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BMW MOT pass rates by model

Across 1,099,501 MOT tests on 29 BMW models in 2023, 82.6% passed, 6.1 points above the 76.5% average for all cars. Comparing models at the same ages, the X5 does best at 87.0%.

BMW models

Overall pass rate across all ages, and like-for-like at ages 3 to 10, where the model has enough tests at each age (n/a where it does not). The line marks the all-car average.

ModelTestsPass rateAges
3 to 10
118143,381
81.5%
84.7%
116111,034
79.5%
83.7%
X1100,184
85.6%
85.7%
X394,691
82.6%
84.8%
X588,022
80.5%
87.0%
52082,486
79.8%
86.0%
42063,693
86.0%
84.3%
21847,051
87.0%
n/a
12045,188
77.0%
85.2%
32039,122
88.5%
85.5%
Z435,739
79.6%
86.6%
53024,594
78.3%
n/a
33021,271
87.3%
n/a
i320,216
90.8%
n/a
M315,840
87.2%
n/a
52515,487
74.0%
n/a
22015,129
85.7%
n/a
X414,848
86.9%
n/a
X614,042
84.9%
87.0%
43013,211
87.1%
n/a
43513,072
86.6%
n/a
Z312,662
72.0%
n/a
M411,735
87.8%
n/a
31611,688
76.1%
n/a
64010,300
83.6%
n/a
73010,059
83.8%
88.4%
3188,976
87.3%
n/a
5358,729
82.9%
n/a
X27,051
87.5%
n/a

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Questions

What is the MOT pass rate for BMW cars?
In 2023, 82.6% of 1,099,501 initial MOT tests on the 29 BMW models we cover ended in a pass, against 76.5% for all cars and light vans.
Which BMW model has the most MOT tests?
The BMW 118, with 143,381 tests in 2023 and a pass rate of 81.5%.
Which BMW model has the best MOT pass rate?
Comparing models at ages 3 to 10 with the same age mix, the BMW X5 had the highest pass rate of the 10 BMW models with enough tests, at 87.0%.

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How these figures are made. We counted every initial MOT test (not retests) of cars and light vans in Great Britain in 2023 from the DVSA anonymised MOT dataset, 33,842,940 tests in all. Pass rate is the share of initial tests that ended in a pass, counting faults fixed during the test. Age is whole years from first registration to the test, so a car having its first MOT a few weeks early counts as 2.

Like-for-like pass rates average each model's pass rate at ages 3 to 10 with the same age mix for every model, so a model is not flattered by a young fleet or penalised by an old one. Models are grouped by the first word of the DVSA model name, and names that cover several models are left out.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. RegTail's analysis of the DVSA anonymised MOT dataset, 2023 tests.