Pass rate
91.9%
Above average — 18.1 pts ahead of the 73.8% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 74 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £33–£88
2000 Toyota Crown MOT pass rate
- 2000
- typical 98,169 mi
Only 74 tests of this exact model and year are in the DVSA data, below the 100 we ask for before a page goes in the index. The figures are still shown, because they are the only ones there are.
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Most common fault
Suspension
30.0% 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 →
Which year to buy
- Best 2020 92.5% pass
- Avoid 2006 85.2% pass
Across the 7 years on record, a spread of 7.3 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 91.4%
- Typical mileage
- 98k mi
The 2000 Toyota Crown MOT pass rate is 91.9% of its MOT tests — 18.1 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Suspension is the biggest single reason it fails, at 30.0% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Suspension: 1.4× the national share
Suspension accounts for 30.0% of everything recorded on the 2000 Toyota Crown, against 21.0% nationally — 9.0 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 73.8% and this one manages 91.9% — 18.1 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 12% 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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How does the 2000 Toyota Crown compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 73.8%, so this figure is 18.1 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 91.4%. The median 2000 Toyota Crown in this dataset had covered 98,169 mi.
The single most recorded failure item is "Track rod end ball joint dust cover damaged or deteriorated, but preventing the ingress of dirt", noted on 5.41% of tests.
- 74 recorded tests behind this page.
- 91.9% overall pass rate, 91.4% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Toyota Crown, the average is 88.8% — best year 2020 (92.5%), worst 2006 (85.2%).
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
- 74
- Typical mileage (median)
- 98,169 mi
- Make and model
- Toyota Crown
- Updated
- 2026-11-07
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 Crown MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 78% so small gaps stay visible.
What fails a 2000 Crown
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 2000 Crown
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 5.4% of tests
“track rod end ball joint dust cover damaged or 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 4.0% 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 brakes 2.7% of tests
“brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick”
Look through the spokes of each wheel at the pad — less than 3mm of friction material, or a lip on the disc edge, is the usual failure. Check the handbrake holds on a slope with a few clicks, not at the top of its travel.
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 2000 Crown through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £33–£88 — and 12% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £33–£88
- Cheapest common item: rear fog lamp missing
- £3–£15
- Dearest common item: windscreen damaged
- £80–£200
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 80%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 12%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 74 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 Crown, side by side
7 model years on record, from 2000 to 2020. Across them the pass rate runs from 85.2% to 92.5% — a spread of 7.3 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2000 91.9%track rod end ball joint dust…
- 2001 90.5% rear fog lamp missing
- 2002 87.7% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2003 89.7% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2006 85.2% rear fog lamp missing
- 2008 86.0% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2020 92.5% registration plate lamp(s)…
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 2000 Toyota Crown 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 2000 cars with a similar record
- Porsche 911 85.5%
- Subaru Impreza 82.3%
- Porsche Boxster 80.4%
- Mercedes-Benz Slk 80.3%
- Land Rover Range Rover 80.0%
- Rover Mini 79.4%
Closest pass rates among 2000 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 2000 Toyota Crown 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 70 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 | 21 | 30.00% | 20.98% | +9.02 |
| Brakes | 10 | 14.30% | 20.89% | −6.59 |
| Tyres | 8 | 11.40% | 19.76% | −8.36 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 8 | 11.40% | 5.52% | +5.88 |
| Steering | 7 | 10.00% | 2.57% | +7.43 |
| Visibility | 6 | 8.60% | 4.97% | +3.63 |
| Non-component advisories | 4 | 5.70% | 4.18% | +1.52 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 3 | 4.30% | 5.57% | −1.27 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 2 | 2.90% | 12.21% | −9.31 |
| Road Wheels | 1 | 1.40% | 0.75% | +0.65 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Track rod end ball joint dust cover damaged or deteriorated, but preventing the ingress of dirt Steering | Minor | 5.4% | £18–45 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 4.0% | £80–200 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Major | 2.7% | £18–45 |
| Window excessively tinted but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 2.7% | £20–80 |
| Brake discs significantly and obviously worn Brakes | Major | 1.4% | £45–110 |
| Coil spring fractured or broken Suspension | Major | 1.4% | £25–65 |
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 1.4% | £45–95 |
| Horn not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 1.4% | £8–25 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Major | 1.4% | £40–150 |
| Rear fog lamp missing Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 1.4% | £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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 14.9% | £40–150 |
| Engine oil leaks leaking excessively from engine Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 10.8% | £200–700 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 8.1% | £45–95 |
| Exhaust system has a major leak of exhaust gases Body, chassis, structure | Advisory | 4.0% | £45–120 |
| Non-component advisories Nail in tyre Non-component advisories | Advisory | 2.7% | £45–95 |
| Non-component advisories Play in steering rack inner joint(s) Non-component advisories | Advisory | 2.7% | £120–300 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 1 | 100.0% | 21,816 mi |
| 30-60k | 5 | 100.0% | 43,275 mi |
| 60-90k | 19 | 89.5% | 73,437 mi |
| 90-120k | 34 | 94.1% | 101,974 mi |
| 120k+ | 15 | 86.7% | 154,837 mi |
Source: 74 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.
2000 Crown MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2000 Toyota Crown?
91.9% of the 74 2000 Toyota Crown tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 73.8% for cars first used in 2000. First-attempt pass rate: 91.4%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2000 Toyota Crown?
The three most recorded items are track rod end ball joint dust cover damaged or deteriorated, but preventing the ingress of dirt (5.41%), windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (4.05%), brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick (2.70%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2000 Toyota Crown MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 100.0% of the time, falling to 86.7% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2000 Toyota Crown in this dataset had covered 98,169 mi.