Ford Tourneo Custom MOT pass rates & common failures

Every completed first-attempt MOT on a Ford Tourneo Custom in Great Britain in 2025 — 12,934 tests. Figures cover every Tourneo Custom first-tested in 2025, all trims grouped. How the Tourneo Custom ages, what it fails on, and what mileage is normal, computed directly from the official DVSA record of every test.

Pass rate 2025
79.0%
6.7 points above the class-4 average (72.3%); unadjusted for age — the age-matched comparison is below
Tests analysed
12,934
first tests, 2025
Arrived with a dangerous fault
4.4%
of Tourneo Custom first tests; national 7.3%

How many Ford Tourneo Custom cars are still on the road?

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

How the Tourneo Custom ages

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

Ford Tourneo CustomAll cars
50%60%70%80%90%100%3579111315171920Vehicle age (years)Ford Tourneo Custom, vehicle age 3: 76.3%Ford Tourneo Custom, vehicle age 4: 78.5%Ford Tourneo Custom, vehicle age 5: 78.7%Ford Tourneo Custom, vehicle age 6: 81.3%Ford Tourneo Custom, vehicle age 7: 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%Ford Tourneo Custom 76.2%All cars 57.6%
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Age (years)Tourneo Custom testsTourneo Custom pass rateAll cars
33,52276.3%88.5%
42,86778.5%87.2%
52,53278.7%86.0%
61,96181.3%83.5%
71,06876.2%80.9%

Better or worse than the average car?

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

Tourneo Custom behind
-14-7+0+7+14Age 3: -12.2 points vs the average car3Age 4: -8.7 points vs the average carAge 5: -7.3 points vs the average car5Age 6: -2.2 points vs the average carAge 7: -4.7 points vs the average car7Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)Gap (points)
3-12.2
4-8.7
5-7.3
6-2.2
7-4.7

The Tourneo Custom fleet on the road, by age

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

01k2k3k4kAge 3: 3k3Age 4: 2kAge 5: 2k5Age 6: 1kAge 7: 1k7Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)First tests
33,522
42,867
52,532
61,961
71,068

What a Tourneo Custom fails on

Where the failure items land when a Tourneo Custom 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 equipment30.3%
Visibility17.9%
Brakes15.2%
Tyres15.1%
Suspension7.0%
Body, chassis, structure6.7%
Noise, emissions and leaks3.4%
Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems1.9%

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 Tourneo Custom, 2025 — the faults in the post.

Brakes: 38.8% of advisories38.8%Tyres: 36.0% of advisories36.0%Suspension: 9.1% of advisories9.1%Non-component advisories: 8.3% of advisories8.3%Noise, emissions and leaks: 1.8% of advisoriesLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment: 1.7% of advisories
BrakesTyresSuspensionNon-component advisoriesNoise, emissions and leaksLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment
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CategoryShare of advisories
Brakes38.8%
Tyres36.0%
Suspension9.1%
Non-component advisories8.3%
Noise, emissions and leaks1.8%
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment1.7%

What mileage is normal for a Tourneo Custom?

Mileage recorded at test by vehicle age, 2025. The line is the typical (median) Tourneo Custom; 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 Tourneo Custom (median)
0k25k50k75k100k125k357Vehicle age (years)Age 3: typical 33,750 miles (middle half 18,750–61,250)Age 4: typical 46,250 miles (middle half 26,250–78,750)Age 5: typical 56,250 miles (middle half 33,750–81,250)Age 6: typical 63,750 miles (middle half 43,750–106,250)Age 7: typical 71,250 miles (middle half 48,750–108,750)71k mi

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

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Age (years)Lower quarterTypical (median)Upper quarter
318,75033,75061,250
426,25046,25078,750
533,75056,25081,250
643,75063,750106,250
748,75071,250108,750

What fails at each age

The Tourneo Custom'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.

Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentBrakesTyresVisibilityBody, chassis, structureSuspensionEverything else
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Age bandCategoryShare of the band's failure items
3-5 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment23.5%
3-5 yrsBrakes18.6%
3-5 yrsTyres18.5%
3-5 yrsVisibility17.3%
3-5 yrsBody, chassis, structure7.2%
3-5 yrsEverything else14.9%
6-9 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment20.3%
6-9 yrsBrakes20.0%
6-9 yrsTyres16.8%
6-9 yrsSuspension12.4%
6-9 yrsBody, chassis, structure11.2%
6-9 yrsEverything else19.3%

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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.