15+-Year Subaru Forester Recorded MOT Outcomes

39.5%
historical failure rate from 20,413 tests in this age band
12.6 percentage points above the dataset-wide reference of 26.9%

Evidence scope: The source groups vehicles into broad age bands. It does not provide a model-year-specific result here, and it does not include an individual vehicle's condition, service history or current defects. This page is descriptive, not predictive or diagnostic.

Recorded Component-Category Rates

These percentages are sample-size-weighted historical rates for this model and age band.

Component categoryRecorded rate
Lamps & Electrics9.3%
Suspension9.0%
Body & Chassis4.5%
Brakes4.4%
Visibility3.9%
Tyres1.8%
Steering0.9%

A category rate does not show that a particular vehicle has a fault in that area.

Other Recorded Age Bands

Age bandFailure rateTestsHighest recorded component category
0-2 years 7.6% 3,084 Lamps & Electrics
3-5 years 11.8% 11,575 Visibility
6-10 years 23.8% 19,591 Suspension
11-15 years 37.3% 16,099 Lamps & Electrics
15+ years 39.5% 20,413 Lamps & Electrics

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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