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Volkswagen Eos — MOT statistics 2024

The Volkswagen Eos failed 35.91% of 12,204 first MOT attempts in 2024 ("first-time", excluding retests). Adjusted for the age of the fleet, its initial-failure ratio is 88.0 (100 = expected for its age profile). This car fails its MOT about 12% less often than expected for its age.

MOT risk index 88.0, 95% CI 86.0–90.1 (100 = national average) 100 88.0 0 200
Index
88.0
100 = age-normal
Raw fail rate
35.91%
n = 12,204
Dangerous /100
15
national ≈11
Diesel − petrol
-0.9 pp
fail-rate gap
Rank
334 of 761
lower index = better

Age-adjusted peer: Suzuki Jimny (index 88.0) — the two published results are 0.0 index points apart.

Volkswagen Eos common problems: what actually fails the MOT

Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment are well below the reference at 15.6 per 100 tests, against 27.5 per 100 tests across UK vehicles of the same ages.

higher bar = fails more oftenrate per 100 tests

Volkswagen Eos common problems: what actually fails the MOT — 2024 UK MOT data

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.

Component-group comparison table

Each ratio carries a 95% interval. With 6 groups compared here, roughly one apparent difference in twenty is chance alone.

GroupThis familyCases behind itUK, same agesFamily / national
Suspension22.520,41924.40.92×0.91–0.93
Lamps & electrical15.614,19027.50.57×0.56–0.58
Tyres13.512,25710.51.29×1.27–1.31
Brakes13.111,93116.90.78×0.77–0.79
Body & structure11.610,5138.71.34×1.31–1.36
Visibility8.87,9759.80.90×0.88–0.92
Named defects — items per 100 initial tests, this family vs UK national average; this model measured on 90,796 tests, 2019-2024, national column 2024
What failedper 100 tests (this family)per 100 tests (UK average)ratio family / UKWhat to check
Transmission shaft constant velocity joint boot…A transmission shaft constant velocity joint boot severely deteriorated5.591.483.78×Ask the seller about: A transmission shaft constant velocity joint boot severely d
Spring or spring component fractured or seriously…A spring or spring component fractured or seriously weakened6.772.862.37×Ask the seller about: A spring or spring component fractured or seriously weakened
Suspension joint dust cover missing or no longer…A suspension joint dust cover missing or no longer prevents the ingress of dirt etc5.531.783.10×Listen for knocks over bumps — worn joints show up on the test
Transmission shaft constant velocity joint boot…A transmission shaft constant velocity joint boot missing or no longer prevents the ingress of dirt etc4.061.562.61×Ask the seller about: A transmission shaft constant velocity joint boot missing or
Tyre cords visible or damagedA tyre cords visible or damaged3.781.632.32×Check tyre tread depth across the full width
Suspension joint dust cover severely deterioratedA suspension joint dust cover severely deteriorated3.931.902.07×Listen for knocks over bumps — worn joints show up on the test
Tyre seriously damagedA tyre seriously damaged3.962.541.56×Check tyre tread depth across the full width
Tyre tread depth not in accordance with the…Tyre tread depth not in accordance with the requirements4.553.591.27×Check tyre tread depth across the full width
Windscreen or window damaged or seriously…Windscreen or window damaged or seriously discoloured but not adversely affecting driver's view3.292.361.39×Check wipers, washers and windscreen chips in the driver's view
Suspension pin, bush or joint excessively wornA suspension pin, bush or joint excessively worn3.634.870.75×Listen for knocks over bumps — worn joints show up on the test

Named defects ranked by how much more often they appear than the national average — not by raw rate.

Volkswagen Eos MOT advisories: what gets flagged

Tyres are highest at 47.7 per 100 tests; Identification is lowest at 2.3 per 100 tests — the gap is 45.4 per 100 tests.

higher bar = flagged more oftenadvisory items per 100 initial tests

Volkswagen Eos MOT advisories: what gets flagged — 2024 UK MOT data
Advisory rates table
GroupAdvisories per 100
Tyres47.7
Suspension41.9
Brakes38.5
Non-component advisories5.1
Emissions & leaks3.9
Identification2.3

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

Tyres, brakes and suspension: Volkswagen Eos against cars of the same age

AgePartVolkswagen EosSame age, petrol and dieselDifference
6 yearsTyres6.785.541.24
6 yearsBrakes1.93.81-1.91
6 yearsSuspension1.93.72-1.82
7 yearsTyres6.415.950.46
7 yearsBrakes2.624.55-1.93
7 yearsSuspension4.555.68-1.13
8 yearsTyres7.076.310.76
8 yearsBrakes3.45.38-1.98
8 yearsSuspension6.527.78-1.26

Failing items per 100 initial tests, 2019-2024. The comparison group is every petrol or diesel car tested at the same age, so weight and drivetrain show up rather than fleet age.

If a car like this fails, does it fail again?

A failure rate does not say whether a failure is a one-off or the start of something. This follows the same vehicles into their next ordinary MOT a year later — retests after a repair are excluded, because they follow a failure by definition. 2019-2024.

After this year's testFails next yearVehicles followed
It failed35.1%4,452
It passed29.7%45,867

A failed test raises next year's chance of failing again by 5.4 percentage points. The failure most likely to come back is body, chassis, structure — 34.0% of those vehicles fail again next year. Some of this is the vehicle and some is the owner: a car that was let go once tends to be let go again. One caveat: a car that fails may be sold or scrapped rather than tested again, so these figures describe the vehicles that came back.

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 90,577 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.

