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What a Subaru Legacy Buying Report covers

DVSA MOT tests 2022–2025 · 16,488 MOT tests · Updated

A Buying Report, £14.99 incl. VAT, reads one car's MOT record against 130,233,413 MOT tests of cars like it [1].

  • 4 parts: Model risks for this year and fuel, what similar cars did at their next MOT, repairs ahead, viewing checklist.
  • One car, no subscription: each report is for one registration.
  • Not a mechanical inspection: it reads records, it does not look at the car.

What a Subaru Legacy report starts from

At 18 years, 38.9% of Subaru Legacy MOT tests ended in a fail (2,268 MOT tests; raw rate, not adjusted for mileage). All class 4 vehicles at 18: 43.3%. [1]

Its most common fail items at 18 years, other than wear items: malfunction indicator lamp: inoperative or indicates a malfunction (5.4 per 100 MOT tests), driveshaft cv boot split (4.2 per 100 MOT tests), suspension arm bush worn (4.1 per 100 MOT tests).

Typical recorded mileage at that test: 116,455 miles.

The report then reads one Subaru Legacy's own MOT record against these numbers: whether its advisories point at the same parts, and what cars with the same advisories did at their next MOT.

More on this model: Subaru Legacy MOT fail rate by age · Subaru Legacy common problems

What the Buying Report covers

  • Model risks for this year and fuel

    What tends to fail on this model at this age and with this fuel, from DVSA MOT tests, and which of those the car's own MOT record already points to.

  • What similar cars did at their next MOT

    What cars advised on the same parts (or given a minor defect for them) did at their next MOT, about 10 to 16 months later, against cars without those advisories.

  • Repairs ahead

    The repairs the record points to, with labelled cost estimates: labour time at an ONS hourly rate, plus parts.

  • Viewing checklist

    What to look at and what to ask on a viewing, one line per risk the report found.

Buying Report £14.99 incl. VAT · one car · no subscription · Not a mechanical inspection.

One example from the data

Of all class 4 vehicles aged 16 to 25 that were advised on their brake pipes (or given a minor defect for them), 8.7 in 100 failed on brake pipes at the next MOT, against 1.6 in 100 vehicles without that advisory (1,351,571 pairs of tests with it). [1] A report puts figures like these next to the car's own advisories.

What the report does not cover

  • It is not a mechanical inspection, and it does not say a car is good.
  • It does not cover outstanding finance, insurance write-offs, police records of stolen cars or keeper changes.
  • It shows no valuation until we have a valuation source we may show you.
  • What similar cars did is evidence about the model, not a promise about one car.

See the model figures for another car

Buying Report £14.99 incl. VAT · one car · no subscription · Not a mechanical inspection.

Sources

  1. Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency, Anonymised MOT tests and results, 2022 to 2025. DVSA MOT data, Open Government Licence v3.0, 130,233,413 MOT tests. Accessed 7 Oct 2026.