Does the Toyota Avensis fail the MOT on vehicle identification more than it should?

The Toyota Avensis records 0.57 vehicle identification failure items per 100 initial MOT tests (2019–2024), against 0.50 expected for a car of the same age mix: about as expected for its class and age (the difference is within its interval or under 0.5 items per 100 tests) (+0.07, 95% interval +0.05 to +0.09). It ranks 246 of 636 models on vehicle identification (1 = most failures above expected).

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What exactly fails on vehicle identification?

The most frequent DVSA defect wording in this group on the Toyota Avensis is “Number plate inscription missing or illegible”, recorded 1,608 times in 2019–2024.

Toyota Avensis: most frequent vehicle identification defect wordings, 2019–2024 (30+ items each)
DVSA defect wording	Items	Per 100 tests
Number plate inscription missing or illegible	1,608	0.31
Number plate does not conform to the specified requirements	911	0.18
Number plate missing or so insecure that it is likely to fall off	343	0.07
Number plate showing an incorrect registration	44	0.01

Source: DVSA MOT bulk data (OGL v3.0) · Window: 2019–2024 · n = 511,269 (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

If a Toyota Avensis gets a vehicle identification advisory, how often does it fail next time?

3.8% of Toyota Avensis MOTs with a vehicle identification advisory were followed by a fail in the same group at the next MOT, typically 12 months and 5,575 miles later (17,775 advisories followed).

Source: DVSA MOT bulk data (OGL v3.0) · Window: 2019–2024 · n = 17,775 (advisories followed) · Method: the same vehicles followed to their next ordinary MOT · Updated: 30 Sep 2026 · Release: dvsa-2024-v2 · CSV

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