Standardised forIndexReading
Age only85.4fails less often than expected
Age and annual mileage86.2fails less often than vehicles driven as much
Share doing under 3,000 miles a year4.7%a normal spread of use

Mileage changes little here (+0.8 points): this fleet is driven about as much as the vehicles it is compared with. 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 Volkswagen Eos 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.

AgeVolkswagen EosSame class, same ageDifferenceTests
4 years11.86%13.29%-1.43 pp413
5 years13.55%15.06%-1.51 pp679
6 years14.38%17.34%-2.96 pp1,106
7 years17.24%20.15%-2.91 pp1,450
8 years19.85%23.22%-3.37 pp2,912
9 years24.9%26.74%-1.84 pp5,125
10 years27.73%30.04%-2.3 pp6,490
11 years30.81%33.46%-2.65 pp9,734
12 years33.52%36.48%-2.96 pp13,743
13 years35.4%38.91%-3.52 pp14,640
14 years36.93%40.86%-3.93 pp12,410
15 years38.3%42.33%-4.03 pp9,694
16 years39.1%43.15%-4.06 pp7,318
17 years40.76%43.52%-2.77 pp4,051
18 years40.83%43.63%-2.8 pp960

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 Volkswagen Eos perform as it gets older?

The Eos at age 12 is well below the reference at 26.0%, against 35.7% for all vehicles of the same age.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

How does the Volkswagen Eos perform as it gets older? — 2024 UK MOT data

Chart axes: car age, years · failure-rate scale 0–47%.

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

Data table
AgeVolkswagen EosAll vehiclesGap
918.4%26.5%-8.2 pp
1020.9%30.1%-9.2 pp
1124.4%33.2%-8.8 pp
1225.9%35.7%-9.7 pp
1331.9%38.2%-6.3 pp
1435.2%40.4%-5.2 pp
1536.9%41.6%-4.7 pp
1637.4%43.1%-5.7 pp
1741.1%43.1%-2.0 pp
1840.8%43.9%-3.0 pp

Is a Volkswagen Eos ULEZ compliant?

The share of classifiable 2024 Volkswagen Eos MOT tests likely ULEZ compliant by first-registration date is 44.9%.

Based on 12,170 classifiable initial MOT tests. This describes the tested fleet, not a specific car. MOT data do not record Euro class, so likely compliance is inferred from fuel and first-registration date. For the only authoritative answer, check the registration with TfL's official ULEZ checker.

higher = larger share likely compliantinferred from fuel and first-registration date; not a recorded Euro class

Age-band estimate from classifiable initial MOT tests
Vehicle age at testLikely ULEZ-compliant shareTests
Under 3 yearsSuppressed — sample below publication threshold
Check a registration with TfL
n = 0
3–5 yearsSuppressed — sample below publication threshold
Check a registration with TfL
n = 0
6–7 yearsSuppressed — sample below publication threshold
Check a registration with TfL
n = 0
8 yearsSuppressed — sample below publication threshold
Check a registration with TfL
n = 5
9 yearsSuppressed — sample below publication threshold
Check a registration with TfL
n = 196
10–14 years32.3%
Check a registration with TfL
n = 4,444
15–17 years50.9%
Check a registration with TfL
n = 6,565
18 years66.8%
Check a registration with TfL
n = 960
19 yearsSuppressed — sample below publication threshold
Check a registration with TfL
n = 0
20+ yearsSuppressed — sample below publication threshold
Check a registration with TfL
n = 0

How dangerous are Volkswagen Eos MOT failures?

Minor defects stand out at 23.1 per 100 tests, against 14.2 per 100 tests nationally.

higher bar = fails more oftenrate per 100 tests

How dangerous are Volkswagen Eos MOT failures? — 2024 UK MOT data
Severity table
SeverityThis family /100National /100Family / national
Minor23.1114.221.63×
Major53.9052.751.02×
Dangerous14.5611.151.31×

Chart values: Minor 23.1 · Major 53.9 · Dangerous 14.6.

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

Does the month of a Volkswagen Eos MOT matter?

Nov is highest at 34.9%; Jun is lowest at 32.3% — the gap is 2.6 percentage points.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Does the month of a Volkswagen Eos MOT matter? — 2024 UK MOT data

Chart scale: 27%–36%.

bars: Volkswagen Eos · dashed: all class-4 cars

Month-by-month table
MonthVolkswagen EosAll vehiclesGap
Jan33.36%31.12%+2.2 pp
Feb33.13%29.99%+3.1 pp
Mar33.06%28.26%+4.8 pp
Apr34.61%29.78%+4.8 pp
May33.59%28.79%+4.8 pp
Jun32.31%28.15%+4.2 pp
Jul33.05%29.33%+3.7 pp
Aug32.69%29.2%+3.5 pp
Sep32.78%28.19%+4.6 pp
Oct32.9%30.34%+2.6 pp
Nov34.94%30.58%+4.4 pp
Dec33.21%29.33%+3.9 pp

Takeaway: the spread between best and worst month is 2.6 percentage points — booking month barely matters for this family. 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.

Volkswagen Eos average mileage by age

At age 14, the middle half of Eos models runs from 69,418 miles to 112,495 miles, against 89,835 miles as the median.

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

Bars: Volkswagen Eos · dashed: all class-4 cars — 2024 UK MOT data

Chart axes: car age, years · odometer scale 0–131k mi.

Does high mileage mean more Volkswagen Eos MOT failures at the same age?

Within the same age group, split by odometer (2024 MOTs), so this separates wear from age: at ages 15+, 18.5% of those with under 40,000 miles failed first time versus 46.6% of those with over 140,000 miles.Inside this age group, higher mileage goes with more failures.

