MOT pass rate in Enfield (EN)

MOT pass rate in Enfield (EN): 87.8% of MOT tests on cars tested here passed. Adjust for the local mix of model years and mileage — the mix a garage across town would see on the national average car — and the rate is 87.4%, 6.3 points above the national 81.0%. That ranks 4 of 118 postcode areas (1st is highest). The raw rate is the one you notice; the adjusted rate is the one that means something.

Pass rate

87.8%

from 613,215 tests on 320,447 cars, 2023–2025

Adjusted

87.4%

same age and mileage mix as the nation

vs national

+ 6.3 pts

above the national rate on the same cars

320,447 different cars were tested in Enfield (EN) — see the makes and models →
Compare one model here with another postcode area →

The MOT pass rate in Enfield, and what its cars fail on

Share of all local tests recording the item, against the same item nationally
Failure item Local National Typical repair
Tread depth below 1.6 mm 16.3% 17.4% £45–£95
Tyre has a tear 10.2% 9.2% £45–£95
Ball joint excessively worn 3.0% 3.1% £18–£45
Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated 2.0% 1.3% £18–£45
Tyre cut too deep 1.9% 2.5% £45–£95
Ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt 1.1% 0.7% £18–£45
Tyre has a bulge 0.8% 0.9% £45–£95
Wheel badly distorted 0.7% 1.0% £20–£55

Cost bands are our parts-based estimates, published as a range — method. Every failure item, ranked nationally: the full list →

What an MOT failure costs here

Across the 613,215 tests in this area, the typical bill works out at £389 to £1,053 per 100 tests, against £615 to £1,675 nationally — 5 of 118 areas, cheapest first. That is the pass rate and the price of the parts that fail here, multiplied together, so it moves with both.

Bands are our parts-based estimates, not quotes: how repairs are priced. The models that cost most to fix are on the cheap-and-dear list, and how far apart two postcodes can be for one model is worth a look before blaming the car.

One model year, this area against the rest

The tables below compare the same model year in this area with the same model year everywhere, so vehicle age is taken out of the comparison entirely. Each row links to that model's full postcode-by-postcode breakdown.

Model Year Here GB Gap
Volkswagen Up 2014 86.1% 87.0% -0.9
Audi Q2 2019 92.7% 92.7% 0.0
Ford Puma 2020 94.3% 93.6% +0.7
Mercedes-Benz Vito 2017 93.3% 78.5% +14.8
Kia Picanto 2018 93.5% 80.5% +13.0
Vauxhall Combo 2019 88.2% 75.7% +12.5

Furthest behind: Volkswagen Up, Audi Q2, Ford Puma. Furthest ahead: Mercedes-Benz Vito, Kia Picanto, Vauxhall Combo. “Gap” is against each model's own national rate, not the 81.0% all-car rate — method. Three models either side of the gap, and each needs at least 300 tests of that model-year in this area.

Models that do worst here

At least 1,000 local tests each. “Nationally” is the same model's rate across Great Britain, so the bracket shows how far this area sits from that model's own norm.
Model Local Nationally Tests here
Peugeot 207 78.3% 70.8% (+7.5) 2,148
Renault Trafic 80.7% 73.4% (+7.3) 2,324
Renault Clio 81.4% 72.5% (+8.9) 5,512
Renault Megane 81.8% 71.4% (+10.4) 1,511
Renault Kangoo 82.2% 71.8% (+10.4) 1,263
Citroen C4 82.4% 74.7% (+7.7) 1,815

Models that do best here

Model Local Nationally Tests here
Levc Tx 97.6% 95.8% (+1.8) 1,576
Kia Niro 95.9% 92.0% (+3.9) 3,654
Honda Hr-V 95.6% 90.9% (+4.7) 1,127
Toyota C-Hr 93.7% 91.6% (+2.1) 2,927
Mercedes-Benz S-Class 93.2% 87.1% (+6.1) 1,122
Audi Q2 93.2% 92.7% (+0.5) 1,295

MOT stations in EN

There are 96 MOT test stations licensed for class 4 vehicles (cars, vans, motorhomes and people carriers) in the EN postcode area, according to the DVSA's published list of active stations.

We deliberately do not rank garages. The anonymised MOT data has no test-station field, so any “best garage in Enfield” list would be invented rather than measured — and a garage's pass rate mostly reflects the cars its customers bring, not the quality of its work.

See the 96 stations with addresses and phone numbers →

Test centres by town in EN

Each town below has eight or more licensed class-4 stations and its own page: names, addresses, phone numbers and the postcodes they cover.

All 118 postcode areas →

How to read this

The rate is per test, not per car: a vehicle tested twice counts twice, and a car that fails and is retested for free contributes a fail and a pass. The adjusted rate gives every area the national mix of model years and mileage bands by direct standardisation, so the “old cars” explanation is removed from the comparison — the full method.

Postcode area is the keeper's registered area, not the test station's. These are regional signals, not neighbourhood ones.

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