Pass rate
88.8%
Above average — 0.7 pts behind the 89.5% that cars this age and mileage manage.
Across 1,147 recorded tests.
Typical repair bill £40–£103
2019 Volvo S60 R-Design + MOT pass rate
- 2019
- 2 trims combined
- typical 38,928 mi
Most common fault
Tyres
44.7% of faults · 19.8% nationally
mostly tread below the limit, cuts and sidewall bulges.
Which year to buy
- Best 2020 90.0% pass
- Avoid 2019 88.8% pass · this year
Across the 2 years on record, a spread of 1.2 points. See every year →
- First-attempt pass
- 87.4%
- Typical mileage
- 39k mi
The 2019 Volvo S60 R-Design + MOT pass rate is 88.8% of its MOT tests — about what its age and mileage predict. Tyres is the biggest single reason it fails, at 44.7% of what testers record.
Check your postcode
MOT pass rates are national — type your postcode to see how Volvo S60 R-Design + does in your corner of the country.
Expert verdict
Tyres: 2.3× the national share
Tyres make up 44.7% of everything recorded on the 2019 Volvo S60 R-Design +, against 19.8% nationally — 24.9 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 22% 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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Every Volvo S60 R-Design + first registered in 2019 is combined here — 2 trim and body variants in total — so the sample is as large as the DVSA data allows.
How does the 2019 Volvo S60 R-Design + compare?
Cars of this age and mileage average 89.5%, so this figure is 0.7 points behind what its age and mileage predict. On a first attempt, before any retests, the figure drops to 87.4%. The median 2019 Volvo S60 R-Design + in this dataset had covered 38,928 mi.
85% of the tests on this vehicle ran on Petrol, which passed 89.3% of the time. Pass rates also shift with the test month: tests recorded October–March passed 88.0% of the time, April–September 89.4%.
The single most recorded failure item is "Shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak", noted on 2.44% of tests.
- 1,147 recorded tests behind this page.
- 88.8% overall pass rate, 87.4% on a first attempt.
- Across every year of the Volvo S60 R-Design +, the average is 89.6% — best year 2020 (90.0%), worst 2019 (88.8%).
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
- 1,147
- Typical mileage (median)
- 38,928 mi
- Make and model
- Volvo S60 R-Design +
- Updated
- 2026-11-05
Source: DVSA anonymised MOT test data (2023–2025), OGL v3.0.
Top part to budget for
Shock Absorber
Usually a DIY or independent-garage job.
Does mileage affect the S60 R-Design + MOT pass rate?
Pass rate by odometer reading. Bar lengths start at 72% so small gaps stay visible.
Fuel type and reliability
Pass rate by fuel type. Petrol is the most common here (85% of tests).
Regional pass rates for the S60 R-Design +
| Region | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| South East | 190 | 88.9% |
| North West | 153 | 90.2% |
| West Midlands | 139 | 88.5% |
| Scotland | 136 | 86.0% |
| East of England | 110 | 87.3% |
| East Midlands | 97 | 87.6% |
| South West | 94 | 86.2% |
| Yorkshire | 75 | 92.0% |
| London | 74 | 89.2% |
| North East | 41 | 92.7% |
| Wales | 38 | 94.7% |
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 2019 S60 R-Design +
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 2019 S60 R-Design +
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 shock absorbers 2.4% of tests
“shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak”
Press down hard on each corner of the car and let go. It should settle in one bounce; if it keeps rocking, or you can see oil weeping down a shock absorber, that is the fault a tester will find.
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Check the wipers and washers 2.3% 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 1.7% 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 2019 S60 R-Design + through its MOT
Across the 10 items that are recorded most often on this model, the average repair comes to £40–£103 — and 22% of those repairs are parts that cost under £30.
- Average repair across the 10 common items
- £40–£103
- Cheapest common item: wipers blade defective
- £8–£22
- Dearest common item: joints constant velocity boot severely…
- £80–£250
- Common items a careful owner can do at home
- 60%
- Repairs that still cost under £30
- 22%
Estimates from typical UK parts prices, weighted by how often each item appears in 1,147 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 S60 R-Design +, side by side
2 model years on record, from 2019 to 2020. Across them the pass rate runs from 88.8% to 90.0% — a spread of 1.2 points. The bar under each year is the item that failed it most often.
