Chevrolet Aveo MOT pass rates & common failures

Every completed first-attempt MOT on a Chevrolet Aveo in Great Britain in 2025 — 7,366 tests. Figures cover every Aveo first-tested in 2025, all trims grouped. How the Aveo ages, what it fails on, and what mileage is normal, computed directly from the official DVSA record of every test.

Pass rate 2025
50.3%
22.0 points below the class-4 average (72.3%); unadjusted for age — the age-matched comparison is below
Tests analysed
7,366
first tests, 2025
Arrived with a dangerous fault
10.0%
of Aveo first tests; national 7.3%

How many Chevrolet Aveo cars are still on the road?

At the end of 2025, DVLA's register held 7,665 Chevrolet Aveo cars that were taxed or on SORN: 6,610 taxed and 1,055 on SORN (Statutory Off Road Notification — kept, but declared off the road by the keeper). The MOT figures above count tests; these count cars, across the whole United Kingdom, cars only. Chevrolet Aveo vans, where they exist, are counted by DVLA as goods vehicles and are not in these figures.

Still taxed, end of 2025
6,610
86.2% of the 7,665 Aveo cars taxed or on SORN; 11 model variants grouped
On SORN, end of 2025
1,055
declared off the road by their keepers — 13.8% of that total

How the numbers are moving

The number of taxed Aveo cars peaked at 16,296 at the end of 2014 and has since fallen by 9,686 (59.4%) to 6,610 at the end of 2025. Cars on SORN went from 115 at the end of 2014 to 1,055 at the end of 2025, up 817.4%. A car leaves the taxed count when it is scrapped, exported or declared off the road; the year-end counts do not say which.

Taxed Aveo cars, year by year

Cars of this model taxed and on the road at the end of each year, 2014–2025.

05k10k15k20k2014201620182020202220242025Year (count at the end of the year)Taxed Aveo cars, year 2014: 16kTaxed Aveo cars, year 2015: 16kTaxed Aveo cars, year 2016: 16kTaxed Aveo cars, year 2017: 15kTaxed Aveo cars, year 2018: 15kTaxed Aveo cars, year 2019: 14kTaxed Aveo cars, year 2020: 13kTaxed Aveo cars, year 2021: 12kTaxed Aveo cars, year 2022: 11kTaxed Aveo cars, year 2023: 9kTaxed Aveo cars, year 2024: 8kTaxed Aveo cars, year 2025: 7k7k
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YearTaxed Aveo cars
201416,296
201515,907
201615,642
201715,172
201814,504
201913,651
202012,760
202111,580
202210,585
20239,386
20248,039
20256,610

Aveo cars on SORN, year by year

Cars of this model declared off the road at the end of each year, 2014–2025. Its own scale — SORN counts are a fraction of the taxed count.

05001k2k2014201620182020202220242025Year (count at the end of the year)Aveo cars on SORN, year 2014: 115Aveo cars on SORN, year 2015: 165Aveo cars on SORN, year 2016: 282Aveo cars on SORN, year 2017: 332Aveo cars on SORN, year 2018: 459Aveo cars on SORN, year 2019: 594Aveo cars on SORN, year 2020: 701Aveo cars on SORN, year 2021: 743Aveo cars on SORN, year 2022: 755Aveo cars on SORN, year 2023: 830Aveo cars on SORN, year 2024: 930Aveo cars on SORN, year 2025: 1k1k
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YearAveo cars on SORN
2014115
2015165
2016282
2017332
2018459
2019594
2020701
2021743
2022755
2023830
2024930
20251,055

Which model years survive

Taxed Aveo cars at the end of 2025 by year of manufacture, and each year's share of the 6,610 taxed in all. Every build year holding at least 1% has its own row; the rest share one. A build year's count depends on how many were sold that year as well as how many have lasted.

Year of manufacture Taxed, end of 2025Share of taxed Aveo cars
20141111.7%
20131,10716.7%
20121,21718.4%
201183612.6%
201093814.2%
20091,90028.7%
20085007.6%
All other build years (one year, each under 1%)10.0%

Population source: Department for Transport / DVLA vehicle licensing statistics, table VEH0124, updated 15 July 2026; counts of the cars on DVLA's register that were taxed or on SORN at the end of each year shown, United Kingdom, cars only, excluding cars recorded with no model name. SortedCars groups DVLA's model name AVEO under this model. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. SortedCars is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, DVLA or the Department for Transport.

