Volkswagen ID.3 MOT pass rates & common failures

Every completed first-attempt MOT on a Volkswagen ID.3 in Great Britain in 2025 — 26,131 tests. Figures cover every ID.3 first-tested in 2025, all trims grouped. How the ID.3 ages, what it fails on, and what mileage is normal, computed directly from the official DVSA record of every test.

Pass rate 2025
89.0%
16.7 points above the class-4 average (72.3%); unadjusted for age — the age-matched comparison is below
Tests analysed
26,131
first tests, 2025
Arrived with a dangerous fault
4.3%
of ID.3 first tests; national 7.3%

How many Volkswagen ID.3 cars are still on the road?

At the end of 2025, DVLA's register held 49,367 Volkswagen ID.3 cars that were taxed or on SORN: 49,134 taxed and 233 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 ID.3 vans, where they exist, are counted by DVLA as goods vehicles and are not in these figures.

Still taxed, end of 2025
49,134
99.5% of the 49,367 ID.3 cars taxed or on SORN; 26 model variants grouped
On SORN, end of 2025
233
declared off the road by their keepers — 0.5% of that total

How the numbers are moving

The number of taxed ID.3 cars is still rising: 49,134 at the end of 2025, up 9,037 (22.5%) on the end of 2024, and the highest in the years shown. Cars on SORN went from 3 at the end of 2020 to 233 at the end of 2025, up 7666.7%. 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 ID.3 cars, year by year

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

010k20k30k40k50k2014201620182020202220242025Year (count at the end of the year)Taxed ID.3 cars, year 2014: 0Taxed ID.3 cars, year 2015: 0Taxed ID.3 cars, year 2016: 0Taxed ID.3 cars, year 2017: 0Taxed ID.3 cars, year 2018: 0Taxed ID.3 cars, year 2019: 0Taxed ID.3 cars, year 2020: 5kTaxed ID.3 cars, year 2021: 15kTaxed ID.3 cars, year 2022: 25kTaxed ID.3 cars, year 2023: 35kTaxed ID.3 cars, year 2024: 40kTaxed ID.3 cars, year 2025: 49k49k
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YearTaxed ID.3 cars
20140
20150
20160
20170
20180
20190
20204,784
202115,429
202224,720
202334,728
202440,097
202549,134

ID.3 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)ID.3 cars on SORN, year 2014: 0ID.3 cars on SORN, year 2015: 0ID.3 cars on SORN, year 2016: 0ID.3 cars on SORN, year 2017: 0ID.3 cars on SORN, year 2018: 0ID.3 cars on SORN, year 2019: 0ID.3 cars on SORN, year 2020: 3ID.3 cars on SORN, year 2021: 93ID.3 cars on SORN, year 2022: 58ID.3 cars on SORN, year 2023: 87ID.3 cars on SORN, year 2024: 249ID.3 cars on SORN, year 2025: 233233
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YearID.3 cars on SORN
20140
20150
20160
20170
20180
20190
20203
202193
202258
202387
2024249
2025233

Which model years survive

Taxed ID.3 cars at the end of 2025 by year of manufacture, and each year's share of the 49,134 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 ID.3 cars
20258,98118.3%
20246,30812.8%
20239,98620.3%
20229,08118.5%
202110,21320.8%
20204,5659.3%

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 ID3 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 ID.3 ages

First-time pass rate by vehicle age, ID.3 vs all cars, 2025.

Volkswagen ID.3All cars
50%60%70%80%90%100%3579111315171920Vehicle age (years)Volkswagen ID.3, vehicle age 3: 88.1%Volkswagen ID.3, vehicle age 4: 89.8%Volkswagen ID.3, vehicle age 5: 88.8%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%Volkswagen ID.3 88.8%All cars 57.6%
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Age (years)ID.3 testsID.3 pass rateAll cars
310,08588.1%88.5%
410,93589.8%87.2%
54,62988.8%86.0%

Better or worse than the average car?

The ID.3's pass rate minus the all-cars pass rate at each age, in percentage points. Bars above zero: the ID.3 beats the average car of that age. Below zero: it trails.

ID.3 aheadID.3 behind
-4-2+0+2+4Age 3: -0.4 points vs the average car3Age 4: +2.6 points vs the average carAge 5: +2.8 points vs the average car5Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)Gap (points)
3-0.4
4+2.6
5+2.8

The ID.3 fleet on the road, by age

How many took a first MOT in 2025 at each age — the shape of the ID.3 fleet still in use.

05k10k15k20kAge 3: 10k3Age 4: 10kAge 5: 4k5Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)First tests
310,085
410,935
54,629

What an ID.3 fails on

Where the failure items land when an ID.3 fails or needs a fix at test, 2025. Use it as a pre-purchase checklist: these are the areas to look at first.

Tyres58.5%
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment17.2%
Suspension8.2%
Visibility7.9%
Brakes3.0%
Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems2.7%
Identification of the vehicle1.3%
Road Wheels0.5%

Share of all failure items, 2025 — the 8 biggest categories shown (99.4% of the items); smaller categories are not listed.

The advisories to watch

Where testers most often write "keep an eye on this" for a ID.3, 2025 — the faults in the post.

Tyres: 77.4% of advisories77.4%Non-component advisories: 8.8% of advisories8.8%Suspension: 7.1% of advisoriesBrakes: 4.7% of advisoriesIdentification of the vehicle: 0.9% of advisoriesRoad Wheels: 0.6% of advisories
TyresNon-component advisoriesSuspensionBrakesIdentification of the vehicleRoad Wheels
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CategoryShare of advisories
Tyres77.4%
Non-component advisories8.8%
Suspension7.1%
Brakes4.7%
Identification of the vehicle0.9%
Road Wheels0.6%

What mileage is normal for an ID.3?

Mileage recorded at test by vehicle age, 2025. The line is the typical (median) ID.3; 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 ID.3 (median)
0k25k50k35Vehicle age (years)Age 3: typical 26,250 miles (middle half 16,250–36,250)Age 4: typical 31,250 miles (middle half 23,750–43,750)Age 5: typical 33,750 miles (middle half 26,250–46,250)33k mi

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

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Age (years)Lower quarterTypical (median)Upper quarter
316,25026,25036,250
423,75031,25043,750
526,25033,75046,250

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.