Pass rate
86.5%
Above average — 1.4 pts behind the 87.9% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 9,011 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £42–£107
2018 Volkswagen Amarok MOT pass rate
- 2018
- typical 72,074 mi
Most common fault
Brakes
28.6% of faults · 20.9% nationally
mostly worn pads and discs, corroded pipes and a handbrake that will not hold.
Part only £25–£40 for Brake pads under 1.5 mm. What fitting it takes →
1.1 pts up across model years — 2.4% in 2011, 3.5% in 2020.
Which year to buy
- Best 2020 89.4% pass
- Avoid 2011 76.5% pass
Across the 10 years on record, a spread of 12.9 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 84.6%
- Typical mileage
- 72k mi
The 2018 Volkswagen Amarok MOT pass rate is 86.5% of its MOT tests — 1.4 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Brakes is the biggest single reason it fails, at 28.6% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Volkswagen Amarok does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Emissions & leaks: 2.6× the national share
Emissions & leaks make up 14.2% of everything recorded on the 2018 Volkswagen Amarok, against 5.5% nationally — 8.7 points above. Brakes are still the single largest share at 28.6%, but at 20.9% nationally that one is ordinary. A smoky diesel or a leaking joint fails on emissions more often than on wear, so ask for a recent emissions printout.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 28% of this model’s typical repairs come in under £30 in parts — the failures here tend to be the kind that need a garage rather than a bulb.
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 2018 Volkswagen Amarok compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 87.9%, so this figure is 1.4 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 84.6%. The median 2018 Volkswagen Amarok in this dataset had covered 72,074 mi.
Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 86.3% of the time, April–September 86.7%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view", noted on 4.57% of tests.
- 9,011 recorded tests behind this page.
- 86.5% overall pass rate, 84.6% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Volkswagen Amarok, the average is 83.6% — best year 2020 (89.4%), worst 2011 (76.5%).
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
- 9,011
- Typical mileage (median)
- 72,074 mi
- Make and model
- Volkswagen Amarok
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Windscreen
Typically a garage job — get quotes before committing.
Does mileage affect the Amarok MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 73% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Amarok
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 1,653 | 87.7% |
| Scotland | 1,280 | 82.7% |
| East of England | 1,035 | 87.3% |
| South West | 956 | 85.4% |
| Yorkshire | 897 | 86.6% |
| West Midlands | 848 | 87.7% |
| North West | 762 | 87.4% |
| East Midlands | 575 | 85.6% |
| Wales | 453 | 88.3% |
| North East | 374 | 84.5% |
| London | 176 | 96.0% |
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 2018 Amarok
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 2018 Amarok
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 windscreen 4.6% 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 lights 3.4% of tests
“malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction”
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 brakes 1.4% of tests
“brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick”
Look through the spokes of each wheel at the pad — less than 3mm of friction material, or a lip on the disc edge, is the usual failure. Check the handbrake holds on a slope with a few clicks, not at the top of its travel.
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 2018 Amarok through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £42–£107 — and 28% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £42–£107
- 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
- 60%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 28%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 9,011 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 Amarok, side by side
10 model years on record, from 2011 to 2020. Across them the pass rate runs from 76.5% to 89.4% — a spread of 12.9 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2011 76.5% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2012 78.1% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2013 80.3% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2014 80.6% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2015 81.7% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2016 83.7% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2017 84.4% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2018 86.5%windscreen damaged but not…
- 2019 88.5% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2020 89.4% windscreen damaged but not…
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 2018 Volkswagen Amarok 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 2018 cars with a similar record
- SEAT Leon 86.5%
- Skoda Fabia 86.4%
- Audi A4 86.6%
- Vauxhall Insignia 86.6%
- Mercedes-Benz Cla 86.4%
- Ford S-Max 86.4%
Closest pass rates among 2018 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 2018 Volkswagen Amarok 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 8,063 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 | 2,328 | 28.60% | 20.89% | +7.71 |
| Tyres | 1,609 | 19.80% | 19.76% | +0.04 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 1,158 | 14.20% | 5.52% | +8.68 |
| Suspension | 995 | 12.20% | 20.98% | −8.78 |
| Visibility | 591 | 7.30% | 4.97% | +2.33 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 583 | 7.20% | 12.21% | −5.01 |
| Non-component advisories | 390 | 4.80% | 4.18% | +0.62 |
| Steering | 209 | 2.60% | 2.57% | +0.03 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 115 | 1.40% | 1.76% | −0.36 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 85 | 1.00% | 5.57% | −4.57 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 4.6% | £80–200 |
| Malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 3.4% | £3–12 |
| Rbt (sp) efficiency below requirements Brakes | Major | 1.4% | £45–110 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Major | 1.4% | £18–45 |
| Malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction Noise, emissions and leaks | Rectified | 1.2% | £3–12 |
| Parking brake performance inoperative on one side Brakes | Major | 1.2% | £60–150 |
| Service brake performance excessively binding Brakes | Major | 0.91% | £60–150 |
| Shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak Suspension | Major | 0.79% | £30–75 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Major | 0.78% | £40–150 |
| Rbt (sp) efficiency less than 50% of the required value Brakes | Major | 0.74% | £45–110 |
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 | 10.8% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 8.7% | £18–45 |
| Engine oil leaks leaking excessively from engine Noise, emissions and leaks | Advisory | 6.8% | £200–700 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 3.3% | £45–110 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 3.1% | £40–150 |
| Shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak Suspension | Advisory | 2.8% | £30–75 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 358 | 93.9% | 22,569 mi |
| 30-60k | 2,749 | 90.1% | 47,576 mi |
| 60-90k | 3,126 | 85.3% | 74,035 mi |
| 90-120k | 1,759 | 84.2% | 102,904 mi |
| 120k+ | 1,019 | 81.7% | 147,930 mi |
Source: 9,011 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.
2018 Amarok MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2018 Volkswagen Amarok?
86.5% of the 9,011 2018 Volkswagen Amarok tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 87.9% for cars first used in 2018. First-attempt pass rate: 84.6%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2018 Volkswagen Amarok?
The three most recorded items are windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (4.57%), malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction (3.44%), rbt (sp) efficiency below requirements (1.41%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2018 Volkswagen Amarok MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 93.9% of the time, falling to 81.7% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2018 Volkswagen Amarok in this dataset had covered 72,074 mi.
Does the season affect the 2018 Volkswagen Amarok MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 86.3% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 86.7%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.