Citroen DS4 MOT pass rates & common failures

Every completed first-attempt MOT on a Citroen DS4 in Great Britain in 2025 — 9,559 tests. Figures cover every DS4 first-tested in 2025, all trims grouped. How the DS4 ages, what it fails on, and what mileage is normal, computed directly from the official DVSA record of every test.

Pass rate 2025
54.6%
17.7 points below the class-4 average (72.3%); unadjusted for age — the age-matched comparison is below
Tests analysed
9,559
first tests, 2025
Arrived with a dangerous fault
12.9%
of DS4 first tests; national 7.3%
Typical mileage at 10 years
78,750
middle half: 61,250–96,250 miles (2,500-mile-band midpoints)

How many Citroen DS4 cars are still on the road?

At the end of 2025, DVLA's register held 10,004 Citroen DS4 cars that were taxed or on SORN: 9,324 taxed and 680 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. Citroen DS4 vans, where they exist, are counted by DVLA as goods vehicles and are not in these figures.

Still taxed, end of 2025
9,324
93.2% of the 10,004 DS4 cars taxed or on SORN; 27 model variants grouped
On SORN, end of 2025
680
declared off the road by their keepers — 6.8% of that total

How the numbers are moving

The number of taxed DS4 cars peaked at 11,930 at the end of 2017 and has since fallen by 2,606 (21.8%) to 9,324 at the end of 2025. Cars on SORN went from 149 at the end of 2014 to 680 at the end of 2025, up 356.4%. 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 DS4 cars, year by year

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

05k10k15k2014201620182020202220242025Year (count at the end of the year)Taxed DS4 cars, year 2014: 11kTaxed DS4 cars, year 2015: 12kTaxed DS4 cars, year 2016: 12kTaxed DS4 cars, year 2017: 12kTaxed DS4 cars, year 2018: 12kTaxed DS4 cars, year 2019: 12kTaxed DS4 cars, year 2020: 11kTaxed DS4 cars, year 2021: 11kTaxed DS4 cars, year 2022: 11kTaxed DS4 cars, year 2023: 11kTaxed DS4 cars, year 2024: 10kTaxed DS4 cars, year 2025: 9k9k
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YearTaxed DS4 cars
201410,658
201511,875
201611,890
201711,930
201811,787
201911,610
202011,357
202111,264
202211,003
202310,555
202410,041
20259,324

DS4 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.

02004006008002014201620182020202220242025Year (count at the end of the year)DS4 cars on SORN, year 2014: 149DS4 cars on SORN, year 2015: 108DS4 cars on SORN, year 2016: 75DS4 cars on SORN, year 2017: 73DS4 cars on SORN, year 2018: 100DS4 cars on SORN, year 2019: 165DS4 cars on SORN, year 2020: 230DS4 cars on SORN, year 2021: 243DS4 cars on SORN, year 2022: 315DS4 cars on SORN, year 2023: 386DS4 cars on SORN, year 2024: 498DS4 cars on SORN, year 2025: 680680
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YearDS4 cars on SORN
2014149
2015108
201675
201773
2018100
2019165
2020230
2021243
2022315
2023386
2024498
2025680

Which model years survive

Taxed DS4 cars at the end of 2025 by year of manufacture, and each year's share of the 9,324 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 DS4 cars
20151,05111.3%
20142,12722.8%
20133,28735.3%
20121,97621.2%
20118719.3%
All other build years (three years, each under 1%)120.1%

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 DS4 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 DS4 ages

First-time pass rate by vehicle age, DS4 vs all cars, 2025.

Citroen DS4All cars
50%60%70%80%90%100%3579111315171920Vehicle age (years)Citroen DS4, vehicle age 10: 58.5%Citroen DS4, vehicle age 11: 57.4%Citroen DS4, vehicle age 12: 54%Citroen DS4, vehicle age 13: 52.7%Citroen DS4, vehicle age 14: 50%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%Citroen DS4 50%
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Age (years)DS4 testsDS4 pass rateAll cars
101,04258.5%71.9%
112,11157.4%68.6%
123,34154.0%65.8%
132,06052.7%63.5%
1496050.0%61.2%

Better or worse than the average car?

