Lexus LC — MOT statistics 2024

The Lexus LC failed 8.91% of 460 first MOT attempts in 2024 ("first-time", excluding retests). Adjusted for the age of the fleet, its initial-failure ratio is 52.9 (100 = expected for its age profile). This car fails its MOT about 47% less often than expected for its age. Small sample — treat with care.

Age-adjusted peer: Toyota Vitz (index 53.2) — the two published results are 0.3 index points apart.

Lexus LC common problems: what actually fails the MOT

Tyres are well below the reference at 4.8 per 100 tests, against 6.6 per 100 tests across UK vehicles of the same ages.

higher bar = fails more oftenrate per 100 tests

family vs national — matched to UK vehicles of the same ages — top component groups, per 100 tests. Legend: This family · National avg. Combined labels: family / national average. A gap here reflects how these vehicles are driven, used and maintained as well as how they were built — an MOT defect is a test outcome, not a breakdown.

Lexus LC MOT advisories: what gets flagged

Tyres stand out at 31.9 per 100 tests.

higher bar = flagged more oftenadvisory items per 100 initial tests

Advisories are wear the tester noted but didn't fail — what will need money soon.

Adjusted for how much these are actually driven

The headline index adjusts for the fleet's age. Wear, though, follows mileage: a three-year-old taxi and a three-year-old garage queen sit in the same age band. These two rows compare every car with vehicles of the same age, and then with vehicles of the same age and the same annual mileage, 2019-2024, on 1,686 tests. Both stand on the six-year corpus so they are measured on identical data — compare them with each other, not with the headline index above, which is measured on 2024 alone.

Split by how much each car is driven. This is a split by annual mileage, not by body type — the MOT record does not say whether a car is a conversion. Within each band the index compares with vehicles of the same age driven as much.

Mileage matters here: matching on how much these are driven moves the figure by 14.0 points — this fleet is driven less than the vehicles it is measured against, so the age-only view flatters it — but it does not change which side of normal the car sits on. One limit to keep in mind: mileage is partly a result of how often a car breaks down — one that spends weeks in the workshop covers fewer miles — so the mileage-matched figure can understate a real weakness. Tests with no usable odometer reading are left out of it.

How the Lexus LC compares with cars of its own age and size

Not against the whole fleet — against cars of the same size class tested at the same age, 2019-2024.

Raw first-time failure rates within each age, so fleet age cannot flatter either side. A positive difference means this model fails more often than its own class at that age.

How does the Lexus LC perform as it gets older?

The LC at age 7 is well below the reference at 8.9%, against 20.2% for all vehicles of the same age.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Chart axes: car age, years · failure-rate scale 0–25%.

Takeaway: solid line: this family; dashed: all cars.

How dangerous are Lexus LC MOT failures?

Major defects are well below the reference at 2.9 per 100 tests, against 52.8 per 100 tests nationally.

higher bar = fails more oftenrate per 100 tests

Chart values: Minor 1.6 · Major 2.9 · Dangerous 3.7.

Per 100 tests on this family. National average: Minor 14.2 · Major 52.8 · Dangerous 11.2 per 100.

Does the month of a Lexus LC MOT matter?

Dec is highest at 10.7%; Sep is lowest at 3.3% — the gap is 7.4 percentage points.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Chart scale: 2%–33%.

bars: Lexus LC · dashed: all class-4 cars

Takeaway: the spread between best and worst month is 7.4 percentage points — noticeable seasonality. Seasonality partly reflects registration-date clustering, not weather.

Before reading the shape: most of it is not about cars. Britain changes its registration plates twice a year, and 18.9% of these cars were first registered in March with another17.1% in September — 36% in two months against the 17% an even spread would give. An MOT falls due three years after first registration, so the buying calendar becomes the testing calendar. That shapes how many cars are tested each month — not how often they fail: the busiest months here are not the worst ones, so read the failure line on its own and the volume behind it separately.

Lexus LC average mileage by age

At age 6, the middle half of LCs runs from 17,191 miles to 37,650 miles, against 25,458 miles as the median.

further right = more milesmedian is the typical car; band is p25–p75

Does high mileage mean more Lexus LC MOT failures at the same age?