Does high mileage mean more Volkswagen Eos MOT failures at the same age? — 2024 UK MOT data
Volkswagen Eos: first-time failure by mileage within each age group (2024)
AgeOdometer% failing95% intervalTests
6–940-70k miles15.8%9.3–25.6%76 (rough estimate)
6–970-100k miles19.3%11.1–31.3%57 (rough estimate)
10–14<40k miles13.4%10.2–17.3%352 (rough estimate)
10–1440-70k miles27%24.6–29.5%1,258
10–1470-100k miles32.2%29.9–34.7%1,498
10–14100-140k miles37.7%34.8–40.6%1,065
10–14140k+ miles43.9%38.1–49.9%271 (rough estimate)
15+<40k miles18.5%14.1–24%232 (rough estimate)
15+40-70k miles29.9%27.4–32.6%1,172
15+70-100k miles38.2%36.3–40.1%2,532
15+100-140k miles43.2%41.3–45.1%2,613
15+140k+ miles46.6%43.5–49.8%946

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

Mileage by age (p25 / median / p75)
Agep25Medianp75Tests
948,70466,07386,791196
1044,01256,07278,088335
1145,62064,69686,904443
1255,00274,458100,585370
1362,19580,101103,9981,360
1469,41889,835112,4951,936
1570,11689,719113,4811,264
1677,08498,995122,8972,471
1777,68299,653124,6412,830
1879,299100,322125,064960

A typical 14-year-old Eos has ~89,835 miles on the clock. Much more — ask why; much less — check for gaps in the MOT history.

Where in Britain the Volkswagen Eos fails its MOT most

Dundee area is highest at 44.8%; Dartford area is lowest at 23.5% — the gap is 21.4 percentage points.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Volkswagen Eos line: median · band: middle half of the fleet (p25–p75) — 2024 UK MOT data
Toughest areas% failingvs model overall
Dundee (DD)44.83%+11.6 pp
Kirkcaldy (KY)44.6%+11.3 pp
Hull (HU)42.15%+8.9 pp
Darlington (DL)40.99%+7.7 pp
Truro (TR)40.89%+7.6 pp
Easiest areas% failingvs model overall
Dartford (DA)23.45%-9.8 pp
Twickenham (TW)23.61%-9.7 pp
Uxbridge (UB)23.62%-9.7 pp
Southend-on-Sea (SS)24.31%-9.0 pp
Sutton (SM)24.57%-8.7 pp

Why do areas differ?

For each external factor we correlate the area fail rate with the factor across postcode areas that have ≥800 tests of this family, then compare the bottom vs top fifth (quintile) of the factor. Correlation, not causation — factors travel together (the north is colder and often poorer; urban areas are denser and less salted). Road surface condition is joined now, for the 91 English areas the DfT publishes, and it explains nothing: the correlation with suspension failures is −0.01 and with body and structure failures 0.07. Potholes wreck wheels and tyres between tests, but by the time a car reaches the bay the road it drives on leaves no measurable trace.

In areas with the highest mot centre density this model fails 7.7 pp more often than in the lowest fifth (r=0.67, n=44 areas with ≥800 tests).

In areas with the highest urban share this model fails 7.3 pp less often than in the lowest fifth (r=-0.42, n=44 areas with ≥800 tests).

In areas with the highest terrain gradient this model fails 4.3 pp more often than in the lowest fifth (r=0.38, n=27 areas with ≥800 tests).

Volkswagen Eos Why do areas differ? — 2024 UK MOT data
Values shown in the quintile chart
FactorLow QHigh QGapCorrelation
MOT centre density28.5%36.2%+7.7 ppr=0.67
Urban share35.2%27.9%-7.3 ppr=-0.42
Terrain gradient33.2%37.4%+4.2 ppr=0.38

Factors that only mean something combined

Some conditions are useless on their own and informative multiplied together. Frost days alone say little — Britain barely freezes. Salt tonnage alone says little — it tracks frost. Distance to the sea alone says little. Multiply the first two and divide by the third and you get an index of how hard an area attacks a car's underside, and it lines up with the corrosion defects we actually record. We built five such combinations and tested each against our own data. Three survived; two did not, and the failures are listed here on purpose — a proxy that was never checked is decoration. One survivor only survived on the second attempt: built from a crude stand-in for street parking it failed outright, and rebuilt from the census — terraced streets carrying more cars than they have driveways — it works, and carries information the salt index does not.

Composite area indicators, each tested against a defect rate we measure
CompositeBuilt fromTested againstrVerdict
Underbody corrosionfrost days × salt load ÷ (distance to coast + 1)share of tests with a corrosion defect+0.42holds (116 areas)
Tyre wearrain days × annual miles ÷ age at first tyre advisoryshare of tests failing on tyres+0.45holds (116 areas)
Overnight corrosionterraced housing × cars per household × frost daysshare with a corrosion defect+0.41holds (102 areas) — and adds signal beyond the first index
Deferred maintenancedeprivation × advisory-to-failure conversion ÷ labour ratecars repeating the same advisory−0.26fails (118 areas)
Powertrain stressengine capacity ÷ kerb weightsuspension, brake and emissions failures−0.16fails (22 models)

The deprivation result is the one worth dwelling on. The intuition that poorer areas defer repairs is strong enough that most people treat it as established. We tested it twice — once on raw failure rates (r = 0.04) and again, more fairly, on whether an advisory turns into a failure — and it did not hold any of the three times we tried it — on raw failure rates, on advisory-to-failure conversion, and again with deprivation measured properly inside each nation rather than England alone. We are closing it. What does predict local failure rates is the density of test centres, which is a statement about testing, not about cars.