- 2019 88.8%shock absorbers has a serious…
- 2020 90.0% 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 2019 Volvo S60 R-Design + 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 2019 cars with a similar record
- Land Rover Range Rover Evoque 88.8%
- Peugeot 208 88.8%
- Mitsubishi L200 88.8%
- Kia Sportage 88.7%
- Peugeot 3008 88.7%
- Audi A4 88.7%
Closest pass rates among 2019 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 2019 Volvo S60 R-Design + 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 855 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 | 383 | 44.70% | 19.76% | +24.94 |
| Brakes | 202 | 23.60% | 20.89% | +2.71 |
| Suspension | 79 | 9.20% | 20.98% | −11.78 |
| Visibility | 67 | 7.80% | 4.97% | +2.83 |
| Non-component advisories | 45 | 5.30% | 4.18% | +1.12 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 34 | 4.00% | 12.21% | −8.21 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 23 | 2.70% | 5.57% | −2.87 |
| Identification of the vehicle | 15 | 1.80% | 1.76% | +0.04 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 4 | 0.50% | 5.52% | −5.02 |
| Road Wheels | 3 | 0.40% | 0.75% | −0.35 |
The exact failure items, in the tester's words
| Recorded item | Severity | Tests | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak Suspension | Major | 2.4% | £30–75 |
| Wipers blade defective Visibility | Minor | 2.3% | £8–22 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Major | 2.0% | £45–95 |
| Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view Visibility | Minor | 1.7% | £80–200 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Major | 1.4% | £18–45 |
| Joints constant velocity boot severely deteriorated Body, chassis, structure | Minor | 0.96% | £80–250 |
| Joints constant velocity boot split or insecure, no longer prevents the ingress of dirt Body, chassis, structure | Major | 0.96% | £80–250 |
| Wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively Visibility | Major | 0.87% | £8–22 |
| Has ply or cords exposed Tyres | Major | 0.78% | £45–95 |
| Headlamp aim too low Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | Rectified | 0.70% | £30–80 |
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 | 12.0% | £45–95 |
| Brake pads less than 1.5 mm thick Brakes | Advisory | 10.9% | £18–45 |
| Has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure Tyres | Advisory | 9.1% | £45–95 |
| Shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak Suspension | Advisory | 4.0% | £30–75 |
| Brake discs in such a condition that it is seriously weakened Brakes | Advisory | 3.0% | £45–110 |
| Has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords Tyres | Advisory | 2.9% | £45–95 |
Pass rate by mileage
| Mileage | Tests | Pass rate | Median odometer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-30k | 338 | 92.6% | 21,482 mi |
| 30-60k | 628 | 88.4% | 42,983 mi |
| 60-90k | 156 | 82.7% | 71,123 mi |
| 90-120k | 20 | 80.0% | 99,739 mi |
| 120k+ | 5 | 100.0% | 138,638 mi |
Source: 1,147 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.
2019 S60 R-Design + MOT questions
What is the MOT pass rate for a 2019 Volvo S60 R-Design +?
88.8% of the 1,147 2019 Volvo S60 R-Design + tests in this dataset passed, against a national average of 89.5% for cars first used in 2019. First-attempt pass rate: 87.4%.
What are the most common MOT failures on a 2019 Volvo S60 R-Design +?
The three most recorded items are shock absorbers has a serious fluid leak (2.44%), wipers blade defective (2.27%), has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords (2.01%). Percentages are the share of tests on this vehicle that recorded the item.
Does mileage affect the 2019 Volvo S60 R-Design + MOT pass rate?
Yes. Cars under 30,000 miles passed 92.6% of the time, falling to 100.0% for those over 120,000 miles. The median 2019 Volvo S60 R-Design + in this dataset had covered 38,928 mi.
Which fuel type is most reliable for a 2019 Volvo S60 R-Design +?
Petrol: 89.3% pass rate across 974 tests. Hybrid: 85.5% pass rate across 173 tests. Shares are of the tests on this vehicle that recorded each fuel type.
Does the season affect the 2019 Volvo S60 R-Design + MOT pass rate?
Tests recorded in the winter months (October–March) passed 88.0% 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.