Pass rate
89.2%
Above average — 5.2 pts ahead of the 84.0% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 93,641 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £21–£53
2016 Toyota YARIS MOT pass rate
- 2016
- 2 trims combined
- typical 44,687 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
31.5% of faults · 19.8% nationally
mostly tread below the limit, cuts and sidewall bulges.
Part only £55–£85 for Tread depth below 1.6 mm. What fitting it takes →
3.0 pts down across model years — 5.3% in 2000, 2.3% in 2023.
Which year to buy
- Best 2023 96.3% pass
- Avoid 2000 71.7% pass
Across the 24 years on record, a spread of 24.6 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 88.0%
- Typical mileage
- 45k mi
The 2016 Toyota YARIS MOT pass rate is 89.2% of its MOT tests — 5.2 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 31.5% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Toyota YARIS does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 1.6× the national share
Tyres make up 31.5% of everything recorded on the 2016 Toyota Yaris, against 19.8% nationally — 11.7 points above. Check all four tyres yourself, including the inner shoulders, and look at the date stamp — a tyre can pass on tread and still be six years old.
- 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 84.0% and this one manages 89.2% — 5.2 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict.
- Failures here tend to be cheap ones. 73% 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
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Every Toyota YARIS first registered in 2016 is combined here — 2 trim and body variants in total — so the sample is as large as the DVSA data allows.
How does the 2016 Toyota YARIS compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 84.0%, so this figure is 5.2 points ahead of what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 88.0%. The median 2016 Toyota YARIS in this dataset had covered 44,687 mi.
62% of the tests on this vehicle ran on Petrol, which passed 89.5% of the time. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 89.1% of the time, April–September 89.4%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources", noted on 1.40% of tests.
- 93,641 recorded tests behind this page.
- 89.2% overall pass rate, 88.0% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Toyota YARIS, the average is 82.8% — best year 2023 (96.3%), worst 2000 (71.7%).
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
- 93,641
- Typical mileage (median)
- 44,687 mi
- Make and model
- Toyota YARIS
- 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 YARIS MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 73% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Petrol is the most common here (62% of tests).
Regional pass rates for the YARIS
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 21,747 | 90.3% |
| North West | 11,857 | 90.2% |
| Yorkshire | 8,653 | 89.7% |
| South West | 8,173 | 88.3% |
| East of England | 8,115 | 89.1% |
| Scotland | 8,052 | 83.2% |
| West Midlands | 7,563 | 90.5% |
| East Midlands | 5,806 | 90.1% |
| London | 5,320 | 90.0% |
| Wales | 4,887 | 89.9% |
| North East | 3,452 | 88.1% |
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 YARIS
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 YARIS
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 1.4% 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 wipers and washers 1.1% of tests
“wipers blade defective”
Run the wipers with the screen wet: they should clear it in one sweep without smearing or juddering. Top the washer bottle up and check both jets hit the screen.
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Check the windscreen 1.0% 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.
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 YARIS through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £21–£53 — and 73% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £21–£53
- Cheapest common item: registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the…
- £5–£20
- Dearest common item: windscreen damaged
- £80–£200
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 90%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 73%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 93,641 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 YARIS, side by side
24 model years on record, from 2000 to 2023. Across them the pass rate runs from 71.7% to 96.3% — a spread of 24.6 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2000 71.7% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2001 72.9% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2002 74.0% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2003 73.0% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2004 72.7% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2005 73.8% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2006 74.4% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2007 75.1% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2008 75.3% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2009 78.9% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2010 78.5% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2011 81.7% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2012 82.0% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2013 82.4% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2014 84.0% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2015 88.1% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2016 89.2%registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2017 88.8% wheel bearings rough when rotated
- 2018 90.6% wheel bearings rough when rotated
- 2019 92.7% wipers does not clear the…
- 2020 94.1% wipers does not clear the…
- 2021 95.3% wipers blade defective
- 2022 95.2% wipers blade defective
- 2023 96.3% shock absorbers has a serious…
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 YARIS 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
- MINI COOPER 89.3%
- BMW 2 Series 89.3%
- Nissan Note 89.1%
- Honda Hr-V 89.1%
- Kia Venga 89.1%
- Volkswagen Golf 89.0%
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 YARIS 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 95,575 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tyres | 30,284 | 31.50% | 19.76% | +11.74 |
| Brakes | 23,354 | 24.30% | 20.89% | +3.41 |
| Suspension | 16,842 | 17.50% | 20.98% | −3.48 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 11,440 | 11.90% | 12.21% | −0.31 |
| Visibility | 6,071 | 6.30% | 4.97% | +1.33 |
| Non-component advisories | 4,167 | 4.30% | 4.18% | +0.12 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 1,480 | 1.50% | 1.76% | −0.26 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 1,009 | 1.10% | 5.57% | −4.47 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 565 | 0.60% | 5.52% | −4.92 |
| Road Wheels | 363 | 0.40% | 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 | 1.4% | £5–20 |
| Side repeaters not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 1.1% | £5–25 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 1.1% | £8–22 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 1.0% | £80–200 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 0.98% | £8–22 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Rectified | 0.87% | £8–22 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 0.81% | £45–95 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 0.80% | £45–95 |
| Headlamp not working on dipped beam Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 0.79% | £5–25 |
| Side repeaters not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 0.74% | £5–25 |
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 | 13.3% | £45–95 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 11.5% | £45–95 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 10.8% | £45–110 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 5.5% | £40–150 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 5.4% | £18–45 |
| Suspension arm corroded and seriously weakened Suspension | Advisory | 3.3% | £35–85 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 22,125 | 94.3% | 21,161 mi |
| 30-60k | 46,046 | 89.5% | 44,101 mi |
| 60-90k | 19,216 | 84.9% | 71,727 mi |
| 90-120k | 4,527 | 82.5% | 101,202 mi |
| 120k+ | 1,718 | 81.9% | 146,587 mi |
Source: 93,641 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 YARIS MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2016 Toyota YARIS?
89.2% of the 93,641 2016 Toyota YARIS tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 84.0% for cars first used in 2016. First-attempt pass rate: 88.0%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2016 Toyota YARIS?
The three most recorded items are registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources (1.40%), side repeaters not working (1.10%), wipers blade defective (1.06%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2016 Toyota YARIS MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 94.3% of the time, falling to 81.9% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2016 Toyota YARIS in this dataset had covered 44,687 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2016 Toyota YARIS?
Petrol: 89.5% pass rate across 58,126 tests. Hybrid: 88.8% pass rate across 32,780 tests. Diesel: 87.5% pass rate across 2,709 tests. Other: 75.0% pass rate across 16 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2016 Toyota YARIS MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 89.1% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 89.4%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.