Lexus UX MOT pass rates & common failures

Every completed first-attempt MOT on a Lexus UX in Great Britain in 2025 — 16,197 tests. Figures cover every UX first-tested in 2025, all trims grouped. How the UX ages, what it fails on, and what mileage is normal, computed directly from the official DVSA record of every test.

Pass rate 2025
93.7%
21.4 points above the class-4 average (72.3%); unadjusted for age — the age-matched comparison is below
Tests analysed
16,197
first tests, 2025
Arrived with a dangerous fault
1.9%
of UX first tests; national 7.3%

How many Lexus UX cars are still on the road?

At the end of 2025, DVLA's register held 25,445 Lexus UX cars that were taxed or on SORN: 25,281 taxed and 164 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. Lexus UX vans, where they exist, are counted by DVLA as goods vehicles and are not in these figures.

Still taxed, end of 2025
25,281
99.4% of the 25,445 UX cars taxed or on SORN; 27 model variants grouped
On SORN, end of 2025
164
declared off the road by their keepers — 0.6% of that total

How the numbers are moving

The number of taxed UX cars is still rising: 25,281 at the end of 2025, up 1,762 (7.5%) on the end of 2024, and the highest in the years shown. Cars on SORN went from 20 at the end of 2019 to 164 at the end of 2025, up 720.0%. 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 UX cars, year by year

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

010k20k30k2014201620182020202220242025Year (count at the end of the year)Taxed UX cars, year 2014: 0Taxed UX cars, year 2015: 0Taxed UX cars, year 2016: 0Taxed UX cars, year 2017: 0Taxed UX cars, year 2018: 0Taxed UX cars, year 2019: 3kTaxed UX cars, year 2020: 7kTaxed UX cars, year 2021: 13kTaxed UX cars, year 2022: 16kTaxed UX cars, year 2023: 21kTaxed UX cars, year 2024: 24kTaxed UX cars, year 2025: 25k25k
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YearTaxed UX cars
20140
20150
20160
20170
20180
20193,414
20207,236
202112,711
202215,885
202321,115
202423,519
202525,281

UX 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.

0501001502002502014201620182020202220242025Year (count at the end of the year)UX cars on SORN, year 2014: 0UX cars on SORN, year 2015: 0UX cars on SORN, year 2016: 0UX cars on SORN, year 2017: 0UX cars on SORN, year 2018: 0UX cars on SORN, year 2019: 20UX cars on SORN, year 2020: 100UX cars on SORN, year 2021: 48UX cars on SORN, year 2022: 75UX cars on SORN, year 2023: 244UX cars on SORN, year 2024: 169UX cars on SORN, year 2025: 164164
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YearUX cars on SORN
20140
20150
20160
20170
20180
201920
2020100
202148
202275
2023244
2024169
2025164

Which model years survive

Taxed UX cars at the end of 2025 by year of manufacture, and each year's share of the 25,281 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 UX cars
20251,6426.5%
20242,51810.0%
20235,75822.8%
20223,32613.2%
20215,04820.0%
20203,73614.8%
20193,25312.9%

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 names UX 250, UX 300 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 UX ages

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

Lexus UXAll cars
50%60%70%80%90%100%3579111315171920Vehicle age (years)Lexus UX, vehicle age 3: 94.7%Lexus UX, vehicle age 4: 94.5%Lexus UX, vehicle age 5: 92.4%Lexus UX, vehicle age 6: 92.6%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%Lexus UX 92.6%All cars 57.6%
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Age (years)UX testsUX pass rateAll cars
33,56094.7%88.5%
45,27894.5%87.2%
53,83092.4%86.0%
63,35892.6%83.5%

Better or worse than the average car?

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

UX ahead
-10-5+0+5+10Age 3: +6.2 points vs the average car3Age 4: +7.3 points vs the average carAge 5: +6.4 points vs the average car5Age 6: +9.1 points vs the average carVehicle age (years)
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Age (years)Gap (points)
3+6.2
4+7.3
5+6.4
6+9.1

The UX fleet on the road, by age

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

01k3k4k6kAge 3: 3k3Age 4: 5kAge 5: 3k5Age 6: 3k6Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)First tests
33,560
45,278
53,830
63,358

What a UX fails on

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

Tyres45.6%
Visibility24.5%
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment20.6%
Brakes3.9%
Identification of the vehicle1.4%
Road Wheels1.1%
Suspension0.9%
Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems0.8%

Share of all failure items, 2025 — the 8 biggest categories shown (98.9% of the items); smaller categories are not listed.

The advisories to watch

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

Tyres: 79.1% of advisories79.1%Brakes: 8.9% of advisories8.9%Non-component advisories: 8.7% of advisories8.7%Suspension: 1.7% of advisoriesIdentification of the vehicle: 1.0% of advisoriesRoad Wheels: 0.2% of advisories
TyresBrakesNon-component advisoriesSuspensionIdentification of the vehicleRoad Wheels
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CategoryShare of advisories
Tyres79.1%
Brakes8.9%
Non-component advisories8.7%
Suspension1.7%
Identification of the vehicle1.0%
Road Wheels0.2%

Petrol, diesel or hybrid UX?

First-time pass rate for the two most-tested UX 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%Hybrid electric: 93.7% of 14,721 tests93.7%Hybrid14,721 testsElectric: 93.2% of 1,473 tests93.2%Electric1,473 tests
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FuelTestsPass rate
Hybrid electric14,72193.7%
Electric1,47393.2%

What mileage is normal for a UX?

Mileage recorded at test by vehicle age, 2025. The line is the typical (median) UX; 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 UX (median)
0k25k50k75k356Vehicle age (years)Age 3: typical 21,250 miles (middle half 13,750–28,750)Age 4: typical 26,250 miles (middle half 18,750–36,250)Age 5: typical 33,750 miles (middle half 23,750–46,250)Age 6: typical 38,750 miles (middle half 28,750–53,750)38k mi

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

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Age (years)Lower quarterTypical (median)Upper quarter
313,75021,25028,750
418,75026,25036,250
523,75033,75046,250
628,75038,75053,750

What fails at each age

The UX'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.

TyresVisibilityBrakesLamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentSuspensionBody, chassis, structureEverything else
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Age bandCategoryShare of the band's failure items
3-5 yrsTyres67.5%
3-5 yrsVisibility16.8%
3-5 yrsBrakes5.8%
3-5 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment4.2%
3-5 yrsSuspension1.4%
3-5 yrsEverything else4.3%
6-9 yrsTyres61.0%
6-9 yrsVisibility20.6%
6-9 yrsBrakes7.8%
6-9 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment3.7%
6-9 yrsBody, chassis, structure1.8%
6-9 yrsEverything else5.1%

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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.