Volkswagen Tiguan Allspace MOT pass rates & common failures

Every completed first-attempt MOT on a Volkswagen Tiguan Allspace in Great Britain in 2025 — 5,007 tests. Figures cover every Tiguan Allspace first-tested in 2025, all trims grouped. How the Tiguan Allspace ages, what it fails on, and what mileage is normal, computed directly from the official DVSA record of every test.

Pass rate 2025
81.9%
9.6 points above the class-4 average (72.3%); unadjusted for age — the age-matched comparison is below
Tests analysed
5,007
first tests, 2025
Arrived with a dangerous fault
6.4%
of Tiguan Allspace first tests; national 7.3%

How many Volkswagen Tiguan Allspace cars are still on the road?

The Department for Transport's vehicle licensing statistics (DfT/DVLA table VEH0124) do not record the Tiguan Allspace under a name of its own: its cars are counted inside the Tiguan figures, so no separate count of taxed or SORN Tiguan Allspace cars can be given here.

How the Tiguan Allspace ages

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

Volkswagen Tiguan AllspaceAll cars
50%60%70%80%90%100%3579111315171920Vehicle age (years)Volkswagen Tiguan Allspace, vehicle age 3: 78.7%Volkswagen Tiguan Allspace, vehicle age 4: 85.8%Volkswagen Tiguan Allspace, vehicle age 5: 85.4%Volkswagen Tiguan Allspace, vehicle age 6: 85.7%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 Tiguan Allspace 85.7%All cars 57.6%
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Age (years)Tiguan Allspace testsTiguan Allspace pass rateAll cars
32,29678.7%88.5%
464785.8%87.2%
552085.4%86.0%
61,23385.7%83.5%

Better or worse than the average car?

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

Tiguan Allspace aheadTiguan Allspace behind
-10-5+0+5+10Age 3: -9.8 points vs the average car3Age 4: -1.4 points vs the average carAge 5: -0.6 points vs the average car5Age 6: +2.2 points vs the average carVehicle age (years)
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Age (years)Gap (points)
3-9.8
4-1.4
5-0.6
6+2.2

The Tiguan Allspace fleet on the road, by age

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

07501k2k3kAge 3: 2k3Age 4: 647Age 5: 5205Age 6: 1k6Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)First tests
32,296
4647
5520
61,233

What a Tiguan Allspace fails on

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

Visibility28.1%
Tyres26.5%
Brakes19.6%
Suspension9.8%
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment8.2%
Noise, emissions and leaks3.1%
Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems1.9%
Body, chassis, structure1.4%

Share of all failure items, 2025 — the 8 biggest categories shown (98.6% of the items); smaller categories are not listed.

The advisories to watch

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

Tyres: 43.7% of advisories43.7%Brakes: 29.6% of advisories29.6%Non-component advisories: 14.5% of advisories14.5%Suspension: 10.0% of advisories10.0%Identification of the vehicle: 1.1% of advisoriesNoise, emissions and leaks: 0.5% of advisories
TyresBrakesNon-component advisoriesSuspensionIdentification of the vehicleNoise, emissions and leaks
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CategoryShare of advisories
Tyres43.7%
Brakes29.6%
Non-component advisories14.5%
Suspension10.0%
Identification of the vehicle1.1%
Noise, emissions and leaks0.5%

Petrol, diesel or hybrid Tiguan Allspace?

First-time pass rate for the two most-tested Tiguan Allspace 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: 85.9% of 2,511 tests85.9%Diesel2,511 testsPetrol: 78.0% of 2,496 tests78.0%Petrol2,496 tests
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FuelTestsPass rate
Diesel2,51185.9%
Petrol2,49678.0%

What mileage is normal for a Tiguan Allspace?

Mileage recorded at test by vehicle age, 2025. The line is the typical (median) Tiguan Allspace; 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 Tiguan Allspace (median)
0k25k50k75k356Vehicle age (years)Age 3: typical 28,750 miles (middle half 21,250–38,750)Age 4: typical 38,750 miles (middle half 28,750–48,750)Age 5: typical 46,250 miles (middle half 36,250–61,250)Age 6: typical 56,250 miles (middle half 43,750–68,750)56k 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
428,75038,75048,750
536,25046,25061,250
643,75056,25068,750

What fails at each age

The Tiguan Allspace'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.

TyresVisibilityBrakesSuspensionLamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentNoise, emissions and leaksEverything else
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Age bandCategoryShare of the band's failure items
3-5 yrsTyres29.3%
3-5 yrsVisibility26.5%
3-5 yrsBrakes24.2%
3-5 yrsSuspension9.0%
3-5 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment4.6%
3-5 yrsEverything else6.4%
6-9 yrsTyres36.5%
6-9 yrsSuspension22.4%
6-9 yrsBrakes14.8%
6-9 yrsNoise, emissions and leaks7.6%
6-9 yrsVisibility6.5%
6-9 yrsEverything else12.2%

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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. “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.