Pass rate
91.7%
Above average — 3.1 pts behind the 94.8% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 254 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £34–£77
2023 Mercedes-Benz Eqa MOT pass rate
- 2023
- 4 trims combined
- typical 29,256 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
61.3% 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 91.7% pass · this year
- Avoid 2024 89.4% pass
Across the 4 years on record, a spread of 2.3 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 91.1%
- Typical mileage
- 29k mi
The 2023 Mercedes-Benz Eqa MOT pass rate is 91.7% of its MOT tests — 3.1 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 61.3% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Mercedes-Benz Eqa does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 3.1× the national share
Tyres make up 61.3% of everything recorded on the 2023 Mercedes-Benz Eqa, against 19.8% nationally — 41.5 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 94.8%; this one manages 91.7% — 3.1 points below. Age is a fair excuse; this is not age.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 23% 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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Every Mercedes-Benz Eqa first registered in 2023 is combined here — 4 trim and body variants in total — so the sample is as large as the DVSA data allows.
How does the 2023 Mercedes-Benz Eqa compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 94.8%, so this figure is 3.1 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 91.1%. The median 2023 Mercedes-Benz Eqa in this dataset had covered 29,256 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 91.0% 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 2.36% of tests.
- 254 recorded tests behind this page.
- 91.7% overall pass rate, 91.1% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Mercedes-Benz Eqa, the average is 91.3% — best year 2023 (91.7%), worst 2024 (89.4%).
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
- 254
- Typical mileage (median)
- 29,256 mi
- Make and model
- Mercedes-Benz Eqa
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
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 Eqa MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 77% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Eqa
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 72 | 93.1% |
| West Midlands | 25 | 96.0% |
| North West | 24 | 87.5% |
| London | 24 | 95.8% |
| Yorkshire | 23 | 87.0% |
| East of England | 21 | 100.0% |
| Scotland | 18 | 94.4% |
| East Midlands | 17 | 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 2023 Eqa
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 2023 Eqa
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 tyre tread 2.4% 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.
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Check the suspension joints 1.6% of tests
“ball joint excessively worn”
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 wipers and washers 1.6% of tests
“wipers blade defective”
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.
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 2023 Eqa through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £34–£77 — and 23% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £34–£77
- Cheapest common item: wipers blade defective
- £8–£22
- Dearest common item: windscreen damaged
- £80–£200
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 80%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 23%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 254 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 Eqa, side by side
4 model years on record, from 2021 to 2024. Across them the pass rate runs from 89.4% to 91.7% — a spread of 2.3 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2021 91.6% has a cut in excess of the…
- 2022 90.8% has a cut in excess of the…
- 2023 91.7%has a cut in excess of the…
- 2024 89.4% 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 2023 Mercedes-Benz Eqa 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 2023 cars with a similar record
- Tesla Model Y 92.9%
- Polestar Polestar 94.6%
- Kia Niro 95.5%
- Toyota Corolla 95.7%
- Ford Puma 96.5%
- Levc Tx 97.0%
Closest pass rates among 2023 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 2023 Mercedes-Benz Eqa 10 failure items · 6 advisories · 7 inspection categories · mileage brackets · all of it in the page, none of it above the fold
Every inspection category
Shares of the 119 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 | 73 | 61.30% | 19.76% | +41.54 |
| Suspension | 13 | 10.90% | 20.98% | −10.08 |
| Visibility | 12 | 10.10% | 4.97% | +5.13 |
| Non-component advisories | 11 | 9.20% | 4.18% | +5.02 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 5 | 4.20% | 12.21% | −8.01 |
| Brakes | 4 | 3.40% | 20.89% | −17.49 |
| Road Wheels | 1 | 0.80% | 0.75% | +0.05 |
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 | 2.4% | £45–95 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 2.4% | £45–95 |
| Ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Major | 1.6% | £18–45 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 1.6% | £8–22 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 1.2% | £8–22 |
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 0.79% | £45–95 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 0.79% | £80–200 |
| Fixing missing Road Wheels | Rectified | 0.39% | £20–55 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Major | 0.39% | £45–95 |
| Headlamp aim too high Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 0.39% | £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 | 15.3% | £45–95 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 2.8% | £45–95 |
| Linkage ball joints ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 2.8% | £18–45 |
| Tread depth tread pattern not visible over the whole tread area when minimum depth required is 1.0mm Tyres | Advisory | 2.8% | £45–95 |
| Non-component advisories Child Seat fitted not allowing full inspection of adult belt Non-component advisories | Advisory | 2.4% | £20–80 |
| Non-component advisories Nail in tyre Non-component advisories | Advisory | 2.0% | £45–95 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 132 | 92.4% | 18,620 mi |
| 30-60k | 101 | 92.1% | 41,099 mi |
| 60-90k | 21 | 85.7% | 74,105 mi |
Source: 254 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.
2023 Eqa MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2023 Mercedes-Benz Eqa?
91.7% of the 254 2023 Mercedes-Benz Eqa tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 94.8% for cars first used in 2023. First-attempt pass rate: 91.1%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2023 Mercedes-Benz Eqa?
The three most recorded items are has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords (2.36%), tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm (2.36%), ball joint excessively worn (1.57%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2023 Mercedes-Benz Eqa MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 92.4% of the time, falling to 85.7% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2023 Mercedes-Benz Eqa in this dataset had covered 29,256 mi.
Does the season affect the 2023 Mercedes-Benz Eqa MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 91.0% 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.