Pass rate
88.8%
Above average — 2.4 pts behind the 91.2% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 2,640 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £36–£86
2021 Volkswagen Sharan MOT pass rate
- 2021
- typical 28,297 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
40.6% 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 →
4.1 pts up across model years — 6.7% in 2003, 10.8% in 2021.
Which year to buy
- Best 2019 91.7% pass
- Avoid 2006 67.0% pass
Across the 23 years on record, a spread of 24.7 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 87.5%
- Typical mileage
- 28k mi
The 2021 Volkswagen Sharan MOT pass rate is 88.8% of its MOT tests — 2.4 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 40.6% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Volkswagen Sharan does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 2.1× the national share
Tyres make up 40.6% of everything recorded on the 2021 Volkswagen Sharan, against 19.8% nationally — 20.8 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.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 26% 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 2021 Volkswagen Sharan compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 91.2%, so this figure is 2.4 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 87.5%. The median 2021 Volkswagen Sharan in this dataset had covered 28,297 mi.
98% of the tests on this vehicle ran on Petrol, which passed 88.8% of the time. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 88.3% of the time, April–September 89.5%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords", noted on 2.58% of tests.
- 2,640 recorded tests behind this page.
- 88.8% overall pass rate, 87.5% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Volkswagen Sharan, the average is 83.1% — best year 2019 (91.7%), worst 2006 (67.0%).
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
- 2,640
- Typical mileage (median)
- 28,297 mi
- Make and model
- Volkswagen Sharan
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Tyres
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the Sharan MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 70% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Petrol is the most common here (98% of tests).
Regional pass rates for the Sharan
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 698 | 89.7% |
| East of England | 304 | 89.8% |
| North West | 282 | 86.2% |
| London | 261 | 91.2% |
| South West | 217 | 87.1% |
| Scotland | 191 | 88.5% |
| West Midlands | 176 | 89.8% |
| Yorkshire | 172 | 91.3% |
| East Midlands | 144 | 88.2% |
| Wales | 101 | 82.2% |
| North East | 94 | 85.1% |
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 2021 Sharan
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 2021 Sharan
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 1.8% 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 tyre tread 1.7% of tests
“tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm”
Check all four tyres cold, including the inner shoulder where wear hides — 1.6mm across the central three-quarters is the legal limit, and most testers fail at 1.6mm without argument.
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Check the brakes 1.5% 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 2021 Sharan through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £36–£86 — and 26% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £36–£86
- 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
- 80%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 26%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 2,640 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 Sharan, side by side
23 model years on record, from 2000 to 2022. Across them the pass rate runs from 67.0% to 91.7% — a spread of 24.7 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2000 68.9% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2001 69.8% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2002 68.7% headlamp lens slightly defective
- 2003 67.4% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2004 68.0% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2005 68.2% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2006 67.0% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2007 67.6% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2008 68.4% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2009 69.0% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2010 73.1% pins and bushes pin or bush…
- 2011 78.9% pins and bushes pin or bush…
- 2012 79.0% pins and bushes pin or bush…
- 2013 79.3% pins and bushes pin or bush…
- 2014 81.8% pins and bushes pin or bush…
- 2015 83.2% pins and bushes pin or bush…
- 2016 85.8% pins and bushes pin or bush…
- 2017 87.5% pins and bushes pin or bush…
- 2018 89.3% pins and bushes pin or bush…
- 2019 91.7% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2020 88.8% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2021 88.8%has a cut in excess of the…
- 2022 85.4% tread depth below requirements of…
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 2021 Volkswagen Sharan 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 2021 cars with a similar record
- Kia Ceed 88.8%
- Toyota Hilux Invincible D-4D 88.8%
- Hyundai I10 N 88.9%
- Skoda Enyaq Iv 89.0%
- Volvo XC90 R-Design B5 89.0%
- Nissan Navara 88.5%
Closest pass rates among 2021 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 2021 Volkswagen Sharan 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 2,264 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 | 923 | 40.60% | 19.76% | +20.84 |
| Brakes | 463 | 20.40% | 20.89% | −0.49 |
| Non-component advisories | 274 | 12.10% | 4.18% | +7.92 |
| Suspension | 247 | 10.90% | 20.98% | −10.08 |
| Visibility | 114 | 5.00% | 4.97% | +0.03 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 113 | 5.00% | 12.21% | −7.21 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 50 | 2.20% | 5.52% | −3.32 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 32 | 1.40% | 5.57% | −4.17 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 25 | 1.10% | 1.76% | −0.66 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 23 | 1.00% | 0.82% | +0.18 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 2.6% | £45–95 |
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 1.9% | £45–95 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 1.8% | £80–200 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 1.7% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Major | 1.5% | £18–45 |
| Malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 1.2% | £3–12 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 1.1% | £8–22 |
| Rear reflectors defective or damaged by up to 50% of the reflecting surface Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Minor | 0.76% | £5–25 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Major | 0.72% | £40–150 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 0.61% | £8–22 |
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 | 19.9% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 8.3% | £18–45 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Advisory | 7.8% | £40–150 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 4.5% | £45–110 |
| Non-component advisories Child Seat fitted not allowing full inspection of adult belt Non-component advisories | Advisory | 4.3% | £20–80 |
| Tread depth tread pattern not visible over the whole tread area when minimum depth required is 1.0mm Tyres | Advisory | 3.5% | £45–95 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 1,437 | 91.0% | 18,778 mi |
| 30-60k | 1,003 | 86.1% | 41,407 mi |
| 60-90k | 157 | 85.4% | 70,451 mi |
| 90-120k | 28 | 89.3% | 101,930 mi |
| 120k+ | 14 | 78.6% | 136,067 mi |
Source: 2,640 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.
2021 Sharan MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2021 Volkswagen Sharan?
88.8% of the 2,640 2021 Volkswagen Sharan tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 91.2% for cars first used in 2021. First-attempt pass rate: 87.5%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2021 Volkswagen Sharan?
The three most recorded items are has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords (2.58%), has ply or cords exposed (1.93%), windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (1.82%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2021 Volkswagen Sharan MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 91.0% of the time, falling to 78.6% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2021 Volkswagen Sharan in this dataset had covered 28,297 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2021 Volkswagen Sharan?
Petrol: 88.8% pass rate across 2,579 tests. Diesel: 86.9% pass rate across 61 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2021 Volkswagen Sharan MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 88.3% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 89.5%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.