MOT pass rate · 2025 data
Chevrolet Cruze MOT pass rate
The Chevrolet Cruze passed 67.95% of its 4,374 initial MOT tests in 2025 — below the 77.3% average across all cars tested that year. That is 9.3 percentage points worse than average.
How the Chevrolet Cruze holds up with age
Every car fails the MOT more often as it gets older. What matters when you are buying is how steeply that happens for this particular model. These are the 2025 pass rates for the Chevrolet Cruze grouped by the vehicle's age at the time of the test.
| Age at test | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| 6–10 years | 17 | 88.24% |
| 11 years and over | 4,357 | 67.87% |
Why the Chevrolet Cruze fails its MOT
Across every Chevrolet Cruze that failed its 2025 MOT, the most common area of failure was lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment, accounting for 22.87% of all recorded failure items. These are the areas worth having checked before you buy, and worth budgeting for on an older example.
| Failure area | Share of failure items | Recorded items |
|---|---|---|
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 22.87% | 866 |
| Suspension | 21.12% | 800 |
| Brakes | 17.51% | 663 |
| Tyres | 11.54% | 437 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 11.49% | 435 |
| Visibility | 6.84% | 259 |
How the Chevrolet Cruze compares
Ranked on pass rate, the Chevrolet Cruze sits 553rd of 651 models in this data , and 2nd of the 8 Chevrolet models covered . Chevrolet as a whole averaged 62.07%, so this model runs 5.9 points ahead of its own brand average.
What this means when buying a used Chevrolet Cruze
A pass rate is a population average, not a verdict on the specific car in front of you. The average Chevrolet Cruze came to its 2025 test at 86,819 miles and 13.1 years old. Most examples tested were petrol, though 25.67% were diesel.
The useful check is the individual car's own MOT record: how many times it has failed, what for, and whether advisories keep reappearing. A recurring advisory on corrosion, suspension or brakes tells you far more than a model-wide average, and a mileage that does not move consistently between tests is a warning in itself.
Check a specific Chevrolet Cruze
Run the registration through a free MOT history check to see that car's test results, advisories and recorded mileages. For the risks an MOT never covers — outstanding finance, insurance write-off records, stolen markers and ownership history — a full car history check brings them together in one £15 report.
Also useful: mileage check · write-off check · free car check
Other Chevrolet models
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- Chevrolet Aveo 58.34% pass rate · 7,366 tests
- Chevrolet Captiva 61.18% pass rate · 4,737 tests
- Chevrolet Orlando 68.22% pass rate · 3,392 tests
- Chevrolet Kalos 55.51% pass rate · 1,850 tests
Models with a similar pass rate
- Citroen Berlingo 69.15% pass rate
- Citroen C4 68.83% pass rate
- Vauxhall Meriva 67.78% pass rate
- Hyundai IX35 68.93% pass rate
- Ford Fusion 67.91% pass rate
- Fiat Doblo 69.04% pass rate
Figures aggregated from the DVSA MOT Anonymised data set for 2025, class 4 initial tests only, contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Retests are excluded, so these are first-time pass rates.