Suzuki Celerio MOT pass rates & common failures

Every completed first-attempt MOT on a Suzuki Celerio in Great Britain in 2025 — 27,263 tests. Figures cover every Celerio first-tested in 2025, all trims grouped. How the Celerio ages, what it fails on, and what mileage is normal, computed directly from the official DVSA record of every test.

Pass rate 2025
82.9%
10.6 points above the class-4 average (72.3%); unadjusted for age — the age-matched comparison is below
Tests analysed
27,263
first tests, 2025
Arrived with a dangerous fault
3.8%
of Celerio first tests; national 7.3%
Typical mileage at 10 years
48,750
middle half: 31,250–66,250 miles (2,500-mile-band midpoints)

How many Suzuki Celerio cars are still on the road?

At the end of 2025, DVLA's register held 27,663 Suzuki Celerio cars that were taxed or on SORN: 27,209 taxed and 454 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 Celerio vans, where they exist, are counted by DVLA as goods vehicles and are not in these figures.

Still taxed, end of 2025
27,209
98.4% of the 27,663 Celerio cars taxed or on SORN; 7 model variants grouped
On SORN, end of 2025
454
declared off the road by their keepers — 1.6% of that total

How the numbers are moving

The number of taxed Celerio cars peaked at 28,009 at the end of 2019 and has since fallen by 800 (2.9%) to 27,209 at the end of 2025. Cars on SORN went from 14 at the end of 2015 to 454 at the end of 2025, up 3142.9%. 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 Celerio cars, year by year

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

010k20k30k2014201620182020202220242025Year (count at the end of the year)Taxed Celerio cars, year 2014: 34Taxed Celerio cars, year 2015: 8kTaxed Celerio cars, year 2016: 16kTaxed Celerio cars, year 2017: 22kTaxed Celerio cars, year 2018: 26kTaxed Celerio cars, year 2019: 28kTaxed Celerio cars, year 2020: 28kTaxed Celerio cars, year 2021: 28kTaxed Celerio cars, year 2022: 28kTaxed Celerio cars, year 2023: 28kTaxed Celerio cars, year 2024: 27kTaxed Celerio cars, year 2025: 27k27k
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YearTaxed Celerio cars
201434
20157,767
201615,859
201722,051
201826,075
201928,009
202027,896
202128,001
202227,864
202327,569
202427,360
202527,209

Celerio 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)Celerio cars on SORN, year 2014: 0Celerio cars on SORN, year 2015: 14Celerio cars on SORN, year 2016: 38Celerio cars on SORN, year 2017: 204Celerio cars on SORN, year 2018: 154Celerio cars on SORN, year 2019: 204Celerio cars on SORN, year 2020: 224Celerio cars on SORN, year 2021: 218Celerio cars on SORN, year 2022: 242Celerio cars on SORN, year 2023: 263Celerio cars on SORN, year 2024: 353Celerio cars on SORN, year 2025: 454454
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YearCelerio cars on SORN
20140
201514
201638
2017204
2018154
2019204
2020224
2021218
2022242
2023263
2024353
2025454

Which model years survive

Taxed Celerio cars at the end of 2025 by year of manufacture, and each year's share of the 27,209 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 Celerio cars
20192,0817.6%
20184,01814.8%
20176,23122.9%
20167,74628.5%
20157,10226.1%
All other build years (one year, each under 1%)310.1%

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 CELERIO 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 Celerio ages

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

Suzuki CelerioAll cars
50%60%70%80%90%100%3579111315171920Vehicle age (years)Suzuki Celerio, vehicle age 6: 87.7%Suzuki Celerio, vehicle age 7: 84.4%Suzuki Celerio, vehicle age 8: 84.7%Suzuki Celerio, vehicle age 9: 82.7%Suzuki Celerio, vehicle age 10: 79.3%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 Celerio 79.3%All cars 57.6%
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Age (years)Celerio testsCelerio pass rateAll cars
62,06387.7%83.5%
74,06684.4%80.9%
86,26584.7%78.2%
97,75082.7%74.9%
107,08879.3%71.9%

Better or worse than the average car?

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

Celerio ahead
-8-4+0+4+8Age 6: +4.2 points vs the average carAge 7: +3.5 points vs the average car7Age 8: +6.5 points vs the average carAge 9: +7.8 points vs the average car9Age 10: +7.4 points vs the average carVehicle age (years)
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Age (years)Gap (points)
6+4.2
7+3.5
8+6.5
9+7.8
10+7.4

The Celerio fleet on the road, by age

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

02k4k6k8kAge 6: 2k6Age 7: 4kAge 8: 6k8Age 9: 7kAge 10: 7k10Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)First tests
62,063
74,066
86,265
97,750
107,088

What a Celerio fails on

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

Brakes27.0%
Visibility23.2%
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment21.4%
Tyres16.4%
Suspension5.7%
Seat belts and supplementary restraint systems1.7%
Noise, emissions and leaks1.7%
Body, chassis, structure1.6%

Share of all failure items, 2025 — the 8 biggest categories shown (98.8% of the items); smaller categories are not listed.

The advisories to watch

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

Tyres: 44.9% of advisories44.9%Brakes: 36.3% of advisories36.3%Suspension: 8.6% of advisories8.6%Non-component advisories: 4.6% of advisoriesLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment: 1.4% of advisoriesNoise, emissions and leaks: 1.4% of advisories
TyresBrakesSuspensionNon-component advisoriesLamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentNoise, emissions and leaks
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CategoryShare of advisories
Tyres44.9%
Brakes36.3%
Suspension8.6%
Non-component advisories4.6%
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment1.4%
Noise, emissions and leaks1.4%

What mileage is normal for a Celerio?

Mileage recorded at test by vehicle age, 2025. The line is the typical (median) Celerio; 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 Celerio (median)
0k25k50k75k6810Vehicle age (years)Age 6: typical 26,250 miles (middle half 16,250–36,250)Age 7: typical 31,250 miles (middle half 18,750–46,250)Age 8: typical 36,250 miles (middle half 23,750–53,750)Age 9: typical 41,250 miles (middle half 28,750–61,250)Age 10: typical 48,750 miles (middle half 31,250–66,250)48k mi

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

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Age (years)Lower quarterTypical (median)Upper quarter
616,25026,25036,250
718,75031,25046,250
823,75036,25053,750
928,75041,25061,250
1031,25048,75066,250

What fails at each age

The Celerio'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.

BrakesTyresVisibilityLamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentSuspensionEverything else
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Age bandCategoryShare of the band's failure items
6-9 yrsBrakes34.8%
6-9 yrsTyres20.9%
6-9 yrsVisibility17.2%
6-9 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment12.2%
6-9 yrsSuspension7.8%
6-9 yrsEverything else7.1%
10-13 yrsBrakes35.8%
10-13 yrsTyres19.2%
10-13 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment17.0%
10-13 yrsVisibility13.4%
10-13 yrsSuspension6.7%
10-13 yrsEverything else7.9%

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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.