68.5%
Dacia Logan
Dacia Logan MOT pass rate and common problems
The Dacia Logan passed 68.5% of its initial MOT tests in 2025, 3.8 percentage points below the 72.3% UK average. The item testers recorded most often was headlamp aim too low.
Checking a specific car? Its own results, advisories and recorded mileages are in a free MOT history check.
How the Logan compares
Initial MOT tests in 2025, retests excluded. A car that failed and was repaired at the test station counts as a fail.
70.1%
Dacia average
72.3%
UK average, all cars
The Logan runs 1.6 points behind the Dacia average. It is 4th of the 4 Dacia models in the data. The average Logan arrived at its test 8.4 years old with 79,375 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.
Logan MOT pass rate by age
The same 2025 tests split by the car's age at test.
Dacia Logan cars aged 3 to 5 years passed 76.8% of MOT tests. For cars aged 11 years and over that fell to 61.2%, a drop of 15.6 percentage points.
| Age at test | Tests | Pass rate | vs UK average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 to 5 years | 2,390 | 76.8% | 4.5 pts above |
| 6 to 10 years | 11,504 | 67.6% | 4.7 pts below |
| 11 years and over | 1,199 | 61.2% | 11.1 pts below |
That is a steep decline with age, so the headline rate flatters older examples. The UK average of 72.3% covers cars of every age, so compare like with like.
Where Logan failures cluster
Every failure item recorded on Dacia Logan cars in 2025, grouped into the DVSA's test areas.
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment and suspension together account for 49.9% of recorded failure items. These are recorded failures across the model, not faults every car has.
The 10 most common Logan MOT failures
Specific items recorded on Dacia Logan cars that failed their 2025 MOT, as a share of all recorded failure items.
Together these 10 items make up 40.5% of everything testers recorded against failed Dacia Logan cars. The rest is spread across many smaller items, and one failed test often records several at once.
What to look at on a Logan
The recorded failures above, grouped by area, biggest first.
1
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment
Recorded most often: headlamp aim too low, headlamp not working on dipped beam, headlamp aim projected beam image is obviously incorrect, stop lamp not working and horn not working. 20.2% of failure items.
2
Visibility
Recorded most often: wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively and washers provides insufficient washer liquid. 8.2% of failure items.
3
Suspension
Recorded most often: ball joint excessively worn and coil spring fractured or broken. 6.9% of failure items.
4
Tyres
Recorded most often: tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm. 5.3% of failure items.
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Dacia Logan MOT FAQs
What is the Dacia Logan MOT pass rate?
68.5% of Dacia Logan cars passed their initial MOT first time in 2025, from 15,094 tests. That is 3.8 percentage points below the 72.3% average for all cars, and ranks 376th of 575 models.
What does a Dacia Logan most commonly fail its MOT on?
The item testers recorded most often on Dacia Logan cars failing their 2025 MOT was headlamp aim too low, on 7.4% of failure items. Next were tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm (5.3%) and wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively (4.4%).
Which area causes the most Dacia Logan MOT failures?
Across every recorded failure item, the largest area was lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment at 32.8%, followed by suspension at 17.1%.
Do older Dacia Logan cars fail their MOT more often?
Dacia Logan cars aged 3 to 5 years passed 76.8% of MOT tests in 2025, against 61.2% for cars aged 11 years and over.
Does this mean every Dacia Logan has these problems?
No. These are the items testers recorded across every Dacia Logan 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 Dacia Logan'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.