MOT pass rate · 2025 data
Citroen C5 MOT pass rate
The Citroen C5 passed 81.38% of its 23,213 initial MOT tests in 2025 — above the 77.3% average across all cars tested that year. That is 4.1 percentage points better than average.
How the Citroen C5 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 C5 grouped by the vehicle's age at the time of the test.
| Age at test | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| 3–5 years | 10,147 | 88.98% |
| 6–10 years | 6,903 | 84.85% |
| 11 years and over | 6,083 | 64.57% |
The Citroen C5 drops 24.4 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 C5 fails its MOT
Across every Citroen C5 that failed its 2025 MOT, the most common area of failure was lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment, accounting for 21.79% 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 | 21.79% | 2,199 |
| Brakes | 18.24% | 1,841 |
| Suspension | 17.75% | 1,791 |
| Tyres | 16.05% | 1,620 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 10.89% | 1,099 |
| Visibility | 4.82% | 486 |
| Tyres | 54.16% | 501 |
| Brakes | 20.86% | 193 |
| Visibility | 8.22% | 76 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 5.51% | 51 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 4.11% | 38 |
| Suspension | 2.38% | 22 |
How the Citroen C5 compares
Ranked on pass rate, the Citroen C5 sits 291st of 651 models in this data , and 2nd of the 18 Citroen models covered . Citroen as a whole averaged 70.82%, so this model runs 10.6 points ahead of its own brand average.
What this means when buying a used Citroen C5
A pass rate is a population average, not a verdict on the specific car in front of you. The average Citroen C5 came to its 2025 test at 59,378 miles and 8 years old. Most examples tested 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 C5
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 C3 74.75% pass rate · 229,912 tests
- 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
Models with a similar pass rate
- Toyota Yaris 80.34% pass rate
- Honda Jazz 80.64% pass rate
- Kia Sportage 80.57% pass rate
- Toyota Aygo 81.42% pass rate
- Land Rover Discovery 81.32% pass rate
- Toyota Auris 80.35% 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.