Audi Q2 MOT pass rates & common failures

Every completed first-attempt MOT on an Audi Q2 in Great Britain in 2025 — 84,828 tests. Figures cover every Q2 first-tested in 2025, all trims grouped. How the Q2 ages, what it fails on, and what mileage is normal, computed directly from the official DVSA record of every test.

Pass rate 2025
90.1%
17.8 points above the class-4 average (72.3%); unadjusted for age — the age-matched comparison is below
Tests analysed
84,828
first tests, 2025
Arrived with a dangerous fault
4.1%
of Q2 first tests; national 7.3%

How many Audi Q2 cars are still on the road?

At the end of 2025, DVLA's register held 112,166 Audi Q2 cars that were taxed or on SORN: 111,741 taxed and 425 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 Q2 vans, where they exist, are counted by DVLA as goods vehicles and are not in these figures.

Still taxed, end of 2025
111,741
99.6% of the 112,166 Q2 cars taxed or on SORN; 57 model variants grouped
On SORN, end of 2025
425
declared off the road by their keepers — 0.4% of that total

How the numbers are moving

The number of taxed Q2 cars is still rising: 111,741 at the end of 2025, up 8,375 (8.1%) on the end of 2024, and the highest in the years shown. Cars on SORN went from 151 at the end of 2017 to 425 at the end of 2025, up 181.5%. 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 Q2 cars, year by year

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

050k100k150k2014201620182020202220242025Year (count at the end of the year)Taxed Q2 cars, year 2014: 0Taxed Q2 cars, year 2015: 0Taxed Q2 cars, year 2016: 695Taxed Q2 cars, year 2017: 13kTaxed Q2 cars, year 2018: 27kTaxed Q2 cars, year 2019: 43kTaxed Q2 cars, year 2020: 57kTaxed Q2 cars, year 2021: 71kTaxed Q2 cars, year 2022: 82kTaxed Q2 cars, year 2023: 94kTaxed Q2 cars, year 2024: 103kTaxed Q2 cars, year 2025: 112k112k
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YearTaxed Q2 cars
20140
20150
2016695
201712,752
201827,497
201942,953
202056,850
202170,690
202282,301
202393,785
2024103,366
2025111,741

Q2 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.

01002003004005002014201620182020202220242025Year (count at the end of the year)Q2 cars on SORN, year 2014: 0Q2 cars on SORN, year 2015: 0Q2 cars on SORN, year 2016: 0Q2 cars on SORN, year 2017: 151Q2 cars on SORN, year 2018: 103Q2 cars on SORN, year 2019: 191Q2 cars on SORN, year 2020: 326Q2 cars on SORN, year 2021: 171Q2 cars on SORN, year 2022: 215Q2 cars on SORN, year 2023: 270Q2 cars on SORN, year 2024: 377Q2 cars on SORN, year 2025: 425425
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YearQ2 cars on SORN
20140
20150
20160
2017151
2018103
2019191
2020326
2021171
2022215
2023270
2024377
2025425

Which model years survive

Taxed Q2 cars at the end of 2025 by year of manufacture, and each year's share of the 111,741 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 Q2 cars
20258,4137.5%
202410,2289.2%
202311,97110.7%
202211,0719.9%
202113,73012.3%
202014,36712.9%
201915,25513.7%
201814,10712.6%
201711,92310.7%
All other build years (one year, each under 1%)6760.6%

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 Q2 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 Q2 ages

First-time pass rate by vehicle age, Q2 vs all cars, 2025.

Audi Q2All cars
50%60%70%80%90%100%3579111315171920Vehicle age (years)Audi Q2, vehicle age 3: 93.2%Audi Q2, vehicle age 4: 92.5%Audi Q2, vehicle age 5: 90.3%Audi Q2, vehicle age 6: 89.1%Audi Q2, vehicle age 7: 88.5%Audi Q2, vehicle age 8: 87.2%Audi Q2, vehicle age 9: 87.6%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 Q2 87.6%All cars 57.6%
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Age (years)Q2 testsQ2 pass rateAll cars
312,19393.2%88.5%
414,11092.5%87.2%
514,65390.3%86.0%
616,31289.1%83.5%
714,45088.5%80.9%
812,03587.2%78.2%
967287.6%74.9%

Better or worse than the average car?

