MOT pass rate · 2025 data
Citroen C3 MOT pass rate
The Citroen C3 passed 74.75% of its 229,912 initial MOT tests in 2025 — below the 77.3% average across all cars tested that year. That is 2.6 percentage points worse than average.
How the Citroen C3 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 Citroen C3 grouped by the vehicle's age at the time of the test.
| Age at test | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| 3–5 years | 37,521 | 92.13% |
| 6–10 years | 90,796 | 80.23% |
| 11 years and over | 100,960 | 63.23% |
The Citroen C3 drops 28.9 percentage points between its early years and the 11-plus bracket, which is a steep decline. On an older example, the MOT history is worth reading closely before you buy.
Why the Citroen C3 fails its MOT
Across every Citroen C3 that failed its 2025 MOT, the most common area of failure was lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment, accounting for 25.93% 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 | 25.93% | 37,156 |
| Suspension | 20.43% | 29,278 |
| Brakes | 12.09% | 17,323 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 11.08% | 15,883 |
| Tyres | 10.4% | 14,896 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 7.4% | 10,607 |
| Brakes | 28.79% | 2,227 |
| Tyres | 23.45% | 1,814 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 18.5% | 1,431 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 9.24% | 715 |
| Suspension | 6.55% | 507 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 6.26% | 484 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 25.72% | 889 |
| Tyres | 17.45% | 603 |
| Brakes | 15.36% | 531 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 14.76% | 510 |
| Suspension | 9.4% | 325 |
| Visibility | 7.75% | 268 |
| Brakes | 30.81% | 318 |
| Tyres | 24.42% | 252 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 20.16% | 208 |
| Visibility | 7.27% | 75 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 5.52% | 57 |
| Suspension | 5.33% | 55 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 26.3% | 147 |
| Tyres | 25.04% | 140 |
| Brakes | 24.15% | 135 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 6.8% | 38 |
| Suspension | 6.8% | 38 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 5.37% | 30 |
How the Citroen C3 compares
Ranked on pass rate, the Citroen C3 sits 434th of 651 models in this data , and 6th of the 18 Citroen models covered . Citroen as a whole averaged 70.82%, so this model runs 3.9 points ahead of its own brand average.
What this means when buying a used Citroen C3
A pass rate is a population average, not a verdict on the specific car in front of you. The average Citroen C3 came to its 2025 test at 59,790 miles and 10 years old. Most examples tested were petrol, though 29.85% 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 Citroen C3
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 Citroen models
- Citroen Berlingo 69.15% pass rate · 179,343 tests
- Citroen C4 68.83% pass rate · 166,149 tests
- Citroen C1 75.28% pass rate · 161,857 tests
- Citroen DS3 60.51% pass rate · 68,173 tests
- Citroen Dispatch 69.51% pass rate · 45,955 tests
- Citroen C5 81.38% pass rate · 23,213 tests
Models with a similar pass rate
- Ford Focus 74.62% pass rate
- Ford Transit 74.63% pass rate
- Nissan Juke 74.48% pass rate
- Honda Civic 74.32% pass rate
- Vauxhall Mokka 74.37% pass rate
- Skoda Fabia 75.71% 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.