2010 Audi Q7 3.0L Diesel · LR60 VRE

This 2010 Audi Q7 presents a pattern of mounting mechanical and electrical wear that has accelerated notably in the past six months. The most recent MOT pass in December 2025 came with three active advisories: both front tyres worn close to the legal limit on their outer edges, and front brake pads already thinning. These are not minor warnings—they signal that consumables are being driven hard and replacement is imminent, not distant. The trend is clearly worsening. Just five weeks earlier, in November 2025, the vehicle failed its MOT on a front brake pipe at imminent risk of fracture, a serious safety defect that demands immediate repair. The same test also flagged the offside front subframe bushes as worn and affecting suspension geometry, along with multiple electrical faults affecting rear lighting. When that failure was resubmitted and passed in December, the brake pipe issue vanished from the record, but the underlying subframe wear remained logged as an advisory. The front tyres and brake pads, though not yet failed items, have degraded rapidly within a single month—they were noted as wearing close to the limit in November and remain in the same condition in December. Over a longer horizon, the history reveals a vehicle under mechanical stress. An oil leak has been documented as a recurring concern across multiple MOTs: noted as "close to limit for failing" in December 2023, then as "not excessive" in December 2024 and again in the failed test of December 2024.