Audi e-tron MOT pass rates & common failures

Every completed first-attempt MOT on an Audi e-tron in Great Britain in 2025 — 17,886 tests. Figures cover every e-tron first-tested in 2025, all trims grouped. How the e-tron ages, what it fails on, and what mileage is normal, computed directly from the official DVSA record of every test.

Pass rate 2025
90.0%
17.7 points above the class-4 average (72.3%); unadjusted for age — the age-matched comparison is below
Tests analysed
17,886
first tests, 2025
Arrived with a dangerous fault
4.5%
of e-tron first tests; national 7.3%

How many Audi e-tron cars are still on the road?

At the end of 2025, DVLA's register held 22,871 Audi e-tron cars that were taxed or on SORN: 22,551 taxed and 320 on SORN (Statutory Off Road Notification — kept, but declared off the road by the keeper). The MOT figures above count tests; these count cars, across the whole United Kingdom, cars only. Audi e-tron vans, where they exist, are counted by DVLA as goods vehicles and are not in these figures. DVLA's count for the e-tron also includes the e-tron GT, which the licensing data does not record under a name of its own, so it is wider than the MOT figures above.

Still taxed, end of 2025
22,551
98.6% of the 22,871 e-tron cars taxed or on SORN; 24 model variants grouped
On SORN, end of 2025
320
declared off the road by their keepers — 1.4% of that total

How the numbers are moving

The number of taxed e-tron cars peaked at 23,052 at the end of 2024 and has since fallen by 501 (2.2%) to 22,551 at the end of 2025. Cars on SORN went from 7 at the end of 2019 to 320 at the end of 2025, up 4471.4%. A car leaves the taxed count when it is scrapped, exported or declared off the road; the year-end counts do not say which.

Taxed e-tron cars, year by year

Cars of this model taxed and on the road at the end of each year, 2014–2025.

05k10k15k20k25k2014201620182020202220242025Year (count at the end of the year)Taxed e-tron cars, year 2014: 0Taxed e-tron cars, year 2015: 0Taxed e-tron cars, year 2016: 0Taxed e-tron cars, year 2017: 0Taxed e-tron cars, year 2018: 0Taxed e-tron cars, year 2019: 1kTaxed e-tron cars, year 2020: 7kTaxed e-tron cars, year 2021: 15kTaxed e-tron cars, year 2022: 21kTaxed e-tron cars, year 2023: 23kTaxed e-tron cars, year 2024: 23kTaxed e-tron cars, year 2025: 23k23k
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YearTaxed e-tron cars
20140
20150
20160
20170
20180
20191,078
20206,887
202114,580
202220,529
202322,705
202423,052
202522,551

e-tron cars on SORN, year by year

Cars of this model declared off the road at the end of each year, 2014–2025. Its own scale — SORN counts are a fraction of the taxed count.

01002003004002014201620182020202220242025Year (count at the end of the year)e-tron cars on SORN, year 2014: 0e-tron cars on SORN, year 2015: 0e-tron cars on SORN, year 2016: 0e-tron cars on SORN, year 2017: 0e-tron cars on SORN, year 2018: 0e-tron cars on SORN, year 2019: 7e-tron cars on SORN, year 2020: 26e-tron cars on SORN, year 2021: 77e-tron cars on SORN, year 2022: 115e-tron cars on SORN, year 2023: 237e-tron cars on SORN, year 2024: 212e-tron cars on SORN, year 2025: 320320
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Yeare-tron cars on SORN
20140
20150
20160
20170
20180
20197
202026
202177
2022115
2023237
2024212
2025320

Which model years survive

Taxed e-tron cars at the end of 2025 by year of manufacture, and each year's share of the 22,551 taxed in all. Every build year holding at least 1% has its own row; the rest share one. A build year's count depends on how many were sold that year as well as how many have lasted.

Year of manufacture Taxed, end of 2025Share of taxed e-tron cars
20248733.9%
20232,98913.3%
20225,70725.3%
20216,76930.0%
20205,05022.4%
20199414.2%
All other build years (one year, each under 1%)2221.0%

Population source: Department for Transport / DVLA vehicle licensing statistics, table VEH0124, updated 15 July 2026; counts of the cars on DVLA's register that were taxed or on SORN at the end of each year shown, United Kingdom, cars only, excluding cars recorded with no model name. SortedCars groups DVLA's model name E-TRON under this model. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. SortedCars is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, DVLA or the Department for Transport.

How the e-tron ages

First-time pass rate by vehicle age, e-tron vs all cars, 2025.

Audi e-tronAll cars
50%60%70%80%90%100%3579111315171920Vehicle age (years)Audi e-tron, vehicle age 3: 89.3%Audi e-tron, vehicle age 4: 90.5%Audi e-tron, vehicle age 5: 90.4%Audi e-tron, vehicle age 6: 88.3%All cars, vehicle age 3: 88.5%All cars, vehicle age 4: 87.2%All cars, vehicle age 5: 86%All cars, vehicle age 6: 83.5%All cars, vehicle age 7: 80.9%All cars, vehicle age 8: 78.2%All cars, vehicle age 9: 74.9%All cars, vehicle age 10: 71.9%All cars, vehicle age 11: 68.6%All cars, vehicle age 12: 65.8%All cars, vehicle age 13: 63.5%All cars, vehicle age 14: 61.2%All cars, vehicle age 15: 59.3%All cars, vehicle age 16: 58.3%All cars, vehicle age 17: 57.2%All cars, vehicle age 18: 57.4%All cars, vehicle age 19: 57%All cars, vehicle age 20: 57.6%Audi e-tron 88.3%All cars 57.6%
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Age (years)e-tron testse-tron pass rateAll cars
34,83889.3%88.5%
46,76390.5%87.2%
55,19990.4%86.0%
61,01688.3%83.5%

Better or worse than the average car?

