Citroen C3 Aircross MOT pass rates & common failures

Every completed first-attempt MOT on a Citroen C3 Aircross in Great Britain in 2025 — 35,783 tests. Figures cover every C3 Aircross first-tested in 2025, all trims grouped. How the C3 Aircross ages, what it fails on, and what mileage is normal, computed directly from the official DVSA record of every test.

Pass rate 2025
84.6%
12.3 points above the class-4 average (72.3%); unadjusted for age — the age-matched comparison is below
Tests analysed
35,783
first tests, 2025
Arrived with a dangerous fault
4.4%
of C3 Aircross first tests; national 7.3%

How many Citroen C3 Aircross cars are still on the road?

The Department for Transport's vehicle licensing statistics (DfT/DVLA table VEH0124) do not record the C3 Aircross under a name of its own: its cars are counted inside the C3 figures, so no separate count of taxed or SORN C3 Aircross cars can be given here.

How the C3 Aircross ages

First-time pass rate by vehicle age, C3 Aircross vs all cars, 2025.

Citroen C3 AircrossAll cars
50%60%70%80%90%100%3579111315171920Vehicle age (years)Citroen C3 Aircross, vehicle age 3: 92.1%Citroen C3 Aircross, vehicle age 4: 90.6%Citroen C3 Aircross, vehicle age 5: 87%Citroen C3 Aircross, vehicle age 6: 82.8%Citroen C3 Aircross, vehicle age 7: 78.1%Citroen C3 Aircross, vehicle age 8: 76.2%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%Citroen C3 Aircross 76.2%All cars 57.6%
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Age (years)C3 Aircross testsC3 Aircross pass rateAll cars
36,55392.1%88.5%
44,35790.6%87.2%
54,53687.0%86.0%
69,65982.8%83.5%
79,51178.1%80.9%
892076.2%78.2%

Better or worse than the average car?

The C3 Aircross's pass rate minus the all-cars pass rate at each age, in percentage points. Bars above zero: the C3 Aircross beats the average car of that age. Below zero: it trails.

C3 Aircross aheadC3 Aircross behind
-4-2+0+2+4Age 3: +3.6 points vs the average car3Age 4: +3.4 points vs the average carAge 5: +1.0 points vs the average car5Age 6: -0.7 points vs the average carAge 7: -2.8 points vs the average car7Age 8: -2.0 points vs the average carVehicle age (years)
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Age (years)Gap (points)
3+3.6
4+3.4
5+1.0
6-0.7
7-2.8
8-2.0

The C3 Aircross fleet on the road, by age

How many took a first MOT in 2025 at each age — the shape of the C3 Aircross fleet still in use.

02k5k7k10kAge 3: 6k3Age 4: 4kAge 5: 4k5Age 6: 9kAge 7: 9k7Age 8: 9208Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)First tests
36,553
44,357
54,536
69,659
79,511
8920

What a C3 Aircross fails on

Where the failure items land when a C3 Aircross fails or needs a fix at test, 2025. Use it as a pre-purchase checklist: these are the areas to look at first.

Brakes24.9%
Tyres21.0%
Body, chassis, structure18.0%
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment14.9%
Visibility7.5%
Noise, emissions and leaks5.6%
Suspension5.6%
Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems1.5%

Share of all failure items, 2025 — the 8 biggest categories shown (98.9% of the items); smaller categories are not listed.

The advisories to watch

Where testers most often write "keep an eye on this" for a C3 Aircross, 2025 — the faults in the post.

Brakes: 43.6% of advisories43.6%Tyres: 38.6% of advisories38.6%Non-component advisories: 6.1% of advisoriesBody, chassis, structure: 5.2% of advisoriesSuspension: 3.6% of advisoriesNoise, emissions and leaks: 1.9% of advisories
BrakesTyresNon-component advisoriesBody, chassis, structureSuspensionNoise, emissions and leaks
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CategoryShare of advisories
Brakes43.6%
Tyres38.6%
Non-component advisories6.1%
Body, chassis, structure5.2%
Suspension3.6%
Noise, emissions and leaks1.9%

Petrol, diesel or hybrid C3 Aircross?

First-time pass rate for the two most-tested C3 Aircross fuel types, 2025, against the all-cars average. Fleet ages differ by fuel — newer fleets help the electrified bars.

50%60%70%80%90%100%all cars 72.3%Petrol: 84.9% of 33,721 tests84.9%Petrol33,721 testsDiesel: 80.6% of 2,062 tests80.6%Diesel2,062 tests
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FuelTestsPass rate
Petrol33,72184.9%
Diesel2,06280.6%

What mileage is normal for a C3 Aircross?

Mileage recorded at test by vehicle age, 2025. The line is the typical (median) C3 Aircross; 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 C3 Aircross (median)
0k25k50k75k3578Vehicle age (years)Age 3: typical 18,750 miles (middle half 11,250–26,250)Age 4: typical 23,750 miles (middle half 16,250–33,750)Age 5: typical 28,750 miles (middle half 21,250–38,750)Age 6: typical 38,750 miles (middle half 26,250–48,750)Age 7: typical 43,750 miles (middle half 31,250–56,250)Age 8: typical 46,250 miles (middle half 33,750–61,250)46k mi

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

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Age (years)Lower quarterTypical (median)Upper quarter
311,25018,75026,250
416,25023,75033,750
521,25028,75038,750
626,25038,75048,750
731,25043,75056,250
833,75046,25061,250

What fails at each age

The C3 Aircross'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.

TyresBrakesLamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentBody, chassis, structureVisibilityNoise, emissions and leaksEverything else
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Age bandCategoryShare of the band's failure items
3-5 yrsTyres37.6%
3-5 yrsBrakes35.4%
3-5 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment9.8%
3-5 yrsBody, chassis, structure5.1%
3-5 yrsVisibility4.2%
3-5 yrsEverything else7.9%
6-9 yrsBrakes26.7%
6-9 yrsBody, chassis, structure22.8%
6-9 yrsTyres18.9%
6-9 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment9.0%
6-9 yrsNoise, emissions and leaks7.6%
6-9 yrsEverything else15.0%

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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. “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.