Seat Altea Recorded MOT Outcomes

39.6%
historical failure rate from 73,065 tests
12.7 percentage points above the dataset-wide reference of 26.9%

Evidence scope: This page summarises past outcomes for a make/model group. It does not use the condition, service history or current defects of a particular vehicle, so it is not a pass prediction, diagnosis or buying recommendation.

Recorded Failure Rate by Age Band

Age bandFailure rateTestsHighest recorded component category
3-5 years 11.6% 292 Lamps & Electrics
6-10 years 27.9% 18,015 Lamps & Electrics
11-15 years 42.0% 41,244 Suspension
15+ years 48.4% 13,511 Lamps & Electrics

Recorded Component-Category Rates

Each percentage is a sample-size-weighted historical category rate across the included age and mileage groups.

Component categoryRecorded rate
Suspension8.3%
Lamps & Electrics8.0%
Brakes5.8%
Tyres4.1%
Body & Chassis4.1%
Visibility2.6%
Steering0.6%

These categories describe aggregate records. They do not show that a specific vehicle has a component fault.

Other Seat Model Groups

Groups With Similar Recorded Rates

Method: Failure and component-category rates are sample-size weighted. Only age/mileage groups with at least 100 tests are included. The checked-in source contains 148,509,908 tests and 39,969,903 failures.

Source: DVSA anonymised MOT tests and results, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.

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