All external-factor correlations (machine-readable)
Factorrn areasLow-Q fail %High-Q fail %Gap ppLow-Q factorHigh-Q factor
MOT centre density (per 10k vehicles)0.6734428.536.2+7.75.17.6
Urban share (0–1)-0.4224435.227.9-7.30.51
Terrain gradient (% grade)0.3802733.237.4+4.30.63.2
Distance to coast (km)-0.3564436.332.4-3.87.489
Frost days (days/year)0.1474434.036.0+2.010.824.1
Road-salt proxy (g/m²-yr)0.1244432.933.9+0.9209417
Income deprivation (score)-0.0244231.331.3+0.00.10.2

Deprivation uses England IMD 2019 income score only (Scotland SIMD is a different scale). Salt proxy is a simplified NWSRG-style dry-salt sum from air Tmin; coastalness is distance from the area centroid to the nearest coastline.

Every dot is a postcode area — size = how many were tested there, colour = share failing. These figures are not age-adjusted: coastal and rural areas often run older fleets and salted roads, so higher raw fail rates do not automatically mean a worse local stock of this model.

Map labels: Scotland · N. England · Wales · London · S. West. Colour scale: 26%–40% failing.

Volkswagen Eos survival: which cars are still on the road

By age 18 is close to the reference at 100.0%, against 100.0% at the ages 4–6 reference level.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Volkswagen Eos survival: which cars are still on the road — 2024 UK MOT data

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

Survival vs fail rate by age
AgeTestsSurvival vs ages 4–6Fail %
441346.3%11.86%
567976.1%13.55%
61,106100%14.38%
71,450100%17.24%
82,912100%19.85%
95,125100%24.9%
106,490100%27.73%
119,734100%30.81%
1213,743100%33.52%
1314,640100%35.4%
1412,410100%36.93%
159,694100%38.3%
167,318100%39.1%
174,051100%40.76%
18960100%40.83%

By age 18, at least as many cars of this family present for MOT as at ages 4–6 (reference n≈892): the older fleet has not thinned out here, so there is no survivor selection to allow for.

How many miles does a Volkswagen Eos last?

100,000+ miles is highest at 32.3%; 150,000+ miles is lowest at 4.7% — the gap is 27.6 percentage points.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

OdometerTests ≥ thresholdShare of sample
100,000+ miles29,23332.26%
150,000+ miles4,2274.66%

Of 90,614 tests of this family with a usable odometer in 2024, 32.3% had reached 100k miles, 4.7% had reached 150k miles. This is a cross-section of cars still presenting for MOT, not a full birth cohort.

How many years is a Volkswagen Eos likely to last?

Bought at age 5 is highest at 17.6 years; Bought at age 15 is lowest at 3.5 years — the gap is 14.1 years.

bigger number = longer remaining lifeyears on the observed survival curve

Age nowTypical mileage (p50)Expected years left
5—at least 17.6
8—at least 10.5
10—at least 8.5
12—at least 6.5
15—at least 3.5

estimateEstimate only — not a warranty: a typical 10-year-old example of this family has at least 8.5 expected years of further MOT-present life. The curve is observed only until age 18, so the true figure is likely higher.

Volkswagen Eos faults that come together

Emissions & leaks + Road Wheels stand out at 4.77×, against 1.00× if the faults were independent.

above 1.0× = more than expectedbelow 1.0× = less

Group AGroup BTogetherLift
Noise, emissions and leaksRoad Wheels314.77× (rough estimate)
Noise, emissions and leaksSeat belts and supplementary restraint systems1344.71× (rough estimate)
BrakesSeat belts and supplementary restraint systems3453.9× (rough estimate)
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentSeat belts and supplementary restraint systems4523.77× (rough estimate)
Road WheelsTyres833.51× (rough estimate)
BrakesNoise, emissions and leaks6373.48×
Identification of the vehicleNoise, emissions and leaks253.44× (rough estimate)
BrakesRoad Wheels693.42× (rough estimate)
BrakesIdentification of the vehicle763.37× (rough estimate)
BrakesSteering2563.14× (rough estimate)
Seat belts and supplementary restraint systemsVisibility2593.08× (rough estimate)
Body, chassis, structureRoad Wheels773.07× (rough estimate)
Identification of the vehicleLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment933.04× (rough estimate)
Road WheelsVisibility583.02× (rough estimate)
Seat belts and supplementary restraint systemsTyres3062.96× (rough estimate)
Noise, emissions and leaksVisibility5052.9×
Noise, emissions and leaksTyres6192.89×
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentRoad Wheels792.89× (rough estimate)
Body, chassis, structureNoise, emissions and leaks6522.87×
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentNoise, emissions and leaks6862.77×
Body, chassis, structureSeat belts and supplementary restraint systems3022.75× (rough estimate)
Seat belts and supplementary restraint systemsSuspension4722.7× (rough estimate)
Seat belts and supplementary restraint systemsSteering342.68× (rough estimate)
Road WheelsSuspension1062.66× (rough estimate)
Identification of the vehicleTyres702.65× (rough estimate)
SteeringSuspension4262.64× (rough estimate)
Noise, emissions and leaksSuspension9212.55×
BrakesTyres1,6852.53×
SteeringVisibility1972.53× (rough estimate)
Body, chassis, structureSteering2532.5× (rough estimate)
BrakesSuspension2,7312.43×
BrakesLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment1,8122.35×
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentVisibility1,7022.32×
Noise, emissions and leaksSteering612.32× (rough estimate)
BrakesVisibility1,2422.3×
Body, chassis, structureBrakes1,6012.27×
Identification of the vehicleVisibility482.24× (rough estimate)
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentSteering2432.2× (rough estimate)
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentSuspension3,2772.15×
TyresVisibility1,3472.13×
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentTyres1,8802.08×
SuspensionTyres2,6372×
Body, chassis, structureSuspension2,7541.98×
Body, chassis, structureVisibility1,3181.96×
Identification of the vehicleSuspension861.93× (rough estimate)
SuspensionVisibility1,9771.85×
Body, chassis, structureLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment1,7641.85×
Body, chassis, structureTyres1,5201.84×
Body, chassis, structureIdentification of the vehicle511.82× (rough estimate)
SteeringTyres1531.6× (rough estimate)
Identification of the vehicleSeat belts and supplementary restraint systems17too few (rough estimate)
Road WheelsSeat belts and supplementary restraint systems14too few (rough estimate)
Identification of the vehicleSteering13too few (rough estimate)
Road WheelsSteering10too few (rough estimate)
Identification of the vehicleRoad Wheels5too few (rough estimate)

