53.3%
Chevrolet Captiva
Chevrolet Captiva MOT pass rate and common problems
The Chevrolet Captiva passed 53.3% of its initial MOT tests in 2025, 19 percentage points below the 72.3% UK average. The item testers recorded most often was stop lamp not working.
Checking a specific car? Its own results, advisories and recorded mileages are in a free MOT history check.
How the Captiva compares
Initial MOT tests in 2025, retests excluded. A car that failed and was repaired at the test station counts as a fail.
54.9%
Chevrolet average
72.3%
UK average, all cars
The Captiva runs 1.6 points behind the Chevrolet average. It is 4th of the 8 Chevrolet models in the data. The average Captiva arrived at its test 14.2 years old with 106,049 miles recorded.
A pass rate records whether cars met the roadworthiness standard on test day. It is not a reliability score, and part of any gap reflects how old the tested cars were.
Captiva MOT pass rate by age
The same 2025 tests split by the car's age at test.
| Age at test | Tests | Pass rate | vs UK average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 to 10 years (small sample) | 35 | 74.3% | 2 pts above |
| 11 years and over | 4,706 | 53.1% | 19.2 pts below |
Too few tests fall into some age groups to compare them reliably. The UK average of 72.3% covers cars of every age, so compare like with like.
Where Captiva failures cluster
Every failure item recorded on Chevrolet Captiva cars in 2025, grouped into the DVSA's test areas.
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment and suspension together account for 46.2% of recorded failure items. These are recorded failures across the model, not faults every car has.
The 10 most common Captiva MOT failures
Specific items recorded on Chevrolet Captiva cars that failed their 2025 MOT, as a share of all recorded failure items.
Together these 10 items make up 36.3% of everything testers recorded against failed Chevrolet Captiva cars. The rest is spread across many smaller items, and one failed test often records several at once.
What to look at on a Captiva
The recorded failures above, grouped by area, biggest first.
1
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment
Recorded most often: stop lamp not working, position lamp not working and headlamp not working on dipped beam. 12.5% of failure items.
2
Suspension
Recorded most often: pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn and coil spring fractured or broken. 8.3% of failure items.
3
Body, chassis, structure
Recorded most often: joints constant velocity boot split or insecure, no longer prevents the ingress of dirt and exhaust system has a major leak of exhaust gases. 6.2% of failure items.
4
Tyres
Recorded most often: tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm. 3.5% of failure items.
The car's own MOT history matters more than any model average. A free MOT history check shows whether a specific Captiva has failed on these items before, or had them noted as advisories. Buying one? See the used Chevrolet Captiva buying guide.
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Chevrolet Captiva MOT FAQs
What is the Chevrolet Captiva MOT pass rate?
53.3% of Chevrolet Captiva cars passed their initial MOT first time in 2025, from 4,741 tests. That is 19 percentage points below the 72.3% average for all cars, and ranks 553rd of 575 models.
What does a Chevrolet Captiva most commonly fail its MOT on?
The item testers recorded most often on Chevrolet Captiva cars failing their 2025 MOT was stop lamp not working, on 4.5% of failure items. Next were pins and bushes pin or bush excessively worn (4.5%) and position lamp not working (4.2%).
Which area causes the most Chevrolet Captiva MOT failures?
Across every recorded failure item, the largest area was lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment at 26.4%, followed by suspension at 19.8%.
Does this mean every Chevrolet Captiva has these problems?
No. These are the items testers recorded across every Chevrolet Captiva that failed in 2025. They show where the model most often needs attention, not the condition of any individual car.
How do I see a specific Chevrolet Captiva's MOT history?
Enter its registration on the free Carpeep MOT history check to see that car's own test results, failures, advisories and recorded mileages.
MOT figures are aggregated from the DVSA MOT Anonymised data set for 2025: class 4 initial tests, retests excluded, with failure items from failed tests (advisories and minor defects excluded), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. MOT results describe roadworthiness at test, not mechanical reliability.