Ford Grand C-Max MOT pass rates & common failures

Every completed first-attempt MOT on a Ford Grand C-Max in Great Britain in 2025 — 34,571 tests. Figures cover every Grand C-Max first-tested in 2025, all trims grouped. How the Grand C-Max ages, what it fails on, and what mileage is normal, computed directly from the official DVSA record of every test.

Pass rate 2025
65.2%
7.1 points below the class-4 average (72.3%); unadjusted for age — the age-matched comparison is below
Tests analysed
34,571
first tests, 2025
Arrived with a dangerous fault
12.0%
of Grand C-Max first tests; national 7.3%
Typical mileage at 10 years
81,250
middle half: 66,250–101,250 miles (2,500-mile-band midpoints)

How many Ford Grand C-Max cars are still on the road?

At the end of 2025, DVLA's register held 34,319 Ford Grand C-Max cars that were taxed or on SORN: 33,120 taxed and 1,199 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. Ford Grand C-Max vans, where they exist, are counted by DVLA as goods vehicles and are not in these figures.

Still taxed, end of 2025
33,120
96.5% of the 34,319 Grand C-Max cars taxed or on SORN; 21 model variants grouped
On SORN, end of 2025
1,199
declared off the road by their keepers — 3.5% of that total

How the numbers are moving

The number of taxed Grand C-Max cars peaked at 37,303 at the end of 2019 and has since fallen by 4,183 (11.2%) to 33,120 at the end of 2025. Cars on SORN went from 27 at the end of 2014 to 1,199 at the end of 2025, up 4340.7%. 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 Grand C-Max cars, year by year

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

010k20k30k40k2014201620182020202220242025Year (count at the end of the year)Taxed Grand C-Max cars, year 2014: 20kTaxed Grand C-Max cars, year 2015: 24kTaxed Grand C-Max cars, year 2016: 31kTaxed Grand C-Max cars, year 2017: 35kTaxed Grand C-Max cars, year 2018: 37kTaxed Grand C-Max cars, year 2019: 37kTaxed Grand C-Max cars, year 2020: 37kTaxed Grand C-Max cars, year 2021: 37kTaxed Grand C-Max cars, year 2022: 36kTaxed Grand C-Max cars, year 2023: 36kTaxed Grand C-Max cars, year 2024: 35kTaxed Grand C-Max cars, year 2025: 33k33k
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YearTaxed Grand C-Max cars
201420,261
201524,112
201630,741
201734,566
201836,989
201937,303
202036,925
202136,955
202236,389
202335,648
202434,623
202533,120

Grand C-Max 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)Grand C-Max cars on SORN, year 2014: 27Grand C-Max cars on SORN, year 2015: 71Grand C-Max cars on SORN, year 2016: 82Grand C-Max cars on SORN, year 2017: 124Grand C-Max cars on SORN, year 2018: 132Grand C-Max cars on SORN, year 2019: 176Grand C-Max cars on SORN, year 2020: 245Grand C-Max cars on SORN, year 2021: 298Grand C-Max cars on SORN, year 2022: 425Grand C-Max cars on SORN, year 2023: 622Grand C-Max cars on SORN, year 2024: 863Grand C-Max cars on SORN, year 2025: 1k1k
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YearGrand C-Max cars on SORN
201427
201571
201682
2017124
2018132
2019176
2020245
2021298
2022425
2023622
2024863
20251,199

Which model years survive

Taxed Grand C-Max cars at the end of 2025 by year of manufacture, and each year's share of the 33,120 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 Grand C-Max cars
20191,0193.1%
20182,6337.9%
20173,81311.5%
20166,31319.1%
20153,57010.8%
20143,80111.5%
20134,10312.4%
20123,35410.1%
20114,41613.3%
All other build years (one year, each under 1%)980.3%

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 GRAND C-MAX 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 Grand C-Max ages

First-time pass rate by vehicle age, Grand C-Max vs all cars, 2025.

Ford Grand C-MaxAll cars
50%60%70%80%90%100%3579111315171920Vehicle age (years)Ford Grand C-Max, vehicle age 6: 75.7%Ford Grand C-Max, vehicle age 7: 71.7%Ford Grand C-Max, vehicle age 8: 73.7%Ford Grand C-Max, vehicle age 9: 67.8%Ford Grand C-Max, vehicle age 10: 65.9%Ford Grand C-Max, vehicle age 11: 61.6%Ford Grand C-Max, vehicle age 12: 61.7%Ford Grand C-Max, vehicle age 13: 61%Ford Grand C-Max, vehicle age 14: 57.6%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%Ford Grand C-Max 57.6%All cars 57.6%
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Age (years)Grand C-Max testsGrand C-Max pass rateAll cars
61,04875.7%83.5%
72,72071.7%80.9%
83,89573.7%78.2%
96,50267.8%74.9%
103,69965.9%71.9%
113,94261.6%68.6%
124,28061.7%65.8%
133,58661.0%63.5%
144,79357.6%61.2%

Better or worse than the average car?

