70.5%
Ford Transit Courier
Ford Transit Courier MOT pass rate and common problems
The Ford Transit Courier passed 70.5% of its initial MOT tests in 2025, 1.8 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 Transit Courier compares
Initial MOT tests in 2025, retests excluded. A car that failed and was repaired at the test station counts as a fail.
68.8%
Ford average
72.3%
UK average, all cars
The Transit Courier runs 1.7 points ahead of the Ford average. It is 15th of the 27 Ford models in the data. The average Transit Courier arrived at its test 6.4 years old with 79,838 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.
Transit Courier MOT pass rate by age
The same 2025 tests split by the car's age at test.
Ford Transit Courier cars aged 3 to 5 years passed 75.3% of MOT tests. For cars aged 11 years and over that fell to 65.4%, a drop of 9.9 percentage points.
| Age at test | Tests | Pass rate | vs UK average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 to 5 years | 10,633 | 75.3% | 3 pts above |
| 6 to 10 years | 16,549 | 65.4% | 6.9 pts below |
| 11 years and over | 208 | 65.4% | 6.9 pts below |
That is a typical decline as cars age. The UK average of 72.3% covers cars of every age, so compare like with like.
Where Transit Courier failures cluster
Every failure item recorded on Ford Transit Courier cars in 2025, grouped into the DVSA's test areas.
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment and tyres together account for 52.5% of recorded failure items. These are recorded failures across the model, not faults every car has.
The 10 most common Transit Courier MOT failures
Specific items recorded on Ford Transit Courier cars that failed their 2025 MOT, as a share of all recorded failure items.
Together these 10 items make up 51.6% of everything testers recorded against failed Ford Transit Courier cars. The rest is spread across many smaller items, and one failed test often records several at once.
What to look at on a Transit Courier
The recorded failures above, grouped by area, biggest first.
1
Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment
Recorded most often: stop lamp not working, headlamp not working on dipped beam and registration plate lamp(s) inoperative in the case of a single lamp or all lamps. 19.8% of failure items.
2
Tyres
Recorded most often: tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm and condition has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords. 10.6% of failure items.
3
Suspension
Recorded most often: coil spring fractured or broken and ball joint excessively worn. 8.7% of failure items.
4
Visibility
Recorded most often: wipers does not clear the windscreen effectively. 5.2% of failure items.
The car's own MOT history matters more than any model average. A free MOT history check shows whether a specific Transit Courier has failed on these items before, or had them noted as advisories. Buying one? See the used Ford Transit Courier buying guide.
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Ford Transit Courier MOT FAQs
What is the Ford Transit Courier MOT pass rate?
70.5% of Ford Transit Courier cars passed their initial MOT first time in 2025, from 30,997 tests. That is 1.8 percentage points below the 72.3% average for all cars, and ranks 343rd of 575 models.
What does a Ford Transit Courier most commonly fail its MOT on?
The item testers recorded most often on Ford Transit Courier cars failing their 2025 MOT was stop lamp not working, on 11% of failure items. Next were tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm (7.1%) and headlamp not working on dipped beam (5.4%).
Which area causes the most Ford Transit Courier MOT failures?
Across every recorded failure item, the largest area was lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment at 36%, followed by tyres at 16.5%.
Do older Ford Transit Courier cars fail their MOT more often?
Ford Transit Courier cars aged 3 to 5 years passed 75.3% of MOT tests in 2025, against 65.4% for cars aged 11 years and over.
Does this mean every Ford Transit Courier has these problems?
No. These are the items testers recorded across every Ford Transit Courier 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 Ford Transit Courier'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.