Volkswagen Eos MOT pass rates & common failures

Every completed first-attempt MOT on a Volkswagen Eos in Great Britain in 2025 — 10,826 tests. Figures cover every Eos first-tested in 2025, all trims grouped. How the Eos ages, what it fails on, and what mileage is normal, computed directly from the official DVSA record of every test.

Pass rate 2025
63.2%
9.1 points below the class-4 average (72.3%); unadjusted for age — the age-matched comparison is below
Tests analysed
10,826
first tests, 2025
Arrived with a dangerous fault
11.0%
of Eos first tests; national 7.3%

How many Volkswagen Eos cars are still on the road?

At the end of 2025, DVLA's register held 12,111 Volkswagen Eos cars that were taxed or on SORN: 9,950 taxed and 2,161 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 Eos vans, where they exist, are counted by DVLA as goods vehicles and are not in these figures.

Still taxed, end of 2025
9,950
82.2% of the 12,111 Eos cars taxed or on SORN; 48 model variants grouped
On SORN, end of 2025
2,161
declared off the road by their keepers — 17.8% of that total

How the numbers are moving

The number of taxed Eos cars peaked at 18,978 at the end of 2015 and has since fallen by 9,028 (47.6%) to 9,950 at the end of 2025. Cars on SORN went from 156 at the end of 2014 to 2,161 at the end of 2025, up 1285.3%. 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 Eos 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 Eos cars, year 2014: 18kTaxed Eos cars, year 2015: 19kTaxed Eos cars, year 2016: 19kTaxed Eos cars, year 2017: 18kTaxed Eos cars, year 2018: 18kTaxed Eos cars, year 2019: 17kTaxed Eos cars, year 2020: 16kTaxed Eos cars, year 2021: 15kTaxed Eos cars, year 2022: 14kTaxed Eos cars, year 2023: 13kTaxed Eos cars, year 2024: 11kTaxed Eos cars, year 2025: 10k10k
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YearTaxed Eos cars
201418,494
201518,978
201618,791
201718,242
201817,615
201916,840
202016,065
202115,214
202214,265
202312,795
202411,302
20259,950

Eos 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)Eos cars on SORN, year 2014: 156Eos cars on SORN, year 2015: 254Eos cars on SORN, year 2016: 355Eos cars on SORN, year 2017: 477Eos cars on SORN, year 2018: 654Eos cars on SORN, year 2019: 890Eos cars on SORN, year 2020: 1kEos cars on SORN, year 2021: 1kEos cars on SORN, year 2022: 1kEos cars on SORN, year 2023: 2kEos cars on SORN, year 2024: 2kEos cars on SORN, year 2025: 2k2k
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YearEos cars on SORN
2014156
2015254
2016355
2017477
2018654
2019890
20201,198
20211,337
20221,454
20231,725
20241,962
20252,161

Which model years survive

Taxed Eos cars at the end of 2025 by year of manufacture, and each year's share of the 9,950 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 Eos cars
20154464.5%
20143103.1%
20134174.2%
20123493.5%
20111,21712.2%
20101,63716.5%
200999310.0%
20081,85518.6%
20072,00820.2%
20066836.9%
All other build years (two years, each under 1%)350.4%

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 EOS 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 Eos ages

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

Volkswagen EosAll cars
50%60%70%80%90%100%3579111315171920Vehicle age (years)Volkswagen Eos, vehicle age 14: 65.2%Volkswagen Eos, vehicle age 15: 61.4%Volkswagen Eos, vehicle age 16: 61.5%Volkswagen Eos, vehicle age 17: 62.2%Volkswagen Eos, vehicle age 18: 59.9%Volkswagen Eos, vehicle age 19: 59.2%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 Eos 59.2%All cars 57.6%
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Age (years)Eos testsEos pass rateAll cars
141,30465.2%61.2%
151,78361.4%59.3%
161,11261.5%58.3%
172,12862.2%57.2%
182,36559.9%57.4%
1980059.2%57.0%

Better or worse than the average car?

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

Eos ahead
-6-3+0+3+6Age 14: +4.0 points vs the average carAge 15: +2.1 points vs the average car15Age 16: +3.2 points vs the average carAge 17: +5.0 points vs the average car17Age 18: +2.5 points vs the average carAge 19: +2.2 points vs the average car19Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)Gap (points)
14+4.0
15+2.1
16+3.2
17+5.0
18+2.5
19+2.2

The Eos fleet on the road, by age

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

07501k2k3kAge 14: 1k14Age 15: 1kAge 16: 1k16Age 17: 2kAge 18: 2k18Age 19: 80019Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)First tests
141,304
151,783
161,112
172,128
182,365
19800

What an Eos fails on

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

Suspension29.5%
Brakes17.5%
Tyres15.2%
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment13.9%
Body, chassis, structure7.9%
Visibility6.1%
Noise, emissions and leaks5.3%
Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems1.8%

Share of all failure items, 2025 — the 8 biggest categories shown (97.1% of the items); smaller categories are not listed.

The advisories to watch

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

Suspension: 39.9% of advisories39.9%Tyres: 26.8% of advisories26.8%Brakes: 21.5% of advisories21.5%Noise, emissions and leaks: 3.3% of advisoriesNon-component advisories: 2.4% of advisoriesBody, chassis, structure: 2.0% of advisories
SuspensionTyresBrakesNoise, emissions and leaksNon-component advisoriesBody, chassis, structure
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CategoryShare of advisories
Suspension39.9%
Tyres26.8%
Brakes21.5%
Noise, emissions and leaks3.3%
Non-component advisories2.4%
Body, chassis, structure2.0%

Petrol, diesel or hybrid Eos?

First-time pass rate for the two most-tested Eos 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: 64.3% of 5,991 tests64.3%Diesel5,991 testsPetrol: 62.0% of 4,835 tests62.0%Petrol4,835 tests
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FuelTestsPass rate
Diesel5,99164.3%
Petrol4,83562.0%

What mileage is normal for an Eos?

Mileage recorded at test by vehicle age, 2025. The line is the typical (median) Eos; 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 Eos (median)
0k25k50k75k100k125k150k14161819Vehicle age (years)Age 14: typical 83,750 miles (middle half 66,250–111,250)Age 15: typical 91,250 miles (middle half 71,250–116,250)Age 16: typical 93,750 miles (middle half 71,250–116,250)Age 17: typical 101,250 miles (middle half 78,750–123,750)Age 18: typical 101,250 miles (middle half 78,750–126,250)Age 19: typical 98,750 miles (middle half 78,750–123,750)98k mi

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

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Age (years)Lower quarterTypical (median)Upper quarter
1466,25083,750111,250
1571,25091,250116,250
1671,25093,750116,250
1778,750101,250123,750
1878,750101,250126,250
1978,75098,750123,750

What fails at each age

The Eos'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 equipmentVisibilityBody, chassis, structureEverything else
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Age bandCategoryShare of the band's failure items
10-13 yrsSuspension33.0%
10-13 yrsTyres30.1%
10-13 yrsBrakes16.2%
10-13 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment10.4%
10-13 yrsVisibility3.1%
10-13 yrsEverything else7.2%
14+ yrsSuspension31.6%
14+ yrsBrakes18.6%
14+ yrsTyres15.2%
14+ yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment10.9%
14+ yrsBody, chassis, structure8.7%
14+ yrsEverything else15.0%

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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.