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Toyota Alphard
MOT 2024

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Toyota

Alphard

23,457 MOT tests analysed. sits above the UK fleet average — here's where Alphards pass, fail, and end up on the retest sheet.

That's 3.6 points above the UK fleet average across our 1,984 tracked models — a confident result.

Pass

81.1%

Pass-after-fix

3.4%

Fail

15.0%

Avg miles

80,448

Pass + Pass-after-fix + Fail = 100%

ULEZ borderline — check VRM

This model's production run straddles the January 2006 Euro 4 cutoff. Individual cars vary — check your registration plate on the government's ULEZ checker. Daily charges if driven in the zone: London £12.50 · Birmingham £8.00 .

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Performance by cohort

3 year bands · 23,456 tests

Pass rate drops 1.5 points across the cohorts — recent Alphard examples are doing worse than the early cars at the same tested age.

Pre-2018 cohort 20,178

Pass

81.6%

Fail

14.5%

PRS

3.4%

Avg mileage at test

80,316 mi

2018–2020 cohort 2,211

Pass

76.8%

Fail

18.5%

PRS

3.8%

Avg mileage at test

84,867 mi

2021+ cohort 1,067

Pass

80.1%

Fail

16.6%

PRS

2.5%

Avg mileage at test

73,762 mi

Cohort = vehicle's first-registration year band. Same model, different generations of build.

The picture

Toyota Alphard: mixed MOT record across 11,063 tests

The Toyota Alphard is a large MPV produced by the Japanese automaker Toyota since 2002. It is available as a seven or eight-seater with petrol and hybrid engine options.

MOT data from 11,063 tests puts this car on a 78.1% first-time pass rate, roughly in line with the UK fleet average. Average mileage at test is 81,657 miles. The most common fail item is headlamp reflector or lens slightly defective, followed by suspension joint dust cover severely deteriorated.

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Buyers weighing up a used Alphard should treat the failure breakdown as a pre-purchase checklist. The pass rate is reasonable, but the gap between first attempt and a clean sheet narrows with age and mileage.

ABI Insurance Group

Group 10–28

Below the fleet average — generally reasonable to insure. Lower groups cost less to insure; UK fleet average is around Group 22.

Source: ABI Group Rating Panel · administered by Thatcham Research · groups cover standard variants; performance trims may sit higher. Browse all insurance groups →

10–28

out of 50

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Top ten reasons for rejection.

Filter failures:

  1. 01

    Headlamp reflector or lens slightly defective

    969 occurrences · 4.1% of tests

  2. 02

    A suspension joint dust cover severely deteriorated

    756 occurrences · 3.2% of tests

  3. 03

    A suspension joint dust cover severely deteriorated

    603 occurrences · 2.6% of tests

  4. 04

    A suspension joint dust cover missing or no longer prevents the ingress of dirt etc

    534 occurrences · 2.3% of tests

  5. 05

    A rear registration plate lamp or light source missing or inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources

    509 occurrences · 2.2% of tests

  6. 06

    A transmission shaft constant velocity joint boot severely deteriorated

    365 occurrences · 1.6% of tests

  7. 07

    a brake lining or pad worn below 1.5mm

    341 occurrences · 1.5% of tests

  8. 08

    The aim of a headlamp is not within limits laid down in the requirements

    319 occurrences · 1.4% of tests

  9. 09

    Tyre tread depth not in accordance with the requirements

    310 occurrences · 1.3% of tests

  10. 10

    A tyre cords visible or damaged

    309 occurrences · 1.3% of tests

Counts cover Major and Dangerous defects logged at test. Advisory items excluded so this shows why a car was rejected, not just what the tester flagged in passing.

Worst-case fix budget · top 5 failures

£258–£835

If every one of this Alphard's most-logged Major fails hit at the same MOT, that's the real-world UK garage range. Reality is usually one or two items, not all of them. Open the estimator →

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Year-band analysis

Best year to buy. Worst to avoid.

First-time MOT pass rate split by registration band. A 4.8-point gap between bands means the year you buy Toyota Alphard has a real effect on what turns up at the garage.

Best band to buy

81.6%

Pre-2018 registration

the older band (pre-2018) climbs to 81.6% — a 4.8-point improvement. Failures here are mostly wear items: lens slightly defective, ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated — the structural issues that drag down older examples don't appear in the top-10 for this band.

Band to be cautious about

76.8%

2018–2020 registration

On the 2018–2020 band, the data shows a 76.8% pass rate against a fleet average of 81.6% on the newer band. The main culprits logged at test: lens slightly defective, inoperative in the case of multiple lamps…, and ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated. Average mileage on test for this band is 84,867 miles — high-mileage wear items are a recurring theme.

Best band to buy: pre-2018 (81.6% first-time pass). Worst band to avoid: 2018-2020 (76.8% pass). That's a 4.8-point spread across 2,211 older tests and 20,178 newer ones — year of build makes a material difference on this model.

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Tools that pre-empt a retest.

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Item 01 · Amazon UK

Headlight restoration kit

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H7 / W21W bulb pack

A spare-bulb kit lives in the boot. Test morning is not the time to find your stop-lamp's gone.

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Buying or keeping an Alphard?

Use the failure ranking as a pre-test checklist or a haggling lever. Treat the headline pass rate as a fleet-wide trend, not a guarantee on any individual car.

If you own an Alphard and your last MOT looked nothing like the ranked failures above, that's normal — individual cars vary widely. The ranking shows the patterns testers flag most often across the country.