest pass rates among 2007 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 2007 Lexus LS600H 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 326 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 | 81 | 24.80% | 20.89% | +3.91 |
| Suspension | 75 | 22.90% | 20.98% | +1.92 |
| Tyres | 72 | 22.00% | 19.76% | +2.24 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 32 | 9.80% | 5.57% | +4.23 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 21 | 6.40% | 12.21% | −5.81 |
| Visibility | 15 | 4.60% | 4.97% | −0.37 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 12 | 3.70% | 1.76% | +1.94 |
| Steering | 7 | 2.10% | 2.57% | −0.47 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 6 | 1.80% | 5.52% | −3.72 |
| Non-component advisories | 5 | 1.50% | 4.18% | −2.68 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated Body, chassis, structure | Minor | 5.7% | £80–250 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 2.4% | £80–200 |
| Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded Brakes | Major | 1.7% | £80–180 |
| Track rod end ball joint dust cover damaged or deteriorated, but preventing the ingress of dirt Steering | Minor | 1.7% | £18–45 |
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 1.3% | £45–95 |
| Joints constant velocity boot split or insecure, no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Body, chassis, structure | Major | 1.3% | £80–250 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 1.3% | £8–22 |
| Component mounting prescribed areas prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength Suspension | Major | 1.0% | £180–450 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 1.0% | £45–95 |
| Headlamp lens slightly defective Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 1.0% | £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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 13.1% | £40–150 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 11.7% | £45–95 |
| Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded Brakes | Advisory | 7.0% | £80–180 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 4.7% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 4.4% | £45–110 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 4.4% | £18–45 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30-60k | 27 | 100.0% | 41,873 mi |
| 60-90k | 58 | 89.7% | 72,576 mi |
| 90-120k | 74 | 86.5% | 105,316 mi |
| 120k+ | 139 | 85.6% | 165,638 mi |
Source: 298 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.
2007 LS600H MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2007 Lexus LS600H?
87.9% of the 298 2007 Lexus LS600H tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 73.0% for cars first used in 2007. First-attempt pass rate: 86.6%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2007 Lexus LS600H?
The three most recorded items are joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated (5.70%), windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (2.35%), rigid brake pipes excessively corroded (1.68%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2007 Lexus LS600H MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 100.0% of the time, falling to 85.6% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2007 Lexus LS600H in this dataset had covered 116,085 mi.
Does the season affect the 2007 Lexus LS600H MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 89.2% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 86.4%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.