Peugeot 207 MOT pass rates & common failures

Every completed first-attempt MOT on a Peugeot 207 in Great Britain in 2025 — 112,674 tests. Figures cover every 207 first-tested in 2025, all trims grouped. How the 207 ages, what it fails on, and what mileage is normal, computed directly from the official DVSA record of every test.

Pass rate 2025
50.2%
22.1 points below the class-4 average (72.3%); unadjusted for age — the age-matched comparison is below
Tests analysed
112,674
first tests, 2025
Arrived with a dangerous fault
9.5%
of 207 first tests; national 7.3%

How many Peugeot 207 cars are still on the road?

At the end of 2025, DVLA's register held 121,647 Peugeot 207 cars that were taxed or on SORN: 103,072 taxed and 18,575 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. Peugeot 207 vans, where they exist, are counted by DVLA as goods vehicles and are not in these figures.

Still taxed, end of 2025
103,072
84.7% of the 121,647 207 cars taxed or on SORN; 135 model variants grouped
On SORN, end of 2025
18,575
declared off the road by their keepers — 15.3% of that total

How the numbers are moving

The number of taxed 207 cars peaked at 274,207 at the end of 2014 and has since fallen by 171,135 (62.4%) to 103,072 at the end of 2025. Cars on SORN went from 1,576 at the end of 2014 to 18,575 at the end of 2025, up 1078.6%. 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 207 cars, year by year

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

0100k200k300k2014201620182020202220242025Year (count at the end of the year)Taxed 207 cars, year 2014: 274kTaxed 207 cars, year 2015: 270kTaxed 207 cars, year 2016: 264kTaxed 207 cars, year 2017: 255kTaxed 207 cars, year 2018: 243kTaxed 207 cars, year 2019: 227kTaxed 207 cars, year 2020: 210kTaxed 207 cars, year 2021: 188kTaxed 207 cars, year 2022: 169kTaxed 207 cars, year 2023: 148kTaxed 207 cars, year 2024: 126kTaxed 207 cars, year 2025: 103k103k
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YearTaxed 207 cars
2014274,207
2015269,817
2016264,317
2017255,208
2018242,849
2019226,635
2020209,512
2021187,983
2022168,543
2023148,296
2024125,504
2025103,072

207 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.

05k10k15k20k2014201620182020202220242025Year (count at the end of the year)207 cars on SORN, year 2014: 2k207 cars on SORN, year 2015: 3k207 cars on SORN, year 2016: 4k207 cars on SORN, year 2017: 7k207 cars on SORN, year 2018: 8k207 cars on SORN, year 2019: 11k207 cars on SORN, year 2020: 13k207 cars on SORN, year 2021: 14k207 cars on SORN, year 2022: 14k207 cars on SORN, year 2023: 16k207 cars on SORN, year 2024: 17k207 cars on SORN, year 2025: 19k19k
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Year207 cars on SORN
20141,576
20152,782
20164,394
20176,520
20188,301
201910,684
202012,905
202113,932
202214,310
202315,586
202417,042
202518,575

Which model years survive

Taxed 207 cars at the end of 2025 by year of manufacture, and each year's share of the 103,072 taxed in all. Every build year holding at least 1% has its own row; the rest share one. 1 taxed 207 car has no recorded year of manufacture and is not in the table, so the rows add up to 103,071. 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 207 cars
20132,5292.5%
201212,24611.9%
201118,47017.9%
201020,67920.1%
200918,57718.0%
200813,88813.5%
200712,20311.8%
20063,5563.5%
All other build years (five years, each under 1%)9230.9%

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 207 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 207 ages

First-time pass rate by vehicle age, 207 vs all cars, 2025.

Peugeot 207All cars
40%50%60%70%80%90%100%3579111315171920Vehicle age (years)Peugeot 207, vehicle age 11: 68.7%Peugeot 207, vehicle age 12: 55.8%Peugeot 207, vehicle age 13: 53%Peugeot 207, vehicle age 14: 50.4%Peugeot 207, vehicle age 15: 49.8%Peugeot 207, vehicle age 16: 48.6%Peugeot 207, vehicle age 17: 48.7%Peugeot 207, vehicle age 18: 50.2%Peugeot 207, vehicle age 19: 49.6%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%All cars 57.6%Peugeot 207 49.6%
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Age (years)207 tests207 pass rateAll cars
1195868.7%68.6%
122,63655.8%65.8%
1312,61053.0%63.5%
1419,34750.4%61.2%
1522,15849.8%59.3%
1620,65448.6%58.3%
1715,91148.7%57.2%
1814,29250.2%57.4%
194,10349.6%57.0%

Better or worse than the average car?

