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Toyota Aygo
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Aygo

290,376 MOT tests analysed. lands in the middle of the pack — here's where Aygos pass, fail, and end up on the retest sheet.

That's 3.5 points above the UK fleet average across our 1,988 tracked models — a confident result.

Pass

79.3%

Pass-after-fix

5.1%

Fail

15.2%

Avg miles

51,435

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

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Aygo Tops 79% — MMT Gearbox Owners Beware

Toyota's city car passes first time 79.3% of the time, one of the stronger rates among small cars at this mileage bracket. Registration plate lamp failures, worn tyres, and binding brakes are the routine MOT pitfalls — cheap and straightforward to fix. The bigger risk is specific to the MMT automated manual gearbox: one owner reported 18 dated faults between 2011 and 2019, with a clutch replacement at £600 before the actuator finally gave up entirely.

Oil consumption is a separate thread worth pulling on. Multiple reports describe 2007-2012 petrol units burning through oil fast enough to trigger the warning light mid-corner. Manual gearbox Aygos avoid these problems entirely — prioritise one if low running costs matter.

Top ten reasons for rejection.

  1. 01

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

    6,633 occurrences · 2.3% of tests

  2. 02

    Tyre tread depth not in accordance with the requirements

    6,331 occurrences · 2.2% of tests

  3. 03

    Significant brake effort recorded with no brake applied indicating a binding brake

    5,671 occurrences · 2.0% of tests

  4. 04

    Headlamp reflector or lens slightly defective

    5,401 occurrences · 1.9% of tests

  5. 05

    The strength or continuity of the load bearing structure within 30cm of any sub-frame, spring or suspension component mounting (a 'prescribed area') is significantly reduced or inadequately repaired

    5,349 occurrences · 1.8% of tests

  6. 06

    A lamp missing, inoperative or in the case of a multiple light source more than 1/2 not functioning

    4,178 occurrences · 1.4% of tests

  7. 07

    Wiper blade defective

    3,960 occurrences · 1.4% of tests

  8. 08

    a brake lining or pad worn below 1.5mm

    3,958 occurrences · 1.4% of tests

  9. 09

    Wiper blade missing or obviously not clearing the windscreen

    3,883 occurrences · 1.3% of tests

  10. 10

    Brake pipe damaged or excessively corroded

    3,702 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 3 failures

£78–£210

If every one of this Aygo'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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Tools that pre-empt a retest.

Picked against this car's top failure patterns. Affiliate links to Amazon UK — we earn a small cut at no cost to you. Disclosed up-front, doesn't shape the data.

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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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Digital tyre-tread depth gauge

Five quid for a gauge beats £150 for a retest. UK MOT minimum is 1.6mm — most testers fail anything below 2mm to be safe.

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Headlight restoration kit

Yellowed lenses fail the light-output test. A restoration kit lifts the haze in an afternoon for £20.

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Owner reports · Honest John

What owners actually report.

Verbatim faults logged by owners on honestjohn.co.uk over recent years. We didn't summarise — these are the words people typed in.

Recent owner-reported faults

  1. 17 Oct 2019

    Report of MMT actuator finally failing on 2007 Toyota Aygo automated manual. Clutch replaced in 2017 at a cost of £600. Porous seals to rear windows. Rear windows that unglued themselves. Car now an economic write-off. 18 dated faults reported since January 2011

  2. 11 Apr 2019

    Report of used 2007 Toyoga Aygo with 85,000 miles using oil at the rate of around 1,000 miles a litre. Might need new valve stem oil seals. See: 31-10-2016.

  3. 16 Oct 2018

    Report of 2012 Toyota Aygo 1.0 Ice using a lot of oil. "The oil warning light flashed during a quick corner." "eats oil and getting a reading off the dipstick is impossible.Doesn't smoke at startup and most of the time I let it get some warmth into the oil before I set off, especially in autumn/winter."

  4. 5 Jul 2018

    Report of problems with 2009 Toyota Aygo 1.0 MMT. Started beeping intermittently a couple of days ago then stopped, then started again. Now the clutch is slipping. Beeping stops foot off the accelerator while driving.

  5. 5 Feb 2018

    Report of problemds with 2011 Toyota Aygo MMT automated manual. "M iss shifting with a noise as it was arising from slipping disk or from slipping synchronizer. This slippage noise and miss shifting occured most of the times when acceleration was increased. Local mechanic connected a scan tool and started clutch assembly calibration and after that the vehicle stopped moving from its place. The gear selection display from the combination meter has disappeared."

  6. 31 Oct 2016

    Report of 2006 Toyota Aygo starting to use oil at the rate of around 0.5 litres per 1,000 miles. Probably needs a new set of valve stem oil seals.

  7. 3 Oct 2016

    Report of clutch failing on 2013 Toyota Aygo used on a small island after 8,000 miles.

  8. 5 Apr 2016

    Yet another report of water ingress, this time to the back seat of a 2012 Aygo, possibly via the pop-out rear window. Dealer said not covered by 5 year warranty.

  9. 4 Mar 2016

    Another complaint of repeated water leaks through doors of March 2014 registered Aygo (not the new model).

  10. 5 Feb 2016

    Report of rear light units of 2012 Aygo needing to be replaced 6 times due to water ingress. Also 2 faults where water was coming into the car via the speaker seals. Hatchback glass blew off entirely when opened in high wind.

  11. 27 Apr 2015

    Complaint of 'bleeping' from 2006 Aygo automated manual.

  12. 9 Jun 2014

    Automated manual of 2007 Aygo MMT "jerking and shaking" intermittently. Quoted £2,200 to fix by Toyota dealer and £1,500 by an independent. Best advice: get rid of the car.

Source: honestjohn.co.uk · 19 reports indexed, top 12 shown

Buying or keeping a Aygo?

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 a Aygo 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.