MOT pass rate · 2025 data
Daihatsu Terios MOT pass rate
The Daihatsu Terios passed 64.82% of its 3,513 initial MOT tests in 2025 — below the 77.3% average across all cars tested that year. That is 12.5 percentage points worse than average.
How the Daihatsu Terios 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 Daihatsu Terios grouped by the vehicle's age at the time of the test.
| Age at test | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| 11 years and over | 3,513 | 64.82% |
Why the Daihatsu Terios fails its MOT
Across every Daihatsu Terios that failed its 2025 MOT, the most common area of failure was suspension, accounting for 30.22% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Suspension | 30.22% | 1,322 |
| Brakes | 17.72% | 775 |
| Body, chassis, structure | 16.96% | 742 |
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 12.6% | 551 |
| Noise, emissions and leaks | 7.16% | 313 |
| Visibility | 4.44% | 194 |
How the Daihatsu Terios compares
Ranked on pass rate, the Daihatsu Terios sits 585th of 651 models in this data , and 2nd of the 2 Daihatsu models covered . Daihatsu as a whole averaged 66.61%, so this model runs 1.8 points behind its own brand average.
What this means when buying a used Daihatsu Terios
A pass rate is a population average, not a verdict on the specific car in front of you. The average Daihatsu Terios came to its 2025 test at 91,486 miles and 18.4 years old. Most examples tested were petrol.
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 Daihatsu Terios
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 Daihatsu models
- Daihatsu Sirion 67.78% pass rate · 5,416 tests
Models with a similar pass rate
- Vauxhall Vivaro 64.44% pass rate
- Renault Trafic 64.42% pass rate
- Fiat Punto 63.87% pass rate
- Volkswagen Beetle 64.47% pass rate
- Nissan NV200 64.79% pass rate
- Volvo C30 65.18% 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.