Volkswagen CC MOT pass rates & common failures

Every completed first-attempt MOT on a Volkswagen CC in Great Britain in 2025 — 13,381 tests. Figures cover every CC first-tested in 2025, all trims grouped. How the CC ages, what it fails on, and what mileage is normal, computed directly from the official DVSA record of every test.

Pass rate 2025
71.5%
0.8 points below the class-4 average (72.3%); unadjusted for age — the age-matched comparison is below
Tests analysed
13,381
first tests, 2025
Arrived with a dangerous fault
9.4%
of CC first tests; national 7.3%
Typical mileage at 10 years
93,750
middle half: 71,250–121,250 miles (2,500-mile-band midpoints)

How many Volkswagen CC cars are still on the road?

At the end of 2025, DVLA's register held 15,075 Volkswagen CC cars that were taxed or on SORN: 14,126 taxed and 949 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. Volkswagen CC vans, where they exist, are counted by DVLA as goods vehicles and are not in these figures.

Still taxed, end of 2025
14,126
93.7% of the 15,075 CC cars taxed or on SORN; 20 model variants grouped
On SORN, end of 2025
949
declared off the road by their keepers — 6.3% of that total

How the numbers are moving

The number of taxed CC cars peaked at 19,257 at the end of 2016 and has since fallen by 5,131 (26.6%) to 14,126 at the end of 2025. Cars on SORN went from 136 at the end of 2014 to 949 at the end of 2025, up 597.8%. 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 CC 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 CC cars, year 2014: 15kTaxed CC cars, year 2015: 17kTaxed CC cars, year 2016: 19kTaxed CC cars, year 2017: 19kTaxed CC cars, year 2018: 18kTaxed CC cars, year 2019: 17kTaxed CC cars, year 2020: 16kTaxed CC cars, year 2021: 16kTaxed CC cars, year 2022: 16kTaxed CC cars, year 2023: 15kTaxed CC cars, year 2024: 15kTaxed CC cars, year 2025: 14k14k
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YearTaxed CC cars
201414,518
201517,291
201619,257
201718,598
201817,670
201916,578
202015,992
202115,839
202215,577
202315,144
202414,633
202514,126

CC 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.

02004006008001k2014201620182020202220242025Year (count at the end of the year)CC cars on SORN, year 2014: 136CC cars on SORN, year 2015: 325CC cars on SORN, year 2016: 205CC cars on SORN, year 2017: 169CC cars on SORN, year 2018: 245CC cars on SORN, year 2019: 350CC cars on SORN, year 2020: 455CC cars on SORN, year 2021: 511CC cars on SORN, year 2022: 566CC cars on SORN, year 2023: 670CC cars on SORN, year 2024: 804CC cars on SORN, year 2025: 949949
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YearCC cars on SORN
2014136
2015325
2016205
2017169
2018245
2019350
2020455
2021511
2022566
2023670
2024804
2025949

Which model years survive

Taxed CC cars at the end of 2025 by year of manufacture, and each year's share of the 14,126 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 CC cars
20172411.7%
20161,84513.1%
20152,75319.5%
20143,48624.7%
20133,22722.8%
20122,57318.2%
All other build years (two years, each under 1%)10.0%

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 CC 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 CC ages

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

Volkswagen CCAll cars
50%60%70%80%90%100%3579111315171920Vehicle age (years)Volkswagen CC, vehicle age 9: 78%Volkswagen CC, vehicle age 10: 71.9%Volkswagen CC, vehicle age 11: 70.9%Volkswagen CC, vehicle age 12: 69.5%Volkswagen CC, vehicle age 13: 69.5%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%Volkswagen CC 69.5%All cars 57.6%
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Age (years)CC testsCC pass rateAll cars
91,78178.0%74.9%
102,62371.9%71.9%
113,32470.9%68.6%
122,99869.5%65.8%
132,12269.5%63.5%

Better or worse than the average car?

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

CC ahead
-8-4+0+4+8Age 9: +3.1 points vs the average car9Age 10: +0.0 points vs the average carAge 11: +2.3 points vs the average car11Age 12: +3.7 points vs the average carAge 13: +6.0 points vs the average car13Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)Gap (points)
9+3.1
10+0.0
11+2.3
12+3.7
13+6.0

The CC fleet on the road, by age

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

01k2k3k4kAge 9: 1k9Age 10: 2kAge 11: 3k11Age 12: 2kAge 13: 2k13Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)First tests
91,781
102,623
113,324
122,998
132,122

What a CC fails on

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

Suspension33.1%
Tyres21.2%
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment17.7%
Brakes9.8%
Visibility6.8%
Noise, emissions and leaks3.5%
Body, chassis, structure2.8%
Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems2.0%

Share of all failure items, 2025 — the 8 biggest categories shown (97.0% of the items); smaller categories are not listed.

The advisories to watch

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

Suspension: 41.3% of advisories41.3%Tyres: 30.4% of advisories30.4%Brakes: 19.5% of advisories19.5%Non-component advisories: 3.2% of advisoriesNoise, emissions and leaks: 1.8% of advisoriesIdentification of the vehicle: 1.2% of advisories
SuspensionTyresBrakesNon-component advisoriesNoise, emissions and leaksIdentification of the vehicle
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CategoryShare of advisories
Suspension41.3%
Tyres30.4%
Brakes19.5%
Non-component advisories3.2%
Noise, emissions and leaks1.8%
Identification of the vehicle1.2%

What mileage is normal for a CC?

Mileage recorded at test by vehicle age, 2025. The line is the typical (median) CC; 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 CC (median)
0k25k50k75k100k125k150k175k91113Vehicle age (years)Age 9: typical 83,750 miles (middle half 61,250–108,750)Age 10: typical 93,750 miles (middle half 71,250–121,250)Age 11: typical 106,250 miles (middle half 83,750–133,750)Age 12: typical 116,250 miles (middle half 91,250–143,750)Age 13: typical 126,250 miles (middle half 101,250–151,250)126k mi

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

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Age (years)Lower quarterTypical (median)Upper quarter
961,25083,750108,750
1071,25093,750121,250
1183,750106,250133,750
1291,250116,250143,750
13101,250126,250151,250

What fails at each age

The CC'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 equipmentVisibilityEverything else
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Age bandCategoryShare of the band's failure items
6-9 yrsSuspension29.8%
6-9 yrsTyres27.1%
6-9 yrsBrakes14.2%
6-9 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment10.4%
6-9 yrsVisibility7.3%
6-9 yrsEverything else11.2%
10-13 yrsSuspension36.6%
10-13 yrsTyres22.1%
10-13 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment14.6%
10-13 yrsBrakes10.1%
10-13 yrsVisibility5.6%
10-13 yrsEverything else11.0%

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.