17,723 tests in 2025
Audi E-Tron reliability and MOT pass rate
91.2% passed first time. The 8.8% fail rate is 13.8 points better than the all-car average, on a median example 4 years old with 36,109 miles.
Pass rate
91.2%
22.6% of all cars failed; 8.8% of these did.
Fixed on the day
1.2%
Passed after a defect was put right during the visit.
Median at test
36,109 mi
4 years old.
Fail rate by age
| Age at test | Tests | Fail rate |
|---|---|---|
| 3-5 years | 16,660 | 8.7% |
| 6-9 years | 950 | 10.6% |
| 10-13 years | 0 | — |
| 14+ years | 0 | — |
What the E-Tron fails on
Share of failed tests with at least one fail item in each DVSA inspection section. A test can fail in several sections at once.
- Tyres1,126 dangerous77.9%
- Visibility9.3%
- Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment7%
- Identification of the vehicle4.7%
- Brakes8 dangerous2.8%
- Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems2.4%
- Suspension3 dangerous2.1%
- Road Wheels6 dangerous2%
Is the E-Tron getting worse?
The fail rate fell 0.6 points to 8.5% from 2022 to 2025, against a rising rate across all cars.
| Year | Tests | Median age | Fail rate | All cars | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1,061 | 3 | 9.1% | 22.5% | |
| 2023 | 5,184 | — | 8% | 22.8% | |
| 2024 | 8,737 | — | 9% | 23.2% | |
| 2025 | 12,583 | — | 8.5% | 22.6% |
Fail rate is first attempts at class 4 tests. Median age is the age of a typical E-Tron at its test that year, and it is the number to watch: across the whole fleet each extra year of age adds roughly 1.9 points to the fail rate, so a model whose age and fail rate rise together is simply getting older.
The exact defects that fail it
Every failure item DVSA recorded against a E-Tron in 2025, counted by how many tests each one appeared on.
- 1Condition: has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords481 tests
- 2Condition: has ply or cords exposed396 tests
- 3Tread depth: tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm353 tests
- 4Wipers: does not clear the windscreen effectively61 tests
- 5Registration plates: does not conform to the specified requirements59 tests
- 6Condition: has a bulge, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure42 tests
- 7Washers: not working32 tests
- 8Attachment: fixing missing26 tests
What wears out first
Advisories are the tester flagging wear that is still legal. A typical E-Tron collects 1.95 of them per test, and these are the ones that come up most. Treat it as the running-repairs list for the next year or two.
- 1Tread depth: tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm3,000 tests
- 2Non-component advisories: Nail in tyre701 tests
- 3Non-component advisories: Child Seat fitted not allowing full inspection of adult belt620 tests
- 4Tread depth: tread pattern not visible over the whole tread area when minimum depth required is 1.0mm527 tests
- 5Condition: has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords493 tests
- 6Brake discs: in such a condition that it is seriously weakened436 tests
- 7Condition: has a tear, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure378 tests
- 8Condition: has a bulge, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure160 tests
Questions
What is the Audi E-Tron MOT pass rate?
91.2% of the 17,723 Audi E-Tron first-attempt MOTs in 2025 passed. The fail rate of 8.8% compares with 22.6% across all cars. A further 1.2% passed after a defect was fixed during the test visit.
What does a Audi E-Tron usually fail on?
The single most common failure is "Condition: has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords", recorded on 481 failed tests, followed by "Condition: has ply or cords exposed" and "Tread depth: tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm". By section, tyres appears in 77.9% of failures, visibility appears in 9.3% of failures, lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment appears in 7% of failures.
Does age change the odds?
Sharply. At 3 to 5 years old the fail rate was 8.7%; at 6-9 years it was 10.6%. The median Audi E-Tron tested in 2025 was 4 years old with 36,109 miles.
Is the Audi E-Tron getting less reliable?
The fail rate fell 0.6 points to 8.5% from 2022 to 2025, against a rising rate across all cars.
First-attempt class 4 tests, 2025, from DVSA’s anonymised MOT data (OGL v3, retrieved 2026-09-12). DVSA records newer cars trim by trim; this page adds every E-Tron trim together. Year-on-year figures come from the same DVSA extracts for 2026 and earlier years. Full method on the pass rates hub.
DVSA has published 9 safety recalls naming the Audi E-Tron: Audi E-Tron recalls.
Other Audi models
Checking a particular E-Tron?
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