Within the same age group, split by odometer (2024 MOTs), so this separates wear from age: at ages 6–9, 9.3% of those with under 40,000 miles failed first time versus 10% of those with 40,000–70,000 miles.No clear mileage gap inside this age group, among cars still being tested.

line: median · band: middle half of the fleet (p25–p75)

A typical 6-year-old LC has ~25,458 miles on the clock. Much more — ask why; much less — check for gaps in the MOT history.

Where in Britain the Lexus LC fails its MOT most

Too few tests in any single postcode area to name one, so this is the wider picture across 1,722 tests, 2019-2024.

Raw pass/fail rates, not age-adjusted: fleets differ by region. England is split north of Sheffield, between Sheffield and Oxford, and south of it.

Lexus LC survival: which cars are still on the road

By age 7 is well below the reference at 40.6%, against 100.0% at the ages 4–6 reference level.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Chart axes: car age, years · survival vs ages 4–6 · scale 0–105%.

By age 7, only about 41% as many cars of this family present for MOT as at ages 4–6 (reference n≈360); survivors still fail at 8.9% vs 5.2% at age 4. Older cars that still appear are a selected subset — weaker ones have already left.

How many years is a Lexus LC likely to last?

Bought at age 5 stands out at 1.7 years.

bigger number = longer remaining lifeyears on the observed survival curve

estimateObserved only until age 7. The curve does not run five years past the stated age with the share still tested under 50%, so no 'years left' number is given.

Is low mileage better for a Lexus LC?

Cars driven under 5,000 miles a year is well below the reference at 3.1%, against 11.1% for cars driven 8,000–12,000 miles a year.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

At matched ages 5–14, cars averaging under 5k miles/year fail at 3.1% vs 11.1% for 8–12k miles/year — 8.0 pp, interval includes no difference (n_low=223, n_normal=36). The gap interval includes no difference, so no higher/lower claim is made.

Lexus LC running costs for a fleet

Vehicles failing at age 7 are well below the reference at 9.0%, against 10.0% at age 6, tested in the same year.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

No single year stands out as the point where this model starts costing more: the year-to-year steps in its failure rate are too small or rest on too few tests to name one (D1 rule: a step is named only with at least 2,000 tests on both sides and a jump above 3 percentage points).

Repair spend uses the same modal prices as the section above, so it inherits the same limits: one typical repair per component group, not a full remedy. Downtime is the gap between the failed test and the passed re-test, which is the window a vehicle is legally off the road.

Lexus LC rust problems: where they corrode

Salt-belt exposure is well below the reference at 27th percentile, against 50th percentile as the middle of published models.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

This Lexus LC has too few tests to judge for corrosion once age is held constant, and its owners live in areas that are gentler than most for the models we publish.

Corrosion is the one failure mode that is as much about geography as about the car. We keep the two apart on purpose: a model can look rusty simply because it is popular in Scotland, and a model can look clean simply because it is bought in Surrey. Blending them into a single score would hide which of the two is doing the work.

Exposure is this model's tests weighted by an area corrosion index built from frost days, salt load and distance to the coast — the composite validated at r = 0.42 against corrosion defects we actually record. It is published as a rank, not a raw score, because every mainstream model skews towards low-corrosion areas for the simple reason that most of Britain's cars are in the south. Susceptibility is standardised to the national age profile, so an old fleet does not get labelled a rusty model.

What will fail next on a Lexus LC?

Tyres after a advisory at age 3-5 are highest at 4.7%; Visibility after a passed at age 3-5 is lowest at 1.6% — the gap is 3.1 percentage points.

higher = more likelypercentage is the observed transition probability

The same chains, cut differently: given a car's age and how its last test went, which component most often causes trouble at the following one.

The pattern that repeats across every family: a failure at one test roughly doubles the chance of a failure on the same component at the next one, and an advisory sits about half-way between a clean pass and a failure. Age bands in years; probabilities are per car, not per defect item.

