Pass rate
80.8%
Around average — 3.2 pts behind the 84.0% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 198 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £37–£112
2016 Toyota Regius MOT pass rate
- 2016
- typical 93,678 mi
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Most common fault
Lamps & electrics
27.0% 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
- 77.0%
- Typical mileage
- 94k mi
The 2016 Toyota Regius MOT pass rate is 80.8% of its MOT tests — 3.2 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Lamps & electrics is the biggest single reason it fails, at 27.0% of what testers record.
Expert verdict
Lamps & electrics: 2.2× the national share
Lamps & electrics make up 27.0% of everything recorded on the 2016 Toyota Regius, against 12.2% nationally — 14.8 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.
- Falls short of its own age and mileage. Like-for-like, cars this age and mileage expect about 84.0%; this one manages 80.8% — 3.2 points below. Age is a fair excuse; this is not age.
- Based on a small sample. 198 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 2016 Toyota Regius compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 84.0%, so this figure is 3.2 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 77.0%. The median 2016 Toyota Regius in this dataset had covered 93,678 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 82.1% of the time, April–September 79.6%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Headlamp lens slightly defective", noted on 6.57% of tests.
- 198 recorded tests behind this page.
- 80.8% overall pass rate, 77.0% 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
- 198
- Typical mileage (median)
- 93,678 mi
- Make and model
- Toyota Regius
- Updated
- 2026-11-07
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Headlight Bulb
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Regius MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 67% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Regius
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| East of England | 64 | 85.9% |
| South West | 39 | 66.7% |
| Scotland | 23 | 82.6% |
| South East | 22 | 81.8% |
| North West | 22 | 86.4% |
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 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 2016 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 6.6% of tests
“headlamp lens slightly defective”
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 3.0% 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 suspension joints 2.5% of tests
“ball joint excessively worn”
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.
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 Regius through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £37–£112 — and 41% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £37–£112
- Cheapest common item: stop lamp with a multiple light source up to…
- £3–£12
- Dearest common item: joints constant velocity boot severely…
- £80–£250
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 60%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 41%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 198 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 2016 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 2016 cars with a similar record
- Fiat 500C 80.8%
- Nissan X-Trail 80.7%
- Suzuki Baleno 80.7%
- SEAT Toledo 80.7%
- Renault Kadjar 80.9%
- Ford Fiesta 80.6%
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 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 340 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 | 92 | 27.00% | 12.21% | +14.79 |
| Suspension | 76 | 22.30% | 20.98% | +1.32 |
| Brakes | 51 | 15.00% | 20.89% | −5.89 |
| Tyres | 47 | 13.80% | 19.76% | −5.96 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 36 | 10.60% | 5.57% | +5.03 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 14 | 4.10% | 5.52% | −1.42 |
| Visibility | 13 | 3.80% | 4.97% | −1.17 |
| Non-component advisories | 6 | 1.80% | 4.18% | −2.38 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 3 | 0.90% | 0.82% | +0.08 |
| Steering | 2 | 0.60% | 2.57% | −1.97 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Headlamp lens slightly defective Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 6.6% | £5–25 |
| Joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated Body, chassis, structure | Minor | 5.6% | £80–250 |
| Joints constant velocity boot split or insecure, no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Body, chassis, structure | Major | 5.0% | £80–250 |
| Headlamp aim projected beam image is obviously incorrect Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 3.5% | £30–80 |
| Headlamp has a product on the lens so that the light output is severely reduced Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 3.0% | £5–25 |
| Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 3.0% | £5–20 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 3.0% | £80–200 |
| Ball joint excessively worn Suspension | Major | 2.5% | £18–45 |
| Shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak Suspension | Major | 2.5% | £30–75 |
| Stop lamp with a multiple light source up to 1/2 not functioning Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 2.5% | £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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Advisory | 13.1% | £45–95 |
| Wheel bearings has excessive play Suspension | Advisory | 10.6% | £20–55 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 8.1% | £18–45 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 7.1% | £45–95 |
| Headlamp has a product on the lens so that the light output is severely reduced Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Advisory | 7.1% | £5–25 |
| Shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak Suspension | Advisory | 6.1% | £30–75 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30-60k | 17 | 82.4% | 45,767 mi |
| 60-90k | 74 | 82.4% | 77,828 mi |
| 90-120k | 54 | 83.3% | 103,823 mi |
| 120k+ | 53 | 75.5% | 144,857 mi |
Source: 198 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 Regius MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2016 Toyota Regius?
80.8% of the 198 2016 Toyota Regius tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 84.0% for cars first used in 2016. First-attempt pass rate: 77.0%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2016 Toyota Regius?
The three most recorded items are headlamp lens slightly defective (6.57%), joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated (5.56%), joints constant velocity boot split or insecure, no longer prevents the ingress of dirt (5.05%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2016 Toyota Regius MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 82.4% of the time, falling to 75.5% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2016 Toyota Regius in this dataset had covered 93,678 mi.
Does the season affect the 2016 Toyota Regius MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 82.1% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 79.6%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.