Pass rate
87.4%
Above average — 0.5 pts behind the 87.9% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 12,588 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £33–£84
2018 Volkswagen Touran MOT pass rate
- 2018
- typical 50,303 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
33.5% 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 →
7.5 pts down across model years — 12.9% in 2003, 5.4% in 2021.
Which year to buy
- Best 2021 91.4% pass
- Avoid 2006 70.4% pass
Across the 20 years on record, a spread of 21 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 85.7%
- Typical mileage
- 50k mi
The 2018 Volkswagen Touran MOT pass rate is 87.4% of its MOT tests — about what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 33.5% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Volkswagen Touran does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 1.7× the national share
Tyres make up 33.5% of everything recorded on the 2018 Volkswagen Touran, against 19.8% nationally — 13.7 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.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 35% 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 Touran compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 87.9%, so this figure is 0.5 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 85.7%. The median 2018 Volkswagen Touran in this dataset had covered 50,303 mi.
71% of the tests on this vehicle ran on Diesel, which passed 87.2% of the time. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 87.9% of the time, April–September 86.9%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view", noted on 2.18% of tests.
- 12,588 recorded tests behind this page.
- 87.4% overall pass rate, 85.7% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Volkswagen Touran, the average is 78.2% — best year 2021 (91.4%), worst 2006 (70.4%).
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
- 12,588
- Typical mileage (median)
- 50,303 mi
- Make and model
- Volkswagen Touran
- 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 Touran MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 77% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Diesel is the most common here (71% of tests).
Regional pass rates for the Touran
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 3,031 | 88.7% |
| South West | 1,304 | 86.2% |
| East of England | 1,292 | 89.2% |
| Scotland | 1,204 | 82.2% |
| North West | 1,167 | 88.2% |
| West Midlands | 1,150 | 87.7% |
| London | 1,123 | 89.3% |
| Yorkshire | 866 | 85.8% |
| East Midlands | 702 | 86.8% |
| Wales | 443 | 86.0% |
| North East | 302 | 88.4% |
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 2018 Touran
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 Touran
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 2.2% 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 1.4% of tests
“stop lamp not working”
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 Touran through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £33–£84 — and 35% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £33–£84
- Cheapest common item: stop lamp not working
- £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
- 35%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 12,588 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 Touran, side by side
20 model years on record, from 2003 to 2022. Across them the pass rate runs from 70.4% to 91.4% — a spread of 21 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2003 71.9% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2004 70.6% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2005 70.4% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2006 70.4% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2007 72.7% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2008 72.5% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2009 72.9% joints constant velocity boot…
- 2010 73.3% ball joint dust cover severely…
- 2011 77.6% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2012 78.7% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2013 79.6% coil spring fractured or broken
- 2014 81.3% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2015 82.1% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2016 87.3% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2017 87.5% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2018 87.4%windscreen damaged but not…
- 2019 90.0% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2020 91.0% has a cut in excess of the…
- 2021 91.4% windscreen damaged but not…
- 2022 90.2% has a cut in excess of the…
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 Touran 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
- Renault Captur 87.4%
- Audi A5 87.4%
- Ford Galaxy 87.4%
- BMW X2 XDRIVE20D 87.4%
- Vauxhall Astra 87.5%
- Ford C-Max 87.5%
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 Touran 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 13,234 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 | 4,446 | 33.50% | 19.76% | +13.74 |
| Brakes | 3,722 | 28.00% | 20.89% | +7.11 |
| Suspension | 1,495 | 11.30% | 20.98% | −9.68 |
| Non-component advisories | 1,334 | 10.00% | 4.18% | +5.82 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 899 | 6.80% | 12.21% | −5.41 |
| Visibility | 620 | 4.70% | 4.97% | −0.27 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 290 | 2.20% | 5.52% | −3.32 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 283 | 2.10% | 1.76% | +0.34 |
| Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems | 98 | 0.70% | 0.82% | −0.12 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 47 | 0.40% | 5.57% | −5.17 |
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 | 2.2% | £80–200 |
| Stop lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Major | 1.4% | £3–12 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Major | 1.4% | £18–45 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 1.4% | £45–95 |
| Malfunction indicator lamp inoperative or indicates a malfunction Noise, emissions and leaks | Major | 1.3% | £3–12 |
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 1.2% | £45–95 |
| Pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn Suspension | Major | 1.0% | £40–150 |
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 1.0% | £45–95 |
| Stop lamp not working Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 0.82% | £3–12 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 0.78% | £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 | 17.9% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 13.6% | £18–45 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 9.8% | £45–110 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 7.4% | £45–95 |
| Non-component advisories Child Seat fitted not allowing full inspection of adult belt Non-component advisories | Advisory | 7.2% | £20–80 |
| Shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak Suspension | Advisory | 4.3% | £30–75 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 1,744 | 91.4% | 22,110 mi |
| 30-60k | 6,457 | 86.9% | 44,762 mi |
| 60-90k | 2,946 | 85.7% | 72,020 mi |
| 90-120k | 830 | 88.2% | 102,441 mi |
| 120k+ | 609 | 88.3% | 158,313 mi |
Source: 12,588 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 Touran MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2018 Volkswagen Touran?
87.4% of the 12,588 2018 Volkswagen Touran tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 87.9% for cars first used in 2018. First-attempt pass rate: 85.7%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2018 Volkswagen Touran?
The three most recorded items are windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (2.18%), stop lamp not working (1.45%), brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick (1.45%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2018 Volkswagen Touran MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 91.4% of the time, falling to 88.3% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2018 Volkswagen Touran in this dataset had covered 50,303 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2018 Volkswagen Touran?
Diesel: 87.2% pass rate across 8,915 tests. Petrol: 87.8% pass rate across 3,673 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2018 Volkswagen Touran MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 87.9% of the time; summer months (April–September) passed 86.9%. Brakes, tyres and lights are tested harder in bad weather, but the difference is small on most models.