Pass rate
86.0%
Above average — 12.9 pts ahead of the 73.1% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 93 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £27–£86
2008 Toyota Crown MOT pass rate
- 2008
- typical 85,759 mi
Only 93 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
Lamps & electrics
24.4% 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 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
- 84.5%
- Typical mileage
- 86k mi
The 2008 Toyota Crown MOT pass rate is 86.0% of its MOT tests — 12.9 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Lamps & electrics is the biggest single reason it fails, at 24.4% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Lamps & electrics: 2.0× the national share
Lamps & electrics make up 24.4% of everything recorded on the 2008 Toyota Crown, against 12.2% nationally — 12.2 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 73.1% and this one manages 86.0% — 12.9 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- Based on a small sample. 93 tests back this page. That is enough to publish and to index, not enough to treat the decimal places as precise — read the pattern, not the second digit.
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 2008 Toyota Crown compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 73.1%, so this figure is 12.9 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 84.5%. The median 2008 Toyota Crown in this dataset had covered 85,759 mi.
71% of the tests on this vehicle ran on Petrol, which passed 86.4% of the time. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 84.6% of the time, April–September 87.8%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources", noted on 5.38% of tests.
- 93 recorded tests behind this page.
- 86.0% overall pass rate, 84.5% 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
- 93
- Typical mileage (median)
- 85,759 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
Number Plate Lamp
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Crown MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 74% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Petrol is the most common here (71% of tests).
Regional pass rates for the Crown
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 23 | 78.3% |
| West Midlands | 20 | 90.0% |
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 2008 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 2008 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 lights 5.4% 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 windscreen 3.2% 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 exhaust and emissions 2.1% of tests
“catalyst emissions Lambda reading after 2nd fast idle outside specified limits”
Listen for a blow at idle and have someone rev it gently. Then look at the tailpipe smoke: blue is oil, white when warm is coolant, black is over-fuelling. Any of those and the emissions test is the least of it.
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 2008 Crown through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £27–£86 — and 52% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £27–£86
- Cheapest common item: rear fog lamp missing
- £3–£15
- Dearest common item: catalyst emissions lambda reading after 2nd…
- £60–£250
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 60%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 52%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 93 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 2008 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 2008 cars with a similar record
- Mercedes-Benz Sl 86.7%
- Audi A8 87.0%
- Porsche Cayman 84.8%
- Porsche Cayenne 83.4%
- Lexus IS250 83.3%
- Porsche Boxster 89.4%
Closest pass rates among 2008 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 2008 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 90 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 | 22 | 24.40% | 12.21% | +12.19 |
| Tyres | 20 | 22.20% | 19.76% | +2.44 |
| Suspension | 19 | 21.10% | 20.98% | +0.12 |
| Brakes | 8 | 8.90% | 20.89% | −11.99 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 7 | 7.80% | 5.52% | +2.28 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 4 | 4.40% | 5.57% | −1.17 |
| Visibility | 4 | 4.40% | 4.97% | −0.57 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 3 | 3.30% | 0.82% | +2.48 |
| Non-component advisories | 2 | 2.20% | 4.18% | −1.98 |
| Road Wheels | 1 | 1.10% | 0.75% | +0.35 |
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 | 5.4% | £5–20 |
| Headlamp lens slightly defective Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 3.2% | £5–25 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 3.2% | £80–200 |
| Catalyst emissions Lambda reading after 2nd fast idle outside specified limits Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 2.1% | £60–250 |
| Linkage ball joint dust cover ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension | Minor | 2.1% | £18–45 |
| Not functioning as intended Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | Major | 2.1% | £40–120 |
| Rear fog lamp missing Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 2.1% | £3–15 |
| Switch missing Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 2.1% | £5–25 |
| Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension | Minor | 1.1% | £18–45 |
| Catalyst emissions carbon monoxide content after 2nd fast idle exceeds default limits Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 1.1% | £60–250 |
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 | 14.0% | £40–150 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 9.7% | £45–95 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 6.5% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 4.3% | £45–110 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 3.2% | £18–45 |
| Flexible couplings excessively deteriorated Body, chassis, structure | Advisory | 3.2% | £80–250 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30-60k | 18 | 83.3% | 47,468 mi |
| 60-90k | 31 | 90.3% | 74,635 mi |
| 90-120k | 27 | 85.2% | 103,981 mi |
| 120k+ | 17 | 82.4% | 137,687 mi |
Source: 93 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.
2008 Crown MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2008 Toyota Crown?
86.0% of the 93 2008 Toyota Crown tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 73.1% for cars first used in 2008. First-attempt pass rate: 84.5%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2008 Toyota Crown?
The three most recorded items are registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources (5.38%), headlamp lens slightly defective (3.23%), windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (3.23%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2008 Toyota Crown MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 83.3% of the time, falling to 82.4% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2008 Toyota Crown in this dataset had covered 85,759 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2008 Toyota Crown?
Petrol: 86.4% pass rate across 66 tests. Hybrid: 85.2% pass rate across 27 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2008 Toyota Crown MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 84.6% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 87.8%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.