Subaru MOT Pass Rate 2023
How often did a Subaru pass its MOT first time in 2023? Here’s the year-keyed pass-rate estimate, the change vs the prior year, top advisories, and how it sits against the UK national average.
Subaru MOT pass rate 2023: approximately 83.8% (failure rate 16.2%) — that’s 19.8 pp above the UK national first-time pass rate of 64%. The Subaru brand-wide pass-rate baseline is 83.8%; this year-keyed figure adjusts for the typical age-related variation between recent test years.
Subaru · MOT pass rate · 2023
83.8%
Implied failure rate: 16.2% · UK average: 64%
How Subaru 2023 compares
Subaru’s 2023 first-time MOT pass rate of 83.8% sits above the UK national figure of 64% for that period. Pass rates tend to rise slowly year on year as newer, better-built cars enter the testable fleet and older, end-of-life vehicles attrit out — so a 1-2 pp gap between adjacent years is normal at brand level.
Top advisory and failure categories for Subaru
These are the categories most likely to trigger an MOT advisory or failure on a Subaru across 6 models in our dataset — aggregated for the same period this page covers.
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment
Suspension
Brakes
Tyres
Exhaust, fuel and emissions
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Related reading
Subaru reliability profile
Full reliability breakdown across all years and models.
Subaru MOT check
Per-model pass rates and free registration lookup.
Subaru pass rate 2022
Year-on-year comparison: 83.2%.
Subaru pass rate 2024
See the more recent year-keyed estimate.
Lotus pass rate 2023
Same year, different brand — quick comparison.
Suzuki pass rate 2023
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Subaru MOT pass rate 2023 — FAQ
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Source: MOT Checkup analysis. Year-keyed pass rates are modelled estimates anchored on the Subaru brand-average pass rate of 83.8% derived from our reliability dataset, with an explicit age-related adjustment between adjacent test years. DVSA does not publish per-brand per-year first-time pass tables; for a single car, the registration-level MOT history is the canonical record.