How the Aveo ages

First-time pass rate by vehicle age, Aveo vs all cars, 2025.

Chevrolet AveoAll cars
40%50%60%70%80%90%100%3579111315171920Vehicle age (years)Chevrolet Aveo, vehicle age 12: 54.9%Chevrolet Aveo, vehicle age 13: 55.3%Chevrolet Aveo, vehicle age 14: 51.2%Chevrolet Aveo, vehicle age 15: 47.6%Chevrolet Aveo, vehicle age 16: 46.6%Chevrolet Aveo, vehicle age 17: 45.7%All cars, vehicle age 3: 88.5%All cars, vehicle age 4: 87.2%All cars, vehicle age 5: 86%All cars, vehicle age 6: 83.5%All cars, vehicle age 7: 80.9%All cars, vehicle age 8: 78.2%All cars, vehicle age 9: 74.9%All cars, vehicle age 10: 71.9%All cars, vehicle age 11: 68.6%All cars, vehicle age 12: 65.8%All cars, vehicle age 13: 63.5%All cars, vehicle age 14: 61.2%All cars, vehicle age 15: 59.3%All cars, vehicle age 16: 58.3%All cars, vehicle age 17: 57.2%All cars, vehicle age 18: 57.4%All cars, vehicle age 19: 57%All cars, vehicle age 20: 57.6%All cars 57.6%Chevrolet Aveo 45.7%
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Age (years)Aveo testsAveo pass rateAll cars
121,15854.9%65.8%
131,25855.3%63.5%
1494651.2%61.2%
151,05947.6%59.3%
162,24446.6%58.3%
1758045.7%57.2%

Better or worse than the average car?

The Aveo's pass rate minus the all-cars pass rate at each age, in percentage points. Bars above zero: the Aveo beats the average car of that age. Below zero: it trails.

Aveo behind
-12-6+0+6+12Age 12: -10.9 points vs the average carAge 13: -8.2 points vs the average car13Age 14: -10.0 points vs the average carAge 15: -11.7 points vs the average car15Age 16: -11.7 points vs the average carAge 17: -11.5 points vs the average car17Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)Gap (points)
12-10.9
13-8.2
14-10.0
15-11.7
16-11.7
17-11.5

The Aveo fleet on the road, by age

How many took a first MOT in 2025 at each age — the shape of the Aveo fleet still in use.

07501k2k3kAge 12: 1k12Age 13: 1kAge 14: 94614Age 15: 1kAge 16: 2k16Age 17: 58017Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)First tests
121,158
131,258
14946
151,059
162,244
17580

What an Aveo fails on

Where the failure items land when an Aveo fails or needs a fix at test, 2025. Use it as a pre-purchase checklist: these are the areas to look at first.

Suspension26.0%
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment22.8%
Brakes14.9%
Visibility7.0%
Body, chassis, structure6.9%
Noise, emissions and leaks6.8%
Steering6.8%
Tyres6.4%

Share of all failure items, 2025 — the 8 biggest categories shown (97.5% of the items); smaller categories are not listed.

The advisories to watch

Where testers most often write "keep an eye on this" for a Aveo, 2025 — the faults in the post.

Suspension: 31.1% of advisories31.1%Tyres: 20.7% of advisories20.7%Brakes: 19.2% of advisories19.2%Noise, emissions and leaks: 7.8% of advisories7.8%Body, chassis, structure: 6.4% of advisoriesNon-component advisories: 5.1% of advisories
SuspensionTyresBrakesNoise, emissions and leaksBody, chassis, structureNon-component advisories
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CategoryShare of advisories
Suspension31.1%
Tyres20.7%
Brakes19.2%
Noise, emissions and leaks7.8%
Body, chassis, structure6.4%
Non-component advisories5.1%

Petrol, diesel or hybrid Aveo?

First-time pass rate for the two most-tested Aveo fuel types, 2025, against the all-cars average. Fleet ages differ by fuel — newer fleets help the electrified bars.