Defects in «Brakes» and «Noise, emissions and leaks» appear together 3.48× more often than chance (637 co-occurrences in the same test; lift≥1.3, n≥500).

Lift = how many times more often both groups appear on the same test than if independent. A pair is listed from 5 tests with both faults; the lift is shown from 20, and called above chance only when its 95% interval excludes 1 (see rough estimates).

Is low mileage better for a Volkswagen Eos?

Cars driven under 5,000 miles a year is well below the reference at 23.1%, against 37.8% for cars driven 8,000–12,000 miles a year.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

BandFail %Tests
<5k miles/year23.14%14,451
8–12k miles/year37.82%18,528
Gap (low − normal)-14.68 pp—
By fuel and age

Diesel

AgeLow-use fail %nNormal fail %nGap pp
512.2610617.54171-5.28 pp
69.3620320.77284-11.42 pp
712.2726919.3342-7.03 pp
813.3343523.82655-10.48 pp
916.6463128.771,161-12.13 pp
1018.0975232.141,428-14.06 pp
1123.0888435.882,124-12.8 pp
1223.671,06939.252,838-15.59 pp
1325.661,13840.892,771-15.23 pp
1427.0198542.362,174-15.36 pp

Petrol

AgeLow-use fail %nNormal fail %nGap pp
65.267619.4436-14.18 pp
711.6111220.9343-9.32 pp
815.6427524.55167-8.91 pp
915.7349630.91372-15.19 pp
1020.3373333.13495-12.8 pp
11201,16037.82809-17.82 pp
1224.471,80241.381,247-16.91 pp
1325.112,12741.711,309-16.61 pp
1428.161,96442.54978-14.38 pp

At matched ages 5–14, cars averaging under 5k miles/year fail at 23.1% vs 37.8% for 8–12k miles/year — 14.7 pp lower (n_low=14,451, n_normal=18,528). In this family low annual use is associated with fewer MOT fails, not more — the ‘garage queen’ penalty is not visible in overall fail rates. Diesel alone: 23.0% low-use vs 37.4% normal (-14.4 pp).

Best year for a Volkswagen Eos, and the years to avoid

Build year 2006 is highest at 103.9; Build year 2015 is lowest at 81.5 — the gap is 22.4 points.

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

build year vs the same model at the same age · 100 = as expected

Volkswagen Eos build year vs the same model at the same age · 100 = as expected — 2024 UK MOT data
Volkswagen Eos by build year, tests 2019–2024. Below 100 is better than the model's own age norm.
Every build year with its confidence interval
Build yearvs own age norm95% CIRaw fail %TestsVerdict
201581.568.1–94.815.25%938better
201483.974.4–93.517.69%1,685better
201386.979.6–94.219.79%2,759better
201285.678.2–9322.28%2,311better
201190.887–94.526.27%8,482better
2010103.5100.3–106.632.77%12,968worse
200998.695–102.133.17%8,975no different
20089693.6–98.334.01%18,988better
2007103.7101.5–105.838.48%23,248worse
2006103.9100.6–107.339.85%9,255worse

The best build year here is 2011 and the weakest is 2006. Comparing build years sounds simple and is not: within a single year of testing, a car's build year and its age are the same number, so a naive comparison of years is a comparison of ages wearing a disguise. Each year below is measured against the same model at the same age in other cohorts, across six years of testing — 5 of 10 years come out distinguishable from their own model's age norm.

Two limits worth knowing before you act on this. Age, test year and build year are locked together by arithmetic, so the test-year effect is taken from the observed national failure level of each year rather than estimated — it is an adjustment, not a solution.

Volkswagen Eos MOT repair costs

The MOT-failure repair budget per test runs from £94.14 to £178.87, against £54.85 for the test itself.

bigger number = costs morepounds per test, MOT-failing faults only

MOT repairs, budget
£94–179
per test, repairs only
The test itself
£54.85
statutory cap, unchanged since 2010
How the figure is built: chance of failing × typical price of that repair
ComponentFails per 100 testsTypical repairIts priceContribution
Suspension22.5 (nat. 15.36)Suspension coil spring (single corner)£180£40.50
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment15.6 (nat. 18.09)Battery replacement (standard 12V lead-acid)£140£21.84
Brakes13.1 (nat. 11.25)Front brake pads (parts + labour, typical hatchback)£150£19.65
Tyres13.5 (nat. 8.7)Tyre (single mid-range 16" fitted)£90£12.15

Multiply how often each component fails on this model by what that repair usually costs, and you get the amount an owner should expect to budget per test for MOT-failing faults only — roughly £94 to £179, on top of the test fee itself. It is a budgeting figure, not a quote: the spread between a set of pads and a set of discs is most of the range.

