SEAT Tarraco MOT pass rates & common failures

Every completed first-attempt MOT on a SEAT Tarraco in Great Britain in 2025 — 10,122 tests. Figures cover every Tarraco first-tested in 2025, all trims grouped. How the Tarraco ages, what it fails on, and what mileage is normal, computed directly from the official DVSA record of every test.

Pass rate 2025
84.8%
12.5 points above the class-4 average (72.3%); unadjusted for age — the age-matched comparison is below
Tests analysed
10,122
first tests, 2025
Arrived with a dangerous fault
6.2%
of Tarraco first tests; national 7.3%

How many SEAT Tarraco cars are still on the road?

At the end of 2025, DVLA's register held 13,151 SEAT Tarraco cars that were taxed or on SORN: 13,109 taxed and 42 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. SEAT Tarraco vans, where they exist, are counted by DVLA as goods vehicles and are not in these figures.

Still taxed, end of 2025
13,109
99.7% of the 13,151 Tarraco cars taxed or on SORN; 63 model variants grouped
On SORN, end of 2025
42
declared off the road by their keepers — 0.3% of that total

How the numbers are moving

The number of taxed Tarraco cars is still rising: 13,109 at the end of 2025, up 96 (0.7%) on the end of 2024, and the highest in the years shown. Cars on SORN went from 62 at the end of 2019 to 42 at the end of 2025, down 32.3%. 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 Tarraco cars, year by year

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

05k10k15k2014201620182020202220242025Year (count at the end of the year)Taxed Tarraco cars, year 2014: 0Taxed Tarraco cars, year 2015: 0Taxed Tarraco cars, year 2016: 0Taxed Tarraco cars, year 2017: 0Taxed Tarraco cars, year 2018: 0Taxed Tarraco cars, year 2019: 4kTaxed Tarraco cars, year 2020: 7kTaxed Tarraco cars, year 2021: 9kTaxed Tarraco cars, year 2022: 10kTaxed Tarraco cars, year 2023: 11kTaxed Tarraco cars, year 2024: 13kTaxed Tarraco cars, year 2025: 13k13k
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YearTaxed Tarraco cars
20140
20150
20160
20170
20180
20194,166
20207,045
20219,088
202210,051
202311,357
202413,013
202513,109

Tarraco 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.

0204060802014201620182020202220242025Year (count at the end of the year)Tarraco cars on SORN, year 2014: 0Tarraco cars on SORN, year 2015: 0Tarraco cars on SORN, year 2016: 0Tarraco cars on SORN, year 2017: 0Tarraco cars on SORN, year 2018: 0Tarraco cars on SORN, year 2019: 62Tarraco cars on SORN, year 2020: 44Tarraco cars on SORN, year 2021: 17Tarraco cars on SORN, year 2022: 12Tarraco cars on SORN, year 2023: 29Tarraco cars on SORN, year 2024: 46Tarraco cars on SORN, year 2025: 4242
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YearTarraco cars on SORN
20140
20150
20160
20170
20180
201962
202044
202117
202212
202329
202446
202542

Which model years survive

Taxed Tarraco cars at the end of 2025 by year of manufacture, and each year's share of the 13,109 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 Tarraco cars
20241,76613.5%
20231,42310.9%
20221,0658.1%
20212,00715.3%
20202,68120.5%
20194,16731.8%

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 TARRACO 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 Tarraco ages

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

SEAT TarracoAll cars
50%60%70%80%90%100%3579111315171920Vehicle age (years)SEAT Tarraco, vehicle age 3: 87.3%SEAT Tarraco, vehicle age 4: 87.5%SEAT Tarraco, vehicle age 5: 84%SEAT Tarraco, vehicle age 6: 83.3%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%SEAT Tarraco 83.3%All cars 57.6%
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Age (years)Tarraco testsTarraco pass rateAll cars
31,13387.3%88.5%
42,06187.5%87.2%
52,71184.0%86.0%
64,15883.3%83.5%

Better or worse than the average car?

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

Tarraco aheadTarraco behind
-4-2+0+2+4Age 3: -1.2 points vs the average car3Age 4: +0.3 points vs the average carAge 5: -2.0 points vs the average car5Age 6: -0.2 points vs the average carVehicle age (years)
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Age (years)Gap (points)
3-1.2
4+0.3
5-2.0
6-0.2

The Tarraco fleet on the road, by age

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

01k2k3k5kAge 3: 1k3Age 4: 2kAge 5: 2k5Age 6: 4k6Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)First tests
31,133
42,061
52,711
64,158

What a Tarraco fails on

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

Tyres34.3%
Brakes18.5%
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment12.7%
Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems9.1%
Visibility8.8%
Suspension8.4%
Noise, emissions and leaks4.4%
Body, chassis, structure1.4%

Share of all failure items, 2025 — the 8 biggest categories shown (97.5% of the items); smaller categories are not listed.

The advisories to watch

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

Tyres: 44.6% of advisories44.6%Brakes: 30.1% of advisories30.1%Non-component advisories: 13.6% of advisories13.6%Suspension: 9.7% of advisories9.7%Identification of the vehicle: 1.1% of advisoriesNoise, emissions and leaks: 0.3% of advisories
TyresBrakesNon-component advisoriesSuspensionIdentification of the vehicleNoise, emissions and leaks
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CategoryShare of advisories
Tyres44.6%
Brakes30.1%
Non-component advisories13.6%
Suspension9.7%
Identification of the vehicle1.1%
Noise, emissions and leaks0.3%

Petrol, diesel or hybrid Tarraco?

First-time pass rate for the two most-tested Tarraco 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: 85.5% of 6,134 tests85.5%Petrol6,134 testsDiesel: 83.8% of 3,988 tests83.8%Diesel3,988 tests
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FuelTestsPass rate
Petrol6,13485.5%
Diesel3,98883.8%

What mileage is normal for a Tarraco?

Mileage recorded at test by vehicle age, 2025. The line is the typical (median) Tarraco; 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 Tarraco (median)
0k25k50k75k356Vehicle age (years)Age 3: typical 28,750 miles (middle half 21,250–38,750)Age 4: typical 36,250 miles (middle half 28,750–48,750)Age 5: typical 43,750 miles (middle half 33,750–56,250)Age 6: typical 51,250 miles (middle half 41,250–63,750)51k 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
428,75036,25048,750
533,75043,75056,250
641,25051,25063,750

What fails at each age

The Tarraco'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.

TyresBrakesSeat belts and supplementary restraint systemsVisibilityLamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentSuspensionEverything else
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Age bandCategoryShare of the band's failure items
3-5 yrsTyres39.3%
3-5 yrsBrakes22.9%
3-5 yrsSeat belts and supplementary restraint systems8.9%
3-5 yrsVisibility8.4%
3-5 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment8.2%
3-5 yrsEverything else12.3%
6-9 yrsTyres36.6%
6-9 yrsBrakes17.6%
6-9 yrsSuspension13.8%
6-9 yrsSeat belts and supplementary restraint systems8.9%
6-9 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment7.6%
6-9 yrsEverything else15.5%

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.