Peugeot Rifter MOT pass rates & common failures

Every completed first-attempt MOT on a Peugeot Rifter in Great Britain in 2025 — 9,757 tests. Figures cover every Rifter first-tested in 2025, all trims grouped. How the Rifter ages, what it fails on, and what mileage is normal, computed directly from the official DVSA record of every test.

Pass rate 2025
80.7%
8.4 points above the class-4 average (72.3%); unadjusted for age — the age-matched comparison is below
Tests analysed
9,757
first tests, 2025
Arrived with a dangerous fault
3.7%
of Rifter first tests; national 7.3%

How many Peugeot Rifter cars are still on the road?

At the end of 2025, DVLA's register held 17,841 Peugeot Rifter cars that were taxed or on SORN: 17,668 taxed and 173 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 Rifter vans, where they exist, are counted by DVLA as goods vehicles and are not in these figures.

Still taxed, end of 2025
17,668
99.0% of the 17,841 Rifter cars taxed or on SORN; 47 model variants grouped
On SORN, end of 2025
173
declared off the road by their keepers — 1.0% of that total

How the numbers are moving

The number of taxed Rifter cars is still rising: 17,668 at the end of 2025, up 3,619 (25.8%) on the end of 2024, and the highest in the years shown. Cars on SORN went from 21 at the end of 2019 to 173 at the end of 2025, up 723.8%. 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 Rifter cars, year by year

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

05k10k15k20k2014201620182020202220242025Year (count at the end of the year)Taxed Rifter cars, year 2014: 0Taxed Rifter cars, year 2015: 0Taxed Rifter cars, year 2016: 0Taxed Rifter cars, year 2017: 0Taxed Rifter cars, year 2018: 485Taxed Rifter cars, year 2019: 4kTaxed Rifter cars, year 2020: 6kTaxed Rifter cars, year 2021: 8kTaxed Rifter cars, year 2022: 9kTaxed Rifter cars, year 2023: 11kTaxed Rifter cars, year 2024: 14kTaxed Rifter cars, year 2025: 18k18k
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YearTaxed Rifter cars
20140
20150
20160
20170
2018485
20193,646
20206,017
20217,882
20229,322
202311,430
202414,049
202517,668

Rifter 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.

0501001502002014201620182020202220242025Year (count at the end of the year)Rifter cars on SORN, year 2014: 0Rifter cars on SORN, year 2015: 0Rifter cars on SORN, year 2016: 0Rifter cars on SORN, year 2017: 0Rifter cars on SORN, year 2018: 0Rifter cars on SORN, year 2019: 21Rifter cars on SORN, year 2020: 49Rifter cars on SORN, year 2021: 21Rifter cars on SORN, year 2022: 35Rifter cars on SORN, year 2023: 48Rifter cars on SORN, year 2024: 105Rifter cars on SORN, year 2025: 173173
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YearRifter cars on SORN
20140
20150
20160
20170
20180
201921
202049
202121
202235
202348
2024105
2025173

Which model years survive

Taxed Rifter cars at the end of 2025 by year of manufacture, and each year's share of the 17,668 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 Rifter cars
20253,79321.5%
20242,87016.2%
20232,14712.2%
20221,4428.2%
20211,6639.4%
20202,27112.9%
20193,02317.1%
20184562.6%
All other build years (three years, each under 1%)30.0%

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 names RIFTER, RIFTER ALLURE BLUEHDI 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 Rifter ages

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

Peugeot RifterAll cars
50%60%70%80%90%100%3579111315171920Vehicle age (years)Peugeot Rifter, vehicle age 3: 85.3%Peugeot Rifter, vehicle age 4: 75.2%Peugeot Rifter, vehicle age 5: 79.7%Peugeot Rifter, vehicle age 6: 82.5%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%Peugeot Rifter 82.5%All cars 57.6%
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Age (years)Rifter testsRifter pass rateAll cars
31,55585.3%88.5%
41,77475.2%87.2%
52,55679.7%86.0%
63,25682.5%83.5%

Better or worse than the average car?

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

Rifter behind
-14-7+0+7+14Age 3: -3.2 points vs the average car3Age 4: -12.0 points vs the average carAge 5: -6.3 points vs the average car5Age 6: -1.0 points vs the average carVehicle age (years)
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Age (years)Gap (points)
3-3.2
4-12.0
5-6.3
6-1.0

The Rifter fleet on the road, by age

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

01k2k3k4kAge 3: 1k3Age 4: 1kAge 5: 2k5Age 6: 3k6Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)First tests
31,555
41,774
52,556
63,256

What a Rifter fails on

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

Visibility31.0%
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment25.4%
Tyres15.5%
Brakes12.0%
Body, chassis, structure5.1%
Noise, emissions and leaks4.0%
Suspension4.0%
Steering1.2%

Share of all failure items, 2025 — the 8 biggest categories shown (98.1% of the items); smaller categories are not listed.

The advisories to watch

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

Tyres: 48.2% of advisories48.2%Brakes: 34.7% of advisories34.7%Non-component advisories: 7.3% of advisories7.3%Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment: 3.6% of advisoriesSuspension: 3.1% of advisoriesBody, chassis, structure: 1.7% of advisories
TyresBrakesNon-component advisoriesLamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentSuspensionBody, chassis, structure
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CategoryShare of advisories
Tyres48.2%
Brakes34.7%
Non-component advisories7.3%
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment3.6%
Suspension3.1%
Body, chassis, structure1.7%

Petrol, diesel or hybrid Rifter?

First-time pass rate for the two most-tested Rifter 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: 80.9% of 8,026 tests80.9%Diesel8,026 testsPetrol: 80.7% of 1,608 tests80.7%Petrol1,608 tests
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FuelTestsPass rate
Diesel8,02680.9%
Petrol1,60880.7%

What mileage is normal for a Rifter?

Mileage recorded at test by vehicle age, 2025. The line is the typical (median) Rifter; 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 Rifter (median)
0k25k50k75k356Vehicle age (years)Age 3: typical 13,750 miles (middle half 6,250–23,750)Age 4: typical 18,750 miles (middle half 11,250–31,250)Age 5: typical 26,250 miles (middle half 13,750–41,250)Age 6: typical 36,250 miles (middle half 23,750–51,250)36k mi

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

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Age (years)Lower quarterTypical (median)Upper quarter
36,25013,75023,750
411,25018,75031,250
513,75026,25041,250
623,75036,25051,250

What fails at each age

The Rifter'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.

VisibilityTyresLamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentBrakesBody, chassis, structureEverything else
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Age bandCategoryShare of the band's failure items
3-5 yrsVisibility33.1%
3-5 yrsTyres19.5%
3-5 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment17.6%
3-5 yrsBrakes13.5%
3-5 yrsBody, chassis, structure4.4%
3-5 yrsEverything else11.9%
6-9 yrsTyres21.1%
6-9 yrsBrakes19.9%
6-9 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment18.8%
6-9 yrsVisibility12.3%
6-9 yrsBody, chassis, structure9.2%
6-9 yrsEverything else18.7%

More vehicles we've checked

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.