Volvo XC40 MOT pass rates & common failures

Every completed first-attempt MOT on a Volvo XC40 in Great Britain in 2025 — 88,848 tests. Figures cover every XC40 first-tested in 2025, all trims grouped. How the XC40 ages, what it fails on, and what mileage is normal, computed directly from the official DVSA record of every test.

Pass rate 2025
90.0%
17.7 points above the class-4 average (72.3%); unadjusted for age — the age-matched comparison is below
Tests analysed
88,848
first tests, 2025
Arrived with a dangerous fault
4.9%
of XC40 first tests; national 7.3%

How many Volvo XC40 cars are still on the road?

At the end of 2025, DVLA's register held 170,789 Volvo XC40 cars that were taxed or on SORN: 168,961 taxed and 1,828 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. Volvo XC40 vans, where they exist, are counted by DVLA as goods vehicles and are not in these figures.

Still taxed, end of 2025
168,961
98.9% of the 170,789 XC40 cars taxed or on SORN; 116 model variants grouped
On SORN, end of 2025
1,828
declared off the road by their keepers — 1.1% of that total

How the numbers are moving

The number of taxed XC40 cars is still rising: 168,961 at the end of 2025, up 29,358 (21.0%) on the end of 2024, and the highest in the years shown. Cars on SORN went from 49 at the end of 2018 to 1,828 at the end of 2025, up 3630.6%. 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 XC40 cars, year by year

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

050k100k150k200k2014201620182020202220242025Year (count at the end of the year)Taxed XC40 cars, year 2014: 0Taxed XC40 cars, year 2015: 0Taxed XC40 cars, year 2016: 0Taxed XC40 cars, year 2017: 8Taxed XC40 cars, year 2018: 7kTaxed XC40 cars, year 2019: 22kTaxed XC40 cars, year 2020: 46kTaxed XC40 cars, year 2021: 71kTaxed XC40 cars, year 2022: 87kTaxed XC40 cars, year 2023: 112kTaxed XC40 cars, year 2024: 140kTaxed XC40 cars, year 2025: 169k169k
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YearTaxed XC40 cars
20140
20150
20160
20178
20186,631
201921,643
202045,799
202170,781
202287,340
2023111,902
2024139,603
2025168,961

XC40 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.

05001k2k2k2014201620182020202220242025Year (count at the end of the year)XC40 cars on SORN, year 2014: 0XC40 cars on SORN, year 2015: 0XC40 cars on SORN, year 2016: 0XC40 cars on SORN, year 2017: 0XC40 cars on SORN, year 2018: 49XC40 cars on SORN, year 2019: 170XC40 cars on SORN, year 2020: 495XC40 cars on SORN, year 2021: 203XC40 cars on SORN, year 2022: 305XC40 cars on SORN, year 2023: 537XC40 cars on SORN, year 2024: 789XC40 cars on SORN, year 2025: 2k2k
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YearXC40 cars on SORN
20140
20150
20160
20170
201849
2019170
2020495
2021203
2022305
2023537
2024789
20251,828

Which model years survive

Taxed XC40 cars at the end of 2025 by year of manufacture, and each year's share of the 168,961 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 XC40 cars
202529,20517.3%
202429,41017.4%
202325,52115.1%
202215,6259.2%
202123,81614.1%
202023,98214.2%
201914,8808.8%
20186,5143.9%
All other build years (three years, each under 1%)80.0%

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 XC40 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 XC40 ages

First-time pass rate by vehicle age, XC40 vs all cars, 2025.

Volvo XC40All cars
50%60%70%80%90%100%3579111315171920Vehicle age (years)Volvo XC40, vehicle age 3: 91.8%Volvo XC40, vehicle age 4: 91%Volvo XC40, vehicle age 5: 90%Volvo XC40, vehicle age 6: 87.3%Volvo XC40, vehicle age 7: 87.3%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%Volvo XC40 87.3%All cars 57.6%
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Age (years)XC40 testsXC40 pass rateAll cars
316,84791.8%88.5%
424,98591.0%87.2%
524,45490.0%86.0%
615,03387.3%83.5%
76,68887.3%80.9%

Better or worse than the average car?