The e-tron's pass rate minus the all-cars pass rate at each age, in percentage points. Bars above zero: the e-tron beats the average car of that age. Below zero: it trails.

e-tron ahead
-6-3+0+3+6Age 3: +0.8 points vs the average car3Age 4: +3.3 points vs the average carAge 5: +4.4 points vs the average car5Age 6: +4.8 points vs the average carVehicle age (years)
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Age (years)Gap (points)
3+0.8
4+3.3
5+4.4
6+4.8

The e-tron fleet on the road, by age

How many took a first MOT in 2025 at each age — the shape of the e-tron fleet still in use.

01k3k5k7kAge 3: 4k3Age 4: 6kAge 5: 5k5Age 6: 1k6Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)First tests
34,838
46,763
55,199
61,016

What an e-tron fails on

Where the failure items land when an e-tron fails or needs a fix at test, 2025. Use it as a pre-purchase checklist: these are the areas to look at first.

Tyres65.6%
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment11.8%
Visibility10.1%
Identification of the vehicle4.7%
Brakes2.1%
Road Wheels1.9%
Suspension1.5%
Body, chassis, structure1.0%

Share of all failure items, 2025 — the 8 biggest categories shown (98.7% of the items); smaller categories are not listed.

The advisories to watch

Where testers most often write "keep an eye on this" for a e-tron, 2025 — the faults in the post.

Tyres: 70.2% of advisories70.2%Non-component advisories: 16.0% of advisories16.0%Brakes: 9.1% of advisories9.1%Suspension: 2.7% of advisoriesIdentification of the vehicle: 1.4% of advisoriesVisibility: 0.1% of advisories
TyresNon-component advisoriesBrakesSuspensionIdentification of the vehicleVisibility
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CategoryShare of advisories
Tyres70.2%
Non-component advisories16.0%
Brakes9.1%
Suspension2.7%
Identification of the vehicle1.4%
Visibility0.1%

What mileage is normal for an e-tron?

Mileage recorded at test by vehicle age, 2025. The line is the typical (median) e-tron; the shaded band holds the middle half. A car far outside the band, in either direction, is worth questions the recorded history can answer.

Typical e-tron (median)
0k25k50k75k356Vehicle age (years)Age 3: typical 28,750 miles (middle half 21,250–36,250)Age 4: typical 36,250 miles (middle half 28,750–48,750)Age 5: typical 41,250 miles (middle half 33,750–53,750)Age 6: typical 48,750 miles (middle half 38,750–63,750)48k mi

Mileage values are midpoints of 2,500-mile bands.

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Age (years)Lower quarterTypical (median)Upper quarter
321,25028,75036,250
428,75036,25048,750
533,75041,25053,750
638,75048,75063,750

What fails at each age

The e-tron's failure mix by age band, 2025 — each band's top categories at their true share of that band's failure items; the pale remainder is everything else. How the mix shifts with age is the point of the chart.

TyresVisibilityLamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentIdentification of the vehicleBrakesSuspensionRoad WheelsEverything else
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Age bandCategoryShare of the band's failure items
3-5 yrsTyres73.8%
3-5 yrsVisibility7.4%
3-5 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment6.2%
3-5 yrsIdentification of the vehicle4.7%
3-5 yrsBrakes2.5%
3-5 yrsEverything else5.4%
6-9 yrsTyres69.2%
6-9 yrsVisibility8.9%
6-9 yrsSuspension6.5%
6-9 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment4.1%
6-9 yrsRoad Wheels4.1%
6-9 yrsEverything else7.2%

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How these figures are computed. Every number on this page is calculated by SortedCars from the DVSA anonymised MOT results dataset (every MOT test in Great Britain — 2025 for single-year figures; trend figures state their span, currently 2023–2025). Where a figure comes from a sample or uses banded values (mileage is banded to 2,500 miles), the page says so beside the figure. Test class 4 only, first tests only — retests are excluded. Class 4 is the car MOT class and also covers car-derived vans, pickups and motorhomes tested to the same standard; where this page says "cars" it means class 4. Pass rate = passes ÷ (passes + failures + pass-after-rectification): a vehicle that failed and was fixed during the visit counts as a fail. Pass rates describe fleets, not individual machines: they reflect how cars were driven, maintained and used as well as how they were built, and beyond recorded mileage none of that is in the data. A well-kept example of a model with a weak average can still pass; a neglected example of a strong one can still fail. No figure is shown for any group with fewer than 500 tests. Alias spellings of a make in the DVSA file are counted under one make name, and all trims and variants of a model are grouped under one model name, using SortedCars' grouping tables. The taxed and SORN counts on this page are the one exception: they are not computed from MOT records but taken from the Department for Transport's vehicle licensing statistics (DfT/DVLA table VEH0124, updated 15 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0), which count the cars on DVLA's register that were taxed or on SORN at the end of each year shown, UK-wide, cars only. They describe a model as a whole, grouped under SortedCars' model names, and say nothing about any one car. “Dangerous” is DVSA's statutory defect category (in force since May 2018): a defect posing an immediate risk to road safety — driving the vehicle before repair is an offence. What these figures are for. These statistics are general information about groups of vehicles. They are not advice, a valuation or a recommendation to buy, avoid or price any particular vehicle, and no decision about one car should rest on them alone — check the car itself and its own records. We take care over the calculations, but we cannot guarantee they are complete, current or free of error, and we accept no liability for loss arising from reliance on them. This does not limit any liability that cannot lawfully be limited — see our Terms & Conditions. If you believe any figure on this page is inaccurate, contact us. SortedCars is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, the DVSA or DVLA. DVSA publishes the raw test records; the statistics on this page are SortedCars' own calculations from them. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.