Vauxhall Movano MOT pass rates & common failures

Every completed first-attempt MOT on a Vauxhall Movano in Great Britain in 2025 — 5,120 tests. Figures cover every Movano first-tested in 2025, all trims grouped. The Movano is a van, tested in the car MOT class (class 4) to the same standard. How the Movano ages, what it fails on, and what mileage is normal, computed directly from the official DVSA record of every test.

Pass rate 2025
62.7%
9.6 points below the class-4 average (72.3%); unadjusted for age — the age-matched comparison is below
Tests analysed
5,120
first tests, 2025
Arrived with a dangerous fault
9.1%
of Movano first tests; national 7.3%

How the Movano ages

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

Vauxhall MovanoAll cars
50%60%70%80%90%100%3579111315171920Vehicle age (years)Vauxhall Movano, vehicle age 9: 66.8%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%Vauxhall Movano 66.8%All cars 57.6%
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Age (years)Movano testsMovano pass rateAll cars
960866.8%74.9%

Better or worse than the average car?

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

Movano behind
-10-5+0+5+10Age 9: -8.1 points vs the average car9Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)Gap (points)
9-8.1

The Movano fleet on the road, by age

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

0175350525700Age 9: 6089Vehicle age (years)
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Age (years)First tests
9608

What a Movano fails on

Where the failure items land when a Movano 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 equipment28.4%
Brakes27.1%
Suspension12.9%
Body, chassis, structure9.4%
Visibility8.2%
Tyres4.0%
Steering4.0%
Noise, emissions and leaks3.4%

Share of all failure items, 2025 — the 8 biggest categories shown (97.5% of the items); smaller categories are not listed.

The advisories to watch

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

Brakes: 36.9% of advisories36.9%Suspension: 21.6% of advisories21.6%Tyres: 17.1% of advisories17.1%Noise, emissions and leaks: 6.4% of advisoriesLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment: 4.6% of advisoriesNon-component advisories: 4.3% of advisories
BrakesSuspensionTyresNoise, emissions and leaksLamps, reflectors and electrical equipmentNon-component advisories
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CategoryShare of advisories
Brakes36.9%
Suspension21.6%
Tyres17.1%
Noise, emissions and leaks6.4%
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment4.6%
Non-component advisories4.3%

What fails at each age

The Movano'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 equipmentBrakesNoise, emissions and leaksTyresVisibilityBody, chassis, structureSuspensionEverything else
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Age bandCategoryShare of the band's failure items
3-5 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment33.7%
3-5 yrsBrakes26.9%
3-5 yrsNoise, emissions and leaks10.0%
3-5 yrsTyres10.0%
3-5 yrsVisibility7.8%
3-5 yrsEverything else11.6%
6-9 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment31.5%
6-9 yrsBrakes30.2%
6-9 yrsVisibility10.3%
6-9 yrsBody, chassis, structure7.7%
6-9 yrsTyres6.4%
6-9 yrsEverything else13.9%
10-13 yrsBrakes35.1%
10-13 yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment24.3%
10-13 yrsSuspension10.0%
10-13 yrsBody, chassis, structure8.6%
10-13 yrsVisibility6.4%
10-13 yrsEverything else15.6%
14+ yrsBrakes27.8%
14+ yrsLamps, reflectors and electrical equipment22.0%
14+ yrsSuspension18.3%
14+ yrsBody, chassis, structure11.6%
14+ yrsVisibility7.1%
14+ yrsEverything else13.2%

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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. “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.