Suzuki Baleno MOT pass rates & common failures

Every completed first-attempt MOT on a Suzuki Baleno in Great Britain in 2025 — 6,685 tests. Figures cover every Baleno first-tested in 2025, all trims grouped. How the Baleno ages, what it fails on, and what mileage is normal, computed directly from the official DVSA record of every test.

Pass rate 2025
73.5%
1.2 points above the class-4 average (72.3%); unadjusted for age — the age-matched comparison is below
Tests analysed
6,685
first tests, 2025
Arrived with a dangerous fault
5.5%
of Baleno first tests; national 7.3%

How many Suzuki Baleno cars are still on the road?

At the end of 2025, DVLA's register held 6,899 Suzuki Baleno cars that were taxed or on SORN: 6,497 taxed and 402 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. Suzuki Baleno vans, where they exist, are counted by DVLA as goods vehicles and are not in these figures.

Still taxed, end of 2025
6,497
94.2% of the 6,899 Baleno cars taxed or on SORN; 13 model variants grouped
On SORN, end of 2025
402
declared off the road by their keepers — 5.8% of that total

How the numbers are moving

The number of taxed Baleno cars peaked at 6,958 at the end of 2019 and has since fallen by 461 (6.6%) to 6,497 at the end of 2025. Cars on SORN went from 346 at the end of 2014 to 402 at the end of 2025, up 16.2%. 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 Baleno cars, year by year

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

02k4k6k8k2014201620182020202220242025Year (count at the end of the year)Taxed Baleno cars, year 2014: 2kTaxed Baleno cars, year 2015: 1kTaxed Baleno cars, year 2016: 3kTaxed Baleno cars, year 2017: 5kTaxed Baleno cars, year 2018: 6kTaxed Baleno cars, year 2019: 7kTaxed Baleno cars, year 2020: 7kTaxed Baleno cars, year 2021: 7kTaxed Baleno cars, year 2022: 7kTaxed Baleno cars, year 2023: 7kTaxed Baleno cars, year 2024: 7kTaxed Baleno cars, year 2025: 6k6k
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YearTaxed Baleno cars
20141,859
20151,328
20162,891
20174,799
20186,082
20196,958
20206,815
20216,827
20226,756
20236,652
20246,593
20256,497

Baleno 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.

01002003004005002014201620182020202220242025Year (count at the end of the year)Baleno cars on SORN, year 2014: 346Baleno cars on SORN, year 2015: 402Baleno cars on SORN, year 2016: 438Baleno cars on SORN, year 2017: 459Baleno cars on SORN, year 2018: 453Baleno cars on SORN, year 2019: 454Baleno cars on SORN, year 2020: 438Baleno cars on SORN, year 2021: 427Baleno cars on SORN, year 2022: 420Baleno cars on SORN, year 2023: 423Baleno cars on SORN, year 2024: 391Baleno cars on SORN, year 2025: 402402
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YearBaleno cars on SORN
2014346
2015402
2016438
2017459
2018453
2019454
2020438
2021427
2022420
2023423
2024391
2025402

Which model years survive

Taxed Baleno cars at the end of 2025 by year of manufacture, and each year's share of the 6,497 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 Baleno cars
20191,03515.9%
20181,39421.5%
20172,14233.0%
20161,85728.6%
All other build years (nine years, each under 1%)691.1%

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 BALENO 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 Baleno ages

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

Suzuki BalenoAll cars
50%60%70%80%90%100%3579111315171920Vehicle age (years)Suzuki Baleno, vehicle age 6: 81.7%Suzuki Baleno, vehicle age 7: 72.5%Suzuki Baleno, vehicle age 8: 71.8%Suzuki Baleno, vehicle age 9: 72.2%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%Suzuki Baleno 72.2%All cars 57.6%
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Age (years)Baleno testsBaleno pass rateAll cars
61,06781.7%83.5%
71,44872.5%80.9%
82,20271.8%78.2%
91,88372.2%74.9%

Better or worse than the average car?

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

Baleno behind
-10-5+0+5+10Age 6: -1.8 points vs the average carAge 7: -8.4 points vs the average car7Age 8: -6.4 points vs the average carAge 9: -2.7 points vs the average car9Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)Gap (points)
6-1.8
7-8.4
8-6.4
9-2.7

The Baleno fleet on the road, by age

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

07501k2k3kAge 6: 1k6Age 7: 1kAge 8: 2k8Age 9: 1k9Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)First tests
61,067
71,448
82,202
91,883

What a Baleno fails on

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

Suspension32.0%
Brakes21.6%
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment15.8%
Tyres13.7%
Visibility11.9%
Noise, emissions and leaks1.4%
Body, chassis, structure1.4%
Steering1.0%

Share of all failure items, 2025 — the 8 biggest categories shown (98.7% of the items); smaller categories are not listed.

The advisories to watch

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

Brakes: 37.2% of advisories37.2%Tyres: 28.7% of advisories28.7%Suspension: 26.6% of advisories26.6%Non-component advisories: 4.4% of advisoriesBody, chassis, structure: 0.8% of advisoriesNoise, emissions and leaks: 0.6% of advisories
BrakesTyresSuspensionNon-component advisoriesBody, chassis, structureNoise, emissions and leaks
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CategoryShare of advisories
Brakes37.2%
Tyres28.7%
Suspension26.6%
Non-component advisories4.4%
Body, chassis, structure0.8%
Noise, emissions and leaks0.6%

What mileage is normal for a Baleno?

Mileage recorded at test by vehicle age, 2025. The line is the typical (median) Baleno; 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 Baleno (median)
0k25k50k75k689Vehicle age (years)Age 6: typical 36,250 miles (middle half 23,750–48,750)Age 7: typical 43,750 miles (middle half 31,250–58,750)Age 8: typical 51,250 miles (middle half 36,250–68,750)Age 9: typical 56,250 miles (middle half 41,250–73,750)56k mi

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

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Age (years)Lower quarterTypical (median)Upper quarter
623,75036,25048,750
731,25043,75058,750
836,25051,25068,750
941,25056,25073,750

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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.