Pass rate
86.8%
Above average — 4.4 pts behind the 91.2% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 129 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £47–£112
2021 Volkswagen Tporter MOT pass rate
- 2021
- typical 30,555 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
50.0% 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 →
Which year to buy
- Best 2022 96.6% pass
- Avoid 2014 85.8% pass
Across the 3 years on record, a spread of 10.8 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 85.3%
- Typical mileage
- 31k mi
The 2021 Volkswagen Tporter MOT pass rate is 86.8% of its MOT tests — 4.4 points behind what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 50.0% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Volkswagen Tporter does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 2.5× the national share
Tyres make up 50.0% of everything recorded on the 2021 Volkswagen Tporter, against 19.8% nationally — 30.2 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.
- Falls short of its own age and mileage. Like-for-like, cars this age and mileage expect about 91.2%; this one manages 86.8% — 4.4 points below. Age is a fair excuse; this is not age.
- When it fails, it costs. Only 0% 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 Tporter compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 91.2%, so this figure is 4.4 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 85.3%. The median 2021 Volkswagen Tporter in this dataset had covered 30,555 mi.
The single most recorded failure item is "Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm", noted on 6.20% of tests.
- 129 recorded tests behind this page.
- 86.8% overall pass rate, 85.3% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Volkswagen Tporter, the average is 88.7% — best year 2022 (96.6%), worst 2014 (85.8%).
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
- 129
- Typical mileage (median)
- 30,555 mi
- Make and model
- Volkswagen Tporter
- 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 Tporter MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 72% so small gaps stay visible.
Regional pass rates for the Tporter
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 30 | 86.7% |
| South West | 18 | 88.9% |
| North West | 18 | 77.8% |
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 Tporter
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 Tporter
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 tyre tread 6.2% 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 windscreen 3.1% 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 brakes 1.6% 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 Tporter through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £47–£112 — and 0% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £47–£112
- Cheapest common item: brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick
- £18–£45
- Dearest common item: joints constant velocity boot split or…
- £80–£250
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 70%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 0%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 129 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 Tporter, side by side
3 model years on record, from 2014 to 2022. Across them the pass rate runs from 85.8% to 96.6% — a spread of 10.8 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2014 85.8% registration plate lamp(s)…
- 2021 86.8%tread depth below requirements of…
- 2022 96.6% 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 2021 Volkswagen Tporter 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
- Land Rover Discovry 86.7%
- Ford Ranger 86.9%
- Citroen C4 86.9%
- Peugeot 508 86.9%
- Fiat 500E La Prima 86.5%
- Vauxhall Corsa E 86.3%
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 Tporter 10 failure items · 6 advisories · 8 inspection categories · mileage brackets · all of it in the page, none of it above the fold
Every inspection category
Shares of the 78 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 | 39 | 50.00% | 19.76% | +30.24 |
| Brakes | 14 | 17.90% | 20.89% | −2.99 |
| Suspension | 9 | 11.50% | 20.98% | −9.48 |
| Visibility | 9 | 11.50% | 4.97% | +6.53 |
| Non-component advisories | 3 | 3.80% | 4.18% | −0.38 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 2 | 2.60% | 1.76% | +0.84 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 1 | 1.30% | 12.21% | −10.91 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 1 | 1.30% | 5.57% | −4.27 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm Tyres | Major | 6.2% | £45–95 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 3.1% | £80–200 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Major | 1.6% | £18–45 |
| Coil spring fractured or broken Suspension | Major | 0.78% | £25–65 |
| Coil spring with an unsafe modification Suspension | Major | 0.78% | £25–65 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 0.78% | £45–95 |
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 0.78% | £45–95 |
| Headlamp aim too low Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 0.78% | £30–80 |
| Joints constant velocity boot split or insecure, no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Body, chassis, structure | Major | 0.78% | £80–250 |
| Linkage ball joint dust cover ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Suspension | Major | 0.78% | £18–45 |
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 | 18.6% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 9.3% | £18–45 |
| Non-component advisories Nail in tyre Non-component advisories | Advisory | 2.3% | £45–95 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Advisory | 1.6% | £45–95 |
| Mounting damaged and seriously weakened Suspension | Advisory | 1.6% | £40–150 |
| Shock absorbers damaged to the extent that it does not function Suspension | Advisory | 1.6% | £30–75 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 64 | 89.1% | 19,884 mi |
| 30-60k | 60 | 85.0% | 41,177 mi |
| 60-90k | 5 | 80.0% | 66,678 mi |
Source: 129 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 Tporter MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2021 Volkswagen Tporter?
86.8% of the 129 2021 Volkswagen Tporter tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 91.2% for cars first used in 2021. First-attempt pass rate: 85.3%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2021 Volkswagen Tporter?
The three most recorded items are tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm (6.20%), windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (3.10%), brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick (1.55%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2021 Volkswagen Tporter MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 89.1% of the time, falling to 80.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2021 Volkswagen Tporter in this dataset had covered 30,555 mi.