Audi Q8 MOT pass rates & common failures

Every completed first-attempt MOT on an Audi Q8 in Great Britain in 2025 — 5,312 tests. Figures cover every Q8 first-tested in 2025, all trims grouped. How the Q8 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
5,312
first tests, 2025
Arrived with a dangerous fault
3.5%
of Q8 first tests; national 7.3%

How many Audi Q8 cars are still on the road?

At the end of 2025, DVLA's register held 16,254 Audi Q8 cars that were taxed or on SORN: 16,000 taxed and 254 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 Q8 vans, where they exist, are counted by DVLA as goods vehicles and are not in these figures.

Still taxed, end of 2025
16,000
98.4% of the 16,254 Q8 cars taxed or on SORN; 43 model variants grouped
On SORN, end of 2025
254
declared off the road by their keepers — 1.6% of that total

How the numbers are moving

The number of taxed Q8 cars is still rising: 16,000 at the end of 2025, up 1,028 (6.9%) on the end of 2024, and the highest in the years shown. Cars on SORN went from 3 at the end of 2018 to 254 at the end of 2025, up 8366.7%. 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 Q8 cars, year by year

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

05k10k15k20k2014201620182020202220242025Year (count at the end of the year)Taxed Q8 cars, year 2014: 0Taxed Q8 cars, year 2015: 0Taxed Q8 cars, year 2016: 0Taxed Q8 cars, year 2017: 0Taxed Q8 cars, year 2018: 711Taxed Q8 cars, year 2019: 3kTaxed Q8 cars, year 2020: 3kTaxed Q8 cars, year 2021: 4kTaxed Q8 cars, year 2022: 5kTaxed Q8 cars, year 2023: 11kTaxed Q8 cars, year 2024: 15kTaxed Q8 cars, year 2025: 16k16k
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YearTaxed Q8 cars
20140
20150
20160
20170
2018711
20192,517
20203,380
20214,378
20225,303
202311,209
202414,972
202516,000

Q8 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.

01002003002014201620182020202220242025Year (count at the end of the year)Q8 cars on SORN, year 2014: 0Q8 cars on SORN, year 2015: 0Q8 cars on SORN, year 2016: 0Q8 cars on SORN, year 2017: 0Q8 cars on SORN, year 2018: 3Q8 cars on SORN, year 2019: 42Q8 cars on SORN, year 2020: 61Q8 cars on SORN, year 2021: 74Q8 cars on SORN, year 2022: 91Q8 cars on SORN, year 2023: 144Q8 cars on SORN, year 2024: 218Q8 cars on SORN, year 2025: 254254
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YearQ8 cars on SORN
20140
20150
20160
20170
20183
201942
202061
202174
202291
2023144
2024218
2025254

Which model years survive

Taxed Q8 cars at the end of 2025 by year of manufacture, and each year's share of the 16,000 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 Q8 cars
20251,2728.0%
20243,83223.9%
20235,83036.4%
20221,0086.3%
20219846.2%
20208385.2%
20191,65310.3%
20185833.6%

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 Q8 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 Q8 ages

First-time pass rate by vehicle age, Q8 vs all cars, 2025.

Audi Q8All cars
50%60%70%80%90%100%3579111315171920Vehicle age (years)Audi Q8, vehicle age 3: 90.5%Audi Q8, vehicle age 4: 91.5%Audi Q8, vehicle age 5: 89.3%Audi Q8, vehicle age 6: 89.2%Audi Q8, vehicle age 7: 90%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 Q8 90%All cars 57.6%
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Age (years)Q8 testsQ8 pass rateAll cars
31,06990.5%88.5%
41,01891.5%87.2%
584089.3%86.0%
61,67789.2%83.5%
760990.0%80.9%

Better or worse than the average car?

The Q8's pass rate minus the all-cars pass rate at each age, in percentage points. Bars above zero: the Q8 beats the average car of that age. Below zero: it trails.

Q8 ahead
-10-5+0+5+10Age 3: +2.0 points vs the average car3Age 4: +4.3 points vs the average carAge 5: +3.3 points vs the average car5Age 6: +5.7 points vs the average carAge 7: +9.1 points vs the average car7Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)Gap (points)
3+2.0
4+4.3
5+3.3
6+5.7
7+9.1

The Q8 fleet on the road, by age

How many took a first MOT in 2025 at each age — the shape of the Q8 fleet still in use.

05001k1k2kAge 3: 1k3Age 4: 1kAge 5: 8405Age 6: 1kAge 7: 6097Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)First tests
31,069
41,018
5840
61,677
7609

What a Q8 fails on

Where the failure items land when a Q8 fails or needs a fix at test, 2025. Use it as a pre-purchase checklist: these are the areas to look at first.

Tyres45.1%
Visibility10.6%
Brakes10.4%
Identification of the vehicle9.3%
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment7.4%
Noise, emissions and leaks7.0%
Suspension4.5%
Road Wheels3.5%

Share of all failure items, 2025 — the 8 biggest categories shown (97.8% of the items); smaller categories are not listed.

The advisories to watch

Where testers most often write "keep an eye on this" for a Q8, 2025 — the faults in the post.

Tyres: 45.4% of advisories45.4%Brakes: 33.4% of advisories33.4%Non-component advisories: 10.9% of advisories10.9%Suspension: 8.7% of advisories8.7%Identification of the vehicle: 0.9% of advisoriesVisibility: 0.2% of advisories
TyresBrakesNon-component advisoriesSuspensionIdentification of the vehicleVisibility
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CategoryShare of advisories
Tyres45.4%
Brakes33.4%
Non-component advisories10.9%
Suspension8.7%
Identification of the vehicle0.9%
Visibility0.2%

Petrol, diesel or hybrid Q8?

First-time pass rate for the two most-tested Q8 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%Diesel: 89.7% of 3,964 tests89.7%Diesel3,964 testsPetrol: 90.7% of 1,166 tests90.7%Petrol1,166 tests
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FuelTestsPass rate
Diesel3,96489.7%
Petrol1,16690.7%

What mileage is normal for a Q8?

Mileage recorded at test by vehicle age, 2025. The line is the typical (median) Q8; 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 Q8 (median)
0k25k50k75k357Vehicle age (years)Age 3: typical 28,750 miles (middle half 21,250–38,750)Age 4: typical 38,750 miles (middle half 31,250–51,250)Age 5: typical 43,750 miles (middle half 33,750–56,250)Age 6: typical 56,250 miles (middle half 43,750–68,750)Age 7: typical 58,750 miles (middle half 48,750–73,750)58k mi

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

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Age (years)Lower quarterTypical (median)Upper quarter
321,25028,75038,750
431,25038,75051,250
533,75043,75056,250
643,75056,25068,750
748,75058,75073,750

What fails at each age

The Q8'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.

TyresBrakesVisibilityIdentification of the vehicleNoise, emissions and leaksSuspensionEverything else
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Age bandCategoryShare of the band's failure items
3-5 yrsTyres54.6%
3-5 yrsBrakes10.6%
3-5 yrsVisibility8.9%
3-5 yrsIdentification of the vehicle8.5%
3-5 yrsNoise, emissions and leaks5.3%
3-5 yrsEverything else12.1%
6-9 yrsTyres44.0%
6-9 yrsBrakes12.0%
6-9 yrsSuspension9.2%
6-9 yrsVisibility9.2%
6-9 yrsIdentification of the vehicle8.4%
6-9 yrsEverything else17.2%

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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.