2011 Toyota Urban Cruiser MOT pass rate

2011
typical 85,086 mi

Pass rate

81.9%

Around average — 6.0 pts ahead of the 75.9% that cars this age and mileage manage.

Across 3,341 recorded tests.

Typical repair bill £23–£67

Most common fault

Brakes

29.2% of faults · 20.9% nationally

mostly worn pads and discs, corroded pipes and a handbrake that will not hold.

Part only £25–£55 for Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded. What fitting it takes →

Every failure, with what it costs →

Which year to buy

Best 2012 84.0% pass
Avoid 2009 79.6% pass

Across the 4 years on record, a spread of 4.4 points. See every year →

First-attempt pass: 78.6%
Typical mileage: 85k mi

The 2011 Toyota Urban Cruiser MOT pass rate is 81.9% of its MOT tests — 6.0 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Brakes is the biggest single reason it fails, at 29.2% of what testers record.

Check your postcode

MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Toyota Urban Cruiser does in your corner of the country.

How one model's pass rate varies by postcode →

Expert verdict

Brakes: 1.4× the national share

Brakes make up 29.2% of everything recorded on the 2011 Toyota Urban Cruiser, against 20.9% nationally — 8.3 points above. Have the discs and pads measured rather than glanced at, and ask whether the handbrake holds on a slope.

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 75.9% and this one manages 81.9% — 6.0 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
Failures here tend to be cheap ones. 65% 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.

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

How does the 2011 Toyota Urban Cruiser compare?

Cars of this age and mileage average 75.9%, so this figure is 6.0 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 78.6%. The median 2011 Toyota Urban Cruiser in this dataset had covered 85,086 mi.

The most common fuel recorded here is Diesel — 79% of tests, with a 81.8% pass rate. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 82.3% of the time, April–September 81.5%.

The single most recorded failure item is "Headlamp lens slightly defective", noted on 4.04% of tests.

3,341 recorded tests behind this page.
81.9% overall pass rate, 78.6% on a first attempt.
Across every year of the Toyota Urban Cruiser, the average is 81.1% — best year 2012 (84.0%), worst 2009 (79.6%).

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: 3,341
Typical mileage (median): 85,086 mi
Make and model: Toyota Urban Cruiser
Updated: 2026-11-05

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 Urban Cruiser MOT pass rate?

0-30k 88.4%

30-60k 86.3%

60-90k 82.8%

90-120k 79.2%

120k+ 78.9%

Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 70% so small gaps stay visible.

Fuel type and reliability

Diesel 81.8%

Petrol 82.2%

Pass rate by fuel type. Diesel is the most common here (79% of tests).

Regional pass rates for the Urban Cruiser

Region	Tests	Pass rate
Scotland	519	74.8%
North West	511	81.8%
Yorkshire	402	84.6%
South East	396	82.6%
West Midlands	334	85.0%
South West	328	79.0%
East Midlands	243	83.1%
East of England	214	86.9%
North East	210	84.3%
Wales	152	84.9%
London	32	84.4%

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 2011 Urban Cruiser

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.

Brakes 29.2%

+8.3 pts vs national national 20.9% Price brakes parts

Suspension 24.1%

+3.1 pts vs national national 21.0% Price suspension parts

Tyres 14.5%

−5.3 pts vs national national 19.8% Compare tyre prices

Lamps & electrics 11.8%

in line with the national share national 12.2% Order bulbs & wipers

Show the other 6 fault categories

Advisories 4.7%
Body & chassis 4.5%
Emissions & leaks 4.4%
Visibility 3.8%
Identification 2.2%
Steering 0.4%

Shares are of every item recorded on 2011 Toyota Urban Cruiser tests — a composition, so they add to 100% across all sections, not per test.

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 2011 Urban Cruiser

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.

Check the lights 4.0% 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.

What testers look for →
Check the brake pipes 2.6% of tests

“rigid brake pipes excessively corroded”

Brake pipes run under the car, usually in front of the rear wheels. Flaking or crusty metal is what fails; a light dusting of surface rust does not. Worth asking a garage to look while it is on a ramp.
Check the windscreen 2.5% 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.

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 2011 Urban Cruiser through its MOT

Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £23–£67 — and 65% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.

