2.15 million tyre-related MOT failures last year lead to mandatory advisory follow-up calls

Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) data shows that 2,152,849 vehicles failed the MOT due to tyre defects in 2023/24. That figure was just over 2 million the previous year and has been rising steadily from 1.83 million in 2019/20. If that wasn’t bad enough, 36 per cent of these failures – which equates to more than 750,000 vehicles – had previously been flagged with tyre-related advisories.