Pass rate
92.7%
Above average — 10.6 pts ahead of the 82.1% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 592 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £48–£125
2015 Lexus Rc MOT pass rate
- 2015
- typical 52,439 mi
Check your postcode
Most common fault
Tyres
41.4% of faults · 19.8% nationally
mostly tread below the limit, cuts and sidewall bulges.
Which year to buy
- Best 2021 96.3% pass
- Avoid 2017 90.4% pass
Across the 7 years on record, a spread of 5.9 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 92.2%
- Typical mileage
- 52k mi
The 2015 Lexus Rc MOT pass rate is 92.7% of its MOT tests — 10.6 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 41.4% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 2.1× the national share
Tyres make up 41.4% of everything recorded on the 2015 Lexus Rc, against 19.8% nationally — 21.6 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 82.1% and this one manages 92.7% — 10.6 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 2015 Lexus Rc compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 82.1%, so this figure is 10.6 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 92.2%. The median 2015 Lexus Rc in this dataset had covered 52,439 mi.
The most common fuel recorded here is Petrol — 76% of tests, with a 93.8% pass rate. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 91.8% of the time, April–September 93.9%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords", noted on 1.35% of tests.
- 592 recorded tests behind this page.
- 92.7% overall pass rate, 92.2% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Lexus Rc, the average is 91.7% — best year 2021 (96.3%), worst 2017 (90.4%).
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
- 592
- Typical mileage (median)
- 52,439 mi
- Make and model
- Lexus Rc
- Updated
- 2026-11-07
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Tyres
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Rc MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 80% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Petrol is the most common here (76% of tests).
Where the Lexus Rc is most common
Across all Rc model years on record (2015–2021): 3,637 Lexus Rc cars tested in a recordable postcode area, across 7,330 tests. Birmingham (B) has the most, with 126 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 | Birmingham (B) | 126 | 95.7% |
| 2 | Southampton (SO) | 114 | 89.0% |
| 3 | Cardiff (CF) | 87 | 96.6% |
| 4 | Derby (DE) | 87 | 92.1% |
| 5 | Leicester (LE) | 83 | 92.2% |
| 6 | Bolton (BL) | 80 | 88.1% |
| 7 | Coventry (CV) | 79 | 93.2% |
| 8 | Reading (RG) | 78 | 92.2% |
| 9 | Glasgow (G) | 76 | 92.5% |
| 10 | Stoke On Trent (ST) | 76 | 95.9% |
| 11 | London (NW) | 75 | 88.2% |
| 12 | Chester (CH) | 74 | 91.1% |
| 13 | Stockport (SK) | 71 | 88.5% |
| 14 | Sheffield (S) | 69 | 89.7% |
| 15 | Guildford (GU) | 68 | 87.4% |
| 16 | Milton Keynes (MK) | 66 | 97.8% |
| 17 | Leeds (LS) | 65 | 96.9% |
| 18 | Edinburgh (EH) | 62 | 93.8% |
| 19 | Nottingham (NG) | 62 | 89.7% |
| 20 | St Albans (AL) | 61 | 87.0% |
The twenty areas with the most Lexus Rc 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 Rc
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 198 | 91.9% |
| North West | 65 | 90.8% |
| West Midlands | 62 | 96.8% |
| South West | 58 | 94.8% |
| East of England | 48 | 95.8% |
| Yorkshire | 38 | 92.1% |
| East Midlands | 32 | 90.6% |
| Wales | 29 | 86.2% |
| Scotland | 23 | 91.3% |
| London | 21 | 100.0% |
| North East | 18 | 88.9% |
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 2015 Rc
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 2015 Rc
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 1.4% 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 wipers and washers 0.7% of tests
“wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively”
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 tyre pressures and valves 0.5% of tests
“tyre pressure monitoring system malfunctioning or obviously inoperative”
Set the pressures to the figures on the door pillar, not the tyre wall, and check the valves do not hiss. A leaking valve is a two-minute fix that fails a test.
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 2015 Rc through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £48–£125 — and 18% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £48–£125
- Cheapest common item: wipers does not clear the windscreen…
- £8–£22
- Dearest common item: catalyst emissions lambda reading after 2nd…
- £60–£250
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 60%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 18%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 592 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 Rc, side by side
7 model years on record, from 2015 to 2021. Across them the pass rate runs from 90.4% to 96.3% — a spread of 5.9 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2015 92.7%has a cut in excess of the…
- 2016 90.7% has a cut in excess of the…
- 2017 90.4% has a cut in excess of the…
- 2018 93.0% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2019 92.1% has a cut in excess of the…
- 2020 93.1% has ply or cords exposed
- 2021 96.3% has a cut in excess of the…
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 2015 Lexus Rc 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 2015 cars with a similar record
- Audi A8 92.7%
- Jaguar F-Type 92.9%
- BMW I8 91.2%
- Porsche Boxster 94.4%
- Mercedes-Benz Gle 90.7%
- Porsche Cayman 94.7%
Closest pass rates among 2015 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 2015 Lexus Rc 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 320 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 | 133 | 41.40% | 19.76% | +21.64 |
| Brakes | 121 | 37.70% | 20.89% | +16.81 |
| Visibility | 22 | 6.90% | 4.97% | +1.93 |
| Non-component advisories | 14 | 4.40% | 4.18% | +0.22 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 13 | 4.00% | 12.21% | −8.21 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 5 | 1.60% | 5.52% | −3.92 |
| Suspension | 4 | 1.20% | 20.98% | −19.78 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 4 | 1.20% | 1.76% | −0.56 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 2 | 0.60% | 5.57% | −4.97 |
| Road Wheels | 2 | 0.60% | 0.75% | −0.15 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 1.4% | £45–95 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 1.4% | £80–200 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Rectified | 0.68% | £8–22 |
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 0.51% | £45–95 |
| Service brake performance excessively fluctuating Brakes | Major | 0.51% | £60–150 |
| Tyre pressure monitoring system malfunctioning or obviously inoperative Tyres | Rectified | 0.51% | £45–95 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 0.51% | £8–22 |
| Brake discs significantly and obviously worn Brakes | Major | 0.34% | £45–110 |
| Catalyst emissions Lambda reading after 2nd fast idle outside specified limits Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 0.34% | £60–250 |
| Catalyst emissions emissions likely to be affected by an exhaust leak Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 0.34% | £60–250 |
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 | 10.8% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 10.0% | £18–45 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 4.4% | £45–110 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 3.9% | £45–95 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Advisory | 2.0% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs significantly and obviously worn Brakes | Advisory | 1.9% | £45–110 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 94 | 94.7% | 21,380 mi |
| 30-60k | 257 | 92.6% | 44,179 mi |
| 60-90k | 174 | 93.1% | 74,167 mi |
| 90-120k | 58 | 89.7% | 99,742 mi |
| 120k+ | 9 | 88.9% | 150,653 mi |
Source: 592 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.
2015 Rc MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2015 Lexus Rc?
92.7% of the 592 2015 Lexus Rc tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 82.1% for cars first used in 2015. First-attempt pass rate: 92.2%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2015 Lexus Rc?
The three most recorded items are has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords (1.35%), windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (1.35%), wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively (0.68%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2015 Lexus Rc MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 94.7% of the time, falling to 88.9% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2015 Lexus Rc in this dataset had covered 52,439 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2015 Lexus Rc?
Petrol: 93.8% pass rate across 450 tests. Hybrid: 89.4% pass rate across 142 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2015 Lexus Rc MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 91.8% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 93.9%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.