Pass rate
88.3%
Above average — 4.3 pts ahead of the 84.0% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 52,147 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £18–£47
2016 Toyota Auris MOT pass rate
- 2016
- 4 trims combined
- typical 65,077 mi
Check your postcode
Most common fault
Tyres
25.6% of faults · 19.8% nationally
mostly tread below the limit, cuts and sidewall bulges.
Which year to buy
- Best 2018 90.1% pass
- Avoid 2007 76.4% pass
Across the 14 years on record, a spread of 13.7 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 86.9%
- Typical mileage
- 65k mi
The 2016 Toyota Auris MOT pass rate is 88.3% of its MOT tests — 4.3 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 25.6% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 1.3× the national share
Tyres make up 25.6% of everything recorded on the 2016 Toyota Auris, against 19.8% nationally — 5.8 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.
- 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 84.0% and this one manages 88.3% — 4.3 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- Failures here tend to be cheap ones. 57% 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 Auris first registered in 2016 is combined here — 4 trim and body variants in total — so the sample is as large as the DVSA data allows.
How does the 2016 Toyota Auris compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 84.0%, so this figure is 4.3 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 86.9%. The median 2016 Toyota Auris in this dataset had covered 65,077 mi.
68% of the tests on this vehicle ran on Hybrid, which passed 88.2% of the time. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 88.2% of the time, April–September 88.4%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Stop lamp not working", noted on 2.45% of tests.
- 52,147 recorded tests behind this page.
- 88.3% overall pass rate, 86.9% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Toyota Auris, the average is 83.9% — best year 2018 (90.1%), worst 2007 (76.4%).
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
- 52,147
- Typical mileage (median)
- 65,077 mi
- Make and model
- Toyota Auris
- Updated
- 2026-11-07
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Stop Light Bulb
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Auris MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 77% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Hybrid is the most common here (68% of tests).
Where the Toyota Auris is most common
Across all Auris model years on record (2006–2019): 204,179 Toyota Auris cars tested in a recordable postcode area, across 533,857 tests. Birmingham (B) has the most, with 9,242 cars tested there. Cars are counted by the postcode area of the MOT station, so this is where they were tested, not necessarily where their owners live.
| # | Postcode area | Cars | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Birmingham (B) | 9,242 | 87.1% |
| 2 | Manchester (M) | 6,460 | 84.7% |
| 3 | Leicester (LE) | 6,345 | 86.2% |
| 4 | Bradford (BD) | 4,921 | 85.2% |
| 5 | London (E) | 4,896 | 89.1% |
| 6 | Sheffield (S) | 4,530 | 85.4% |
| 7 | Nottingham (NG) | 4,096 | 82.2% |
| 8 | London (NW) | 3,553 | 86.0% |
| 9 | Bolton (BL) | 3,501 | 84.1% |
| 10 | Wembley (HA) | 3,386 | 88.5% |
| 11 | Hayes (UB) | 3,293 | 89.5% |
| 12 | Reading (RG) | 3,102 | 84.0% |
| 13 | Bristol (BS) | 3,068 | 77.9% |
| 14 | Oldham (OL) | 3,042 | 81.8% |
| 15 | Leeds (LS) | 3,016 | 83.1% |
| 16 | Derby (DE) | 2,979 | 85.5% |
| 17 | London (N) | 2,949 | 89.4% |
| 18 | Croydon (CR) | 2,833 | 89.2% |
| 19 | London (SE) | 2,673 | 87.9% |
| 20 | Glasgow (G) | 2,605 | 77.8% |
The twenty areas with the most Toyota Auris cars in the record, sorted by car count — sort the columns for a different question. Cars tested at a station whose postcode area could not be resolved are counted in the model's total but in no area, so the shares add up to slightly under 100% even across every area, and an area's cars are a subset of the model's. Pass rate is blank below 30 tests in an area, where a percentage is noise rather than a finding. How this model's pass rate varies by postcode →
Regional pass rates for the Auris
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 12,205 | 89.4% |
| North West | 6,178 | 89.1% |
| Yorkshire | 5,622 | 88.7% |
| London | 5,053 | 90.5% |
| West Midlands | 4,757 | 88.5% |
| East of England | 4,641 | 88.9% |
| East Midlands | 3,891 | 87.2% |
| Scotland | 3,396 | 81.7% |
| South West | 3,259 | 85.6% |
| Wales | 1,914 | 89.6% |
| North East | 1,226 | 86.9% |
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 2016 Auris
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 2016 Auris
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 2.5% of tests
“stop lamp not working”
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 2.2% 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 windscreen 1.3% 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 2016 Auris through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £18–£47 — and 57% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £18–£47
