Ford Focus Recorded MOT Outcomes

30.8%
historical failure rate from 4,165,307 tests
3.9 percentage points above the dataset-wide reference of 26.9%

Evidence scope: This page summarises past outcomes for a make/model group. It does not use the condition, service history or current defects of a particular vehicle, so it is not a pass prediction, diagnosis or buying recommendation.

Recorded Failure Rate by Age Band

Age bandFailure rateTestsHighest recorded component category
0-2 years 10.5% 140,318 Tyres
3-5 years 13.1% 668,225 Tyres
6-10 years 26.4% 1,474,145 Lamps & Electrics
11-15 years 40.0% 1,266,070 Lamps & Electrics
15+ years 46.3% 616,549 Lamps & Electrics

Recorded Component-Category Rates

Each percentage is a sample-size-weighted historical category rate across the included age and mileage groups.

Component categoryRecorded rate
Lamps & Electrics7.3%
Suspension5.4%
Tyres3.6%
Brakes2.7%
Visibility2.1%
Body & Chassis1.7%
Steering0.7%

These categories describe aggregate records. They do not show that a specific vehicle has a component fault.

Recorded Model-Group Comparisons

Other Ford Model Groups

Groups With Similar Recorded Rates

Method: Failure and component-category rates are sample-size weighted. Only age/mileage groups with at least 100 tests are included. The checked-in source contains 148,509,908 tests and 39,969,903 failures.

Source: DVSA anonymised MOT tests and results, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.

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