Pass rate
74.6%
Below average — 2.6 pts behind the 77.2% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 59 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £23–£79
2012 Toyota Regius MOT pass rate
- 2012
- typical 137,475 mi
Only 59 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.
Most common fault
Lamps & electrics
21.4% 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 2001 89.1% pass
- Avoid 2006 67.8% pass
Across the 12 years on record, a spread of 21.3 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 68.1%
- Typical mileage
- 137k mi
The 2012 Toyota Regius MOT pass rate is 74.6% of its MOT tests — 2.6 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Lamps & electrics is the biggest single reason it fails, at 21.4% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Toyota Regius does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Lamps & electrics: 1.8× the national share
Lamps & electrics make up 21.4% of everything recorded on the 2012 Toyota Regius, against 12.2% nationally — 9.2 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.
- Failures here tend to be cheap ones. 74% 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. 59 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 Regius compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 77.2%, so this figure is 2.6 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 68.1%. The median 2012 Toyota Regius in this dataset had covered 137,475 mi.
The single most recorded failure item is "Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources", noted on 11.86% of tests.
- 59 recorded tests behind this page.
- 74.6% overall pass rate, 68.1% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Toyota Regius, the average is 79.7% — best year 2001 (89.1%), worst 2006 (67.8%).
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
- 59
- Typical mileage (median)
- 137,475 mi
- Make and model
- Toyota Regius
- 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 Regius MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 56% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Regius
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| Yorkshire | 26 | 76.9% |
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 2012 Regius
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 Regius
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 11.9% 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 exhaust and emissions 3.4% of tests
“emissions not tested unable to be completed”
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 Regius through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £23–£79 — and 74% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £23–£79
- Cheapest common item: stop lamp with a multiple light source up to…
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: joints constant velocity boot split or…
- £80–£250
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 70%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 74%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 59 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 Regius, side by side
12 model years on record, from 2000 to 2017. Across them the pass rate runs from 67.8% to 89.1% — a spread of 21.3 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2000 80.9% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2001 89.1% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2006 67.8% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2007 72.6% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2008 75.5% rear fog lamp not working
- 2010 75.0% rear fog lamp not working
- 2011 82.4% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2012 74.6%registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2014 80.7% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2015 82.3% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2016 80.8% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2017 79.8% headlamp lens slightly defective
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 Regius 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
- Mitsubishi L200 74.6%
- Peugeot 308 74.5%
- Chrysler Ypsilon 74.5%
- Ford Fiesta 74.7%
- SEAT Ibiza 74.7%
- Hyundai I40 74.7%
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 Regius 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 196 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 | 42 | 21.40% | 12.21% | +9.19 |
| Suspension | 39 | 19.90% | 20.98% | −1.08 |
| Brakes | 38 | 19.40% | 20.89% | −1.49 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 28 | 14.30% | 5.57% | +8.73 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 17 | 8.70% | 5.52% | +3.18 |
| Tyres | 11 | 5.60% | 19.76% | −14.16 |
| Visibility | 9 | 4.60% | 4.97% | −0.37 |
| Non-component advisories | 6 | 3.10% | 4.18% | −1.08 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 3 | 1.50% | 1.76% | −0.26 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 3 | 1.50% | 0.82% | +0.68 |
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 | 11.9% | £5–20 |
| Headlamp lens slightly defective Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 6.8% | £5–25 |
| Joints constant velocity boot split or insecure, no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Body, chassis, structure | Major | 6.8% | £80–250 |
| Position lamp with a multiple light source up to 1/2 not functioning Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 6.8% | £5–25 |
| Joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated Body, chassis, structure | Minor | 5.1% | £80–250 |
| Rear fog lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 5.1% | £3–15 |
| Rear reflectors defective or damaged by up to 50% of the reflecting surface Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 5.1% | £5–25 |
| Stop lamp with a multiple light source up to 1/2 not functioning Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 5.1% | £3–12 |
| Emissions not tested unable to be completed Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 3.4% | £60–250 |
| Individual direction indicators lens defective which has no effect on emitted light Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 3.4% | £3–12 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Engine oil leaks leaking excessively from engine Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 20.3% | £200–700 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 16.9% | £45–110 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 15.3% | £18–45 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 15.3% | £45–95 |
| Ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 13.6% | £18–45 |
| Exhaust system has a major leak of exhaust gases Body, chassis, structure | Advisory | 13.6% | £45–120 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 60-90k | 15 | 86.7% | 73,369 mi |
| 90-120k | 10 | 90.0% | 106,320 mi |
| 120k+ | 34 | 64.7% | 191,911 mi |
Source: 59 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 Regius MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2012 Toyota Regius?
74.6% of the 59 2012 Toyota Regius tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 77.2% for cars first used in 2012. First-attempt pass rate: 68.1%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2012 Toyota Regius?
The three most recorded items are registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources (11.86%), headlamp lens slightly defective (6.78%), joints constant velocity boot split or insecure, no longer prevents the ingress of dirt (6.78%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2012 Toyota Regius MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 86.7% of the time, falling to 64.7% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2012 Toyota Regius in this dataset had covered 137,475 mi.