Average repair across the 10 common items: £23–£67
Cheapest common item: malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or…: £3–£12
Dearest common item: windscreen damaged: £80–£200
Common items a careful owner can do at home: 70%
Repairs that still cost under £30: 65%

Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 3,341 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 Urban Cruiser, side by side

4 model years on record, from 2009 to 2012. Across them the pass rate runs from 79.6% to 84.0% — a spread of 4.4 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.

2009 79.6% headlamp lens slightly defective
2010 80.6% headlamp lens slightly defective
2011 81.9%
headlamp lens slightly defective
2012 84.0% 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 2011 Toyota Urban Cruiser 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.

Compare 2011 with another year →

Compare two different cars instead →

Other 2011 cars with a similar record

Closest pass rates among 2011 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 2011 Toyota Urban Cruiser 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 7,531 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
Brakes	2,206	29.20%	20.89%	+8.31
Suspension	1,822	24.10%	20.98%	+3.12
Tyres	1,098	14.50%	19.76%	−5.26
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment	891	11.80%	12.21%	−0.41
Non-component advisories	352	4.70%	4.18%	+0.52
Body, chassis, structure	341	4.50%	5.57%	−1.07
Noise, emissions and leaks	334	4.40%	5.52%	−1.12
Visibility	291	3.80%	4.97%	−1.17
Identification of the vehicle	166	2.20%	1.76%	+0.44
Steering	30	0.40%	2.57%	−2.17

The exact failure items, in the tester's words

Share of the 3,341 tests on this vehicle that recorded each item
Recorded item	Severity	Tests	Est. cost	Part
Headlamp lens slightly defective Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment	Minor	4.0%	£5–25	Headlight Bulb →
Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment	Minor	3.9%	£5–20	Number Plate Lamp →
Rear reflectors defective or damaged by up to 50% of the reflecting surface Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment	Minor	3.2%	£5–25	Headlight Bulb →
Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded Brakes	Major	2.6%	£80–180	Brake Pipe →
Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility	Minor	2.5%	£80–200	Windscreen →
Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment	Major	2.2%	£5–25	Headlight Bulb →
Linkage ball joint dust cover ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated Suspension	Minor	2.2%	£18–45	Ball Joint →
Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension	Major	1.7%	£40–150	Suspension Component →
Malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction Noise, emissions and leaks	Major	1.6%	£3–12	Indicator Bulb →
Position lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment	Rectified	1.4%	£5–25	Headlight Bulb →

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.

Items recorded as advisory on this vehicle
Recorded item	Severity	Tests	Est. cost
Rigid brake pipes excessively corroded Brakes	Advisory	21.3%	£80–180
Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes	Advisory	16.6%	£45–110
Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension	Advisory	15.6%	£40–150
Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres	Advisory	15.2%	£45–95
Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres	Advisory	11.6%	£45–95
Coil spring corroded so that its cross sectional area is reduced and seriously weakened Suspension	Advisory	6.2%	£25–65

Pass rate by mileage

Mileage	Tests	Pass rate	Median odometer
0-30k	86	88.4%	23,109 mi
30-60k	584	86.3%	48,371 mi
60-90k	1,219	82.8%	75,773 mi
90-120k	979	79.2%	103,254 mi
120k+	473	78.9%	142,338 mi

Source: 3,341 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.

2011 Urban Cruiser MOT questions

What is the MOT pass rate for a 2011 Toyota Urban Cruiser?

81.9% of the 3,341 2011 Toyota Urban Cruiser tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 75.9% for cars first used in 2011. First-attempt pass rate: 78.6%.

What are the most common MOT failures on a 2011 Toyota Urban Cruiser?

The three most recorded items are headlamp lens slightly defective (4.04%), registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources (3.92%), rear reflectors defective or damaged by up to 50% of the reflecting surface (3.17%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.

Does mileage affect the 2011 Toyota Urban Cruiser MOT pass rate?

Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 88.4% of the time, falling to 78.9% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2011 Toyota Urban Cruiser in this dataset had covered 85,086 mi.

Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2011 Toyota Urban Cruiser?

Diesel: 81.8% pass rate across 2,650 tests. Petrol: 82.2% pass rate across 691 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.

Does the season affect the 2011 Toyota Urban Cruiser MOT pass rate?

Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 82.3% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 81.5%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.