Ford Transit Recorded MOT Outcomes

34.3%
historical failure rate from 3,984,543 tests
7.4 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 19.8% 307,862 Lamps & Electrics
3-5 years 22.6% 1,160,241 Lamps & Electrics
6-10 years 34.6% 1,355,371 Lamps & Electrics
11-15 years 50.1% 752,417 Lamps & Electrics
15+ years 48.2% 408,652 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 & Electrics9.1%
Brakes5.9%
Suspension5.5%
Body & Chassis4.0%
Visibility3.8%
Tyres3.1%
Steering1.3%

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

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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