The XC40's pass rate minus the all-cars pass rate at each age, in percentage points. Bars above zero: the XC40 beats the average car of that age. Below zero: it trails.

XC40 ahead
-8-4+0+4+8Age 3: +3.3 points vs the average car3Age 4: +3.8 points vs the average carAge 5: +4.0 points vs the average car5Age 6: +3.8 points vs the average carAge 7: +6.4 points vs the average car7Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)Gap (points)
3+3.3
4+3.8
5+4.0
6+3.8
7+6.4

The XC40 fleet on the road, by age

How many took a first MOT in 2025 at each age — the shape of the XC40 fleet still in use.

07k15k22k30kAge 3: 16k3Age 4: 24kAge 5: 24k5Age 6: 15kAge 7: 6k7Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)First tests
316,847
424,985
524,454
615,033
76,688

What an XC40 fails on

Where the failure items land when an XC40 fails or needs a fix at test, 2025. Use it as a pre-purchase checklist: these are the areas to look at first.

Tyres39.6%
Brakes27.9%
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment10.8%
Visibility8.5%
Suspension4.5%
Noise, emissions and leaks3.1%
Body, chassis, structure2.3%
Identification of the vehicle1.3%

Share of all failure items, 2025 — the 8 biggest categories shown (98.2% of the items); smaller categories are not listed.

The advisories to watch

Where testers most often write "keep an eye on this" for a XC40, 2025 — the faults in the post.

Tyres: 51.0% of advisories51.0%Brakes: 36.8% of advisories36.8%Non-component advisories: 9.4% of advisories9.4%Suspension: 1.2% of advisoriesIdentification of the vehicle: 0.6% of advisoriesNoise, emissions and leaks: 0.3% of advisories
TyresBrakesNon-component advisoriesSuspensionIdentification of the vehicleNoise, emissions and leaks
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CategoryShare of advisories
Tyres51.0%
Brakes36.8%
Non-component advisories9.4%
Suspension1.2%
Identification of the vehicle0.6%
Noise, emissions and leaks0.3%

Petrol, diesel or hybrid XC40?

First-time pass rate for the four most-tested XC40 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: 89.2% of 41,204 tests89.2%Petrol41,204 testsHybrid electric: 92.4% of 31,816 tests92.4%Hybrid31,816 testsDiesel: 86.9% of 11,328 tests86.9%Diesel11,328 testsElectric: 88.8% of 4,500 tests88.8%Electric4,500 tests
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FuelTestsPass rate
Petrol41,20489.2%
Hybrid electric31,81692.4%
Diesel11,32886.9%
Electric4,50088.8%

What mileage is normal for an XC40?

Mileage recorded at test by vehicle age, 2025. The line is the typical (median) XC40; 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 XC40 (median)
0k25k50k75k357Vehicle age (years)Age 3: typical 26,250 miles (middle half 18,750–36,250)Age 4: typical 33,750 miles (middle half 23,750–43,750)Age 5: typical 38,750 miles (middle half 28,750–51,250)Age 6: typical 46,250 miles (middle half 33,750–61,250)Age 7: typical 53,750 miles (middle half 38,750–66,250)53k mi

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

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Age (years)Lower quarterTypical (median)Upper quarter
318,75026,25036,250
423,75033,75043,750
528,75038,75051,250
633,75046,25061,250
738,75053,75066,250

What fails at each age

The XC40'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.

TyresBrakesVisibilityLamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentSuspensionNoise, emissions and leaksEverything else
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Age bandCategoryShare of the band's failure items
3-5 yrsTyres49.4%
3-5 yrsBrakes28.1%
3-5 yrsVisibility6.1%
3-5 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment4.2%
3-5 yrsSuspension4.1%
3-5 yrsEverything else8.1%
6-9 yrsBrakes39.7%
6-9 yrsTyres34.2%
6-9 yrsSuspension7.3%
6-9 yrsNoise, emissions and leaks6.5%
6-9 yrsVisibility4.8%
6-9 yrsEverything else7.5%

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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.