Pass rate
82.8%
Around average — 10.3 pts ahead of the 72.5% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 4,548 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £19–£56
2006 Toyota Alphard MOT pass rate
- 2006
- 3 trims combined
- typical 71,878 mi
Most common fault
Suspension
29.2% of faults · 21.0% nationally
mostly worn arm bushes, split ball-joint boots and broken coil springs.
Part only £35–£75 for Suspension pin or bush excessively worn. What fitting it takes →
1.0 pts down across model years — 11.9% in 2003, 10.9% in 2021.
Which year to buy
- Best 2022 93.8% pass
- Avoid 2016 77.3% pass
Across the 21 years on record, a spread of 16.5 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 79.8%
- Typical mileage
- 72k mi
The 2006 Toyota Alphard MOT pass rate is 82.8% of its MOT tests — 10.3 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Suspension is the biggest single reason it fails, at 29.2% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Toyota Alphard does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Suspension: 1.4× the national share
Suspension accounts for 29.2% of everything recorded on the 2006 Toyota Alphard, against 21.0% nationally — 8.2 points above. Ask for the front and rear suspension to be checked on a ramp before you buy — worn bushes and broken springs are cheap to look at and expensive to discover at test time.
- Beats its own age and mileage. Once you allow for how old and how far these cars have been driven, the expected pass rate is 72.5% and this one manages 82.8% — 10.3 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
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 Toyota Alphard first registered in 2006 is combined here — 3 trim and body variants in total — so the sample is as large as the DVSA data allows.
How does the 2006 Toyota Alphard compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 72.5%, so this figure is 10.3 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 79.8%. The median 2006 Toyota Alphard in this dataset had covered 71,878 mi.
The most common fuel recorded here is Hybrid — 99% of tests, with a 82.8% pass rate. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 82.5% of the time, April–September 83.1%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated", noted on 4.40% of tests.
- 4,548 recorded tests behind this page.
- 82.8% overall pass rate, 79.8% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Toyota Alphard, the average is 81.6% — best year 2022 (93.8%), worst 2016 (77.3%).
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
- 4,548
- Typical mileage (median)
- 71,878 mi
- Make and model
- Toyota Alphard
- 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 Alphard MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 67% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Hybrid is the most common here (99% of tests).
Regional pass rates for the Alphard
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 1,056 | 80.7% |
| South West | 817 | 77.6% |
| Scotland | 628 | 85.5% |
| North West | 441 | 82.5% |
| West Midlands | 390 | 87.9% |
| East of England | 370 | 85.7% |
| London | 249 | 82.7% |
| Yorkshire | 199 | 85.9% |
| North East | 188 | 88.3% |
| Wales | 118 | 83.1% |
| East Midlands | 92 | 85.9% |
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 2006 Alphard
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 2006 Alphard
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 4.4% of tests
“ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated”
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 lights 3.3% of tests
“headlamp lens slightly defective”
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.
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Check the wipers and washers 1.8% of tests
“wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively”
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 2006 Alphard through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £19–£56 — and 38% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £19–£56
- Cheapest common item: rear fog lamp not working
- £3–£15
- Dearest common item: joints constant velocity boot severely…
- £80–£250
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 80%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 38%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 4,548 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 Alphard, side by side
21 model years on record, from 2002 to 2022. Across them the pass rate runs from 77.3% to 93.8% — a spread of 16.5 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2002 80.2% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2003 77.4% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2004 79.2% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2005 80.4% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2006 82.8%ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2007 83.3% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2008 83.8% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2009 87.1% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2010 84.8% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2011 85.0% linkage ball joint dust cover…
- 2012 87.0% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2013 90.1% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2014 83.6% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2015 77.3% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2016 77.3% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2017 77.7% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2018 79.3% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2019 79.8% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2020 78.3% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2021 81.6% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2022 93.8% linkage ball joint dust cover…
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 2006 Toyota Alphard 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 2006 cars with a similar record
- Porsche Cayenne 83.0%
- BMW 535 82.5%
- Mercedes-Benz S-Class 83.6%
- Porsche Cayman 83.8%
- Audi Q7 81.7%
- Jaguar Xk 81.5%
Closest pass rates among 2006 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 2006 Toyota Alphard 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 6,708 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Suspension | 1,968 | 29.20% | 20.98% | +8.22 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 1,326 | 19.70% | 12.21% | +7.49 |
| Tyres | 1,291 | 19.20% | 19.76% | −0.56 |
| Brakes | 933 | 13.80% | 20.89% | −7.09 |
| Visibility | 286 | 4.20% | 4.97% | −0.77 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 248 | 3.70% | 5.52% | −1.82 |
| Non-component advisories | 209 | 3.10% | 4.18% | −1.08 |
| Steering | 206 | 3.10% | 2.57% | +0.53 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 194 | 2.90% | 5.57% | −2.67 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 47 | 0.70% | 0.82% | −0.12 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension | Minor | 4.4% | £18–45 |
| Headlamp lens slightly defective Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 3.3% | £5–25 |
| Linkage ball joint dust cover ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension | Minor | 2.7% | £18–45 |
| Linkage ball joint dust cover ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Suspension | Major | 2.7% | £18–45 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 2.5% | £5–20 |
| Ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Suspension | Major | 2.0% | £18–45 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 1.8% | £8–22 |
| Joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated Body, chassis, structure | Minor | 1.7% | £80–250 |
| Rear fog lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 1.6% | £3–15 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Major | 1.4% | £40–150 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 15.7% | £40–150 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 14.3% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 8.7% | £18–45 |
| Swivel pins and bushes swivel pin and/or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 7.0% | £40–150 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 6.8% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 5.0% | £45–110 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 92 | 90.2% | 21,772 mi |
| 30-60k | 1,250 | 87.0% | 49,005 mi |
| 60-90k | 2,031 | 83.4% | 73,499 mi |
| 90-120k | 789 | 77.4% | 103,277 mi |
| 120k+ | 383 | 75.7% | 147,240 mi |
Source: 4,548 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.
2006 Alphard MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2006 Toyota Alphard?
82.8% of the 4,548 2006 Toyota Alphard tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 72.5% for cars first used in 2006. First-attempt pass rate: 79.8%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2006 Toyota Alphard?
The three most recorded items are ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated (4.40%), headlamp lens slightly defective (3.34%), linkage ball joint dust cover ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated (2.73%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2006 Toyota Alphard MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 90.2% of the time, falling to 75.7% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2006 Toyota Alphard in this dataset had covered 71,878 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2006 Toyota Alphard?
Hybrid: 82.8% pass rate across 4,518 tests. Petrol: 90.0% pass rate across 30 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2006 Toyota Alphard MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 82.5% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 83.1%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.