Pass rate
91.2%
Above average — 0.0 pts in line with the 91.2% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 1,450 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £47–£126
2021 Mercedes-Benz Eqv MOT pass rate
- 2021
- typical 39,656 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
50.4% of faults · 19.8% nationally
mostly tread below the limit, cuts and sidewall bulges.
Which year to buy
- Best 2023 92.9% pass
- Avoid 2022 88.0% pass
Across the 4 years on record, a spread of 4.9 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 90.5%
- Typical mileage
- 40k mi
The 2021 Mercedes-Benz Eqv MOT pass rate is 91.2% of its MOT tests — about what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 50.4% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Mercedes-Benz Eqv does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 2.6× the national share
Tyres make up 50.4% of everything recorded on the 2021 Mercedes-Benz Eqv, against 19.8% nationally — 30.6 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.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 24% 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 2021 Mercedes-Benz Eqv compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 91.2%, so this figure is 0.0 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 90.5%. The median 2021 Mercedes-Benz Eqv in this dataset had covered 39,656 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 92.2% of the time, April–September 90.3%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Has ply or cords exposed", noted on 2.48% of tests.
- 1,450 recorded tests behind this page.
- 91.2% overall pass rate, 90.5% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Mercedes-Benz Eqv, the average is 90.3% — best year 2023 (92.9%), worst 2022 (88.0%).
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
- 1,450
- Typical mileage (median)
- 39,656 mi
- Make and model
- Mercedes-Benz Eqv
- 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 Eqv MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 82% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Eqv
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 629 | 91.7% |
| London | 456 | 93.2% |
| East of England | 96 | 87.5% |
| North West | 66 | 90.9% |
| Scotland | 47 | 87.2% |
| South West | 42 | 88.1% |
| Yorkshire | 35 | 85.7% |
| East Midlands | 35 | 85.7% |
| West Midlands | 23 | 87.0% |
| North East | 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 2021 Eqv
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 2021 Eqv
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 wipers and washers 1.2% 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.
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Check the shock absorbers 1.0% of tests
“shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak”
Press down hard on each corner of the car and let go. It should settle in one bounce; if it keeps rocking, or you can see oil weeping down a shock absorber, that is the fault a tester will find.
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Check the windscreen 0.8% 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.
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 2021 Eqv through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £47–£126 — and 24% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £47–£126
- Cheapest common item: wipers blade defective
- £8–£22
- Dearest common item: joints constant velocity boot severely…
- £80–£250
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 70%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 24%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 1,450 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 Eqv, side by side
4 model years on record, from 2020 to 2023. Across them the pass rate runs from 88.0% to 92.9% — a spread of 4.9 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2020 89.7% has ply or cords exposed
- 2021 91.2%has ply or cords exposed
- 2022 88.0% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2023 92.9% joints constant velocity boot…
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 2021 Mercedes-Benz Eqv 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 2021 cars with a similar record
- Vauxhall Astra 91.2%
- Land Rover R Rover Velar 91.2%
- BMW M340I 91.2%
- BMW X2 91.2%
- Audi RS 91.2%
- Kia Xceed 91.3%
Closest pass rates among 2021 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 2021 Mercedes-Benz Eqv 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 632 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 | 319 | 50.40% | 19.76% | +30.64 |
| Visibility | 62 | 9.80% | 4.97% | +4.83 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 59 | 9.30% | 5.57% | +3.73 |
| Non-component advisories | 54 | 8.50% | 4.18% | +4.32 |
| Suspension | 50 | 7.90% | 20.98% | −13.08 |
| Brakes | 47 | 7.40% | 20.89% | −13.49 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 28 | 4.40% | 12.21% | −7.81 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 8 | 1.30% | 1.76% | −0.46 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 3 | 0.50% | 0.82% | −0.32 |
| Road Wheels | 2 | 0.30% | 0.75% | −0.45 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 2.5% | £45–95 |
| Joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated Body, chassis, structure | Minor | 1.9% | £80–250 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 1.8% | £45–95 |
| Joints constant velocity boot split or insecure, no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Body, chassis, structure | Major | 1.7% | £80–250 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 1.2% | £8–22 |
| Shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak Suspension | Major | 0.97% | £30–75 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 0.90% | £8–22 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 0.83% | £80–200 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Rectified | 0.55% | £8–22 |
| Rear reflectors defective or damaged by up to 50% of the reflecting surface Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 0.48% | £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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 11.2% | £45–95 |
| 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 | 1.9% | £20–80 |
| Shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak Suspension | Advisory | 1.7% | £30–75 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 1.4% | £45–95 |
| Non-component advisories Nail in tyre Non-component advisories | Advisory | 1.4% | £45–95 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 497 | 91.1% | 19,193 mi |
| 30-60k | 592 | 90.7% | 43,792 mi |
| 60-90k | 246 | 91.9% | 72,436 mi |
| 90-120k | 90 | 93.3% | 101,368 mi |
| 120k+ | 25 | 92.0% | 138,542 mi |
Source: 1,450 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.
2021 Eqv MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2021 Mercedes-Benz Eqv?
91.2% of the 1,450 2021 Mercedes-Benz Eqv tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 91.2% for cars first used in 2021. First-attempt pass rate: 90.5%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2021 Mercedes-Benz Eqv?
The three most recorded items are has ply or cords exposed (2.48%), joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated (1.86%), has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords (1.79%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2021 Mercedes-Benz Eqv MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 91.1% of the time, falling to 92.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2021 Mercedes-Benz Eqv in this dataset had covered 39,656 mi.
Does the season affect the 2021 Mercedes-Benz Eqv MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 92.2% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 90.3%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.