The Q2's pass rate minus the all-cars pass rate at each age, in percentage points. Bars above zero: the Q2 beats the average car of that age. Below zero: it trails.

Q2 ahead
-14-7+0+7+14Age 3: +4.7 points vs the average car3Age 4: +5.3 points vs the average carAge 5: +4.3 points vs the average car5Age 6: +5.6 points vs the average carAge 7: +7.6 points vs the average car7Age 8: +9.0 points vs the average carAge 9: +12.7 points vs the average car9Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)Gap (points)
3+4.7
4+5.3
5+4.3
6+5.6
7+7.6
8+9.0
9+12.7

The Q2 fleet on the road, by age

How many took a first MOT in 2025 at each age — the shape of the Q2 fleet still in use.

05k10k15k20kAge 3: 12k3Age 4: 14kAge 5: 14k5Age 6: 16kAge 7: 14k7Age 8: 12kAge 9: 6729Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)First tests
312,193
414,110
514,653
616,312
714,450
812,035
9672

What a Q2 fails on

Where the failure items land when a Q2 fails or needs a fix at test, 2025. Use it as a pre-purchase checklist: these are the areas to look at first.

Tyres38.7%
Brakes21.0%
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment16.2%
Visibility10.0%
Suspension4.3%
Noise, emissions and leaks3.1%
Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems2.0%
Identification of the vehicle1.6%

Share of all failure items, 2025 — the 8 biggest categories shown (96.8% of the items); smaller categories are not listed.

The advisories to watch

Where testers most often write "keep an eye on this" for a Q2, 2025 — the faults in the post.

Tyres: 50.3% of advisories50.3%Brakes: 34.6% of advisories34.6%Non-component advisories: 8.6% of advisories8.6%Suspension: 4.2% of advisoriesIdentification of the vehicle: 1.3% of advisoriesNoise, emissions and leaks: 0.5% of advisories
TyresBrakesNon-component advisoriesSuspensionIdentification of the vehicleNoise, emissions and leaks
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CategoryShare of advisories
Tyres50.3%
Brakes34.6%
Non-component advisories8.6%
Suspension4.2%
Identification of the vehicle1.3%
Noise, emissions and leaks0.5%

Petrol, diesel or hybrid Q2?

First-time pass rate for the two most-tested Q2 fuel types, 2025, against the all-cars average. Fleet ages differ by fuel — newer fleets help the electrified bars.

50%60%70%80%90%100%all cars 72.3%Petrol: 90.6% of 68,927 tests90.6%Petrol68,927 testsDiesel: 87.8% of 15,901 tests87.8%Diesel15,901 tests
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FuelTestsPass rate
Petrol68,92790.6%
Diesel15,90187.8%

What mileage is normal for a Q2?

Mileage recorded at test by vehicle age, 2025. The line is the typical (median) Q2; 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 Q2 (median)
0k25k50k75k100k3579Vehicle age (years)Age 3: typical 21,250 miles (middle half 16,250–31,250)Age 4: typical 31,250 miles (middle half 21,250–38,750)Age 5: typical 36,250 miles (middle half 28,750–48,750)Age 6: typical 43,750 miles (middle half 31,250–56,250)Age 7: typical 51,250 miles (middle half 38,750–63,750)Age 8: typical 56,250 miles (middle half 41,250–71,250)Age 9: typical 63,750 miles (middle half 46,250–81,250)63k mi

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

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Age (years)Lower quarterTypical (median)Upper quarter
316,25021,25031,250
421,25031,25038,750
528,75036,25048,750
631,25043,75056,250
738,75051,25063,750
841,25056,25071,250
946,25063,75081,250

What fails at each age

The Q2'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.

TyresBrakesLamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentVisibilityNoise, emissions and leaksSuspensionEverything else
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Age bandCategoryShare of the band's failure items
3-5 yrsTyres51.9%
3-5 yrsBrakes21.1%
3-5 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment6.9%
3-5 yrsVisibility6.6%
3-5 yrsNoise, emissions and leaks3.4%
3-5 yrsEverything else10.1%
6-9 yrsTyres39.7%
6-9 yrsBrakes26.7%
6-9 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment10.0%
6-9 yrsVisibility7.2%
6-9 yrsSuspension6.1%
6-9 yrsEverything else10.3%

More vehicles we've checked

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.