Prices are modal quotes from a hand-kept catalogue of published UK garage guides — we do not scrape the booking sites, their terms forbid it, so this list is short and updated by hand with a source and date against each line. Each line prices one typical repair in that group, not a full remedy, and only groups our catalogue actually covers are counted. The contrast worth noticing is the second card: the legal maximum for the test has been £54.85 since 2010, while the repairs it uncovers have followed inflation the whole time.

For scale from a different direction: Warrantywise, which sees used-car warranty claims rather than test failures, puts the average claim at £2,052 across the ten highest-claim models it ranks and £539 for Honda, the lowest-claim make in its index (Warrantywise index 2026, 1.6 million claims, cars aged 3–15). Those sit an order of magnitude above the figures in this table, and the gap is the point: a warranty claim is a gearbox or an engine, which almost never fails an MOT, while the faults that do fail one are corrosion, lamps and tyres, which no warranty pays for. The two numbers answer different questions and neither replaces the other.

Volkswagen Eos running costs for a fleet

Vehicles failing at age 10 stand out at 21.0%, against 18.0% at age 9, tested in the same year.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Fails per 100 at age 9
18
vehicles needing work (rough estimate: 196 tests)
At age 10
21
other cars of this model tested at age 10 in 2024 (rough estimate: 335 tests)
Repairs per 100
£9,414
plus £5,485 in test fees
Off the road
1d
median; 39.5% cleared same day
Failure rate and typical odometer by age
AgeFailsMedian odometerTestsGap vs age 5
918.37%66,073196—
1020.9%56,072335—
1124.38%64,696443—
1225.95%74,458370—
1331.91%80,1011,360—
1435.23%89,8351,936—
1536.87%89,7191,264—
1637.39%98,9952,471—
1741.13%99,6532,830—
1840.83%100,322960—

The number a fleet manager needs is not the failure rate, it is the year the car starts costing more. Between cars aged 16 and cars aged 17, both tested in 2024, the failure rate of this model is 3.74 percentage points higher — the steepest one-year step in this cross-section of different cars, and a natural planning point for replacement.

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.

Volkswagen Eos rust problems: where they corrode

Age-standardised corrosion susceptibility stands out at 1.08×, against 1.00× for the national age-standardised rate.

above 1.0× = rusts more than averagebelow 1.0× = rusts less

How it rusts
1.08×
0.83% of tests record a corrosion defect vs 0.77% typical — age-standardised
Salt Belt exposure
13th
percentile among the models published here, from its tests across 44 postcode areas

This Volkswagen Eos fails on corrosion at about the average rate 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.

Does a Volkswagen Eos advisory become a failure?

Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment are highest at 27.1%; Non-component advisories are lowest at 0.0% — the gap is 27.1 percentage points.

higher = more likelypercentage is the observed transition probability

chance the same component fails at the next MOT, given an advisory now

Volkswagen Eos chance the same component fails at the next MOT, given an advisory now — 2024 UK MOT data
Volkswagen Eos, advisory → failure conversion by component group, chained tests 2019–2024. Chart labels and rates: Lamps & electrical 27.1% · Suspension 23% · Body & chassis 21.2% · Tyres 13.4% · Brakes 12.1% · Noise, emissions, leaks 5.2% · Identification of the veh… 3% · Road wheels 1.3%.
Advisory today → failure at the next test, with how long you have
ComponentFails next timeTypical lead timeMiles of warningAdvisories tracked
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment27.1%12 months4,692632
Suspension23.0%12 months5,25815,094
Body, chassis, structure21.2%12.1 months5,0651,239
Tyres13.4%12.1 months5,08520,154
Brakes12.1%12.1 months4,69916,506
Noise, emissions and leaks5.2%12.1 months5,6892,358
Identification of the vehicle3.0%12 months5,4891,338
Road wheels1.3%12 months4,555700
Non-component advisories0.0%——3,401

This is the question an advisory note actually raises, and it needs six years of test history to answer. We followed the same vehicles from one MOT to the next across 2019–2024 and measured how often a component that was merely advised came back as a genuine failure at the next test.

Read it as a budgeting horizon, not a prophecy: the most likely component above turns into a failure for about 27 in 100 cars, and the median gap is 12 months and roughly 4,692 miles. The rest were repaired, sold, scrapped, or simply held. Rows with fewer than 500 tracked advisories are not shown.

What will fail next on a Volkswagen Eos?

