Pass rate
87.2%
Above average — 4.8 pts behind the 92.0% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 447 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £43–£100
2022 Mercedes-Benz E220 MOT pass rate
- 2022
- typical 34,817 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
49.1% of faults · 19.8% nationally
mostly tread below the limit, cuts and sidewall bulges.
Part only £55–£85 for Tyre has a tear. What fitting it takes →
Which year to buy
- Best 2017 93.0% pass
- Avoid 2016 77.8% pass
Across the 4 years on record, a spread of 15.2 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 85.7%
- Typical mileage
- 35k mi
The 2022 Mercedes-Benz E220 MOT pass rate is 87.2% of its MOT tests — 4.8 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 49.1% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Mercedes-Benz E220 does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 2.5× the national share
Tyres make up 49.1% of everything recorded on the 2022 Mercedes-Benz E220, against 19.8% nationally — 29.3 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.
- Falls short of its own age and mileage. Like-for-like, cars this age and mileage expect about 92.0%; this one manages 87.2% — 4.8 points below. Age is a fair excuse; this is not age.
- 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.
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 2022 Mercedes-Benz E220 compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 92.0%, so this figure is 4.8 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 85.7%. The median 2022 Mercedes-Benz E220 in this dataset had covered 34,817 mi.
56% of the tests on this vehicle ran on Other, which passed 87.2% of the time. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 87.7% of the time, April–September 86.8%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Fractured", noted on 4.70% of tests.
- 447 recorded tests behind this page.
- 87.2% overall pass rate, 85.7% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Mercedes-Benz E220, the average is 87.1% — best year 2017 (93.0%), worst 2016 (77.8%).
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
- 447
- Typical mileage (median)
- 34,817 mi
- Make and model
- Mercedes-Benz E220
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Wheel Hub Bearing Kit
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the E220 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. Other is the most common here (56% of tests).
Regional pass rates for the E220
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 113 | 89.4% |
| East of England | 56 | 83.9% |
| West Midlands | 55 | 85.5% |
| North West | 46 | 95.7% |
| South West | 35 | 82.9% |
| Yorkshire | 35 | 85.7% |
| Scotland | 27 | 85.2% |
| London | 25 | 88.0% |
| North East | 20 | 80.0% |
| East Midlands | 20 | 80.0% |
| Wales | 15 | 100.0% |
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 2022 E220
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 2022 E220
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 3.4% 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 brakes 0.7% of tests
“brake pads worn down to wear indicator”
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.
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Check the lights 0.5% of tests
“headlamp aim too low”
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.
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 2022 E220 through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £43–£100 — and 0% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £43–£100
- Cheapest common item: brake pads worn down to wear indicator
- £18–£45
- Dearest common item: windscreen damaged
- £80–£200
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 80%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 0%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 447 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 E220, side by side
4 model years on record, from 2016 to 2022. Across them the pass rate runs from 77.8% to 93.0% — a spread of 15.2 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2016 77.8% linkage ball joint dust cover…
- 2017 93.0% ball joint dust cover no longer…
- 2019 90.9% has a bulge, caused by separation…
- 2022 87.2%fractured
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 2022 Mercedes-Benz E220 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 2022 cars with a similar record
- Tesla Model Y 87.0%
- BMW 330E 86.9%
- Toyota Hilux 87.6%
- Ford Ranger 87.7%
- BMW IX3 87.7%
- MG 5 Excite 87.8%
Closest pass rates among 2022 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 2022 Mercedes-Benz E220 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 217 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 | 107 | 49.10% | 19.76% | +29.34 |
| Road Wheels | 37 | 17.00% | 0.75% | +16.25 |
| Brakes | 28 | 12.80% | 20.89% | −8.09 |
| Visibility | 22 | 10.10% | 4.97% | +5.13 |
| Non-component advisories | 8 | 3.70% | 4.18% | −0.48 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 5 | 2.30% | 12.21% | −9.91 |
| Suspension | 3 | 1.40% | 20.98% | −19.58 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 3 | 1.40% | 5.57% | −4.17 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 3 | 1.40% | 1.76% | −0.36 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 1 | 0.50% | 5.52% | −5.02 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fractured Road Wheels | Major | 4.7% | £20–55 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 3.4% | £80–200 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 3.1% | £45–95 |
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 2.0% | £45–95 |
| Has a bulge, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Major | 1.8% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads worn down to wear indicator Brakes | Major | 0.67% | £18–45 |
| Has a lump, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Major | 0.67% | £45–95 |
| Has a welding defect Road Wheels | Major | 0.67% | £20–55 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Major | 0.45% | £45–95 |
| Headlamp aim too low Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 0.45% | £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 | 6.9% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 3.1% | £18–45 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Advisory | 2.9% | £45–95 |
| Has a bulge, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 2.5% | £45–95 |
| Badly distorted Road Wheels | Advisory | 2.2% | £20–55 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 1.6% | £45–95 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 173 | 85.0% | 19,205 mi |
| 30-60k | 191 | 86.9% | 41,255 mi |
| 60-90k | 40 | 92.5% | 75,062 mi |
| 90-120k | 21 | 95.2% | 101,146 mi |
| 120k+ | 22 | 90.9% | 159,303 mi |
Source: 447 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.
2022 E220 MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2022 Mercedes-Benz E220?
87.2% of the 447 2022 Mercedes-Benz E220 tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 92.0% for cars first used in 2022. First-attempt pass rate: 85.7%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2022 Mercedes-Benz E220?
The three most recorded items are fractured (4.70%), windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (3.36%), has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords (3.13%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2022 Mercedes-Benz E220 MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 85.0% of the time, falling to 90.9% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2022 Mercedes-Benz E220 in this dataset had covered 34,817 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2022 Mercedes-Benz E220?
Other: 87.2% pass rate across 250 tests. Diesel: 87.2% pass rate across 196 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2022 Mercedes-Benz E220 MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 87.7% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 86.8%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.