- Cheapest common item: stop lamp not working
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: windscreen damaged
- £80–£200
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 90%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 57%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 52,147 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 Auris, side by side
14 model years on record, from 2006 to 2019. Across them the pass rate runs from 76.4% to 90.1% — a spread of 13.7 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2006 76.4% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2007 76.4% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2008 76.7% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2009 79.0% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2010 79.4% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2011 80.0% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2012 81.0% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2013 85.9% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2014 86.1% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2015 87.3% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2016 88.3%stop lamp not working
- 2017 89.1% stop lamp not working
- 2018 90.1% stop lamp not working
- 2019 90.1% stop lamp not working
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 2016 Toyota Auris 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 2016 cars with a similar record
Closest pass rates among 2016 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 2016 Toyota Auris 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 57,402 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 | 14,795 | 25.60% | 19.76% | +5.84 |
| Suspension | 13,152 | 22.80% | 20.98% | +1.82 |
| Brakes | 13,007 | 22.50% | 20.89% | +1.61 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 8,293 | 14.40% | 12.21% | +2.19 |
| Visibility | 2,909 | 5.00% | 4.97% | +0.03 |
| Non-component advisories | 2,446 | 4.20% | 4.18% | +0.02 |
| Steering | 1,202 | 2.10% | 2.57% | −0.47 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 658 | 1.10% | 1.76% | −0.66 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 512 | 0.90% | 5.52% | −4.62 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 428 | 0.70% | 5.57% | −4.87 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stop lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 2.5% | £3–12 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 2.4% | £5–20 |
| Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension | Minor | 2.2% | £18–45 |
| Stop lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 1.7% | £3–12 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 1.3% | £80–200 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 1.2% | £8–22 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 1.1% | £45–95 |
| Track rod end ball joint dust cover damaged or deteriorated, but preventing the ingress of dirt Steering | Minor | 0.99% | £18–45 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 0.96% | £8–22 |
| Shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak Suspension | Major | 0.87% | £30–75 |
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 | 12.0% | £45–95 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 7.7% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 7.2% | £45–110 |
| Shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak Suspension | Advisory | 7.2% | £30–75 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 7.0% | £40–150 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 6.5% | £18–45 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 5,360 | 94.3% | 22,233 mi |
| 30-60k | 17,747 | 90.5% | 45,430 mi |
| 60-90k | 12,259 | 86.6% | 72,758 mi |
| 90-120k | 5,412 | 85.7% | 103,246 mi |
| 120k+ | 11,225 | 85.3% | 185,434 mi |
Source: 52,147 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.
2016 Auris MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2016 Toyota Auris?
88.3% of the 52,147 2016 Toyota Auris tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 84.0% for cars first used in 2016. First-attempt pass rate: 86.9%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2016 Toyota Auris?
The three most recorded items are stop lamp not working (2.45%), registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources (2.37%), ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated (2.16%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2016 Toyota Auris MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 94.3% of the time, falling to 85.3% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2016 Toyota Auris in this dataset had covered 65,077 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2016 Toyota Auris?
Hybrid: 88.2% pass rate across 35,521 tests. Petrol: 89.8% pass rate across 11,229 tests. Diesel: 86.0% pass rate across 5,326 tests. Other: 89.4% pass rate across 66 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2016 Toyota Auris MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 88.2% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 88.4%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.