Suspension after a failure at age 15-19 is highest at 23.3%; Suspension after a passed at age 3-5 is lowest at 1.9% — the gap is 21.3 percentage points.

higher = more likelypercentage is the observed transition probability

Probability of each component failing at the next test, by age and last result
AgeLast testMost likely next failuresCars tracked
3-5passedTyres 5.7% · Visibility 3.1% · Suspension 1.9%927
3-5advisoryTyres 6.6% · Brakes 3.0% · Visibility 2.8%531
3-5failureTyres 10.1% · Brakes 5.5% · Suspension 5.0%219 (rough estimate)
6-8passedSuspension 7.1% · Tyres 5.9% · Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 5.1%3,481
6-8advisorySuspension 10.4% · Tyres 7.8% · Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 6.5%2,369
6-8failureSuspension 14.3% · Tyres 10.2% · Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 9.0%1,506
9-11passedSuspension 13.1% · Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 8.5% · Tyres 6.5%9,275
9-11advisorySuspension 16.4% · Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 11.6% · Tyres 10.0%7,295
9-11failureSuspension 18.2% · Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 14.0% · Tyres 11.1%7,061
12-14passedSuspension 13.9% · Body, chassis, structure 10.2% · Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 8.9%10,600
12-14advisorySuspension 19.7% · Body, chassis, structure 14.4% · Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 12.7%10,126
12-14failureSuspension 21.6% · Body, chassis, structure 15.8% · Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 14.7%11,456
15-19passedSuspension 15.1% · Body, chassis, structure 13.1% · Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 10.0%2,368
15-19advisorySuspension 21.9% · Body, chassis, structure 19.3% · Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 13.4%2,730
15-19failureSuspension 23.3% · Body, chassis, structure 19.4% · Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment 15.3%3,306

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.

Volkswagen Eos ownership: what six years of MOTs show

The ten-day re-test pass rate is highest at 57.5%; The later re-test pass rate is lowest at 3.0% — the gap is 54.5 percentage points.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Fixed same day
39.5%
of failures re-tested
Fails /10k miles
0.643
miles actually driven
Clean streaks
29.79%
3+ tests, nothing noted
Odometer anomaly
0.999%
reading went backwards

Failing is usually a same-week event, not a disaster. Of 24,064 failures followed through to their re-test, 39.5% were repaired and passed the same day and 57.48% within ten days; the median gap is 1 day. 56,509 defect items were cleared in the process.

Per mile driven, not per year. Dividing failures by the miles that actually went onto the odometers between consecutive tests gives 0.643 failures per 10,000 miles, on a median of 4,164 miles a year across 17,112 chains. This is the number to compare between models — an annual rate quietly rewards cars that barely leave the drive.

Two populations hide inside one model. 29.79% of these cars strung together three or more tests with nothing recorded at all, while 41.03% carried the same advisory three times or more — the same fault, noted, ignored, noted again. When you buy used you are buying one of those two histories, and the MOT record shows which.

Odometer anomalies: 0.999% of 17,118 chains show a reading lower than the previous test, with a median drop of 23,326 miles. We call this an anomaly and not fraud on purpose — instrument swaps, imports, unit mix-ups and keying errors all land in the same bucket. Obvious typos (drops under 100 miles or over 90% of the reading) are already excluded.

Volkswagen Eos safety recalls and how to check yours

DVSA recall campaigns stand out at 8.

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

recall campaigns launched per year

Volkswagen Eos recall campaigns launched per year — 2024 UK MOT data
Campaigns launched per year for the Volkswagen Eos. Source: DVSA vehicle safety recalls. Chart values: 2011: 1 · 2012: 0 · 2013: 0 · 2014: 0 · 2015: 0 · 2016: 0 · 2017: 1 · 2018: 1 · 2019: 0 · 2020: 0 · 2021: 0 · 2022: 0 · 2023: 3 · 2024: 0 · 2025: 1.
Most recent safety recall campaigns for the Volkswagen Eos
ReferenceLaunchedVehiclesConcern
R/2025/35722/08/20252Takata front drivers or passenger airbag replacement
R/2023/17813/06/20234Takata Front airbag
R/2023/17813/06/20231Takata Front airbag
R/2023/17813/06/20234Takata Front airbag
R/2018/06207/03/201816,625STARTER MOTOR MAY MALFUNCTION AND OVERHEAT
All 8 campaigns
ReferenceLaunchedBuild datesVehiclesConcern
R/2025/35722/08/202525/01/2010 – 12/12/20102Takata front drivers or passenger airbag replacement
R/2023/17813/06/202325/01/2010 – 12/12/20104Takata Front airbag
R/2023/17813/06/202327/03/2013 – 27/03/20131Takata Front airbag
R/2023/17813/06/202325/01/2010 – 07/06/20114Takata Front airbag
R/2018/06207/03/201801/03/2011 – 30/11/201116,625STARTER MOTOR MAY MALFUNCTION AND OVERHEAT
R/2017/18920/06/201701/06/2008 – 31/05/201064,192ABS/ESC SYSTEM MAY FAIL
R/2011/16915/12/201101/01/2009 – 15/12/201133,719FUEL MAY LEAK
R/2009/11014/12/200901/09/2008 – 31/08/20093,514CLUTCH MAY OPERATE INADVERTENTLY WITH UNEXPECTED LOSS OF DRIVE

DVSA lists 8 safety recall campaigns for the Volkswagen Eos, covering roughly 118,061 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.

Volkswagen Eos technical service bulletins: what dealers are told

US market, Volkswagen EOS, model years 2015–2016 only. A count of bulletins, not a UK failure rate.

NHTSA manufacturer communications are 754.

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

US technical service bulletins by communication year; leading subjects cover the full file
Communication yearBulletinsLeading subjects across all years
20137
  • Equipment (303)
  • Electrical system (141)
  • Engine and cooling (107)
  • Engine (85)
  • Air Bags (49)
  • Other / uncategorised (38)
  • Powertrain (36)
  • Structure (32)
2014101
201580
2016113
201759
201837
201979
202057
202156
202264
202337
202428
202521
202615

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.

Volkswagen Eos owner complaints: what goes wrong

US market, Volkswagen EOS, model years 2015–2016 only. A count of owner complaints, not a UK failure rate; NHTSA has no UK denominator.

Lamps & electrical are highest at 5; Body & structure are lowest at 1 — the gap is 4.

