Pass rate
88.9%
Above average — 1.0 pts ahead of the 87.9% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 62,968 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £41–£103
2018 Mercedes-Benz Glc MOT pass rate
- 2018
- 16 trims combined
- typical 48,796 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
38.3% 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 →
1.0 pts down across model years — 6.3% in 2015, 5.3% in 2022.
Which year to buy
- Best 2023 98.1% pass
- Avoid 2015 86.5% pass
Across the 9 years on record, a spread of 11.6 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 87.7%
- Typical mileage
- 49k mi
The 2018 Mercedes-Benz Glc MOT pass rate is 88.9% of its MOT tests — 1.0 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 38.3% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Mercedes-Benz Glc does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 1.9× the national share
Tyres make up 38.3% of everything recorded on the 2018 Mercedes-Benz Glc, against 19.8% nationally — 18.5 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.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 14% 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 Glc first registered in 2018 is combined here — 16 trim and body variants in total — so the sample is as large as the DVSA data allows.
How does the 2018 Mercedes-Benz Glc compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 87.9%, so this figure is 1.0 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 87.7%. The median 2018 Mercedes-Benz Glc in this dataset had covered 48,796 mi.
77% of the tests on this vehicle ran on Diesel, which passed 88.5% of the time. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 89.3% of the time, April–September 88.6%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Ball joint excessively worn", noted on 2.77% of tests.
- 62,968 recorded tests behind this page.
- 88.9% overall pass rate, 87.7% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Mercedes-Benz Glc, the average is 89.9% — best year 2023 (98.1%), worst 2015 (86.5%).
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
- 62,968
- Typical mileage (median)
- 48,796 mi
- Make and model
- Mercedes-Benz Glc
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Ball Joint
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Glc MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 74% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Diesel is the most common here (77% of tests).
Regional pass rates for the Glc
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 15,936 | 89.8% |
| East of England | 7,259 | 89.4% |
| North West | 6,924 | 88.6% |
| West Midlands | 5,126 | 90.5% |
| London | 5,017 | 91.2% |
| South West | 5,008 | 86.0% |
| Yorkshire | 4,745 | 89.4% |
| Scotland | 4,685 | 86.1% |
| East Midlands | 3,717 | 89.0% |
| North East | 2,374 | 87.2% |
| Wales | 2,173 | 87.5% |
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 2018 Glc
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 2018 Glc
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 suspension joints 2.8% 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 windscreen 2.5% 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 lights 1.1% of tests
“malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction”
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 2018 Glc through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £41–£103 — and 14% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £41–£103
- Cheapest common item: malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or…
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: joints constant velocity boot split or…
- £80–£250
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 80%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 14%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 62,968 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 Glc, side by side
9 model years on record, from 2015 to 2023. Across them the pass rate runs from 86.5% to 98.1% — a spread of 11.6 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2015 86.5% ball joint excessively worn
- 2016 87.7% ball joint excessively worn
- 2017 88.3% ball joint excessively worn
- 2018 88.9%ball joint excessively worn
- 2019 91.0% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2020 92.5% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2021 92.9% has a cut in excess of the…
- 2022 93.1% has a cut in excess of the…
- 2023 98.1% windscreen damaged but not…
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 2018 Mercedes-Benz Glc 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 2018 cars with a similar record
- MINI John COOPER Works 88.9%
- Alfa Romeo Giulia 88.9%
- BMW 3 Series 89.0%
- BMW 218 89.0%
- MINI Clubman 89.0%
- Hyundai I10 88.8%
Closest pass rates among 2018 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 2018 Mercedes-Benz Glc 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 48,759 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 | 18,749 | 38.30% | 19.76% | +18.54 |
| Brakes | 11,748 | 24.00% | 20.89% | +3.11 |
| Suspension | 6,993 | 14.30% | 20.98% | −6.68 |
| Non-component advisories | 3,731 | 7.60% | 4.18% | +3.42 |
| Visibility | 2,952 | 6.00% | 4.97% | +1.03 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 1,221 | 2.50% | 5.57% | −3.07 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 1,119 | 2.30% | 1.76% | +0.54 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 1,075 | 2.20% | 5.52% | −3.32 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 918 | 1.90% | 12.21% | −10.31 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 253 | 0.50% | 0.82% | −0.32 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Major | 2.8% | £18–45 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 2.5% | £80–200 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 1.6% | £45–95 |
| Malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 1.1% | £3–12 |
| Joints constant velocity boot split or insecure, no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Body, chassis, structure | Major | 1.1% | £80–250 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 1.0% | £45–95 |
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 0.85% | £45–95 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 0.70% | £8–22 |
| Brake pads worn down to wear indicator Brakes | Major | 0.54% | £18–45 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Major | 0.53% | £18–45 |
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 | 15.1% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 8.6% | £18–45 |
| Ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 6.8% | £18–45 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 5.5% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 4.6% | £45–110 |
| Brake discs significantly and obviously worn Brakes | Advisory | 3.6% | £45–110 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 8,545 | 93.0% | 22,961 mi |
| 30-60k | 35,896 | 89.5% | 45,092 mi |
| 60-90k | 15,511 | 86.3% | 71,241 mi |
| 90-120k | 2,501 | 84.4% | 100,155 mi |
| 120k+ | 505 | 82.0% | 140,350 mi |
Source: 62,968 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.
2018 Glc MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2018 Mercedes-Benz Glc?
88.9% of the 62,968 2018 Mercedes-Benz Glc tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 87.9% for cars first used in 2018. First-attempt pass rate: 87.7%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2018 Mercedes-Benz Glc?
The three most recorded items are ball joint excessively worn (2.77%), windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (2.52%), has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords (1.55%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2018 Mercedes-Benz Glc MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 93.0% of the time, falling to 82.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2018 Mercedes-Benz Glc in this dataset had covered 48,796 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2018 Mercedes-Benz Glc?
Diesel: 88.5% pass rate across 48,259 tests. Petrol: 90.2% pass rate across 14,709 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2018 Mercedes-Benz Glc MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 89.3% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 88.6%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.