Pass rate
90.1%
Above average — 9.9 pts ahead of the 80.2% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 342 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £7–£25
2014 Toyota Aqua MOT pass rate
- 2014
- 2 trims combined
- typical 54,870 mi
Most common fault
Lamps & electrics
29.9% of faults · 12.2% nationally
Part only £6–£18 for Registration plate lamp inoperative (multiple lamps). What fitting it takes →
Which year to buy
- Best 2019 100.0% pass
- Avoid 2012 87.8% pass
Across the 8 years on record, a spread of 12.2 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 89.2%
- Typical mileage
- 55k mi
The 2014 Toyota Aqua MOT pass rate is 90.1% of its MOT tests — 9.9 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Lamps & electrics is the biggest single reason it fails, at 29.9% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Toyota Aqua does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Lamps & electrics: 2.4× the national share
Lamps & electrics make up 29.9% of everything recorded on the 2014 Toyota Aqua, against 12.2% nationally — 17.7 points above. Walk round the car with the lights on before the test: bulbs, indicators and number-plate lamps are the cheapest failures to prevent and among the most common.
- 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 80.2% and this one manages 90.1% — 9.9 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- Failures here tend to be cheap ones. 81% of the repairs this model fails on cost under £30 in parts. The pass rate matters less than what a bad afternoon at the test centre actually costs you.
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 Aqua first registered in 2014 is combined here — 2 trim and body variants in total — so the sample is as large as the DVSA data allows.
How does the 2014 Toyota Aqua compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 80.2%, so this figure is 9.9 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 89.2%. The median 2014 Toyota Aqua in this dataset had covered 54,870 mi.
94% of the tests on this vehicle ran on Hybrid, which passed 91.0% of the time. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 91.1% of the time, April–September 89.1%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources", noted on 3.51% of tests.
- 342 recorded tests behind this page.
- 90.1% overall pass rate, 89.2% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Toyota Aqua, the average is 90.3% — best year 2019 (100.0%), worst 2012 (87.8%).
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
- 342
- Typical mileage (median)
- 54,870 mi
- Make and model
- Toyota Aqua
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Number Plate Lamp
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Aqua 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 (94% of tests).
Regional pass rates for the Aqua
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 146 | 89.0% |
| West Midlands | 41 | 92.7% |
| London | 40 | 85.0% |
| North West | 32 | 96.9% |
| East Midlands | 24 | 100.0% |
| East of England | 22 | 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 2014 Aqua
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 2014 Aqua
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 lights 3.5% of tests
“registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources”
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 suspension joints 1.8% of tests
“linkage ball joint dust cover ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt”
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 1.8% 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 2014 Aqua through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £7–£25 — and 81% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £7–£25
- Cheapest common item: rear fog lamp does not emit a steady red light
- £3–£15
- Dearest common item: linkage ball joint dust cover ball joint dust…
- £18–£45
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 100%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 81%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 342 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 Aqua, side by side
8 model years on record, from 2012 to 2019. Across them the pass rate runs from 87.8% to 100.0% — a spread of 12.2 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2012 87.8% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2013 89.9% linkage ball joint dust cover…
- 2014 90.1%registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2015 92.0% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2016 94.2% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2017 92.2% headlamp not working on dipped…
- 2018 93.1% shock absorbers has a serious…
- 2019 100.0% 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 2014 Toyota Aqua 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 2014 cars with a similar record
- Mercedes-Benz S-Class 90.1%
- BMW M4 90.0%
- Lexus Ct 90.3%
- Lexus Rx 90.4%
- Porsche Panamera 89.3%
- Honda Jazz 89.0%
Closest pass rates among 2014 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 2014 Toyota Aqua 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 195 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 59 | 29.90% | 12.21% | +17.69 |
| Tyres | 50 | 25.40% | 19.76% | +5.64 |
| Suspension | 33 | 16.80% | 20.98% | −4.18 |
| Visibility | 17 | 8.60% | 4.97% | +3.63 |
| Brakes | 13 | 6.60% | 20.89% | −14.29 |
| Non-component advisories | 12 | 6.10% | 4.18% | +1.92 |
| Steering | 4 | 2.00% | 2.57% | −0.57 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 3 | 1.50% | 5.52% | −4.02 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 3 | 1.50% | 1.76% | −0.26 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 1 | 0.50% | 5.57% | −5.07 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 3.5% | £5–20 |
| Linkage ball joint dust cover ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Suspension | Major | 1.8% | £18–45 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 1.8% | £8–22 |
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 1.5% | £5–25 |
| Rear fog lamp does not emit a steady red light Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 1.5% | £3–15 |
| Ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Suspension | Major | 1.2% | £18–45 |
| Headlamp not working on dipped beam Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 1.2% | £5–25 |
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 1.2% | £5–25 |
| Rear fog lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 1.2% | £3–15 |
| Rear fog lamp missing Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 0.88% | £3–15 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 5.6% | £45–95 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 5.3% | £45–95 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 2.9% | £40–150 |
| Non-component advisories Child Seat fitted not allowing full inspection of adult belt Non-component advisories | Advisory | 1.8% | £20–80 |
| Non-component advisories Nail in tyre Non-component advisories | Advisory | 1.8% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 1.5% | £18–45 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 35 | 91.4% | 21,597 mi |
| 30-60k | 173 | 90.8% | 47,411 mi |
| 60-90k | 102 | 92.2% | 71,931 mi |
| 90-120k | 23 | 78.3% | 100,479 mi |
| 120k+ | 8 | 75.0% | 156,347 mi |
Source: 342 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.
2014 Aqua MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2014 Toyota Aqua?
90.1% of the 342 2014 Toyota Aqua tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 80.2% for cars first used in 2014. First-attempt pass rate: 89.2%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2014 Toyota Aqua?
The three most recorded items are registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources (3.51%), linkage ball joint dust cover ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt (1.75%), wipers blade defective (1.75%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2014 Toyota Aqua MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 91.4% of the time, falling to 75.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2014 Toyota Aqua in this dataset had covered 54,870 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2014 Toyota Aqua?
Hybrid: 91.0% pass rate across 323 tests. Petrol: 76.5% pass rate across 17 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2014 Toyota Aqua MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 91.1% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 89.1%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.