MOT check by make and model

Yes — that is what this page is for. Pick one of the 56 makes below to see its models ranked by MOT pass rate, along with the defects testers record most often on each one. The figures come from DVSA MOT test data rather than owner surveys, so they describe what actually failed an inspection, not what someone remembers going wrong.

No, and it is worth being clear about that. A pass rate is a fleet average across thousands of vehicles of varying age and care. It tells you which faults are characteristic of a model — useful when you are deciding what to shortlist, or what to inspect on a viewing. It says nothing about the individual car in front of you. For that you need that car's own record, by registration.

Because the MOT is an age test as much as a quality test. Corrosion, suspension wear, worn bushes and perished brake components accumulate with years and miles regardless of how well a car was built, so any model's pass rate falls as its surviving examples get older. Compare models of similar age to each other rather than across generations.

A defect recorded frequently enough across a model's tests to be characteristic of it rather than incidental. The model pages group these by the component the tester cited — brakes, suspension, tyres, lighting, emissions, body structure — because a model with one recurring weak system is a very different proposition from one with faults scattered evenly.