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

Grand C-Max behind
-10-5+0+5+10Age 6: -7.8 points vs the average carAge 7: -9.2 points vs the average car7Age 8: -4.5 points vs the average carAge 9: -7.1 points vs the average car9Age 10: -6.0 points vs the average carAge 11: -7.0 points vs the average car11Age 12: -4.1 points vs the average carAge 13: -2.5 points vs the average car13Age 14: -3.6 points vs the average carVehicle age (years)
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Age (years)Gap (points)
6-7.8
7-9.2
8-4.5
9-7.1
10-6.0
11-7.0
12-4.1
13-2.5
14-3.6

The Grand C-Max fleet on the road, by age

How many took a first MOT in 2025 at each age — the shape of the Grand C-Max fleet still in use.

01k3k5k7kAge 6: 1k6Age 7: 2kAge 8: 3k8Age 9: 6kAge 10: 3k10Age 11: 3kAge 12: 4k12Age 13: 3kAge 14: 4k14Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)First tests
61,048
72,720
83,895
96,502
103,699
113,942
124,280
133,586
144,793

What a Grand C-Max fails on

Where the failure items land when a Grand C-Max 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 equipment28.4%
Tyres20.1%
Brakes15.8%
Suspension11.3%
Body, chassis, structure7.4%
Visibility6.7%
Noise, emissions and leaks5.8%
Road Wheels1.3%

Share of all failure items, 2025 — the 8 biggest categories shown (96.8% of the items); smaller categories are not listed.

The advisories to watch

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

Tyres: 33.5% of advisories33.5%Brakes: 24.0% of advisories24.0%Suspension: 23.8% of advisories23.8%Non-component advisories: 8.0% of advisories8.0%Noise, emissions and leaks: 2.9% of advisoriesIdentification of the vehicle: 2.8% of advisories
TyresBrakesSuspensionNon-component advisoriesNoise, emissions and leaksIdentification of the vehicle
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CategoryShare of advisories
Tyres33.5%
Brakes24.0%
Suspension23.8%
Non-component advisories8.0%
Noise, emissions and leaks2.9%
Identification of the vehicle2.8%

Petrol, diesel or hybrid Grand C-Max?

First-time pass rate for the two most-tested Grand C-Max 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: 64.0% of 25,382 tests64.0%Diesel25,382 testsPetrol: 68.7% of 9,189 tests68.7%Petrol9,189 tests
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FuelTestsPass rate
Diesel25,38264.0%
Petrol9,18968.7%

What mileage is normal for a Grand C-Max?

Mileage recorded at test by vehicle age, 2025. The line is the typical (median) Grand C-Max; 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 Grand C-Max (median)
0k25k50k75k100k125k150k68101214Vehicle age (years)Age 6: typical 41,250 miles (middle half 28,750–56,250)Age 7: typical 51,250 miles (middle half 38,750–68,750)Age 8: typical 61,250 miles (middle half 48,750–78,750)Age 9: typical 73,750 miles (middle half 58,750–91,250)Age 10: typical 81,250 miles (middle half 66,250–101,250)Age 11: typical 88,750 miles (middle half 73,750–108,750)Age 12: typical 96,250 miles (middle half 78,750–116,250)Age 13: typical 103,750 miles (middle half 86,250–126,250)Age 14: typical 111,250 miles (middle half 91,250–131,250)111k mi

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

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Age (years)Lower quarterTypical (median)Upper quarter
628,75041,25056,250
738,75051,25068,750
848,75061,25078,750
958,75073,75091,250
1066,25081,250101,250
1173,75088,750108,750
1278,75096,250116,250
1386,250103,750126,250
1491,250111,250131,250

What fails at each age

The Grand C-Max'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 equipmentNoise, emissions and leaksSuspensionBody, chassis, structureEverything else
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Age bandCategoryShare of the band's failure items
6-9 yrsTyres28.1%
6-9 yrsBrakes17.9%
6-9 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment17.6%
6-9 yrsNoise, emissions and leaks9.2%
6-9 yrsSuspension8.5%
6-9 yrsEverything else18.7%
10-13 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment25.0%
10-13 yrsTyres21.8%
10-13 yrsBrakes17.5%
10-13 yrsSuspension14.0%
10-13 yrsBody, chassis, structure7.4%
10-13 yrsEverything else14.3%
14+ yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment21.1%
14+ yrsBrakes18.9%
14+ yrsSuspension17.2%
14+ yrsTyres14.8%
14+ yrsBody, chassis, structure13.9%
14+ yrsEverything else14.1%

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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.