The DS4's pass rate minus the all-cars pass rate at each age, in percentage points. Bars above zero: the DS4 beats the average car of that age. Below zero: it trails.

DS4 behind
-14-7+0+7+14Age 10: -13.4 points vs the average carAge 11: -11.2 points vs the average car11Age 12: -11.8 points vs the average carAge 13: -10.8 points vs the average car13Age 14: -11.2 points vs the average carVehicle age (years)
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Age (years)Gap (points)
10-13.4
11-11.2
12-11.8
13-10.8
14-11.2

The DS4 fleet on the road, by age

How many took a first MOT in 2025 at each age — the shape of the DS4 fleet still in use.

01k2k3k4kAge 10: 1k10Age 11: 2kAge 12: 3k12Age 13: 2kAge 14: 96014Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)First tests
101,042
112,111
123,341
132,060
14960

What a DS4 fails on

Where the failure items land when a DS4 fails or needs a fix at test, 2025. Use it as a pre-purchase checklist: these are the areas to look at first.

Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment24.6%
Suspension23.4%
Brakes16.2%
Tyres11.3%
Body, chassis, structure9.2%
Steering5.5%
Visibility4.8%
Noise, emissions and leaks3.3%

Share of all failure items, 2025 — the 8 biggest categories shown (98.2% of the items); smaller categories are not listed.

The advisories to watch

Where testers most often write "keep an eye on this" for a DS4, 2025 — the faults in the post.

Tyres: 31.5% of advisories31.5%Brakes: 27.7% of advisories27.7%Suspension: 19.9% of advisories19.9%Non-component advisories: 6.7% of advisoriesNoise, emissions and leaks: 4.8% of advisoriesSteering: 2.6% of advisories
TyresBrakesSuspensionNon-component advisoriesNoise, emissions and leaksSteering
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CategoryShare of advisories
Tyres31.5%
Brakes27.7%
Suspension19.9%
Non-component advisories6.7%
Noise, emissions and leaks4.8%
Steering2.6%

Petrol, diesel or hybrid DS4?

First-time pass rate for the two most-tested DS4 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%Diesel: 54.5% of 8,640 tests54.5%Diesel8,640 testsPetrol: 55.4% of 919 tests55.4%Petrol919 tests
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FuelTestsPass rate
Diesel8,64054.5%
Petrol91955.4%

What mileage is normal for a DS4?

Mileage recorded at test by vehicle age, 2025. The line is the typical (median) DS4; 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 DS4 (median)
0k25k50k75k100k125k150k101214Vehicle age (years)Age 10: typical 78,750 miles (middle half 61,250–96,250)Age 11: typical 86,250 miles (middle half 68,750–106,250)Age 12: typical 96,250 miles (middle half 78,750–116,250)Age 13: typical 103,750 miles (middle half 86,250–123,750)Age 14: typical 106,250 miles (middle half 86,250–126,250)106k mi

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

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Age (years)Lower quarterTypical (median)Upper quarter
1061,25078,75096,250
1168,75086,250106,250
1278,75096,250116,250
1386,250103,750123,750
1486,250106,250126,250

What fails at each age

The DS4'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 equipmentBrakesTyresBody, chassis, structureEverything else
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Age bandCategoryShare of the band's failure items
10-13 yrsSuspension25.7%
10-13 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment19.4%
10-13 yrsBrakes17.6%
10-13 yrsTyres12.4%
10-13 yrsBody, chassis, structure9.8%
10-13 yrsEverything else15.1%
14+ yrsSuspension24.0%
14+ yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment23.1%
14+ yrsBrakes17.4%
14+ yrsTyres11.5%
14+ yrsBody, chassis, structure7.9%
14+ yrsEverything else16.1%

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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. 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.