40%50%60%70%80%90%100%all cars 72.3%Petrol: 49.9% of 6,811 tests49.9%Petrol6,811 testsDiesel: 55.1% of 554 tests55.1%Diesel554 tests
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FuelTestsPass rate
Petrol6,81149.9%
Diesel55455.1%

What mileage is normal for an Aveo?

Mileage recorded at test by vehicle age, 2025. The line is the typical (median) Aveo; the shaded band holds the middle half. A car far outside the band, in either direction, is worth questions the recorded history can answer.

Typical Aveo (median)
0k25k50k75k100k12141617Vehicle age (years)Age 12: typical 71,250 miles (middle half 51,250–91,250)Age 13: typical 73,750 miles (middle half 53,750–93,750)Age 14: typical 68,750 miles (middle half 48,750–86,250)Age 15: typical 71,250 miles (middle half 53,750–91,250)Age 16: typical 71,250 miles (middle half 53,750–91,250)Age 17: typical 68,750 miles (middle half 53,750–88,750)68k mi

Mileage values are midpoints of 2,500-mile bands.

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Age (years)Lower quarterTypical (median)Upper quarter
1251,25071,25091,250
1353,75073,75093,750
1448,75068,75086,250
1553,75071,25091,250
1653,75071,25091,250
1753,75068,75088,750

What fails at each age

The Aveo's failure mix by age band, 2025 — each band's top categories at their true share of that band's failure items; the pale remainder is everything else. How the mix shifts with age is the point of the chart.

SuspensionLamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentNoise, emissions and leaksTyresBrakesSteeringBody, chassis, structureEverything else
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Age bandCategoryShare of the band's failure items
10-13 yrsSuspension43.1%
10-13 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment17.5%
10-13 yrsNoise, emissions and leaks8.8%
10-13 yrsTyres8.3%
10-13 yrsBrakes7.9%
10-13 yrsEverything else14.4%
14+ yrsSuspension23.2%
14+ yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment19.1%
14+ yrsBrakes18.6%
14+ yrsSteering8.6%
14+ yrsBody, chassis, structure7.8%
14+ yrsEverything else22.7%
How these figures are computed. Every number on this page is calculated by SortedCars from the DVSA anonymised MOT results dataset (every MOT test in Great Britain — 2025 for single-year figures; trend figures state their span, currently 2023–2025). Where a figure comes from a sample or uses banded values (mileage is banded to 2,500 miles), the page says so beside the figure. Test class 4 only, first tests only — retests are excluded. Class 4 is the car MOT class and also covers car-derived vans, pickups and motorhomes tested to the same standard; where this page says "cars" it means class 4. Pass rate = passes ÷ (passes + failures + pass-after-rectification): a vehicle that failed and was fixed during the visit counts as a fail. Pass rates describe fleets, not individual machines: they reflect how cars were driven, maintained and used as well as how they were built, and beyond recorded mileage none of that is in the data. A well-kept example of a model with a weak average can still pass; a neglected example of a strong one can still fail. No figure is shown for any group with fewer than 500 tests. Alias spellings of a make in the DVSA file are counted under one make name, and all trims and variants of a model are grouped under one model name, using SortedCars' grouping tables. The taxed and SORN counts on this page are the one exception: they are not computed from MOT records but taken from the Department for Transport's vehicle licensing statistics (DfT/DVLA table VEH0124, updated 15 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0), which count the cars on DVLA's register that were taxed or on SORN at the end of each year shown, UK-wide, cars only. They describe a model as a whole, grouped under SortedCars' model names, and say nothing about any one car. “Dangerous” is DVSA's statutory defect category (in force since May 2018): a defect posing an immediate risk to road safety — driving the vehicle before repair is an offence. What these figures are for. These statistics are general information about groups of vehicles. They are not advice, a valuation or a recommendation to buy, avoid or price any particular vehicle, and no decision about one car should rest on them alone — check the car itself and its own records. We take care over the calculations, but we cannot guarantee they are complete, current or free of error, and we accept no liability for loss arising from reliance on them. This does not limit any liability that cannot lawfully be limited — see our Terms & Conditions. If you believe any figure on this page is inaccurate, contact us. SortedCars is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, the DVSA or DVLA. DVSA publishes the raw test records; the statistics on this page are SortedCars' own calculations from them. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.