SEAT Toledo MOT pass rates & common failures

Every completed first-attempt MOT on a SEAT Toledo in Great Britain in 2025 — 5,312 tests. Figures cover every Toledo first-tested in 2025, all trims grouped. How the Toledo ages, what it fails on, and what mileage is normal, computed directly from the official DVSA record of every test.

Pass rate 2025
68.0%
4.3 points below 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
10.4%
of Toledo first tests; national 7.3%
Typical mileage at 10 years
106,250
middle half: 68,750–171,250 miles (2,500-mile-band midpoints)

How many SEAT Toledo cars are still on the road?

At the end of 2025, DVLA's register held 7,648 SEAT Toledo cars that were taxed or on SORN: 5,444 taxed and 2,204 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 Toledo vans, where they exist, are counted by DVLA as goods vehicles and are not in these figures.

Still taxed, end of 2025
5,444
71.2% of the 7,648 Toledo cars taxed or on SORN; 71 model variants grouped
On SORN, end of 2025
2,204
declared off the road by their keepers — 28.8% of that total

How the numbers are moving

The number of taxed Toledo cars peaked at 12,391 at the end of 2014 and has since fallen by 6,947 (56.1%) to 5,444 at the end of 2025. Cars on SORN went from 686 at the end of 2014 to 2,204 at the end of 2025, up 221.3%. 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 Toledo 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 Toledo cars, year 2014: 12kTaxed Toledo cars, year 2015: 12kTaxed Toledo cars, year 2016: 12kTaxed Toledo cars, year 2017: 11kTaxed Toledo cars, year 2018: 11kTaxed Toledo cars, year 2019: 11kTaxed Toledo cars, year 2020: 9kTaxed Toledo cars, year 2021: 9kTaxed Toledo cars, year 2022: 8kTaxed Toledo cars, year 2023: 7kTaxed Toledo cars, year 2024: 6kTaxed Toledo cars, year 2025: 5k5k
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YearTaxed Toledo cars
201412,391
201512,243
201611,925
201711,466
201811,373
201910,538
20209,367
20218,523
20227,722
20236,861
20246,079
20255,444

Toledo 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.

05001k2k2k2k2014201620182020202220242025Year (count at the end of the year)Toledo cars on SORN, year 2014: 686Toledo cars on SORN, year 2015: 920Toledo cars on SORN, year 2016: 1kToledo cars on SORN, year 2017: 1kToledo cars on SORN, year 2018: 2kToledo cars on SORN, year 2019: 2kToledo cars on SORN, year 2020: 2kToledo cars on SORN, year 2021: 2kToledo cars on SORN, year 2022: 2kToledo cars on SORN, year 2023: 2kToledo cars on SORN, year 2024: 2kToledo cars on SORN, year 2025: 2k2k
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YearToledo cars on SORN
2014686
2015920
20161,133
20171,341
20181,553
20191,671
20201,925
20211,907
20221,997
20232,104
20242,171
20252,204

Which model years survive

Taxed Toledo cars at the end of 2025 by year of manufacture, and each year's share of the 5,444 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 Toledo cars
2019861.6%
20181,11720.5%
201767612.4%
20165159.5%
201568712.6%
201483315.3%
201383115.3%
2012941.7%
2007761.4%
2006981.8%
20051272.3%
2004761.4%
2003831.5%
All other build years (14 years, each under 1%)1452.7%

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 TOLEDO 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 Toledo ages

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

SEAT ToledoAll cars
50%60%70%80%90%100%3579111315171920Vehicle age (years)SEAT Toledo, vehicle age 7: 75.9%SEAT Toledo, vehicle age 8: 70.7%SEAT Toledo, vehicle age 9: 69.5%SEAT Toledo, vehicle age 10: 68.7%SEAT Toledo, vehicle age 11: 67.7%SEAT Toledo, vehicle age 12: 62.8%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 Toledo 62.8%All cars 57.6%
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Age (years)Toledo testsToledo pass rateAll cars
71,09975.9%80.9%
870370.7%78.2%
950969.5%74.9%
1067068.7%71.9%
1181067.7%68.6%
1274262.8%65.8%

Better or worse than the average car?