Lexus LC safety recalls and how to check yours

DVSA recall campaigns stand out at 1.

bigger number = more recorded casescompare like-for-like scope, not sample size alone

DVSA lists 1 safety recall campaigns for the Lexus LC, covering roughly 36 vehicles in total. A recall is the manufacturer fixing a fault for free, so an open recall on your car costs nothing to clear.

Counter-intuitive, and measured on our own data: across the 25 families published here, more recalls go with a lower MOT Risk Index (r = −0.52). Heavily recalled models are not worse cars in the test bay — an active manufacturer removes the fault before it becomes an MOT failure.

Check whether a specific car has an outstanding recall — free, by registration — at DVSA's recall service. Source: DVSA vehicle safety recalls (check-vehicle-recalls.service.gov.uk), OGL.

Lexus LC technical service bulletins: what dealers are told

US market, Lexus LC and its variants, model years 2018–2021 only. A count of bulletins, not a UK failure rate.

NHTSA manufacturer communications are 215.

bigger number = more recorded dealer communicationsnot affected vehicles or confirmed faults

These are the issues the manufacturer fixes quietly: service communications sent to dealers without a public recall campaign. They show what the service network has been told even when the issue never became news.

United States · NHTSA manufacturer communications

Caveat worth stating plainly: this is NHTSA data about US-specification cars. British cars sold under the same name often use different gearboxes, engines and equipment, so a bulletin may describe a component that was never fitted here. The file counts dealer communications, not affected vehicles or confirmed failures, and it cannot tell you whether an individual UK car has the issue. A communication can carry more than one subject tag, so topic counts do not have to add up to the total. Source: NHTSA Manufacturer Communications API (US-market vehicles; queried model years 2015-2022). Licence: U.S. Government work / public domain · retrieved 2026-09-25.

Lexus LC owner complaints: what goes wrong

US market, Lexus LC and its variants, model years 2018–2021 only. A count of owner complaints, not a UK failure rate; NHTSA has no UK denominator.

Lamps & electrical are highest at 3; Engine (not MOT-tested) is lowest at 1 — the gap is 2.

bigger number = more recorded casescompare like-for-like scope, not sample size alone

Two different populations answering two different questions: the MOT records what an inspector can measure once a year, the complaint file records what annoyed or frightened an owner on the road. A component high in one column and absent from the other is the interesting case — driver-assistance and electronics dominate complaints while almost never appearing as an MOT failure item.

US owners have filed 11 complaints about the equivalent Lexus LC to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration0. These are owner reports, not verified findings — but they are the only large public record of what drivers themselves notice, and they cover the years between MOT tests.

Caveat worth stating plainly: US-specification cars, self-selected reporters, no denominator — complaint counts scale with how many cars were sold there and how motivated owners are to file. The mechanical gap matters as much as the statistical one: American cars of the same name often carry different gearboxes, engines and equipment — automatics where Britain buys manuals — so a drivetrain complaint filed in Ohio may describe a part that was never fitted here. Read the ranking inside a model, not between models, and treat drivetrain entries with particular caution. Source: NHTSA ODI consumer complaints (US market, public domain) — US-spec vehicles, indicative only.

Lexus LC MOT: quick answers

Lexus LC MOT Risk Index is well below the reference at 52.9, against 100 for a car with the same age profile.

below 100 is betterabove 100 is worse100 = normal for this model at that age

What is the Lexus LC first-time MOT pass rate?

91.09% of first attempts passed in 2024 (460 tests). This is the first-time figure: retests after repair are excluded. Basis: first-time, excluding retests.

Why does this number differ from other sites?

Other sites often report a pass rate that includes retests or counts all attempts. Our 8.91% figure is the first-time initial failure rate, using 460 primary tests as the denominator (first-time, excluding retests). The age-adjusted MOT initial-failure ratio 52.9 is shown separately because raw rates compare fleet age as well as cars.

Compare the Lexus LC with other cars

Maserati GranTurismo is highest at 53.8; Honda Freed is lowest at 52.4 — the gap is 1.4 points.

below 100 is betterabove 100 is worse100 = normal for this model at that age

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