Test day
A year of MOT tests on Great Britain's cars: who passes, how far they've been, and what colour they are.
- Data DVSA anonymised MOT results
- Covers Cars, Great Britain
- Year the latest year
Headline figures
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Age before beauty
Share of cars passing their MOT, by age
Average mileage at the test, by age
Fifty shades of grey
Colours as recorded at the MOT, for cars tested this year, by the year they were first used. Older years only include the cars that are still going.
Colour of cars tested, by year first used
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Where cars pass
Passed first time
Each circle is a postcode area, sized by the number of tests.
Highest
Lowest
Built to last
Older cars fail more, so models are compared with cars of the same age. Models with at least 2,000 tests at that age.
Most likely to pass first time
Least likely
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Plate days
Car MOT tests by month
About these figures
- Great Britain only. Northern Ireland runs its own MOT system. Cars are first tested at 3 years old, so newer cars aren't here.
- Each test is a car's first test of a visit. Retests after a fail aren't counted again, and abandoned tests are left out. "Fixed within the hour" means it failed, but was put right at the test centre within an hour.
- Postcode area is where the car was tested, not where it's kept.