Suzuki Splash MOT pass rates & common failures

Every completed first-attempt MOT on a Suzuki Splash in Great Britain in 2025 — 16,969 tests. Figures cover every Splash first-tested in 2025, all trims grouped. How the Splash ages, what it fails on, and what mileage is normal, computed directly from the official DVSA record of every test.

Pass rate 2025
61.6%
10.7 points below the class-4 average (72.3%); unadjusted for age — the age-matched comparison is below
Tests analysed
16,969
first tests, 2025
Arrived with a dangerous fault
7.3%
of Splash first tests; national 7.3%

How many Suzuki Splash cars are still on the road?

At the end of 2025, DVLA's register held 17,173 Suzuki Splash cars that were taxed or on SORN: 16,527 taxed and 646 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 Splash vans, where they exist, are counted by DVLA as goods vehicles and are not in these figures.

Still taxed, end of 2025
16,527
96.2% of the 17,173 Splash cars taxed or on SORN; 8 model variants grouped
On SORN, end of 2025
646
declared off the road by their keepers — 3.8% of that total

How the numbers are moving

The number of taxed Splash cars peaked at 19,899 at the end of 2014 and has since fallen by 3,372 (16.9%) to 16,527 at the end of 2025. Cars on SORN went from 49 at the end of 2014 to 646 at the end of 2025, up 1218.4%. 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 Splash 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 Splash cars, year 2014: 20kTaxed Splash cars, year 2015: 20kTaxed Splash cars, year 2016: 20kTaxed Splash cars, year 2017: 20kTaxed Splash cars, year 2018: 19kTaxed Splash cars, year 2019: 19kTaxed Splash cars, year 2020: 19kTaxed Splash cars, year 2021: 19kTaxed Splash cars, year 2022: 18kTaxed Splash cars, year 2023: 18kTaxed Splash cars, year 2024: 17kTaxed Splash cars, year 2025: 17k17k
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YearTaxed Splash cars
201419,899
201519,732
201619,772
201719,679
201819,499
201919,232
202018,890
202118,696
202218,360
202317,921
202417,285
202516,527

Splash 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.

02004006008002014201620182020202220242025Year (count at the end of the year)Splash cars on SORN, year 2014: 49Splash cars on SORN, year 2015: 76Splash cars on SORN, year 2016: 88Splash cars on SORN, year 2017: 135Splash cars on SORN, year 2018: 182Splash cars on SORN, year 2019: 221Splash cars on SORN, year 2020: 326Splash cars on SORN, year 2021: 331Splash cars on SORN, year 2022: 361Splash cars on SORN, year 2023: 403Splash cars on SORN, year 2024: 521Splash cars on SORN, year 2025: 646646
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YearSplash cars on SORN
201449
201576
201688
2017135
2018182
2019221
2020326
2021331
2022361
2023403
2024521
2025646

Which model years survive

Taxed Splash cars at the end of 2025 by year of manufacture, and each year's share of the 16,527 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 Splash cars
20143,06218.5%
20133,37020.4%
20123,59621.8%
20111,4248.6%
20101,2917.8%
20092,22313.5%
20081,5029.1%
All other build years (one year, each under 1%)590.4%

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 SPLASH 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 Splash ages

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

Suzuki SplashAll cars
50%60%70%80%90%100%3579111315171920Vehicle age (years)Suzuki Splash, vehicle age 11: 69.8%Suzuki Splash, vehicle age 12: 65.5%Suzuki Splash, vehicle age 13: 63.8%Suzuki Splash, vehicle age 14: 57.7%Suzuki Splash, vehicle age 15: 55.3%Suzuki Splash, vehicle age 16: 54%Suzuki Splash, vehicle age 17: 53.3%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%All cars 57.6%Suzuki Splash 53.3%
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Age (years)Splash testsSplash pass rateAll cars
113,05769.8%68.6%
123,35865.5%65.8%
133,57763.8%63.5%
141,46557.7%61.2%
151,38655.3%59.3%
162,42554.0%58.3%
171,64453.3%57.2%

Better or worse than the average car?

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

Splash aheadSplash behind
-6-3+0+3+6Age 11: +1.2 points vs the average car11Age 12: -0.3 points vs the average carAge 13: +0.3 points vs the average car13Age 14: -3.5 points vs the average carAge 15: -4.0 points vs the average car15Age 16: -4.3 points vs the average carAge 17: -3.9 points vs the average car17Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)Gap (points)
11+1.2
12-0.3
13+0.3
14-3.5
15-4.0
16-4.3
17-3.9

The Splash fleet on the road, by age

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

01k2k3k4kAge 11: 3k11Age 12: 3kAge 13: 3k13Age 14: 1kAge 15: 1k15Age 16: 2kAge 17: 1k17Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)First tests
113,057
123,358
133,577
141,465
151,386
162,425
171,644

What a Splash fails on

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

Suspension33.6%
Brakes24.9%
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment17.8%
Visibility8.0%
Tyres7.0%
Body, chassis, structure3.6%
Noise, emissions and leaks3.0%
Steering0.9%

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 Splash, 2025 — the faults in the post.

Brakes: 33.1% of advisories33.1%Suspension: 28.5% of advisories28.5%Tyres: 24.2% of advisories24.2%Body, chassis, structure: 3.5% of advisoriesNon-component advisories: 3.0% of advisoriesNoise, emissions and leaks: 2.4% of advisories
BrakesSuspensionTyresBody, chassis, structureNon-component advisoriesNoise, emissions and leaks
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CategoryShare of advisories
Brakes33.1%
Suspension28.5%
Tyres24.2%
Body, chassis, structure3.5%
Non-component advisories3.0%
Noise, emissions and leaks2.4%

What mileage is normal for a Splash?

Mileage recorded at test by vehicle age, 2025. The line is the typical (median) Splash; 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 Splash (median)
0k25k50k75k100k11131517Vehicle age (years)Age 11: typical 48,750 miles (middle half 33,750–68,750)Age 12: typical 56,250 miles (middle half 38,750–76,250)Age 13: typical 58,750 miles (middle half 41,250–81,250)Age 14: typical 63,750 miles (middle half 43,750–81,250)Age 15: typical 66,250 miles (middle half 48,750–86,250)Age 16: typical 71,250 miles (middle half 51,250–93,750)Age 17: typical 76,250 miles (middle half 56,250–98,750)76k mi

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

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Age (years)Lower quarterTypical (median)Upper quarter
1133,75048,75068,750
1238,75056,25076,250
1341,25058,75081,250
1443,75063,75081,250
1548,75066,25086,250
1651,25071,25093,750
1756,25076,25098,750

What fails at each age

The Splash'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.

SuspensionBrakesLamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentTyresVisibilityEverything else
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Age bandCategoryShare of the band's failure items
10-13 yrsSuspension36.1%
10-13 yrsBrakes26.8%
10-13 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment13.8%
10-13 yrsTyres8.6%
10-13 yrsVisibility7.5%
10-13 yrsEverything else7.2%
14+ yrsSuspension37.3%
14+ yrsBrakes27.4%
14+ yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment12.5%
14+ yrsTyres6.7%
14+ yrsVisibility5.4%
14+ yrsEverything else10.7%

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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.