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

Toledo behind
-8-4+0+4+8Age 7: -5.0 points vs the average car7Age 8: -7.5 points vs the average carAge 9: -5.4 points vs the average car9Age 10: -3.2 points vs the average carAge 11: -0.9 points vs the average car11Age 12: -3.0 points vs the average carVehicle age (years)
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Age (years)Gap (points)
7-5.0
8-7.5
9-5.4
10-3.2
11-0.9
12-3.0

The Toledo fleet on the road, by age

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

05001k1k2kAge 7: 1k7Age 8: 703Age 9: 5099Age 10: 670Age 11: 81011Age 12: 74212Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)First tests
71,099
8703
9509
10670
11810
12742

What a Toledo fails on

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

Suspension26.1%
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment18.6%
Brakes17.4%
Tyres14.7%
Body, chassis, structure7.2%
Noise, emissions and leaks6.2%
Visibility5.5%
Steering2.3%

Share of all failure items, 2025 — the 8 biggest categories shown (98.0% of the items); smaller categories are not listed.

The advisories to watch

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

Suspension: 28.0% of advisories28.0%Brakes: 27.9% of advisories27.9%Tyres: 26.9% of advisories26.9%Noise, emissions and leaks: 5.2% of advisoriesNon-component advisories: 5.0% of advisoriesBody, chassis, structure: 2.8% of advisories
SuspensionBrakesTyresNoise, emissions and leaksNon-component advisoriesBody, chassis, structure
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CategoryShare of advisories
Suspension28.0%
Brakes27.9%
Tyres26.9%
Noise, emissions and leaks5.2%
Non-component advisories5.0%
Body, chassis, structure2.8%

Petrol, diesel or hybrid Toledo?

First-time pass rate for the two most-tested Toledo 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: 71.5% of 2,936 tests71.5%Petrol2,936 testsDiesel: 63.7% of 2,376 tests63.7%Diesel2,376 tests
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FuelTestsPass rate
Petrol2,93671.5%
Diesel2,37663.7%

What mileage is normal for a Toledo?

Mileage recorded at test by vehicle age, 2025. The line is the typical (median) Toledo; 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 Toledo (median)
0k25k50k75k100k125k150k175k791112Vehicle age (years)Age 7: typical 51,250 miles (middle half 36,250–78,750)Age 8: typical 68,750 miles (middle half 48,750–111,250)Age 9: typical 98,750 miles (middle half 63,750–166,250)Age 10: typical 106,250 miles (middle half 68,750–171,250)Age 11: typical 98,750 miles (middle half 71,250–131,250)Age 12: typical 108,750 miles (middle half 78,750–148,750)108k mi

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

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Age (years)Lower quarterTypical (median)Upper quarter
736,25051,25078,750
848,75068,750111,250
963,75098,750166,250
1068,750106,250171,250
1171,25098,750131,250
1278,750108,750148,750

What fails at each age

The Toledo'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.

SuspensionTyresBrakesLamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentNoise, emissions and leaksBody, chassis, structureEverything else
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Age bandCategoryShare of the band's failure items
6-9 yrsSuspension30.0%
6-9 yrsTyres24.2%
6-9 yrsBrakes16.8%
6-9 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment10.9%
6-9 yrsNoise, emissions and leaks6.6%
6-9 yrsEverything else11.5%
10-13 yrsSuspension31.3%
10-13 yrsBrakes20.0%
10-13 yrsTyres13.6%
10-13 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment12.9%
10-13 yrsBody, chassis, structure9.2%
10-13 yrsEverything else13.0%
14+ yrsSuspension21.6%
14+ yrsBrakes20.5%
14+ yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment19.3%
14+ yrsBody, chassis, structure10.3%
14+ yrsNoise, emissions and leaks7.9%
14+ yrsEverything else20.4%

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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.