The 207's pass rate minus the all-cars pass rate at each age, in percentage points. Bars above zero: the 207 beats the average car of that age. Below zero: it trails.

207 ahead207 behind
-12-6+0+6+12Age 11: +0.1 points vs the average car11Age 12: -10.0 points vs the average carAge 13: -10.5 points vs the average car13Age 14: -10.8 points vs the average carAge 15: -9.5 points vs the average car15Age 16: -9.7 points vs the average carAge 17: -8.5 points vs the average car17Age 18: -7.2 points vs the average carAge 19: -7.4 points vs the average car19Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)Gap (points)
11+0.1
12-10.0
13-10.5
14-10.8
15-9.5
16-9.7
17-8.5
18-7.2
19-7.4

The 207 fleet on the road, by age

How many took a first MOT in 2025 at each age — the shape of the 207 fleet still in use.

07k15k22k30kAge 11: 95811Age 12: 2kAge 13: 12k13Age 14: 19kAge 15: 22k15Age 16: 20kAge 17: 15k17Age 18: 14kAge 19: 4k19Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)First tests
11958
122,636
1312,610
1419,347
1522,158
1620,654
1715,911
1814,292
194,103

What a 207 fails on

Where the failure items land when a 207 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 equipment33.5%
Suspension18.8%
Body, chassis, structure12.2%
Brakes10.8%
Noise, emissions and leaks7.4%
Tyres6.8%
Visibility5.6%
Steering2.9%

Share of all failure items, 2025 — the 8 biggest categories shown (98.0% of the items); smaller categories are not listed.

The advisories to watch

Where testers most often write "keep an eye on this" for a 207, 2025 — the faults in the post.

Tyres: 24.8% of advisories24.8%Suspension: 21.9% of advisories21.9%Brakes: 20.4% of advisories20.4%Noise, emissions and leaks: 10.6% of advisories10.6%Body, chassis, structure: 8.8% of advisories8.8%Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment: 5.5% of advisories
TyresSuspensionBrakesNoise, emissions and leaksBody, chassis, structureLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment
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CategoryShare of advisories
Tyres24.8%
Suspension21.9%
Brakes20.4%
Noise, emissions and leaks10.6%
Body, chassis, structure8.8%
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment5.5%

Petrol, diesel or hybrid 207?

First-time pass rate for the two most-tested 207 fuel types, 2025, against the all-cars average. Fleet ages differ by fuel — newer fleets help the electrified bars.

40%50%60%70%80%90%100%all cars 72.3%Petrol: 51.4% of 73,384 tests51.4%Petrol73,384 testsDiesel: 48.0% of 39,288 tests48.0%Diesel39,288 tests
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FuelTestsPass rate
Petrol73,38451.4%
Diesel39,28848.0%

What mileage is normal for a 207?

Mileage recorded at test by vehicle age, 2025. The line is the typical (median) 207; 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 207 (median)
0k25k50k75k100k125k1113151719Vehicle age (years)Age 11: typical 51,250 miles (middle half 36,250–68,750)Age 12: typical 73,750 miles (middle half 51,250–98,750)Age 13: typical 78,750 miles (middle half 58,750–101,250)Age 14: typical 81,250 miles (middle half 61,250–103,750)Age 15: typical 86,250 miles (middle half 63,750–108,750)Age 16: typical 83,750 miles (middle half 63,750–108,750)Age 17: typical 88,750 miles (middle half 66,250–113,750)Age 18: typical 88,750 miles (middle half 66,250–111,250)Age 19: typical 88,750 miles (middle half 68,750–113,750)88k mi

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

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Age (years)Lower quarterTypical (median)Upper quarter
1136,25051,25068,750
1251,25073,75098,750
1358,75078,750101,250
1461,25081,250103,750
1563,75086,250108,750
1663,75083,750108,750
1766,25088,750113,750
1866,25088,750111,250
1968,75088,750113,750

What fails at each age

The 207'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 equipmentSuspensionBody, chassis, structureBrakesTyresNoise, emissions and leaksEverything else
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Age bandCategoryShare of the band's failure items
10-13 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment30.8%
10-13 yrsSuspension18.3%
10-13 yrsBody, chassis, structure13.0%
10-13 yrsBrakes11.2%
10-13 yrsTyres8.3%
10-13 yrsEverything else18.4%
14+ yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment27.9%
14+ yrsSuspension21.3%
14+ yrsBody, chassis, structure12.8%
14+ yrsBrakes12.1%
14+ yrsNoise, emissions and leaks8.2%
14+ yrsEverything else17.7%

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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. 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.