Does the Toyota Alphard fail the MOT on seat belts and airbags more than it should?

The Toyota Alphard records 0.78 seat belts and airbags failure items per 100 initial MOT tests (2019–2024), against 1.97 expected for a car of the same age mix: less than expected for its class and age (−1.19, 95% interval −1.32 to −1.06). It ranks 548 of 627 models on seat belts and airbags (1 = most failures above expected).

Data release dvsa-2024-v2 (24 Sep 2026) · page updated 30 Sep 2026 · all models on seat belts and airbags · check a Toyota Alphard by registration

What exactly fails on seat belts and airbags?

The most frequent DVSA defect wording in this group on the Toyota Alphard is “Seat belt buckle missing, damaged or not functioning as intended”, recorded 125 times in 2019–2024.

Toyota Alphard: most frequent seat belts and airbags defect wordings, 2019–2024 (30+ items each)
DVSA defect wording	Items	Per 100 tests
Seat belt buckle missing, damaged or not functioning as intended	125	0.28
Seat belt not functioning as intended or of an incorrect type	65	0.15
A statutory seat belt missing	64	0.14
An SRS malfunction indicator lamp (MIL) indicates a system malfunction	33	0.07

Source: DVSA MOT bulk data (OGL v3.0) · Window: 2019–2024 · n = 44,239 (initial tests) · Method: failure items (major and minor) grouped by DVSA's defect tree; wordings with 30+ items · Updated: 30 Sep 2026 · Release: dvsa-2024-v2 · CSV

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