Pass rate
78.7%
Around average — 1.5 pts ahead of the 77.2% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 207 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £13–£37
2012 Toyota Granvia MOT pass rate
- 2012
- typical 125,162 mi
Most common fault
Suspension
26.9% of faults · 21.0% nationally
mostly worn arm bushes, split ball-joint boots and broken coil springs.
Part only £40–£65 for Shock absorber leaking. What fitting it takes →
Which year to buy
- Best 2000 84.2% pass
- Avoid 2009 71.0% pass
Across the 15 years on record, a spread of 13.2 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 74.3%
- Typical mileage
- 125k mi
The 2012 Toyota Granvia MOT pass rate is 78.7% of its MOT tests — 1.5 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Suspension is the biggest single reason it fails, at 26.9% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Toyota Granvia does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Lamps & electrics: 1.5× the national share
Lamps & electrics make up 18.6% of everything recorded on the 2012 Toyota Granvia, against 12.2% nationally — 6.4 points above. Suspension is still the single largest share at 26.9%, but at 21.0% nationally that one is ordinary. 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.
- Failures here tend to be cheap ones. 63% 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.
- Based on a small sample. 207 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 2012 Toyota Granvia compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 77.2%, so this figure is 1.5 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 74.3%. The median 2012 Toyota Granvia in this dataset had covered 125,162 mi.
54% of the tests on this vehicle ran on Diesel, which passed 81.3% of the time. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 76.8% of the time, April–September 80.4%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Rear fog lamp not working", noted on 6.28% of tests.
- 207 recorded tests behind this page.
- 78.7% overall pass rate, 74.3% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Toyota Granvia, the average is 76.0% — best year 2000 (84.2%), worst 2009 (71.0%).
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
- 207
- Typical mileage (median)
- 125,162 mi
- Make and model
- Toyota Granvia
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Bulb
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Granvia 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. Diesel is the most common here (54% of tests).
Regional pass rates for the Granvia
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| North West | 54 | 74.1% |
| Scotland | 32 | 81.3% |
| South West | 32 | 75.0% |
| South East | 21 | 81.0% |
| Yorkshire | 17 | 94.1% |
| West Midlands | 15 | 73.3% |
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 2012 Granvia
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 2012 Granvia
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 6.3% of tests
“rear fog 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 3.9% 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 exhaust and emissions 2.9% of tests
“exhaust system has a major leak of exhaust gases”
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 2012 Granvia through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £13–£37 — and 63% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £13–£37
- Cheapest common item: stop lamp not working
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: exhaust system has a major leak of exhaust…
- £45–£120
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 90%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 63%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 207 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 Granvia, side by side
15 model years on record, from 2000 to 2017. Across them the pass rate runs from 71.0% to 84.2% — a spread of 13.2 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2000 84.2% ball joint excessively worn
- 2004 72.9% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2005 74.4% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2006 73.4% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2007 76.3% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2008 76.0% rear fog lamp not working
- 2009 71.0% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2010 75.5% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2011 78.6% rear fog lamp not working
- 2012 78.7%rear fog lamp not working
- 2013 79.7% rear fog lamp not working
- 2014 74.7% wipers does not clear the…
- 2015 79.4% rear fog lamp not working
- 2016 76.3% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2017 79.4% ball joint dust cover severely…
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 2012 Toyota Granvia 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 2012 cars with a similar record
- Volkswagen Golf 78.7%
- Volkswagen Touran 78.7%
- Skoda Yeti 78.8%
- Mercedes-Benz A-Class 78.8%
- Volvo S60 78.6%
- Ford C-Max 78.5%
Closest pass rates among 2012 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 2012 Toyota Granvia 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 443 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 | 120 | 26.90% | 20.98% | +5.92 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 83 | 18.60% | 12.21% | +6.39 |
| Brakes | 82 | 18.40% | 20.89% | −2.49 |
| Tyres | 50 | 11.20% | 19.76% | −8.56 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 37 | 8.30% | 5.57% | +2.73 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 29 | 6.50% | 5.52% | +0.98 |
| Visibility | 16 | 3.60% | 4.97% | −1.37 |
| Non-component advisories | 10 | 2.20% | 4.18% | −1.98 |
| Steering | 9 | 2.00% | 2.57% | −0.57 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 7 | 1.60% | 1.76% | −0.16 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rear fog lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 6.3% | £3–15 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 5.3% | £5–20 |
| Ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension | Minor | 3.9% | £18–45 |
| Exhaust system has a major leak of exhaust gases Body, chassis, structure | Major | 2.9% | £45–120 |
| Ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Major | 2.4% | £18–45 |
| Shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak Suspension | Major | 2.4% | £30–75 |
| Stop lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 2.4% | £3–12 |
| Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 1.9% | £5–25 |
| Position lamp with a multiple light source up to 1/2 not functioning Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 1.9% | £5–25 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of a single lamp or all lamps Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 1.9% | £5–20 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coil spring corroded so that its cross sectional area is reduced and seriously weakened Suspension | Advisory | 14.0% | £25–65 |
| Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded Brakes | Advisory | 9.7% | £80–180 |
| 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 | 8.7% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 7.3% | £45–110 |
| Engine oil leaks leaking excessively from engine Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 7.3% | £200–700 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30-60k | 7 | 85.7% | 52,685 mi |
| 60-90k | 34 | 88.2% | 74,031 mi |
| 90-120k | 50 | 78.0% | 105,419 mi |
| 120k+ | 115 | 75.7% | 159,411 mi |
Source: 207 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.
2012 Granvia MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2012 Toyota Granvia?
78.7% of the 207 2012 Toyota Granvia tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 77.2% for cars first used in 2012. First-attempt pass rate: 74.3%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2012 Toyota Granvia?
The three most recorded items are rear fog lamp not working (6.28%), registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources (5.31%), ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated (3.86%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2012 Toyota Granvia MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 85.7% of the time, falling to 75.7% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2012 Toyota Granvia in this dataset had covered 125,162 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2012 Toyota Granvia?
Diesel: 81.3% pass rate across 112 tests. Petrol: 76.7% pass rate across 86 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2012 Toyota Granvia MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 76.8% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 80.4%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.