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Toyota Carina MOT pass rate by year

How the Toyota Carina's MOT pass rate changes year by year, from 1986 to 1998, across the DVSA record.

What is the Toyota Carina MOT pass rate by year?

The MOT pass and failure rate for each Toyota Carina model year, from the DVSA record. Only years with at least 1,000 tests are shown, so each figure is a real average rather than a handful of cars. The Toyota Carina averages 32.3% failures across all years.

YearPass rateFailure rateTests
198669.0%31.0%1,761
198769.6%30.4%2,365
198866.3%33.7%5,220
198967.6%32.4%9,537
199068.3%31.7%18,405
199168.5%31.5%28,370
199266.5%33.5%38,557
199366.0%34.0%60,874
199466.6%33.4%84,414
199566.2%33.8%90,464
199668.0%32.0%114,647
199770.0%30.0%133,167
199870.4%29.6%5,464

Does age change how often a Toyota Carina fails?

Older Toyota Carinas fail more often, as expected. The 1986 cars fail 31.0% of tests against 29.6% for the 1998. Across every year the model averages 32.3%. The 1993 is the weakest year at 34.0%, and the 1998 the strongest at 29.6%.

More on the Toyota Carina

The full failure breakdown for this model, and how it compares to others.

See also
Toyota Carina: common MOT failures and the parts that fix them
All Toyota models compared by MOT failure rate
MOT failure rates across Britain

Sources: DVSA MOT History API: MOT test results and defect data ยท DVSA MOT testing data for Great Britain