Ford Transit Courier MOT pass rates & common failures

Every completed first-attempt MOT on a Ford Transit Courier in Great Britain in 2025 — 31,001 tests. Figures cover every Transit Courier first-tested in 2025, all trims grouped. The Transit Courier is a van, tested in the car MOT class (class 4) to the same standard. How the Transit Courier ages, what it fails on, and what mileage is normal, computed directly from the official DVSA record of every test.

Pass rate 2025
70.5%
1.8 points below the class-4 average (72.3%); unadjusted for age — the age-matched comparison is below
Tests analysed
31,001
first tests, 2025
Arrived with a dangerous fault
7.7%
of Transit Courier first tests; national 7.3%
Typical mileage at 10 years
111,250
middle half: 83,750–143,750 miles (2,500-mile-band midpoints)

How the Transit Courier ages

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

Ford Transit CourierAll cars
50%60%70%80%90%100%3579111315171920Vehicle age (years)Ford Transit Courier, vehicle age 3: 80%Ford Transit Courier, vehicle age 4: 78.3%Ford Transit Courier, vehicle age 5: 73.7%Ford Transit Courier, vehicle age 6: 71.3%Ford Transit Courier, vehicle age 7: 69.8%Ford Transit Courier, vehicle age 8: 65.5%Ford Transit Courier, vehicle age 9: 63.8%Ford Transit Courier, vehicle age 10: 59.6%Ford Transit Courier, vehicle age 11: 61%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 Transit Courier 61%All cars 57.6%
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Age (years)Transit Courier testsTransit Courier pass rateAll cars
34,49680.0%88.5%
43,53978.3%87.2%
53,33773.7%86.0%
64,47771.3%83.5%
74,23369.8%80.9%
83,79265.5%78.2%
92,65563.8%74.9%
103,34459.6%71.9%
111,02261.0%68.6%

Better or worse than the average car?

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

Transit Courier behind
-14-7+0+7+14Age 3: -8.5 points vs the average car3Age 4: -8.9 points vs the average carAge 5: -12.3 points vs the average car5Age 6: -12.2 points vs the average carAge 7: -11.1 points vs the average car7Age 8: -12.7 points vs the average carAge 9: -11.1 points vs the average car9Age 10: -12.3 points vs the average carAge 11: -7.6 points vs the average car11Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)Gap (points)
3-8.5
4-8.9
5-12.3
6-12.2
7-11.1
8-12.7
9-11.1
10-12.3
11-7.6

The Transit Courier fleet on the road, by age

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

01k2k3k5kAge 3: 4k3Age 4: 3kAge 5: 3k5Age 6: 4kAge 7: 4k7Age 8: 3kAge 9: 2k9Age 10: 3kAge 11: 1k11Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)First tests
34,496
43,539
53,337
64,477
74,233
83,792
92,655
103,344
111,022

What a Transit Courier fails on

Where the failure items land when a Transit Courier 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 equipment36.0%
Tyres16.5%
Visibility12.1%
Suspension11.9%
Brakes9.4%
Noise, emissions and leaks7.4%
Steering2.7%
Body, chassis, structure2.3%

Share of all failure items, 2025 — the 8 biggest categories shown (98.4% of the items); smaller categories are not listed.

The advisories to watch

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

Tyres: 47.7% of advisories47.7%Brakes: 23.4% of advisories23.4%Suspension: 9.0% of advisories9.0%Non-component advisories: 6.3% of advisoriesNoise, emissions and leaks: 4.4% of advisoriesIdentification of the vehicle: 3.5% of advisories
TyresBrakesSuspensionNon-component advisoriesNoise, emissions and leaksIdentification of the vehicle
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CategoryShare of advisories
Tyres47.7%
Brakes23.4%
Suspension9.0%
Non-component advisories6.3%
Noise, emissions and leaks4.4%
Identification of the vehicle3.5%

Petrol, diesel or hybrid Transit Courier?

First-time pass rate for the two most-tested Transit Courier 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: 69.4% of 25,951 tests69.4%Diesel25,951 testsPetrol: 76.5% of 5,050 tests76.5%Petrol5,050 tests
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FuelTestsPass rate
Diesel25,95169.4%
Petrol5,05076.5%

What mileage is normal for a Transit Courier?

Mileage recorded at test by vehicle age, 2025. The line is the typical (median) Transit Courier; 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 Transit Courier (median)
0k25k50k75k100k125k150k175k357911Vehicle age (years)Age 3: typical 38,750 miles (middle half 26,250–56,250)Age 4: typical 48,750 miles (middle half 31,250–68,750)Age 5: typical 66,250 miles (middle half 46,250–88,750)Age 6: typical 71,250 miles (middle half 51,250–98,750)Age 7: typical 81,250 miles (middle half 58,750–106,250)Age 8: typical 96,250 miles (middle half 68,750–121,250)Age 9: typical 101,250 miles (middle half 73,750–128,750)Age 10: typical 111,250 miles (middle half 83,750–143,750)Age 11: typical 118,750 miles (middle half 88,750–153,750)118k mi

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

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Age (years)Lower quarterTypical (median)Upper quarter
326,25038,75056,250
431,25048,75068,750
546,25066,25088,750
651,25071,25098,750
758,75081,250106,250
868,75096,250121,250
973,750101,250128,750
1083,750111,250143,750
1188,750118,750153,750

What fails at each age

The Transit Courier'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.

TyresLamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentVisibilityBrakesNoise, emissions and leaksSuspensionEverything else
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Age bandCategoryShare of the band's failure items
3-5 yrsTyres28.3%
3-5 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment21.1%
3-5 yrsVisibility14.3%
3-5 yrsBrakes14.2%
3-5 yrsNoise, emissions and leaks7.9%
3-5 yrsEverything else14.2%
6-9 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment27.9%
6-9 yrsTyres18.8%
6-9 yrsSuspension16.2%
6-9 yrsBrakes10.9%
6-9 yrsNoise, emissions and leaks9.7%
6-9 yrsEverything else16.5%
10-13 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment29.8%
10-13 yrsSuspension20.4%
10-13 yrsTyres13.9%
10-13 yrsVisibility11.3%
10-13 yrsBrakes9.9%
10-13 yrsEverything else14.7%

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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.