2012 Toyota Alphard 3.5L Petrol · KF12 KFP

This 2012 Toyota Alphard passed its most recent MOT in June 2025, but that pass only came after a very heavy failure just a month earlier in May 2025. The car covered barely two miles between those two tests, which strongly suggests the owner did the bare minimum to scrape a pass rather than carrying out thorough repairs. The May 2025 failure list reveals a sudden and concerning cluster of major safety and mechanical defects. Both front steering rack inner joints had play, the rear axle bushes were deteriorated and in poor condition, there was a transmission leak, the front seatbelt retractor was defective, and the parking brake had little reserve travel. Add to that an intermittent indicator fault, a nail in a tyre, and defective lighting, and you have a vehicle that was arguably unsafe to drive. The condition trend looks to be worsening. A vehicle accumulating that many serious faults simultaneously typically points to long-term neglect or age-related degradation catching up all at once. The quick turnaround to a pass in June, with the only note being that the headlamp beam kick-up was tapped to remove the wrong-side aim—a common quirk on Japanese imports—raises the real possibility that the steering, suspension, transmission, and brake faults were merely patched or temporarily masked to clear the test. The mileage context is ambiguous. At roughly 5,700 miles per year over fourteen years, the usage is low.