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

Owner complaints (US) against actual MOT failures (UK) for the same component groups
ComponentComplaintsShareMOT fail items per 100MOT rankAgreement
Lamps & electrical571.4%15.6#2complained about and fails often
Restraints228.6%not in top 6—complained about, rarely an MOT failure
Body & structure114.3%11.6#5complained about, fails occasionally
Brakes114.3%13.1#4complained about, fails occasionally
Engine (not MOT-tested)114.3%not in top 6—complained about, rarely an MOT failure
Transmission (not MOT-tested)114.3%not in top 6—complained about, rarely an MOT failure

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.

What the reports actually say
I was driving down the freeway at about 4:00 pm in the afternoon when my sunroof suddenly shattered. I was not near an overpass so nothing could have fallen on it. It was not an overly warm day so I don't think it was the heat. I can only conclude that it spontaneously exploded.
NHTSA complaint, filed 08/12/2021 · STRUCTURE
REPLACED ALL FOUR ABS WHEEL SENSORS. THE SENSORS EFFECTED ABS SYSTEM AND ALL EMERGENCY EQUIPMENT SUCH AS ALL AIRBAGS SRS DEALER ADVISED THAT THAT THIS HAS BEEN AN ISSUE WITH ALL MODELS IN THE VW LINE OF PRODUCTS.(GUNTHER VW OF DELRAY,FLORIDA(
NHTSA complaint, filed 01/31/2021 · ELECTRICAL SYSTEM

US owners have filed 7 complaints about the equivalent Volkswagen Eos to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, including 0 that mention a crash, 1 a fire and 0 an injury. 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.

Volkswagen Eos inspection results in other countries

United Kingdom MOT stands out at 35.9%, against 26.0% nationally.

higher = larger sharecompare shares in percentage points

Same model, different national inspection regimes
CountryTestThis model failsNational averagePositionSample
United KingdomMOT (class 4)35.91%26.01%+9.9 pp12,204
NetherlandsAPK53.1%50.8%+2.3 pp3,330

The verdict is consistent across every regime where the difference is clear, which is the strongest form this comparison takes: independent inspectorates, different rulebooks, same direction of travel.

The exact faults Netherlands records — APK defect codes, 2024
CodeFaultRecordedType
210Tyre pressure not at the correct value571failure
205Tyre with insufficient tread324failure
516Dipped headlight incorrectly aimed288failure
AC1Tyre down to 1.6–2.5 mm of tread209advisory
203Tyre damaged166failure
RA1Airbag or seat-belt warning light showing a fault162advisory
178Driveshaft gaiter split, no longer sealing159failure
289Schijf-, trommelrem loopt niet vrij144failure

Worth dwelling on how mundane the top of that list is: tyre pressure, tread depth, headlight aim. The Dutch APK records 1.214 defects per inspection against a much higher national failure rate than Britain's, and the reason is not that Dutch cars are worse — it is that the two regimes draw the line between "note it" and "fail it" in different places. Codes are the RDW's own; the English wording here is our translation of the Dutch original.

Britain is not the only country that inspects every car every year, and the Volkswagen Eos is on the road in all of them. Each national regime writes its own rules, so the pass rates below are not comparable to each other — what does travel across a border is whether a model sits above or below its own country's average.

One caveat before you read the UK row: these are raw failure rates, because no other country publishes the age detail our index needs. This model's raw UK rate looks worse than the national average while its age-adjusted index is 88.0 — the fleet here is unusually old, and the raw column silently credits that. The index above is the fair comparison; this table is for reading each country against itself.

Rows with fewer than 500 inspections are not published. Sources: RDW open data — Meldingen Keuringsinstantie + Geconstateerde Gebreken + Gekentekende voertuigen (2024), CC0. Not an RDW endorsement.. Adapted; licences and full notice.

Volkswagen Eos MOT: quick answers

Volkswagen Eos MOT Risk Index is well below the reference at 88.0, 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 Volkswagen Eos first-time MOT pass rate?
64.09% of first attempts passed in 2024 (12,204 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 35.91% figure is the first-time initial failure rate, using 12,204 primary tests as the denominator (first-time, excluding retests). The age-adjusted MOT initial-failure ratio 88.0 is shown separately because raw rates compare fleet age as well as cars.

Compare the Volkswagen Eos with other cars

Toyota Auris is highest at 88.1; Volkswagen Eos are lowest at 88.0 — the gap is 0.1 points.

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

Same brand

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Similar risk

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Same size class

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By build year

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By area

Volkswagen Eos MOT failure rate by postcode area

By failure group

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Inspections abroad

Volkswagen Eos in the Netherlands


Data details & how to cite

Scope: class-4 vehicles (cars), initial tests only, outcomes pass / fail / fixed-on-the-spot at the station (PRS counts towards the failure rate — the defect was present at arrival). Index = observed initial failures ÷ failures expected for this fleet's exact age profile, ×100; margin of error is a 95% confidence interval. Covers ALL generations together — a 3-year-old and a 15-year-old are very different cars; a generation split is on the roadmap. Dataset release dataset_release_id=dvsa-2024-v2, frozen baseline; headline claim_id=family-stats:volkswagen-eos:dvsa-2024-v2. Full method: methodology.

Cite: MOT Risk Index (2026). Volkswagen Eos MOT statistics 2024 (data release dvsa-2024-v2; downloadable dataset motriskindex-families-2024-v5, doi:10.5281/zenodo.22975051). https://motriskindex.co.uk/cars/volkswagen-eos/ · Published 2026-07-30.