MOT pass rate · 2025 data
Dacia Duster MOT pass rate
The Dacia Duster passed 78.87% of its 79,766 initial MOT tests in 2025 — above the 77.3% average across all cars tested that year. That is 1.6 percentage points better than average.
How the Dacia Duster 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 Dacia Duster grouped by the vehicle's age at the time of the test.
| Age at test | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| 3–5 years | 26,006 | 87.57% |
| 6–10 years | 42,281 | 77.15% |
| 11 years and over | 11,372 | 65.27% |
The Dacia Duster drops 22.3 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 Dacia Duster fails its MOT
Across every Dacia Duster that failed its 2025 MOT, the most common area of failure was lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment, accounting for 25.78% 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 | 25.78% | 10,304 |
| Brakes | 18.1% | 7,235 |
| Tyres | 13.77% | 5,503 |
| Suspension | 12.83% | 5,129 |
| Visibility | 10.74% | 4,293 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 6.6% | 2,640 |
How the Dacia Duster compares
Ranked on pass rate, the Dacia Duster sits 342nd of 651 models in this data , and 2nd of the 4 Dacia models covered . Dacia as a whole averaged 77.17%, so this model runs 1.7 points ahead of its own brand average.
What this means when buying a used Dacia Duster
A pass rate is a population average, not a verdict on the specific car in front of you. The average Dacia Duster came to its 2025 test at 53,491 miles and 7 years old. Most examples tested were petrol, though 41.61% 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 Dacia Duster
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 Dacia models
- Dacia Sandero 75.9% pass rate · 116,436 tests
- Dacia Logan 76.23% pass rate · 14,773 tests
- Dacia Jogger 87.24% pass rate · 2,587 tests
Models with a similar pass rate
- Volkswagen Golf 79.21% pass rate
- Audi A3 79.9% pass rate
- BMW 3 Series 77.74% pass rate
- Hyundai I10 79.04% pass rate
- Audi A1 79.44% pass rate
- Mercedes-Benz A-Class 77.86% 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.