Pass rate
98.2%
Above average — 0.3 pts behind the 98.5% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 55 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £38–£88
2025 Mercedes-Benz E MOT pass rate
- 2025
- 7 trims combined
- typical 10,051 mi
Only 55 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
66.7% 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 2023 98.5% pass
- Avoid 2020 87.7% pass
Across the 9 years on record, a spread of 10.8 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 98.1%
- Typical mileage
- 10k mi
The 2025 Mercedes-Benz E MOT pass rate is 98.2% of its MOT tests — about what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 66.7% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Mercedes-Benz E does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 3.4× the national share
Tyres make up 66.7% of everything recorded on the 2025 Mercedes-Benz E, against 19.8% nationally — 46.9 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.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 0% 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.
- Based on a small sample. 55 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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Every Mercedes-Benz E first registered in 2025 is combined here — 7 trim and body variants in total — so the sample is as large as the DVSA data allows.
How does the 2025 Mercedes-Benz E compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 98.5%, so this figure is 0.3 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 98.1%. The median 2025 Mercedes-Benz E in this dataset had covered 10,051 mi.
The most common fuel recorded here is Hybrid — 65% of tests, with a 97.2% pass rate.
The single most recorded failure item is "Headlamp aim too far to the right", noted on 1.82% of tests.
- 55 recorded tests behind this page.
- 98.2% overall pass rate, 98.1% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Mercedes-Benz E, the average is 89.0% — best year 2023 (98.5%), worst 2020 (87.7%).
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
- 55
- Typical mileage (median)
- 10,051 mi
- Make and model
- Mercedes-Benz E
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Headlight Alignment
Typically a garage job — get quotes before committing.
Does mileage affect the E MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 77% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Hybrid is the most common here (65% of tests).
Regional pass rates for the E
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 21 | 95.2% |
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 2025 E
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 2025 E
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 1.8% of tests
“headlamp aim too far to the right”
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 tyre tread 1.8% of tests
“tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm”
Check all four tyres cold, including the inner shoulder where wear hides — 1.6mm across the central three-quarters is the legal limit, and most testers fail at 1.6mm without argument.
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 2025 E through its MOT
Across the 2 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £38–£88 — and 0% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 2 common items
- £38–£88
- Cheapest common item: headlamp aim too far to the right
- £30–£80
- Dearest common item: tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm
- £45–£95
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 50%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 0%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 55 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 E, side by side
9 model years on record, from 2017 to 2025. Across them the pass rate runs from 87.7% to 98.5% — a spread of 10.8 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2017 94.8% malfunction indicator lamp…
- 2018 91.4% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2019 88.4% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2020 87.7% has a cut in excess of the…
- 2021 89.6% fractured
- 2022 91.9% has a cut in excess of the…
- 2023 98.5% fractured
- 2024 97.8% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2025 98.2%headlamp aim too far to the right
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 2025 Mercedes-Benz E 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.
The full DVSA record for the 2025 Mercedes-Benz E 2 failure items · 1 advisories · 2 inspection categories · mileage brackets · all of it in the page, none of it above the fold
Every inspection category
Shares of the 3 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 | 2 | 66.70% | 19.76% | +46.94 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 1 | 33.30% | 12.21% | +21.09 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Headlamp aim too far to the right Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 1.8% | £30–80 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 1.8% | £45–95 |
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 | 1.8% | £45–95 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 37 | 100.0% | 9,306 mi |
| 30-60k | 7 | 85.7% | 36,536 mi |
Source: 55 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.
2025 E MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2025 Mercedes-Benz E?
98.2% of the 55 2025 Mercedes-Benz E tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 98.5% for cars first used in 2025. First-attempt pass rate: 98.1%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2025 Mercedes-Benz E?
The three most recorded items are headlamp aim too far to the right (1.82%), tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm (1.82%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2025 Mercedes-Benz E MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 100.0% of the time, falling to 85.7% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2025 Mercedes-Benz E in this dataset had covered 10,051 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2025 Mercedes-Benz E?
Hybrid: 97.2% pass rate across 36 tests. Other: 100.0% pass rate across 19 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.